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Microsoft can provide brand interaction, direct response opportunities, and contextually relevant placement to match pharmaceutical consumers’ interests—and here’s research to prove it.
 
Health Consumers and the Internet
  • 80 percent of all Internet users are using the Web to research health conditions.1
  • 60 percent of users begin health research at a search engine. 1
  • 10,000,000 American adults look online for health information on a typical day, as popular as paying bills and looking up a phone number. 1
 
Microsoft and Health
  • MSN Health & Fitness is the second most popular health site on the Web.2
  • 74 percent of users between 36 and 65 use Hotmail to discuss medicine and health. 3  
  • MSN Home Page attracts more than 20,000,000 a day. 2
  • 64 percent of MSN Health & Fitness users are women. 4
  • 67.7 percent of MSN Video audience is in the 25 to 54 age range. 2
  • 87 percent of MSNBC Health users purchase prescription medicine—six prescriptions, on average.5
  • Nearly two out of three (63 percent) of MSN Health & Fitness users have purchased online in the past 30 days. 4
 
Health-Related Behavioral Targets on Microsoft
  • Parents
  • New or expecting moms
  • Active lifestyle and fitness enthusiasts
  • Many more
 
 
 
1. Nielsen//NetRatings, May 2006.
2. Metrix Lab, November 2006.
3. Pew Internet, January 2007.
4. @Plan Spring 2007
5. MSN Internal Audience Profiler
 
 
Find Out More
For more information about advertising opportunities for the health industry, contact:

Eva Papoutsakis
pharma@microsoft.com
646-225-4679
 

Eva Papoutsakis, Lead Category Manager, CPG/Pharma