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Contents:
- NEW AMAZON AD BREAKS GROUND FOR GAY MARRIAGE
- HOW GAY UPL TV MERCIALS BEME A MASTREAM PHENOMENON
- AMAZON'S GAY KDLE SPOT: A NICE SURPRISE, OR A LTLE FORCED?
NEW AMAZON AD BREAKS GROUND FOR GAY MARRIAGE
Amazon released a mercial that gay-rights advot say likely marks the first time the word "hband" was ed by a mastream brand on work televisn * gay amazon commercial *
Amazon released a mercial that gay-rights advot say likely marks the first time the word "hband" was ed by a mastream brand on work televisn the ntext of same-sex upl. 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.
“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.
HOW GAY UPL TV MERCIALS BEME A MASTREAM PHENOMENON
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. 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.
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AMAZON'S GAY KDLE SPOT: A NICE SURPRISE, OR A LTLE FORCED?
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. 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. 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.
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