A healthcare media agency wanted to increase awareness of their brand with additional direct to consumer (DTC), HIPAA and NAI compliant, privacy safe audiences. They wanted to drive prescriptions for consumers with migraines. The audiences needed to be applicable across channels and activatable on their preferred demand side platform (DSP).

Launching a new pharmaceutical product is a high-stakes endeavor, with nearly 40% of launches failing to meet expectations. To improve these odds, companies must shift to a data-driven approach, leveraging real-world insights to engage decision-makers effectively across the patient journey.

Healthcare advertisers and their marketing partners face challenges that other direct to consumer advertisers may not necessarily be confronted with. Namely, the ever-evolving world of privacy regulation and the requirements enacted by the federal and state governments with the goal of helping preserve patient anonymity.

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As the pharmaceutical and healthcare media industries face unprecedented change, the Preparing for 2025 roundtable convened leading experts to chart a path forward. Against a backdrop of rising patient expectations, accelerating technological advancements, and increasing regulatory pressures, this collaborative forum sought to address critical challenges while uncovering collective alignment for sustainable success.

We are in the middle of an ongoing data-driven revolution in the pharmaceutical industry. Data and analytics are reshaping how companies approach sales and marketing strategies – and customer experience.

Pharmaceutical advertisers and companies must develop marketing strategies that are multilayered as third-party cookies become a liability. Audience-based solutions remain part of this, but marketers should collaborate with their agency and ad tech partners to integrate real-world data in the pre-campaign planning, campaign launch and optimization phases. Discuss differences in content consumption based on health conditions, compare web behavior vs. TV viewing habits and how healthcare-focused supply analysis can feed into SPO applications.

With celebrity endorsements of drugs from GLP-1s to migraine medications, pharmaceutical advertisers are embracing high-profile celebrity marketing. But in the age of social media, you don’t have to be a celebrity to have influence.

With celebrity endorsements of drugs from GLP-1s to migraine medications, pharmaceutical advertisers are embracing high-profile celebrity marketing. But in the age of social media, you don’t have to be a celebrity to have influence.