The community that made belonging the brand. Bear Week fills Provincetown every July, Bears Sitges Week draws 10,000+ each September, and hundreds of bear clubs run a five-continent calendar as charity weekends. Partner with Pink Media for the most comprehensive yet targeted reach into the bear audience — a focused, two-fold approach built for hospitality brands, destinations, apparel, spirits, and event organizers.
The Opportunity
There are a variety of ways in which we can market with the bear community — from event-circuit travelers and club members to the body-positivity audience, the bar-and-social regulars, and the charity-minded donors who anchor it all. Partner with Pink Media for the most comprehensive yet targeted reach into the highly-coveted LGBTQ+ consumer, with a focus on the Gay Bear Community. Our campaigns are two-fold.
First, we focus on getting your message and story out to a hyper-targeted LGBTQ+ audience online via traditional online advertising, mobile apps, video advertising, and more — including bear-community and body-positive affinity audiences, and CTV geo-targeted to the ZIP code around Provincetown, Sitges, Dallas, Palm Springs and every host hotel in between. Second, we get your message out via strategically-placed social media posts and club & event amplification — because in this market the local club is the unit, and its board, calendar and charity are the front door.
This includes both social media hyper-targeted advertising and our #ILoveGay Network, now reaching over 1.5 million LGBTQ+ followers. 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 the bear community through paid advertising channels AND organic social, club & event amplification — simultaneously.
We focus on getting your message 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 bear-community and body-positive affinity data selects onto LGBTQ+ websites, and geo-target down to the ZIP code around event weekends, host hotels, and bear-bar trade areas.
For advanced placements, we utilize Automatic Content Recognition (ACR) technology — serving campaign films within LGBTQ+ households on all smart devices, including Connected TVs (CTV), timed to the run and event calendar.
We tap into the online conversations and communities on your brand's behalf — amplifying your event presence, sponsorships, and campaigns within LGBTQ+ bear communities on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Threads, X and more.
This includes both social media hyper-targeted advertising and our #ILoveGay social media network — plus partnerships with the bear clubs and event producers whose boards, runs and charity weekends are the community's standing infrastructure. Clubs cross-promote each other's runs, so presence compounds across the calendar.
From Bear Week Provincetown and Bears Sitges Week to TBRU, International Bear Convergence, Lazy Bear and Bearadise, we help you book the calendar rather than a single event — because the same travelers cycle through the year.
A global audience organized around belonging instead of aspiration — loyal, travel-hungry, charity-minded, and famously welcoming. Our editorial summary covers the history from “Who's Who in the Zoo” to BEAR Magazine's 2026 return to print, the travel-and-events economy, the club-and-charity model, body positivity as the core product, and the welcome-first playbook — with a full report available to buy or subscribe.
Targeting Capabilities
Pink Media's programmatic bear-community 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 bear-community, body-positive, and LGBTQ+ event-travel affinity audiences.
Target and report by any region — country, state, DMA, ZIP code, or hyperlocal radius around Provincetown, Sitges, Dallas, Palm Springs and every host hotel.
Connected TV with ACR technology on all smart devices — timed to Bear Week, run weekends, and the European circuit when attention concentrates.
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 Bear Economy by the Numbers
A snapshot from the Gay Bear Community Market Guide — a travel-hungry, club-organized, charity-minded audience that punches far above any headcount.
Bear Week Provincetown is the world's largest bear gathering — and one of the town's biggest weeks of the year.
Europe's flagship draws 10,000+ each September — now running twice a year.
The Texas Bear Round-Up set the charity-weekend standard, with three decades of giving at scale.
Standing nonprofit organizations with boards and calendars — the community's permanent infrastructure.
Source: Pink Media's Gay Bear Community Market Guide (event, club, and community reporting). Read the summary.
Pink Media brings 30 years of LGBTQ+ marketing expertise to the bear market — reaching a travel-hungry, club-organized, fiercely loyal audience for hospitality brands, destinations, apparel, spirits, and event organizers, 24/7, 365 days per year. We work with any budget, starting at $1,500 per month.
From ILoveGay.NET
Coverage of the bear community's media, events and travel circuit — and what community-owned platforms mean for advertisers.
A magazine that started in 1987 as 45 xeroxed copies in San Francisco is back on newsstands this month — and the reason why should get every LGBTQ+ marketer's attention. BEAR Magazine relaunched in September as a quarterly 100+ page glossy under publisher Richard Jones, founder of Bear World Magazine, who put it plainly: the goal is to “own our own media… in our own way that cannot be ad blocked, that cannot be deleted, that cannot be removed.” That's three of the biggest structural problems in LGBTQ+ digital advertising named in a single sentence. Real photographers, no AI imagery, revived personal ads, mailed discreetly worldwide. When platform reach is unreliable, community-owned media stops being the sentimental choice and starts being the durable one.
Read on ILoveGay.NET
No matter how cold it is where you are now, you can be basking in the sun as Bearadise kicks off International Bear Festival in Puerto Vallarta — one of the anchors of a global circuit that runs twelve months a year across five continents, filling host hotels and resort towns well outside the traditional Pride calendar.
Read on ILoveGay.NETReady to Connect?
One partner. A clear plan. Real results. Tell us about your brand, hotel, destination, or event and let's build a strategy that reaches the right bear audience — with the open door this community was built on.