Drug Ads Losing Recall Effectiveness Among Consumers

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If you think that marketing in the drug category is becoming less interesting and more monotonous, you’re right.

A ranking of the most-recalled prescription drug ads shows that prescription drug ads became less memorable for consumers between this year and last, as measured by Nielsen IAG, New York.

The drug ads consumers remembered best in 2007 were executions for Schering-Plough’s allergy drug Nasonex, Takeda’s sleeping pill Rozerem, Schering’s anti-cholesterol brand Vytorin, Pfizer’s anti-cholesterol brand Lipitor and its anti-smoking brand Chantix, and Sepracor’s insomnia med Lunesta.

But midway through 2008, all of those brands have run into controversy or economic difficulties, and some of them pulled much or their entire consumer advertising.

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