Wednesday, November 30, 2005

Pfizer/Bayer - Viagra beaten to the jump by Levitra?


Poor Pfizer. Just days after they announced new advertising behind Viagra aimed at taking a more "educational, non-branded approach" to erectile dysfunction, Bayer HealthCare in Europe announced that it has signed model and Rolling Stone Mick Jaggers' former wife Jerry Hall as a spokesperson.

Ms Hall's role will be to “encourage men and women globally to 'Strike Up A Conversation' and openly discuss erectile dysfunction with each other and their healthcare professionals."

Ms Hall is scheduled to do a press conference on Dec. 4 at the 8th European Society of Sexual Medicine Congress in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Insider plans to be there. He wonders what music might start the proceedings?

(I can't get no) Satisfaction....

Other suggestions please!

Source: Brandweek

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

Anyone else see the irony of the big E.D. pushes and the complete lack of any commercials for vaccinations of children?

"Ask your pusher!" - Big Pharma 2005

Anonymous said...

Give the above post. How about:

"You cant always get what you want", again by the Stones.

Anonymous said...

How about "The Price of Love" by Roxy Music (another Jerry Hall link)....given the cost of the tablets!

Anonymous said...

"Start Me Up" - Rolling Stones

Anonymous said...

I was in the newsagents this morning and noticed a tabloid front page announcing a double page feature with Jerry Hall talking about 'erectile dysfunction'. It only took a quick glance to notice the feature was full of Big Pharma marketing clichés.

I recently sent a couple of tips to your hotmail.co.uk account, but I guess they weren't quite what you were looking for.

Brad said...

I just found out why I didn't receive a reply to the first email I sent. It bounced, and later this error message arrived:

Diagnostic-Code: X-SMTP-Server; delivery temporarily suspended: Connection timed out

BTW, I also sent a "thankyou" for the "Conference freebies" hat tip.

Brad said...

I sent a logo as an email attachment, but 4 days later I received a "delivery failed" notification. I don't know if you received the 2 emails I sent after that.