health care marketing

Private equity firm Vitruvian Partners backs DeepIntent with $637 million bet on programmatic privacy-compliant health care ads.

BranchLab, an AI startup for healthcare marketers, just added a new high-profile backer: Lance Armstrong’s Next Ventures, which invests in health and wellness startups.

When Ours, a telehealth service for couples counseling, launched in 2020, it wasn’t planning to eventually pivot to a health care-focused customer data and privacy compliance platform.

Advertising restrictions on social platforms often flag keywords and images used in women’s health care ads, preventing those ads from reaching their target audience. There is a “gag order around women’s health care,” Caruso said.

Meet Doceree, a programmatic health care marketing platform with a twist. Rather than allowing brands to target patients on the open web, Doceree has a specialized DSP for targeting doctors with secure messages on physician-only platforms, says CEO Harshit Jain.

When the FTC started cracking down on digital health companies last year, many of Freshpaint’s customers, which include health systems, hospitals and health care marketers, were at a loss about how to continue marketing.

Health care organizations need to embrace fluidity and experimentation if they want to market to the diverse US population they rely on to survive.

In 2021, Mariza Hardin cofounded Zócalo Health, a virtual health care startup that serves Latinx patients in California and Texas. The “culturally aligned” health care company aims to connect with a community that’s historically been hard to reach, due to barriers such as language, culture and accessibility.

Health care marketers are often in the business of reminding consumers of their diagnoses and getting them to change their behaviors for their own good. Andy Semons explains how IPNY works with neuroscientists to design persuasive, relatable and empathetic health care communication materials for different communities.

Health data and race are sensitive topics on their own. Put them together, and it’s easy to see why people struggle to thoughtfully tailor their marketing efforts to different audiences. Still, many health care marketers are opting in to race-based targeting to stay relevant and reach underserved populations.