Today we're going to discuss digital marketing and web strategy of GSK's Flonase and its entrance into a highly saturated market
Flonase is a good example of a successful prescription drug to OTC transition, which is notoriously difficult to accomplish
Flonase is used to treat allergies so we thought it might be helpful to go over this in detail
given the element of seasonality which is something that we mentioned previously in our vaccine marketing webinar, but have yet to discuss
We'll start with the top left graph
Which shows the adjusted proportion of search density on Google from September 2013 to July
2017 and we see how seasonality will affect marketing of this product
Let's concentrate on the dark blue line
From search results we can infer that peak allergy season occurs around March and April with a smaller peak around August
Given this information we know that it's important to be strategic with marketing and product launch
The right hand table shows raw data of the graph on the left
sections are divided by year the
highlighted values show the maximum peak value for the entire year by search term
We evaluated search density for the terms allergies
Claritin, Flonase, and Flonase contests the values are adjusted between a scale of 1 to 100 where 100
Signifies peak search density of the term if we adjust all values for each search term they can then be compared apples to apples
You'll see us use similar approaches with our other analytical strategies as it's more effective to compare data that has been standardized
We can kind of think of this table as a timeline. Where key milestones are highlighted with the yellow tabs
the first event shows when Bayer acquired Claritin from Merck's consumer goods division in May of 2014
Claritin is one of Flonase's top competitors, so they are included in this analysis; however,
Claritin had a 12 year head start in the allergy market as OTC Claritin was approved November 27
2002 and GSK Flonase made the transition from Rx to OTC in July of 2014 so
Then you may be wondering how Flonase has become so successful
despite entering a saturated market, and though it did take some time, it was ultimately a function of smart and effective marketing
Again, we will only be examining their online campaigns, but keep in mind that they also launched multiple in-store promotions, coupons
giveaways, network ads and all of this in conjunction in a very concentrated amount of time
However, we will show you how digital marketing can enhance overall marketing strategy.
Right after OTC approval is when GSK's first Flonase ads began to appear on Google AdWords
given the terms that they purchased we can estimate a
monthly Google AdWords budget of 34.9K and a spend of 22.8
but more on this later
Search density and public interest continued to rise up until their OTC launched February of 2015
Which was of course just in time for peak allergy season in
April of 2015 they launched their first social campaign that used the hashtag #BeGreater24
Which we saw evidence of on Facebook Twitter and Instagram
However given the parameters of the campaign and the fact that it required photo submissions to win money
We'll only look at the results from Instagram due to the nature of the social channel
Instagram is highly visual so these types of campaigns typically do very well on this platform
This was GSK's first attempt at influencer marketing on Instagram for Flonase
The campaign itself did not have much of a theme other than 24 hours of being greater than allergies
So they sought out accounts of normal people with many followers. They chose six accounts which you can see listed on the chart here
Engagement public is the total amount of engagement seen on the photo posted by the influencer?
engagement brand is the total amount of engagement on Flonase's brand account and
Total engagement is of course the sum of the two
It is obvious that engagement with the brand account is much lower than that of the influencer account
The public is not as receptive of
advertisement coming directly from the brand as it is from someone else talking about a brand if
We look at the stats for percentage influence
We can see that jermzlee was their top influencer for this campaign accounting for 76.8% of all engagement
#FallOfFame was their next campaign launched in September 2015 in alignment with the second-highest allergy peak for the year
This was their most successful social media campaign
What they did this time was appeal to those with pet allergies
And they sought out influencers on Instagram with pets this was a smart marketing effort on this channel because pet photos do well on Instagram
Though they could have further expanded reach with additional hashtags, it was a highly successful campaign regardless
As the brand became more established they decided to stop these campaigns on Instagram and in 2016 launched their first Great American Road Trip (GART)
Sweepstakes though they did announce this on all platforms this type of campaign typically does better on Facebook
So what we did was reverse track engagement and link shares on Facebook for the sweepstakes.
In 2016 the engagement on Facebook was around
8,035 which is much greater than what we saw in
2017 because they posted about the sweepstakes three times compared to the one time in 2017
LinkedIn data is included to show that this is typically not the best channel for this type of campaign for this target
for this target audience sorry
We won't be going into too much detail on this today
But I did want to show you examples of Flonase's most successful social posts on Facebook Instagram and Twitter
Do take some time to look at those and think about what you can do with your brand
Now about Google AdWords in July of 2017 Flonase was showing a total of
261 paid keywords and in August this number doubled to
535 this shift was in large a push to counter customers searching for Bayer's Afrin nasal spray amongst other nasal spray competitors
Here are a few examples of their top AdWords campaigns
Their Spanish advertisements on Google AdWords are in fact the most popular keyword ads and this was due to a
Relatively recent digital push to target a Spanish market around September to October of 2016
Flonase's website is ranked very low for the term allergies because this is a very high competition keyword
They will not be able to achieve similar results to what Abbvie was able to accomplish with Humira and rheumatoid arthritis
However, they are utilizing Google Adwords to drive awareness for a product, which would have been invisible through search otherwise
We've also provided some examples of Flonase's display ads in different dimensions
These are generally associated with Google AdSense, which deserves its own case study
The purpose of this webinar was to give you a bit of insight into beginner level digital competitive strategy for digital marketing of
Pharmaceuticals online though we only looked at OTC Flonase these concepts can also be applied to prescription products
We see the power of historical data through the transparency of the web and especially for those looking to enter a saturated market
Why would you spend money on
Running your own test campaigns if you can gain insight from what has already been done
And what is successful and either duplicate it or improve on it?
Alternatively, this is a very effective way of finding out what has yet to be done, and what opportunities remain untapped for this market
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