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How pharmaceutical brand teams can design new pathways to market and compete on better health outcomes

Article • John G. Singer, WARC Exclusive, December 2020

This article looks at why the pandemic should prompt the pharmaceutical industry to look at strategies beyond drug promotion and look, instead, at partnerships that ultimately provide better health outcomes.

Takeda: Collaborating for change: unlocking the potential of a cutting-edge GI therapy

Research Paper • MRS Awards Papers, Finalist, MRS Award for Healthcare Research, 2020

Takeda, a pharmaceutical company, developed a high-level framework for its communications campaign about a new gastrointestinal therapy.

Towards deeper consumer understanding – Building personas for GSK

Research Paper • MRS Awards Papers, Finalist, MRS Award for New Consumer Insights, 2020

GSK, a British pharmaceutical company, bridged the gap between brand teams, agency teams and creative executions by creating consumer mindset personas that added a new perspective and changed the way people thought about engaging consumers.

Amgen: Big O - Speaking out against a silent disease. A strategy that convinced women osteoporosis is as serious as the Big C

Case Study • Effies (Australia), Australian Effies, Bronze, 2020

Amgen, a world-leading biotechnology company, created its first-ever large-scale, integrated, disease education campaign in Australia by launching The Big O, a multi-faceted osteoporosis awareness campaign.

Superimposed text size and contrast effects in DTC TV advertising: Bigger is better, high contrast not so much

Research Paper • Ryan S. Paquin, Amie C. O’Donoghue, Bridget J. Kelly, Kevin R. Betts, Mihaela Johnson, Christine N. Davis, Alyssa Jordan, and Peyton Williams, Journal of Advertising Research, Digital First, September 2020

Direct-to-consumer prescription-drug television advertisements often contain superimposed text (supers) to convey information about the advertised product.

How ads and pricing shape results for DTC pharma brands

News • 24 September 2020

Advertising is particularly effective in pharma categories where pricing is shaped by a “leader” and a “follower” brand dynamic, according to a study in the Journal of Advertising Research (JAR).

The relationship between competitive pricing and direct-to-consumer advertising: How to manage DTC advertising of Rx drugs in an integrated marketing mix strategy

Research Paper • Abhik Roy and Mary E. Schramm, Journal of Advertising Research, Vol. 60, No. 3, 2020, pp. 305-323

The oligopolistic nature of the U.S. pharmaceutical industry presents its members with a unique opportunity to leverage the interaction between competitive pricing strategy and promotion strategy.

How Viagra Connect’s new campaign is breaking masculinity’s ‘last great taboo’

Article • Chiara Manco, WARC Exclusive, August 2020

Viagra Connect, the first over-the-counter treatment for erectile dysfunction, launched a campaign in the UK to tackle the shame and stigma associated with the condition.

Go digital or go home: Adapting interaction and engagement models with healthcare professionals for post-COVID times

Article • Sameer Desai and Ashish Mahajan, WARC Best Practice, May 2020

With lockdown measures, social distancing and strain on existing healthcare systems thanks to COVID-19, life sciences companies need a whole new model for reaching key stakeholders.

US, DTC prescription products Ad/Sales ratio

Data • Cinzia Petio, WARC Data Points, September 2019

An overview of advertising as a percentage of sales in the DTC prescription products sector in the United States since 2007.

Entyvio: Hyper-Focus on the Patient Journey

Case Study • ARF Ogilvy Awards (US), Silver, 2019

Takeda Pharmaceuticals, a pharmaceutical company, increased registrations for its Entyvio Connect program in the US by creating new datasets to inform a programmatic display and video outreach.

CHANTIX: Ray Liotta Celebrity Testimonial

Case Study • ARF Ogilvy Awards (US), Gold, 2019

CHANTIX®, a medication brand to help smokers quit, used celebrity success story Ray Liotta as a champion for its video campaign to help encourage people in the US to stop smoking.

Pneumovax®/Merck: Chronic Fighter

Case Study • ARF Ogilvy Awards (US), Bronze, 2019

Pneumovax®23/Merck, a vaccine to protect against pneumococcal disease, increased awareness of Pneumococcal Disease (PD) by launching a branded video and delivering messages to healthcare providers in the US.

Novartis: Keep It Pumping

Case Study • SABRE Awards, Asia-Pacific, Public Education, Gold, 2019

Novartis, a pharmaceutical brand, increased awareness of Heart Failure in India by launching Keep It Pumping India, a 360-degree integrated campaign.

Rapid impact: Creating a market leader in a year through machine-learning, ethnography and psychology

Research Paper • Genevieve Hall, Vivek Banerji, Alessandro D’Angelo, Dan Atkins and Daniel Rayner, ESOMAR Conference papers, Congress, 2019

Papilocare, a brand of HPV prevention cream, became the market leader in Italy in just one year thanks to a strategy which was underpinned by hidden and differentiating insights.

Media in-housing tips from Bayer

News • 11 August 2019

Bayer, the pharma company, is in the process of in-housing its digital media buying, and thus has useful tips for other marketers that are thinking about pursuing this approach.

Bayer’s in-house programmatic benefits: 10x the reach and $10 million in savings

Article • Stephen Whiteside, Event Reports, IAB NextGen Marketing Summit, June 2019

Bayer, the pharmaceutical company, is bringing programmatic advertising in-house through a two-year program that scales back agency involvement in this discipline over time.

How to build trust in a stigmatised category

News • 26 June 2019

Epidiolex, a drug developed by GW Pharma, has been shown to be effective in treating rare and complex variants of epilepsy using CBD, but the company has had to build trust in a substance that continues to face preconceptions and the stigma surroundi

To communicate a virtual reality: Building trust in the first US-approved prescription CBD medication

Article • Sam Peña-Taylor, Event Reports, Cannes Lions, June 2019

Epidiolex, the first FDA approved prescription drug derived from cannabidiol, needed to build trust with US doctors through an experience that communicated the drug’s professionalism and rigour at scale.

Amgen JAPAC: The Cost of Silence

Case Study • WARC Cases, Winner, Coporate Influencer, 2019

Amgen, a global bio-pharmaceutical company, made strides to change policies regarding the older population in Hong Kong.

Merck Sharp & Dohme: WTF is HPV?

Case Study • SABRE Awards, EMEA, Pharmaceutical: Rx, Gold, 2019

Merck Sharp & Dohme, the multinational pharmaceutical company, ran a multichannel campaign to raise awareness of its HPV vaccine among teens and their parents in Slovakia.

Pfizer Vaccines UK: #24YouHaveThePower

Case Study • SABRE Awards, EMEA, Superior Achievement in Research and Planning, Diamond, 2019

Pharmaceutical company Pfizer created an integrated influencer marketing campaign to appeal to adolescents in the UK and warn them about the signs and dangers of meningococcal meningitis.

Boehringer Ingelheim: Creating The Boehringer Ingelheim CNS Story

Case Study • SABRE Awards, In2 EMEA, Best in Identity Branding, Gold

Boehringer Ingelheim, the German pharmaceutical company, externalised people’s internal struggle with mental illness to increase online engagement.

SpeakENDO campaign

Case Study • Effies (North America), Bronze, North American Effies, 2019

SpeakENDO, a campaign for women who want to learn more about endometriosis, launched TV spots and national broadcasts in the US that provided information on the condition and the importance of seeing a doctor.

Pfizer: Terry Bradshaw Pitches A Different-Kind of Timeshare to Boomers To Learn More About Pneumococcal Pne

Case Study • SABRE Awards, North America, Marketing to Seniors, Gold, 2019

Pfizer, a pharmaceutical company, increased awareness of the vaccination against pneumococcal pneumonia for baby boomers in the US by launching a video campaign with football legend Terry Bradshaw.

COVID-19: Consumer spending and media habits in the UK

Data • Marte Aune, Rob Clapp, WARC Data, May 2020

This report analyses consumer spending and media habits in the UK during the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak, with insights segmented by age, gender and income.
Digital strategy in healthcare marketing: Admap summary deck

Article • Admap Magazine, January 2020

A summary of new thinking and best practice on digital strategy in healthcare marketing from Admap.
Using technology to drive behavioural change in healthcare

Article • D'Arcy King, WARC Best Practice, February 2018

Looks at how new technologies are affecting the healthcare profession and suggests ways that health data can be used to change consumer behaviour.
Radically digital: Creative Innovation During COVID-19

Article • Carsten Wierwille, WARC Exclusive, April 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic has spurred new approaches to creative innovation which are likely to endure.
COVID-19: Consumer spending and media habits in the US

Data • Marte Aune, Rob Clapp, WARC Data, May 2020

This report analyses consumer spending and media habits in the US during the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak, with insights segmented by age, gender and income.
Strategic planning has never been more important: Mary Meeker’s coronavirus insights distilled

Article • Sam Peña-Taylor, WARC Exclusive, April 2020

A distillation of Mary Meeker’s annual Internet Trends report, with particular reference to the COVID-19 crisis and topics of interest to WARC readers.