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McCann’s new company: strategizing for sustainable health behaviors

Wednesday, October 19th, 2011

Updated: This post reflects an updated version of the story originally posted here on October 19. McCann Healthcare Worldwide has launched a new company, McCann Global Heath, which has taken a new approach to business: treating people as “health consumers” rather than as “target populations.” John Cahill, CEO of McCann Healthcare ...

Williams-Labadie celebrates 20 years in business

Friday, November 5th, 2010

Williams-Labadie, a Chicago-based healthcare communications and advertising agency, recently celebrated their 20th anniversary with employees and friends at Hub 51 in downtown Chicago. The agency is part of Publicis Healthcare Communications Group. [caption id="attachment_539" align="alignleft" width="210" caption="(From left) Kathryn Jaskulski, Philip Miller, Deeya Bhatla, Megan Bearry, Greta Christensen"][/caption] The agency is heavily ...

Intouch Solutions launches TweetPharm

Tuesday, November 2nd, 2010

The digital marketing agency Intouch Solutions Inc. continues to innovate by unveiling several social media tools, including TweetPharm and its share»send»save product. TweetPharm is a free interactive infographic that tracks pharmaceutical companies’ use of Twitter. The share»send»save tool is a social sharing widget designed especially for the heavily regulated pharmaceutical ...

Core-Create blogs against “sea of sameness”

Thursday, October 28th, 2010

On Wednesday, Oct. 27, Core-Create Inc. kicked off a 3-part blog series on the critical role that creativity plays in today’s pharmaceutical marketing. Dorene Weisenstein, executive VP and chief creative officer, the Core Nation, offers creative calls to action as she discusses how branding and marketing tactics are launching innovative ...

Q&A with AbelsonTaylor’s Nancy Drescher

Thursday, October 21st, 2010

In a Q&A with Med Ad News editor Gina Monari, Nancy Drescher, senior VP, director of client services at AbelsonTaylor, discusses how leadership roles are expanding and duties at the agency are being shifted to accommodate its growth. Read on to learn about how the recent reorganization enables Jay Carter, ...

Ross Thomson Rounds out Roska Healthcare Advertising team

Wednesday, October 13th, 2010

Roska Healthcare Advertising’s executive leadership dream team adds creative prowess with the recent addition of Ross Thomson as chief creative officer. Mr. Thomson is charged with bringing dynamic, fresh talent to add to his team and also developing the agency business model and brand identity while closely working with Jay ...

Ad agencies collaborate on “Choose” campaign

Tuesday, May 4th, 2010

Sanofi-Aventis U.S., the marketer of Lantus SoloSTAR, has created the “Choose” campaign as a way to generate a dialogue about insulin among people with type 2 diabetes and their healthcare providers. The campaign, which just launched and will continue throughout the year, includes print advertisements, television spots, and an online ...

Cost can be high for regulatory noncompliance

Thursday, April 22nd, 2010

Tonight, following the 21st Annual Manny Awards honoring outstanding acheivements in healthcare advertising, our April issue will be unveiled along with all the winners. Meanwhile, our May issue, including one of our regular features on promotional medical education, is in full production. For last year’s promotional medical education feature, I had ...

Manny voting coming soon!

Monday, March 2nd, 2009

The Manny Awards are getting closer and closer. In about a week, we will be opening up online voting to the participating healthcare advertising agencies. On Friday and throughout the weekend, our team was busy uploading the hundreds of creative samples submitted for consideration. This year, rather than judging a ...

Health and wellness merge in first-of-its-kind practice

Friday, February 6th, 2009

In partnership with Momentum Worldwide, McCann Healthcare Worldwide has launched Momentum Wellness, the first global practice area focused specifically on wellness. The goal of the practice is to educate and enlighten consumers while building brand equity. Expertise lies in addressing the needs of traditional health-related categories, as well as the ...