The most-watched vertical in the marketplace — and the most engaged fandoms on earth. Partner with Pink Media for the most comprehensive yet targeted reach into LGBTQ+ film and TV audiences. A focused, two-fold approach built for studios, streamers, festivals, and entertainment brands.
Packages for distributors, streaming services and filmmakers. Every campaign includes a featured review on ILoveGay.net, video reels, #ILoveGay media partner network posts and a paid Meta, TikTok and YouTube campaign that tells viewers exactly where to rent, buy or stream. Paid media is included in the price.
Theatrical and rent/buy launches
from $2,500
2–4 titles featured every month
from $3,000 / mo
Indie, festival & catalog titles
$2,000
The Opportunity
There are a variety of ways in which we can market to LGBTQ+ film and television audiences — from prestige-cinema and awards watchers to Drag Race loyalists, festival-goers, and the Gen Z superfans who turn shows into movements. Partner with Pink Media for the most comprehensive yet targeted reach into the highly-coveted LGBTQ+ consumer, with a focus in the world of LGBTQ+ Film & Television. Our campaigns are two-fold.
First, we focus on getting your title and story out to a hyper-targeted LGBTQ+ audience online via traditional online advertising, mobile apps, video advertising, and more. Second, we get your message out via strategically-placed social media posts, both organically and utilizing paid social media advertising — tapping into the strong LGBTQ+ film and TV communities on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Threads, X and more.
This includes both social media hyper-targeted advertising and our #ILoveGay Network, now spanning 35+ LGBTQ+ apps, publishers, creators, podcasts and connected-TV partners — an audience that doesn't just watch, it markets, through the edits, fan art, and watch-party energy that keep series alive. Our success metrics are based on the visibility and performance we provide: impressions, reach, click-throughs, and engagement.
Our Campaign Framework
A comprehensive strategy that reaches LGBTQ+ film and TV audiences through paid advertising channels AND organic social amplification — simultaneously.
We focus on getting your title and story out to a hyper-targeted LGBTQ+ audience online via traditional online advertising, mobile apps, video advertising, and more.
On the programmatic ad exchange, we layer film & TV data selects — genre and platform affinities, streaming subscribers, festival-goers — onto LGBTQ+ websites, and geo-target down to the ZIP code for platform launches, theatrical markets, and festival cities.
For advanced placements, we utilize Automatic Content Recognition (ACR) technology — serving trailers and campaign films within LGBTQ+ households on all smart devices, including Connected TVs (CTV), precisely to the audience the title was made for.
We tap into the online conversations and communities on your title's behalf — amplifying your trailers, clips, reviews and press within LGBTQ+ film and TV communities on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Threads, X and more.
This includes both social media hyper-targeted advertising and our #ILoveGay social media network — now spanning 35+ LGBTQ+ apps, publishers, creators, podcasts and connected-TV partners, and growing — paired with queer film podcasts, critics, and creator partnerships for the trust transfer that turns a premiere into a movement.
From festival season and awards corridors to Pride and premiere windows, we help your title show up where the fandom already gathers — hosting the room, not interrupting it.
The most-watched vertical in the LGBTQ+ marketplace. Our editorial summary covers GLAAD's representation data, the filmmakers and essential works, the worldwide festival circuit (Frameline, Outfest), streaming, archives, and how studios, streamers and sponsors reach the most engaged fandoms on earth — with a full report available to buy or subscribe.
Targeting Capabilities
Pink Media's programmatic film & TV targeting platform comes ready with built-in features that go far beyond standard LGBTQ+ advertising.
Targeting based on a wide variety of data selects & interests — including screen signals like genre affinity, streaming subscribers, and festival-goers.
Target and report by any region — country, state, DMA, ZIP code, or hyperlocal radius around theatrical markets, premiere cities, and festival weekends.
Integrations with most major data providers — including L2, TargetSmart, i360, Tunnl, Aristotle, and more. Layer on exactly the right audience signals.
Built-in campaign feature to adhere to the Digital Advertising Alliance's (DAA) rules & regulations — compliant by default.
Real-World Targeting Examples
These examples illustrate a sampling of what we can offer. Campaigns are monitored and custom-tailored to remove underperforming placements and double down on what's working.
The Data Behind LGBTQ+ Screen Culture
A snapshot from GLAAD's representation research and CMI's LGBTQ Community Survey — the datasets behind the 2026 LGBTQ+ Film & TV Market Guide.
489 LGBTQ regular and recurring characters in 2024–25 (GLAAD) — with streaming carrying 372 of them and an audience that converts fandom into marketing.
Beyond the community itself, GLAAD sizes 150M+ supportive non-LGBTQ adults — making queer-inclusive content general-audience content with a superfan core.
Seeing LGBTQ+ people on screen raises non-LGBTQ comfort with LGBTQ+ family members by up to 35% (GLAAD) — the cultural return beyond the P&L.
Sources: GLAAD Studio Responsibility Index & Where We Are on TV; Community Marketing & Insights (CMI), 13th Annual LGBTQ Community Survey. For the full picture, read the 2026 LGBTQ+ Film & TV Market Guide.
From the Blog
Market data and strategy from Matt Skallerud and the Pink Media team — written for studios, streamers, distributors, festivals and the filmmakers trying to reach LGBTQ+ audiences.
Just 23.6% of 2024’s major studio films included an LGBTQ+ character, down from a record 28.5% in 2022 — only two of 250 featured a transgender character, and 37% of LGBTQ+ characters were on screen for less than a minute (GLAAD). Television counted 489 LGBTQ+ characters on scripted series in 2024–25, but 41% of them won’t return. The audience is moving the other way: 9% of U.S. adults and 23% of adults under 30 now identify as LGBTQ+ (Gallup), and festivals remain the pipeline for new queer talent, with Outfest’s 2025 relaunch proving that infrastructure can be rebuilt. The takeaway: market the authenticity you have, make premieres community events, buy media where the audience is, and support the infrastructure behind the work.
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There’s more high-quality LGBTQ+ film on Amazon, Apple TV, Hulu, Roku and dedicated queer streamers than ever, and most of it goes unseen — not because of quality, but because of discovery. Mainstream releases get weeks of reels and paid social; LGBTQ+ films mostly wait for viewers to search, a gap that widened when Meta removed interest targeting like “same-sex marriage” and “LGBT culture” on January 19, 2022. Inside one catalog, Dekkoo’s Amazon channel carries 440 titles from about 110 suppliers, roughly 80 of them credited directly to independent filmmakers, and 91% of niche streaming subscriptions came through aggregators in Q2 2024 — 58% of those through Amazon Channels. The fix is a campaign built around how each film earns money, with one clear call to action: rent it, buy it or stream it here.
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From film launches and television premieres to theatrical productions, Pink Media pairs hyper-targeted advertising with #ILoveGay social amplification to reach LGBTQ+ entertainment audiences where they already are — turning trailers, reviews, and press into community conversation.
Read MorePink Media brings 30 years of LGBTQ+ marketing expertise to film and television — reaching the most engaged fandoms on earth for studios, streamers, festivals, and entertainment brands, 24/7, 365 days per year. We work with any budget, starting at $1,500 per month.
From ILoveGay.NET
Daily coverage of queer film and documentary — festival programming, sponsorship, distribution, and the filmmakers telling our stories.
Two weeks ago, Delta presented the Atlanta Pride Parade. This week, Delta is back as a sponsor of the OUTshine LGBTQ+ Film Festival in Fort Lauderdale and Miami, alongside Google, Gilead, CAN Community Health and Tito’s. These are signed sponsorship commitments, not rainbow posts, and they’re happening well outside June. We look at what the fall sponsorship trail tells brands planning their 2027 LGBTQ+ strategy, and which companies deserve a closer look.
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Just 23.6% of 2024 major-studio films were LGBTQ-inclusive, a three-year low, yet queer stories from Heartstopper to A24’s slate keep finding big audiences. Pink Media’s new 2026 LGBTQ+ Film & TV Market Guide looks at who the LGBTQ+ viewer really is, why festivals like Frameline and Outfest matter more than ever, and four moves for studios and brands who want to show up authentically. As the guide puts it, nobody remembers the rainbow logo in the trailer.
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13 LGBTQ+ people. 10 weeks of drama therapy, three hours a night. One room in San Francisco — and one question that lands differently depending on when you were born. Grace Walcott’s award-winning documentary River of Life, LGBTQ+ opens on National Coming Out Day — Sunday, Oct 11, Little Roxie Theater, SF — and streams Oct 13 on Amazon, Apple TV and YouTube.
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Two years ago the Outfest story was an obituary in progress — programming halted, every staffer laid off, a legal fight with a former executive director, $750,000 needed to survive. Last week OutfestNEXT sold out a 183-seat theater four days running. But the most useful thing in Variety’s reporting isn’t the comeback; it’s what interim…
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Roddy McDowall was a child star, a Planet of the Apes icon, a photographer, a director, and Elizabeth Taylor’s best friend for life — and he was gay in a Hollywood that gave him no safe way to say so. In his new biography, Roddy McDowall: An Actor’s Life, author Samuel Garza Bernstein went through…
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Sometimes the best case study isn’t the newest one. We’re revisiting “Fairy Tales” — Provincetown Tourism’s AdPOP Award-winning LGBTQ+ destination campaign from Ellsworth Creative, built with local talent and honored by the National LGBT Media Association. It’s a compact lesson in what authentic travel marketing actually looks like: tell the true story of the place,…
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