Microsite

Have you heard of Pharmageddon 2012? If you follow the pharmaceutical industry on social media at all, it’s almost impossible not to. It’s on YouTube, Facebook, Flickr. It has it’s own blog on the Wordpress site, it’s listed on Technocrati, there’s an RSS feed and they’re also on Twitter.

Can we talk about an over-saturation of social media here? Maybe… but it’s certainly an interesting way of promoting the use of those new communications channels readily available to everyone.

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Hai education bus

HAI Watch News

HAI Watch health portal

Not on my watch is a disease awareness effort from Kimberly-Clark to educate both the healthcare community and general public on the risks of Health-Associated infection (HAI). The program includes a web portal, a tour bus which features a mini-classroom to give accredited CHE/CME formations regarding HAI on-site and a PR microsite supplying information to media outlets about the program.

The HAI Watch health portal is a resource to help keep health organizations aware of the importance of health-associated infection prevention. The site sections include:

• HAI issues (Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia (VAP) / Surgical Site Infections (SSI) / Cross Contamination)
• Tools (which is extensive with lists of guidelines and links to useful information)
• Clinical Education (which offers accredited CHE programs)
• News and events
• AI champions (with feature stories and case studies)
• Partners and organizations

Plus New HAI awareness tools are added on an ongoing basis.

haiwatchnews.com is a PR page set by Abraham & Harrison to inform medias about the problem and where to find multi-media materials to spread the word.

Also part of the program are two YouTube videos, the first one is about the program itself.

And the second YouTube video is about proper hand-washing to prevent infection and it’s produced by the CDC.

Agency: Abraham & Harrison

Brand name: HAI – Not on my watch
Generic name/category: public service and awareness
Company: Kimberly-Clark
Country/Market: USA, North America
Indication(s)/use: Health-Associated Infections
Target: Consumers (DTC) / Healthcare Professionals (HCP)
Tagline: Not on my watch
Medium: Internet
Size/duration: Web site / Portal / Social Media
Publication/Aired: 2009
Source: haiwatchnews.com/

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We Answer.ca

Agency: Big House Communications
Creative Directors: Chris Kostyal and Mike Fiorentino
Art Director: Mike Fiorentino
Copywriter: Chris Kostyal
Designers: Brandon Stephenson and Jose Rivas
Photographer:Peter Holst

Brand name: Canadian Red Cross
Generic name/category: public service
Company: Canadian Red Cross
Country/Market: Canada, North America
Indication(s)/use: Humanitarian Help Organization
Target: Consumers (DTC)
Tagline: We Answer.ca
Publication: July 2009

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ANAD is a pro bono organisation that educates the public about the dangers of anorexia. They asked us to help them raise money and awareness. To demonstrate the unhealthy beauty ideals promoted by the media and fashion industry we re-painted world famous masterpieces. These paintings were then displayed in fine art museums – exactly where visitors would expect to see manifestations of true beauty.

Agency: Ogilvy, Frankfurt, Germany
Executive Creative Directors/Creative Directors: Dr. Stephan Vogel and Christian Mommertz
Copywriters: Sabina Hesse and Albert S. Chan
Art Buyer: Christina Hufgard
Art Directors: Sabina Hesse and Albert S. Chan
Painter: Remus Grecu
Photographer: Jo Bacherl
Art Buyer: Valerie Opitz

Generic name/category: Disease awareness, Public service
Company: National Association of Anorexia Nervosa and Associated Disorders (ANAD)
Country/Market: Germany, Europe
Indication(s)/use: Anorexia
Target: Consumers (DTC)
Publication: 2009

Background:
Prostate cancer is the most common cancer amongst men.
One of the symptoms is the increasing difficulty to urinate. However, when detected and treated in the early stages of disease, prostate cancer has a cure rate of over 90%

Challenge:
The Belgian Association of Urologists asked us to raise awareness about prostate diseases by convincing men to visit their urologist for a screening. But how can you reach all Belgian men without a media budget?

Solution:
We took Belgium’s most famous landmark: Manneken Pis, a small bronze fountain depicting a naked little boy urinating. Simply by lowering the water pressure we turned Manneken Pis into Manneken Drip. To the spectacle, we added a sign reading ‘Having trouble urinating? Have a prostate check today.’

Results and Effectiveness:
The reactions were overwhelming. The dripping statue was an item in every possible newspaper and an issue on more than 15,000 websites. Our action got coverage on national radio and tv news. Urologists were interviewed to explain the problem on television and EU Health Commissioner Markus Kyprianou spontaneously supported our action. But more important: the awareness campaign didn’t miss its goal. Our message reached an estimated 85% of the Belgians.

September 14th – European Prostate Awareness Day.
Having trouble urinating? Have a prostate check today.

Agency: Famous
Creative Directors: Christophe Ghewy, Tim Driesen, Joeri Van Den Broeck
Copywriter: Iwein Vandevyver
Art Director: Tom Jacobs

Brand name: European Prostate Awareness Day
Generic name/category: Disease awareness
Company: Belgian Association of Urologists
Country/Market: Belgium, Europe
Indication(s)/use: Prostate diseases
Target: Consumers (DTC)
Publication: 2009

Heart attack symptoms awareness campaign

billboard/posters/postcards/text message reminders
Watch your own heart attack.
Sunday Aug 10th 9:17PM ITV1
The most important two minutes of TV you’ll ever see.

2minutes.org.uk

Problem: To build awareness of the variety of symptoms of a heart attack and prompt swift action to save the 245 people that die every day.

Solution: We invited people in the UK to ‘watch their own heart attack’. What they saw was a one-off two minute TV event, taking an entire ad break (media first). Invitations to watch were sent out on TV, posters, print, leaflets, SMS, beer mats, DM to doctors and PR.

Result: 6.5 million people watched the event. Viewing figures went up during ad break. 80% of target audience understood the variety of heart attack symptoms. Lives were saved.

Click on image below to view the TV Commercial Event

Agency: Grey
Chief Creative Officer: Jon Williams
Creatives: Damon Troth and Joanna Perry
Chief Strategy Officer: Neil Hourston
Producers: Rebecca Pople and Andrew Blackburn
Typographer: Mark Cakebread
Producer: Juliet Naylor (RSA)
Director: Brett Foraker RSA
Final Cut Editor: Adam Rudd
Sound: Rich Martin (Envy)

Brand name: Heart attack symptoms awareness campaign
Generic name/category: Disease awareness, cardiovascular
Company: British Heart Foundation
Country/Market: UK, Europe
Indication(s)/use: heart attack
Target: Consumers (DTC)
Tagline: Watch your own heart attack
Publication: 2009

What runs through your veins runs better without cholesterol.

Eating Cheerios for 6 weeks can reduce cholesterol by 4%.

Cheerios.com homepage. May 2009

From Wikiperia
Cheerios is a brand of breakfast cereal. Cheerios was created on June 19, 1941 and is marketed by the General Mills cereal company of Golden Valley, Minnesota, as the first oat-based, ready-to-eat cold cereal. It was called Cheeri Oats at first, later changed to Cheerios because of a trade name dispute. The name fit the “O” shape of the cereal pieces. In some other countries, including the UK, it is sold by Cereal Partners under the Nestlé brand. In 2008, Cheerios released a line of Snack Mix, in Original and Cheese flavors. All Cheerios shipped to the east coast of the United States are manufactured in the General Mills plant in Buffalo, New York.

In 2009 a dispute developed concerning the FDA considering Cheerios an “unapproved new drug” because of its marketing and health claims.

More on Wikipedia

Agency: Saatchi & Saatchi

Brand name: Cheerios
Generic name/category: Food, Cereal
Company: General Mills
Country/Market: USA, North America
Indication(s)/use: Nutrition, food, diet
Target: Consumers (DTC)
Tagline: What runs through your veins runs better without cholesterol
Publication: 2009