Can This Work for Pharma? The Continual Quest of Creative Advertisers

PM360 magazine is asking its readers find marketing campaigns and tactics used by consumer packaged goods, retail, and other industries to give pharma marketers some fresh ideas. Here's what one ad agency SVP Executive Creative Director came up with as and example of how pharma can"push the boundaries":Could This Work for Pharma? Inspiration from Outside Industries In terms of creepiness, this campaign has nothing over some creepy pharma campaigns I've seen (see, for example, my"Gallery of Scary Pharma Industry Advertising").According to the Creative Director who submitted this example to PM360, Australia ’s Transport Accident Commission’s"visually and emotionally jarring approach to the problem of connecting with the public about road safety was unique and inspiring. Rather than educate people on the tragedy of auto-related deaths with a metaphor or visual of a mangled person, they reframed the problem by looking broader and closer, and by thinking younger."But these and other"fresh [creative] ideas" are not really new to pharma or they just won't work for pharma. Let's examine each one.Read more »
Source: Pharma Marketing Blog - Category: Pharmaceuticals Tags: creative DTC Advertising Source Type: blogs