Catalyst Point of View (POV)
Aligning to the FDA’s Policy
Pertaining to Search Advertising
By: Timothy Breen, Lee Tuttle
Vice Presidents, Catalyst online
If you (or your regulatory team) have any questions regarding this POV, please contact Tim Breen at Catalyst online at tbreen@CatalystSearchMarketing.com, or at 617.244.6679.
Social Media and Healthcare
Social media is a phenomenon that can no longer be ignored by today’s competitive companies. Last year, 73% of advertising and media executives surveyed said up to 20% of their marketing budgets are allocated to using and experimenting with new media platforms such as blogs. In 2008 pharmaceutical marketing professionals are looking [...]
It looks like Bayer has made the first real move into the viral space by any of the Big Pharma companies. They’ve built an interactive online game “sponsored by Aleve” that appears to be geared toward the social networking demographic - who are much younger than the traditional Aleve demo (50+ with arthritis) .
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Outside of the government and universities, no one hires more people with PhDs in linguistics than search engines. One major reason for this is that a search engine needs to deliver results that are not based on the string of characters you type into the search box, but instead based on what your string [...]
So last week, I started the weekly search marketing links naming convention. Just to recap, we’re trying to decide on what we’re calling the weekly links (e.g. Mélange…last week is was search hotness). So why Mélange? Well, mélange means a mixture or hodgepodge. So I thought it was appropriate for the weekly smörgÃ¥sbord of farm [...]
Have you been feeling down? Sad all the time? Maybe your problem is that you have a bad case of the Supplemental Results.
More on Google’s own plane of hell, trust of pharma distrusters, WoW maps and some Da Vinci code answers in this weeks links:
 A new survey shows that blogs that are critical [...]
Pharmaceutical Executive had a very interesting article on a series of studies conducted for the Pharmaceutical Safety Institute on DTC ads and consumers. The data revealed that despite ads prompting consumers to take action, either by searching online or discussing the product with their doctors, nearly half of respondents find DTC ads uninformative or inaccurate.
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Since the DTC advertising took-off ten years ago, pharmaceutical companies have been aware of the persuasive power of video. TV commercials have brought an unprecedented degree of awareness to mass audiences, and have brought depth and dimension to products that would otherwise be difficult to explain. Now that opportunity [...]
Many healthcare companies recognize the US Hispanic market as a growing part of their business and online strategy, and their websites are slowly beginning to reflect this. Although this is considered a major step toward successful marketing to the US Hispanic audience, providing a Spanish sub-section of a website or dedicating a few pages of [...]
Google Co-op was released in Beta this early May to introduce its users to a new concept of community and social tagging of websites that may influence the way we see search engine results in the future. Google claims that it “is a platform which enables you to use your expertise to help other users [...]
