Healthy Skepticism Library item: 15798

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Publication type: news

Arnold M.
Drug marketers should appeal to reason during recession
Medical Marketing & Media 2009 Apr 15
http://www.mmm-online.com/Drug-marketers-should-appeal-to-reason-during-recession/article/135987/?DCMP=EMC-MMM_Consumer

Full text:

Marketers must appeal less to the emotions and more to ration to woo consumers amid the economic downturn, according to a DDB study.

“Consumers are not going to be as motivated to take action based solely on higher-order/emotional end benefits in the pharmaceutical, or even in the well-being space,” said Maria Tender, DDB director of brand planning. “Today, more than ever, they will need tangible benefits ascribed to certain brands.”

The survey, by Omnicom’s DDB and M/A/R/C Research, found that the value consumers place on health and the time they spend thinking about it increase as incomes dwindle.