Absolut Celebrates Its 30 Years of Marketing to Gay Customers

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Absolut Celebrates Its 30 Years of Marketing to Gay Customers

MARKETERS like to note milestones, whether it is the 50th wedding anniversary of the debut of \"The Dick Van Dyke Show,\" the 125th wedding anniversary of the intro of Coca-Cola or the 150th anniversary of the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Now, a brand is about to celebrate something that generally passes undetected: the 30th anniversary of a media placement.

Absolut, the Swedish vodka offered by Pernod Ricard, is presenting a campaign that memorializes 30 years of the brand name's efforts to get to American consumers that are lesbian, gay, bisexual as well as transgender, a market currently called the L.G.B.T. community. The beginning point came when ads for Absolut ran in 1981 in 2 magazines read by gay men, The Supporter and After Dark.

Such target advertising and marketing was highly unusual three decades ago, when almost all mainstay brands shied from the market for anxiety of estranging the bigger, traditional market. Those very first Absolut advertisements were later on followed with events in bars, donations to charities and also causes, outside advertising and marketing and, most just recently, sponsorship of a collection on the Logo design cable television network, \"RuPaul's Drag Race.\"

The presence of Logo design, an industrial channel guided at L.G.B.T. customers, underscores exactly how much Madison Method has actually come given that those initial Absolut print advertisements. Amongst the excellent marketing experts that are additionally looking for L.G.B.T. consumers are American Airlines, Campbell Soup, General Motors, Macy's, Orbitz, PepsiCo, Procter as well as Gamble, Unilever and Wells Fargo.

Absolut came to be the \"very first large brand name to dedicate to and seek the market\" by being \"the first constantly existing major brand in gay media,\" said Michael Wilke, the previous executive supervisor of the Business Wardrobe Association who is now senior United States professional for Out Now Consulting.

An additional indication of the moments: Mr. Wilke was lately spoken with by The Kansas City Star concerning an advocate wedding celebration bands by Tivol, a local precious jewelry retailer, that included some print and exterior ads that illustrate two guys.

The perennial Absolut wedding anniversary campaign brings the style \"Absolut Outrageous\"-- the letters \"Out\" are in pink-- and includes this phrase: \"Commemorating three decades of going out as well as appearing.\" The spending plan is estimated at more than $4 million.

There will be on the internet and outdoor advertisements, events and a presence in social networks like Facebook. A print advertisement will certainly appear in publications checked out largely by gay males and also lesbians like The Supporter, Instinct as well as Out, as well as in two general-market magazines, Vanity Fair and also Vogue.

The print ad was created in collaboration by Pernod Ricard U.S.A.; TBWA\/Chiat\/Day in New york city, part of the TBWA Worldwide division of the Omnicom Group, which has actually been creating Absolut campaigns since 1980; SPI Marketing in New York City, which has been the Absolut company for the L.G.B.T. market for 15 years; and the digital photographer David LaChapelle, whose superb picture-- featuring storage rooms, divas, nightclub turntables, rainbows, the performance musician Amanda Lepore and also unicorns-- is the centerpiece of the ad.

\" It's the celebration of a dedicated event between us and also the L.G.B.T. community,\" stated Maxime Kouchnir, vice head of state for the vodka profile at Pernod Ricard United States in New York City, \"a journey with each other.\"

\" Yes, we're a service,\" he included, \"yet at the end of the day it's our option to have actually spent for 30 years behind this\" market as component of being an \"open-minded brand.\"

Absolut has actually taken that method through three marketing experts: Pernod Ricard, Seagram as well as Carillon Importers. It was Michel Roux, the president and also chief executive of Carillon, that first chose that Absolut needs to pursue gay and also lesbian consumers since, he liked claiming, they were trailblazers whose brand-buying behaviors would eventually be taken on by younger, hipper segments of the market.

\" Absolut established bench for basically every company talking to the L.G.B.T. consumer,\" said Todd Evans, president and president at Rivendell Media in Mountainside, N.J., which managed media solutions for Absolut in 1981-- as well as still does.

Mr. Evans recalled exactly how Absolut not just purchased ad web pages in magazines like The Advocate, however additionally redeemed covers at a time when \"we couldn't obtain anybody\" to take such extremely visible settings.

At first, Absolut ran its regular advertisements in the L.G.B.T. media; the 1981 positionings were \"Absolut Perfection,\" with a halo hovering over the container. A lot more lately, the brand has funded advertisements that are tailored for the marketplace.

Examples in addition to \"Absolut Outrageous\" include \"Absolut Glaad,\" honoring the Gay and also Lesbian Alliance Against Vilification; \"Absolut Out,\" billboards with three-dimensional closets, the doors open; and also \"Absolut Commitment,\" a wedding cake covered by a pair of (similar) containers.

Because \"significance is quite crucial,\" claimed Sue Anderson, international creative supervisor on the Absolut account at TBWA\/Chiat\/Day, the objective is to blend tips concerning the brand name's heritage, focused on longtime customers, with themes that appeal to \"a younger generation.\"

Hoj Jomehri, innovative director on Absolut at the company, said: \"The appearance as well as the feeling of the campaign is contemporary. We're approaching it as a party in a contemporary manner in which eagerly anticipates even more support of the area.\"

According to Scott Seitz, president at SPI Advertising and marketing, Absolut has made the commitment of the \"elder gay and lesbian consumer,\" ages 40 as well as older, that recall the brand's background and also its initiatives like fund-raising for AIDS charities.

\" But we're not visiting that with the millennial customer, whose attitude is what have we done the last 6 months,\" Mr. Seitz stated.

The campaign's look in realms like television as well as electronic and also social networks \"gives us a platform for that conversation with the more youthful customer,\" he included, as well as \"to remain even more pertinent, much more on that target.\"