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FDA Cracks Down on Unbranded Promotion

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Wendy W. Blackburn at 10:36 AM
May 6, 2010
It might make me a pharma geek, but I like watching what FDA/DDMAC is citing in its letters to pharma on promotional activity. It’s always interesting to me because with every untitled or warning letter for every brand, implications can be far-reaching. Just in the first quarter of 2010 alone, ...

Shifting Trends in Pharma Marketing

posted by:
Wendy W. Blackburn at 5:54 PM
July 16, 2009
I love stats! Doubleclick recently provided a June 2009 report to us on some research conducted by ORC Guidelines. The report, titled The “E-Dimensions” of Pharmaceutical Advertising, looks at "continually shifting trends of pharmaceutical marketing in the interactive space to determine whether marketers are able to deliver the information ...

Is Pharma Focus Shifting from Branded to Unbranded?

posted by:
Wendy W. Blackburn at 6:16 PM
June 2, 2009
Jon Richman had a nice post today on his Dose of Digital blog titled “RealAge, Wii Fit, and Pharma Marketing.” I’m a fan of the Wii Fit myself, and the game has definitely come up in brainstorms around Intouch as a way to reach new audiences, set within ...

Unbranded Websites: What's Your Strategy?

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Wendy W. Blackburn at 1:16 PM
September 23, 2008
Today I gave a presentation on “The Basics of Unbranded Site Strategy” to a group at our agency – many of them wide-eyed young account staffers refreshingly new to pharma, interactive, and agency life. I’d pulled together the presentation back when we realized that many new folks and other “traditional” ...