Move Over, #YOLO; Pfizer Brings the #FOGO

If someone asked you what sort of business would spark the next social media trend, odds are that the word pharmaceuticals would not come to mind.

Pfizer hopes to defy convention by capitalizing on its “Get Old” campaign–launched back in 2012–and introducing “FOGO“: fear of getting old.

The company thought that the initiative, intended to stimulate conversations on subjects like the challenges of aging, needed a boost. As reported in The New York Times, they traded original AOR SS&K in an effort to go HUGE.

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Pharmaceutical Advertising Aching for Attention

Pharmaceutical Advertising

As far as health is concerned, advertising can make a difference. Today, most people are being oriented on the health risks that come their way and for most pharmaceutical companies, there is still a part of the market that they can penetrate when it comes to pills that help you sleep.

But while it may indeed be a risk since people are being wooed away from relying on medical tablet means towards solving their problems, it is apparent that it is a short time deal. People are wiser these days but as long as advertising draws in the sales, then why not?

“Pharmaceutical companies pour a tremendous amount of money and effort into these ad campaigns,” said Michelle Dockhorn, a Rockhurst University assistant marketing professor who has worked in pharmaceutical sales and marketing. “A popular campaign takes a monumental effort. They do a lot of brainstorming to understand the target market and what will make them buy the drug.”

(Source) Kansascity.com

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