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• 11,000 Rx Ads Database
• Patients v. Marketers
What were you thinking?Social ads in pharma
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AGENDA
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• 5 min. 11,000 Facebook Pharma Ads
• 20 min Patients v. Marketers
• 5 min Q&A
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MAINTAINING THE KLICK SOCIAL PROPERTIES DATABASE
• Manual Scans
• Facebook recommendations
• Enlist comrades
• Share lists
• Digital Health Coalition
• Manhattan Research
• Ongoing updates
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STAYING ON TOP OF PHARMA SOCIAL
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448FACEBOOK
364TWITTER
37LINKEDIN
17PINTEREST
8TUMBLR
94INSTAGRAM
204YOUTUBE
A WORD ABOUT THE PROPERTIESKlick’s tracked properties include only Corporate, Branded, and Unbranded properties for prescription therapies and the manufacturers. We have been tracking these
properties since 2013 and our lists include those which are both active and inactive. Snapchat is not included because all advertising so far is direct on the platform and
brands do not operate accounts. Some platforms like LinkedIn are known to be low for the number of properties that will exist in market.
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The second most popular
page type in the US talks
about disease state and acts
just like unbranded display
ads.
Each pharma company has at
least one corporate property
similar to its corporate website.
These pages tend to highlight
employees, R&D, conditions in
which the firm specializes, and
other corporate activities.
BRANDED UNBRANDED/DISEASE STATE
CORPORATE ETC.The most popular Page
type allows marketers to
run ads all about the brand
itself, including full claim
with ISI for both patients
and HCPs.
PROPERTY & CONTENT TYPES
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KNOWN FACEBOOK PROPERTIES
466KNOWN PROPERTIES
352ACTIVE
217BRANDED
(185 ACTIVE)
115UNBRANDED(86 ACTIVE)
FACEBOOK FIRSTIt’s still a Facebook First world for pharma and the Klick properties span six years and uncounted updates. The database holds 114 inactive properties as well as the active
corporate, branded, and unbranded ones. The branded and unbranded product pages get the most attention and our analysts are always looking for more to add to the
database.
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METRICS OF ACTIVE BRANDED PAGES
43COMMENTS ON
142COMMENTS OFF
42BLACK BOX
143NOT BLACK BOX
87“SHELL” PAGES
98PAGES WITH POSTS
105GEO-BLOCKED
80NOT GEO-BLOCKED*
23%
77%
23%
77%
47%
53%
57%
43%
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LOOKING AT THE CONDITIONS IN THE KNOWN FACEBOOK PAGES
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16.4%5.9%5.9%
5.6%5.2%
4.9%4.9%
4.5%4.5%
3.5%3.1%
2.4%2.4%2.4%
2.1%2.1%2.1%2.1%
1.7%1.7%1.7%
1.4%1.0%1.0%1.0%1.0%1.0%
0.7%0.7%0.7%0.7%0.7%0.7%
0.3%0.3%0.3%0.3%0.3%0.3%0.3%0.3%0.3%0.3%0.3%
CancerDiabetes
Reproductive HealthImmunology
Multiple SclerosisHemophilia
DegenerativeCardiovascular
DermatologyMigraine
COPDCycsic Fibrosis
HIVAddiction
Mental HealthNeurology
Eye HealthAsthma
CosmeticHepatitisVaccine
IBDConstipation
HAEUrinary
AllergiesMeningitis
HospitalLiver Disease
GERDLupus
Animal HealthInfectious Disease
SweatingPKU
CoseticAntivenom
Bone HealthNasal Polyps
feeding tube adjunctWeight LossFibromyalgia
ParalysisHead Lice
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9
5
3
2
1
1
1
Cancer, Breast
Cancer, Blood
Cancer, Lung
Cancer, Other
Cancer, Multiple
Cancer, Brain
Cancer, Gastro
Cancer, Colon
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FACEBOOK (AND INSTAGRAM) ADS DATABASE
245KNOWN ACTIVE PAGES
245REVIEWED PAGES
174SPONSORING PAGES
11,370SPONSORED ADS
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AD TYPES
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CTAs BEING USED
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82.1%
10.2%
3.7%
2.5%
0.6%
0.4%
0.3%
0.1%
0.1%
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VIDEO IS THE NEW IMAGE
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Video, 53.7%Image, 40.4%
Carousel Image, 4.3%
Carousel Video, 1.6%
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MESSAGE CONTENT
PRODUCT BENEFITS, INC. REMINDER ADS
PATIENT TESTIMONIALS AND STORIES
COPAY AND FINANCIAL OFFERS
PATIENT SUPPORT PROGRAMS
FORMULARY INFORMATION
PHYSICIAN-TARGETED INFORMATION
DOCTOR DISCUSSION GUIDE DOWNLOADS
PATIENT EVENTS
LIFE TIPS, CALENDAR EVENTS
PAID CELEBRITY SPOKESPERSON
PAGE LIKE TARGETING
TALK ABOUT PLATFORM & ACTIONS
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Supplied the patientsTarget: 30
Actual: 140
Supplied the marketersTarget: 50
Actual: 5749 from Klick Wire
8 from DTC attendees
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WHO ARE THE PATIENT INFLUENCERS?
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• 95% are on Facebook properties
(FB and IG)
• 60% use Twitter which is a
significant over-indexing from
general population
• 25% use YouTube for health
information, a significant under-
indexing
By their nature, patient influencers are multi-platform with Health information
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• It is likely that the patient
influencers are being modest
with their self-assessments
• The micro-influencers who
participated in the study will
have a good handle on what
their groups think and feel
Influencers are humble but influential
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• It’s not surprising the
influential patients use social
with considerable frequency
in their lives
• A full 54% talk about health
topics, including migraine,
once a day or more
Influencers are on social all day, and 50% talk health once a day or more
All Purposes
Health
54%
55%
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• Many migraine patients look
at content in small chunks
but some are more engaged
• Getting to this audience
requires content that can
find them when they’re
online
45% of migraine influencers spent 1 hour or more on the topic per day
Migraine ContentAll Purposes
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THE ADS
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Changes to a
text-oriented
video with a
white background
Action-oriented
carousel with
6-second
boomerang clips
Emotive long-
form video (30-
seconds) that
talks about
stigma of
migraine
Text-oriented
animated ad unit
optimized for
sound off
environment
Traditional
carousel with
images telling
story across
multiple panels
= view rate
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Changes to a
text-oriented
video with a
white background
Action-oriented
carousel with
6-second
boomerang clips
Emotive long-
form video (30-
seconds) that
talks about
stigma of
migraine
Text-oriented
animated ad unit
optimized for
sound off
environment
Traditional
carousel with
images telling
story across
multiple panels
THE ADS – VIDEOS
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THE QUESTIONS
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STOPPING POWER
Would you stop and look at this?
EFFECTIVENESS
How effective would this ad
be for your community?
MATTERS TO
Does this ad speak to something that
matters to migraineurs?
IDENTIFY WITH
Do you think your community would identify with the tone and creative
of this ad?
CLICK ON
How many migraineurs out of 10 would click to
learn more?
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PATIENT RESPONSES
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Stop:
Effective:
Matters:
Identify:
Clicks:
Score:
Stop:
Effective:
Matters:
Identify:
Clicks:
Score :
Stop:
Effective:
Matters:
Identify:
Clicks:
Score :
Stop:
Effective:
Matters:
Identify:
Clicks:
Score :
Stop:
Effective:
Matters:
Identify:
Clicks:
Score :
= view rate
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MARKETER RESPONSES
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Stop:
Effective:
Matters:
Identify:
Clicks:
Score:
Stop:
Effective:
Matters:
Identify:
Clicks:
Score:
Stop:
Effective:
Matters:
Identify:
Clicks:
Score :
Stop:
Effective:
Matters:
Identify:
Clicks:
Score:
Stop:
Effective:
Matters:
Identify:
Clicks:
Score:
= view rate
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OVERALL WE CAN SEE THE MARKETERS ARE MORE PESSIMISTIC THAN THE MIGRAINEURS
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Patients Marketers Patients Marketers Patients Marketers Patients Marketers Patients Marketers
Ad 1 Ad 2 Ad 3 Ad 4 Ad 5
Stop Effective Matters Identfy Clicks Average
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The bad news is that marketers don’t seem to feel the same way about content as patients…
…they are far more pessimistic than the people
they are serving.
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MARKETERS ARE ~23 PERCENTAGE POINTS LOWER THAN MIGRAINEURS ACROSS ALL MEASURES
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23%
72% 49%
STOPPING POWER
79% 55%
24%
MATTERS TO
67% 46%
21%
IDENTIFY WITH
59% 35%
24%
CLICK ON
65% 39%
26%
EFFECTIVENESS
Marketers are lower than migraineurs across all measures
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The good news story is that Marketers do tend to have a sense of how patients will react to ads
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The consistent difference between
marketers and patient influencers should
provide encouragement that we know the
direction, if not the magnitude, of
patient preferences.
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WHY ARE MARKETERS SO MUCH MORE NEGATIVE THAN PATIENT INFLUENCERS?
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The big unknown is how these ads performed in the
real world
?The reality of low CTRs from many performance reports
Jaded from so many ad and creative reviews
Marketers
Marketers represent the actual performance of advertising with an
audience which is more than migraineurs
Emotionally connect with content
Imagine other patients using content
Patient Influencers
Patient influencers represent only the “perfect target” audience and react
to the content accordingly
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• The average difference between patients
and marketers for this ad was 1%
• Not only that, but both groups gave this ad
top marks in many criteria
• Marketers were 12% more likely to say that
patients would identify with this ad
Emotion ruled the test with ad #3 showing positive alignment between patients and marketers
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• In the current market of 3-second videos
and 15-second ads a 30-second video can
feel like a documentary
• Don’t fear the long form for your true
audience
• Non-migraineurs would pass this by in
droves but your actual audience would stick
around, and that’s what matters
Don’t fear “long form,” your true audience will still engage
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• Marketers were particularly negative on this
ad, apparently thinking that reading is so
2010
• This wasn’t the marketers’ most negative ad,
but it was the biggest distance from the
patients
• It speaks more to patients than marketers
That’s not to say there aren’t differences – the largest average difference was in Ad #4
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• This shows that real patients are not afraid of text
or reading
• In fact, an engaged patient will wade through
reams of content to get to the data that they are
looking for
• Marketers should consider infographics for their
scientifically-engaged market
Patients look more favorably on data-first content than marketers think
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The takeaway for marketers should be that “you are not your audience” and we need to
test messages with research and measure results against actions that matter
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Add on finding…
research as a
social good
• We also asked patients how
they felt about filling out a 10-
minute survey on their condition
and reviewing ads
• Patients enjoyed the experience
• Market research for chronic
conditions provides an outlet for
patients to voice their opinions
and they value that
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On the topic of research, these chronic disease patient influencers look forward to participating and providing their opinions
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SUMMARY
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Marketers
We’re Pessimists
We’re Consistent
Marketers have been trained to be critical
Marketers are able to determine the direction of patient reactions
Testing RequiredYou only know if you ask so ensure message testing is baked into every campaign
Patient Influencers
Don’t allow the general reaction of social audiences to dictate your campaign for engaged patient influencers
Patient influencers crave to be heard and are predisposed to want to participate
Patient Influencers
Differ
Patient Influencers
Crave
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Brad EinarsenSenior Director, Social MediaKlick Health
Laurel NetolickyVice President, Business Development WEGO Health