SXSW 2024
Is There a Future for LGBTQ+ Marketing?
Description:
More than ever, people spend with their hearts. While this holds brands accountable to communities, it's also driven vocal outliers to boycott and threaten brands when ideologies don’t align. Recently, corporate efforts to support LGBTQ+ communities have come under attack as brands cave and allow a dangerous minority to alienate queer folk—as happened with Bud Light and Target.
Can companies move forward beyond this? Together, let’s explore the challenges we must overcome to redefine the future of LGBTQ+ marketing and identify how brands can better stand with the community as real allies.
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Takeaways
- Projecting Progress: Forecasting new priorities and groundwork for how brands should approach LGBTQ+ communities moving forward
- Elements of Inclusion: Defining how institutions like morality, integrity, authenticity and values fit within marketing plans
- Future Focus: How to reinvent LGBTQ+ marketing by recognizing LGBTQ+ prominence in the “general market” and overcoming a “niche marketing” mindset
Speakers
- Paul LaFleur, Design Director, Hook
- Graham Nolan, Co-Chair, Storytelling and Partnerships, Do the WeRQ
- Colin Daniels, Digital Editor/Host, Adweek
- Victoria Anderson, Strategy, SVP, 160over90, an Endeavor Company
Organizer
Paul LaFleur, Design Director, Hook
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