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Contents:
- HOW GAY UPL TV MERCIALS BEME A MASTREAM PHENOMENON
- THIS AD IS BEG LLED THE “GAYT COMMERCIAL OF 2021”
- NEW AMAZON AD BREAKS GROUND FOR GAY MARRIAGE
- TV COMMERCIAL FEATURG GAY COUPLE CREAT A MADISON AVENUE UPROAR
- ADVERTISG FEATUR MORE GAY, TERRACIAL FAI
HOW GAY UPL TV MERCIALS BEME A MASTREAM PHENOMENON
From CarGus to Doros, when me to mercials, 2021 was pretty gay. * amazon gay couple commercial *
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.
THIS AD IS BEG LLED THE “GAYT COMMERCIAL OF 2021”
* amazon gay couple commercial *
… 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. 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.
NEW AMAZON AD BREAKS GROUND FOR GAY MARRIAGE
“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.
TV COMMERCIAL FEATURG GAY COUPLE CREAT A MADISON AVENUE UPROAR
That mercial showsed ttimonials om several heterosexual newlyweds and one gay uple talkg about their posive experienc g Zola.
ADVERTISG FEATUR MORE GAY, TERRACIAL FAI
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.