How do healthcare marketers prove ROAS beyond the vanity metrics of clicks, impressions and website conversions? With new and emerging solutions for outcomes-based measurement in the healthcare industry, what metrics should healthcare marketers be using?

PurpleLab®, a leading provider of real-world healthcare claims data in the US, and Comscore, a global leader in measuring and analyzing consumer behavior, today announced a strategic partnership to make PurpleLab’s robust healthcare targeting segments available as ID-free Predictive Audiences directly on The Trade Desk’s Contextual Marketplace.  The partnership addresses the changes to state privacy…

Pharma advertising measurement has been stuck in the past. But it doesn’t have to be.  For years, pharma marketers have been stuck chasing the wrong numbers. Impressions. Clicks. Bounce rates. The list goes on. These vanity metrics might look good on a dashboard, but they don’t tell you if your campaign actually moved the needle….

Where are the best digital spaces to find healthcare professionals (HCPs) in 2025? If you picture doctors, nurses and other HCPs buried in online medical journals, or engaging in discussions on specialized platforms like Doximity, you’re probably not wrong… But that’s only part of the story. The thing is that HCPs are just like the…

Nurse Practitioners (NPs) and Physician Assistants (PAs) are no longer just “support” staff for physicians. These clinicians are now taking on much bigger roles in patient care, including the ability to prescribe medications without physician oversight.  The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated the already growing trend of expanding NPs’ and PAs’ scope of practice. Now, five years…

The digital advertising landscape is shifting rapidly, and for healthcare and pharmaceutical marketers, the stakes are higher than ever. With evolving privacy regulations, increasing scrutiny on data practices and the challenge of balancing precision targeting with consumer protection, advertisers must rethink their strategies to stay effective and compliant. To tackle these pressing issues, PurpleLab recently…

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).

Authored by Lauren Kushner, Head of Healthcare at MiQ, and Ted Sweetser, VP of Advertising Partnerships and Strategy at PurpleLab. 2024 was a year of considerable change for the pharmaceutical industry. The biggest trend was undoubtedly the progression of the Inflation Reduction Act’s negotiated drug pricing, which sees CMS negotiating on pricing for a published…

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.