The vodka’s new mpaign memorat s efforts to reach Amerin nsumers who are gay, efforts which began 1981 wh magaze ads.
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- ABSOLUT CELEBRAT ITS 30 YEARS OF MARKETG TO GAY CONSUMERS
- 30 YEARS OF ABSOLUT ADS TARGETG THE GAY COMMUNY
ABSOLUT CELEBRAT ITS 30 YEARS OF MARKETG TO GAY CONSUMERS
“We also had a pretty trepid distributor who happens to lean to the gay muny.
“And he started to look around and no brands are talkg to the gay market.
Wh the first steps, Absolut placed s first ad– “Absolut Perfectn”– gay publitns like After Dark, The Advote, and the New York Native the 1980s, when nobody else marketg was talkg to the muny. Moran said; “As a long-time supporter of the gay and lbian muny, we acknowledge that you n’t simply speak to gay men and lbians as nsumers, but stead need to make real nnectns to their liv which we believe we are achievg wh our new creative executns. “As a pany, we rpect gay men and lbians not simply advertisg msag, but behd the scen as well.
30 YEARS OF ABSOLUT ADS TARGETG THE GAY COMMUNY
We’re not gay-washg here, ” he add. AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTAdvertisgAbsolut Celebrat Its 30 Years of Marketg to Gay ConsumersOct.
Absolut, the Swedish vodka sold by Pernod Rird, is troducg a mpaign that memorat 30 years of the brand’s efforts to reach Amerin nsumers who are lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr, a market now known as the L. The startg pot me when advertisements for Absolut ran 1981 two magaz read by gay men, The Advote and After target marketg was highly unual three s ago, when almost all mastay brands shied om the market for fear of alienatg the larger, mastream market. Absolut beme the “first big brand to m to and pursue the market” by beg “the first ntuoly prent major brand gay media, ” said Michael Wilke, the former executive director of the Commercial Closet Associatn who is now senr Uned Stat nsultant for Out Now Consultg.
A prt ad will appear publitns read primarily by gay men and lbians like The Advote, Instct and Out, as well as two general-market magaz, Vany Fair and prt ad was created llaboratn by Pernod Rird USA; TBWA/Chiat/Day New York, part of the TBWA Worldwi divisn of the Omni Group, which has been producg Absolut mpaigns sce 1980; SPI Marketg New York, which has been the Absolut agency for the L. It was Michel Roux, the print and chief executive of Carillon, who first cid that Absolut should pursue gay and lbian nsumers bee, he was fond of sayg, they were trendsetters whose brand-buyg habs would eventually be adopted by younger, hipper segments of the market. Exampl addn to “Absolut Outrageo” clu “Absolut Glaad, ” honorg the Gay and Lbian Alliance Agast Defamatn; “Absolut Out, ” billboards wh three-dimensnal closets, the doors open; and “Absolut Commment, ” a weddg ke topped by a pair of (intil) bottl.