Online advertising is growing slowly pharmaceutical companies
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According to a report of the research group eMarketer , which provide that the growth of online media advertising will grow 10.6% this year with 10,000 million dollars and will reach 15,200 million in box 2014. This, it seems a lot, represents only 4% of online ad spending in the U.S., and is also a small percentage of the 205 000 million dollars that pharmaceutical companies spent in 2008 in marketing.
The hesitancy to devote resources to this medium is due to the uncertainty about the future regulation of the FDA on online advertising. Drug companies are very tightly regulated with respect to information that can give about their drugs, failing to report off-label benefits, or providing biased information that does not take into account the risks of consumption. However, if someone on a forum or a Facebook page, explains his experience of using off-label drug: is the pharmaceutical company responsible for that content?
The FDA is preparing regulations that purport to regulate the marketing messages from pharmaceutical companies, including those in social networks.





















