Drug Advertisers Discover Benefits of Radio
It should be noted that the report is part of Interep's marketing effort targeted toward DTC prescription drug advertisers.
Interep says that since the FDA relaxed the guidelines for prescription drug advertising on broadcast media in 1997, advertising expenditures have soared to $2.3 billion, benefiting both television and radio.
However, while spending on radio has increased dramatically - growing from $9 million in 1999 to $33 million in 2000 - a relatively small portion of total Rx DTC spending is currently directed toward the medium. About 50% of their spending goes to broadcast television. But according to Debbie Durben, President of the Interep Marketing Group, this is slowly changing.
"Last year we saw a number of large DTC advertisers increase not only dollars spent on radio, but their percentage of total dollars directed toward our medium. Marketers are beginning to recognize the tremendous share of voice opportunity available on radio, particularly as television becomes increasingly crowded with competing DTC prescription brands," Durben said.
Last year the ten largest prescription drug advertisers on radio included:
* Claritin Allergy
* Tamiflu Flu
* Prilosec Heartburn
* Glucovance Diabetes
* Xenical Fat Blocker
* Procrit Anemia
* Avandia Diabetes
* Allegra Allergy
* Lymerix Lyme Disease
* Patanol Allergy
The report also cites radio's promotional and sponsorship opportunities - for instance, the ability of allergy medication advertisers to sponsor pollen reports, or flu medication advertisers to sponsor winter weathercasts - as a key draw for DTC advertisers. Radio's Internet capability, particularly its ability to drive consumers to websites for additional product information is cited as another draw.
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