Monthly Archives: September 2007

Drug ads and Congress

So we all sighed after the House and Senate passed the Food and Drug Administration bill last week. An article in Friday’s WSJ titled, ‘Media Industry Helped Drug Firms Fight Ad Restraints’ highlights the drug industry
…”found powerful allies among media and advertising firms who were determine to protect one of their biggest and fastest […]

Pharma Industry: Embrace Web 2.0

I am not sure how many of you saw the article published yesterday, “eMarketer: Pharma Industry Failing at Web 2.0.
“Despite accounting for an ever-increasing spend of online ad spending, the pharmaceutical industry is still failing to embrace the Web 2.0 strategies that could help it better engage consumers looking for health care assistance, according to […]

Wikipedia and Pharma

We at Catalyst always advise our clients to read their brand’s Wiki entry. Is it accurate?
Why? The Wikipedia listing is usually on the first page of the SERPs (search engine result page).
However, like anything a little knowledge can be dangerous. Perhaps that is what happened to Abbott and Astra Zeneca this summer.
Abbott: In […]