From CarGus to Doros, when me to mercials, 2021 was pretty gay.
Contents:
- HOW GAY UPL TV MERCIALS BEME A MASTREAM PHENOMENON
- HOW GAY UPL TV MERCIALS BEME A MASTREAM PHENOMENON
- WHEN WILL P&G FALLY AIR THIS TI COMMERCIAL WH A GAY COUPLE THE U.S.?
- HOW IKEA MA HISTORY 1994 WH THE FIRST GAY COUPLE AN AD
- THIS AD IS BEG LLED THE “GAYT COMMERCIAL OF 2021”
- ADVERTISG FEATUR MORE GAY, TERRACIAL FAI
- 20 YEARS BEFORE IT WAS COOL TO CAST GAY COUPL, IKEA MA THIS PNEERG AD
HOW GAY UPL TV MERCIALS BEME A MASTREAM PHENOMENON
After two s of supportg s gay employe ternally, Procter & Gamble publicly me out support of gay marriage late last year. * gay couples in advertising *
Inially, that seemed like an all-too faiar slap the face for gay Amerins, perhaps even a step back for their llective social standg. Televisn ads aren’t as important the digal marketg age as they were a generatn ago, but some ways they reprent a fal ontier of mastream cultural acceptance for gay equaly, acrdg to several marketg experts who specialize helpg major rporatns sell products to the gay muny.
HOW GAY UPL TV MERCIALS BEME A MASTREAM PHENOMENON
* gay couples in advertising *
“It’s not about gay people as much as is ntemporary nsumers, ” Bob Weck, print of the LGBTQ marketg and munitns nsultg firm Weck Communitns, told CNN Bs.
… Gay and LGBTQ nsumers, Gen Z and Millennials, their attus are so different about the ordars of same sex marriage today. AFA and s subsidiary, One Milln Moms, have been nstant fo to gay and lbian tolerance Amerin culture. “Fay entertament is not the outlet which to be polilly rrect by forcg tolerance and acceptance of homosexualy – a sful liftyle that Scripture clearly ems as wrong.
Today, the world’s biggt advertisers primarily e targeted web ads as a means to market products and servic to gay Amerins a hyper-foced way. “That’s where we saw this huge sh of advertisg wh the to pani and bankg and travel pani, ” Mark Elrk, CEO of the Gay Ad Network, told CNN Bs.
WHEN WILL P&G FALLY AIR THIS TI COMMERCIAL WH A GAY COUPLE THE U.S.?
Elrk’s firm has helped some of the world’s largt rporatns velop polici and marketg strategi for gay dienc for the last 25 years, mostly onle and on social media. “Wh TV, if you wanted to n a mercial wh LGBTQ characters, you were nng on a work that wasn’t gay targeted.
Zola Chief Marketg Officer Mike Chi said The Hallmark Channel didn’t take issue wh Zola 2017 when the onle weddg registry and planng pany sent the work a prev ad featurg a gay uple. That mercial showsed ttimonials om several heterosexual newlyweds and one gay uple talkg about their posive experienc g Zola.
Weck, the LGBTQ market expert, has seen the spendg power of gay, lbian, bisexual and transgenr Amerins uptick slightly om about $790 ln 2012 to more than $800 ln to date by his own timat.
HOW IKEA MA HISTORY 1994 WH THE FIRST GAY COUPLE AN AD
From 2012 to 2017, the percentage of Amerins who intified as lbian, gay, bisexual, or transgenr also rose a b om 3.
Heterosexual Milliennials’ overall fort beg around gay and lbian dividuals dropped om 53% 2017 to 45% 2018, acrdg to the latt rults of the annual Acceleratg Acceptance report missned by GLAAD and rried out by Harris Insights & Analytics.
But the largt generatn of young adults is still far more acceptg of gay marriage than their precsors.
THIS AD IS BEG LLED THE “GAYT COMMERCIAL OF 2021”
A Pew Rearch poll released May showed 74% of Millennials support gay marriage 2019 pared to 58% of Generatn Xers and 51% of baby boomers. Brands that chose to reprent gay and lbian people were takg a huge risk.
In 1986, the vodka brand Absolut created an ad that clud the artwork of Keh Harg, an AIDs advote who was openly gay at the time. To draw a rrelatn to the prent day, another vodka brand, Stoli, 40 years later produced an ad honorg polician and gay rights activist Harvey Milk wh a specially themed bottle–and a robt ad mpaign to support the lnch.
ADVERTISG FEATUR MORE GAY, TERRACIAL FAI
Even though their support was often subtle, the ads still shocked the world wh their mastream reprentatn the face of a wily homophobic culture. Wh the ntug taboo agast gay reprentatn and the backlash om queer-iendly ads the 1980s, brands ntued to shy away om the overt reprentatn of LGBTQ+ people most advertisements.
It was IKEA that first ma wav wh their mercial that featured an openly gay uple. As one of the first reprentatns of a gay uple takg part normal activi, like shoppg for furnure, this mercial paved the way toward LGBTQ+ acceptance durg this era.
20 YEARS BEFORE IT WAS COOL TO CAST GAY COUPL, IKEA MA THIS PNEERG AD
For the first time, mastream Ameri saw a gay uple portrayed the same as any other uple a healthy, romantic relatnship. But wh gay marriage still illegal and a lgerg stigma surroundg queer inti, most brands played safe. Dpe the growg prence of gay characters early 2000s entertament, pani still risked backlash for showg explic LGBTQ+ clivy.