Before there was any indication of an impending global pandemic, eMarketer was forecasting a 17% increase in US digital ad spending for 2020. The net impact of the pandemic ended the year with a 1.7% increase instead, claims eMarketer in its end-of-year summary. It could have been much worse; however, social distancing and the closing of...Read More

If the web is a global marketplace, then why is nobody searching for the niche products you sell? Low volume can’t always be solved with more hair product. In terms of digital advertising, low volume will undermine most search engine marketing campaigns before they ever get off the ground. Before you get slapped with an...Read More

We’ve recently heard from clients who are wanting to make a Coronavirus Pivot by divesting in marketing live KOL events and in-person drug sales in the wake of COVID-19. Many are choosing to shift personal promotion advertising dollars into digital media to capture these HCPs as they move online. We want to make you aware...Read More

Written by Amy Turnquist March 5, 2020 Five years ago, Silverlight Digital (Silverlight) launched a vision with a simple webinar – their State of Digital report was delivered virtually with the goal of helping others in the industry understand current digital trends and emerging best practices. Today, their Pulse 2020 conference has grown to a standing-room-only crowd, filling the...Read More

Your employer made an investment in you at the time you were hired. The investment was that one day, you would be called upon to formulate a strategic pharma marketing approach for your brand or product. Your strategy would inevitably move the company forward and positively impact customers, shareholders, and your patient group. This opportunity...Read More

Search engines have taught digital advertisers that relevance is everything. We now use evolved algorithms to interpret search terms based on the user’s perceived situation, time of day, location, and urgency. By incorporating this situational evidence, search engines provide the most relevant results, and targeted ads to match. In terms of digital pharmaceutical advertising, the...Read More

Silverlight Digital’s CEO Lori Goldberg writes for PM360. The 1980s relaxing of regulatory laws around direct-to-consumer pharmaceutical advertising arrived at a time, or in response to the consumers’ desire to play a stronger role in managing their health. Meanwhile, advancements in medical science were providing life-altering innovations at an accelerated rhythm that would eventually out-pace...Read More

Silverlight Digital’s CEO Lori Goldberg writes for MobileMarketer. Unscheduled moments where people pick up their phone during downtime serve as prime opportunities for marketers to connect with consumers. There are moments every day that we reach for our phones to see what’s going on. We find these moments when we’re in line at Starbucks, in...Read More

Silverlight Digital’s CEO Lori Goldberg writes for PM360. Roaming the aisles of a drug store, a woman ponders the products lining the shelves and moves from one aisle to the next, searching for something specific. There is nothing unusual about her manner of dress; she is professional and it’s evening so perhaps she has come...Read More

Beaumont Hospital is a large academic teaching hospital 5km north of Dublin City centre. They provide emergency and acute care services across 54 medical specialties to a local community of some 290,000 people, while employing over 3,000 staff. The Challenge An inefficient filing system at Beaumont hindered healthcare workers who needed to be able to...Read More