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Microsoft's® recently released advertising platform, adCenter, gives pay-per-click advertisers yet another powerful avenue to penetrate t

According to USFDA, a combination product is one composed of any combination of a drug and device; biological product and device; drug and biological product

he vast Internet marketplace with greater accuracy than ever before.

But is it strong enough to dethrone Google™ AdWords as the king of

; or drug, device, and biological product and fixed dose combination would include two or more combinations of drug.

Examples of combination products may in

n-line advertising?

It's a loaded question. Answers definitely depend on an advertiser's specific demographics, target audiences and PPC

lude drug-coated devices, drugs packaged with delivery devices in medical kits, and drugs and devices packaged separately but intended to be used together.

strategy. But based on reach, functionality and cost, it's already clear, adCenter will be hard for any advertiser to ignore.

Since adCe

here is enormous increase in the number of combination products entering the market in the recent years. Combination products have proven advantages but fixe

ter is new and still very much “in development,” to pass judgment would be premature. It already claims superiority over AdWords and Yaho

d dose combinations are still in the process of convincing regulatory authority on their advantages over the single ingredient formulations.

Combination pro

!® Search Marketing in targeting and analytics. Both of these features are a natural outgrowth of MSN’s potent database.

Targeting. Sin

ucts have become life saving products for the pharmaceutical companies who doesn’t have many innovative molecules in their product pipeline and have been inc

e MSN® stores accurate and detailed demographic information about its audience - obtained from subscriptions and registrations on its var

easingly used in the product life cycle management. Even the companies having product patents are trying to extend their product life cycle through the combi

ous Web sites - PPC advertisers can zero-in on highly qualified prospects. Targeting options are:

Geographic location;
Gender; and/

nation products and maximize the revenues. But the companies involved in this practice are overlooking that they are burdening the patients both economically

r
Day part or day of the week.

Efficient targeting leads directly to more sales-per-ad-dollar spent. According to recent statistics

and physically. They need to rightly judge the benefits of the combination products and they have to even look at the risks involved when combining the produ

adCenter converts clicks to customers at a substantially higher rate than AdWords or Yahoo!®. Higher conversion rates stretch ad dollars

ts. Some of the combination products were well accepted by physicians while others suffered. Companies involved in development of combination products are fi

because less money is wasted on click-throughs from unqualified traffic.

Analytics. Again, data sets adCenter apart. Because MSN® has so

ding difficulty in defining their combination products and facing various challenges from selecting a combination to marketing it.

Following aspects would a

much of it, they can churn out reports and analysis to help advertisers evaluate and fine-tune PPC campaigns. Analytic tools include:

A

dd to the challenges in developing combination products:

Which markets to tap where the combination products can do fairly well?
Which combination prod

Tracker, a system that measures ad effectiveness;
Conversion tracking;
Customizable campaign reports with a wide variety of sor

cts are meaningful and rational?
Which therapeutic categories to select?
Which Combinations can address unmet needs of the patients?
Do combin

options;
Invalid click identification; and
Ad, keyword, budget and Web site optimization.

These tools make it easy to achieve

tions increase the patient compliance?
What would be the developing cost?
How to tackle the risks encountered during combination product developmen

outstanding PPC results, in theory. Currently, feedback from advertisers and search marketers is mixed. Some complain that adCenter tools

t?

As combination products don't fit into the traditional categories of drugs, medical devices, or biological products, the USFDA is in the process of devel

are counterintuitive, buggy and overly complex. For search engine marketing firms often managing hundreds of client campaigns, these draw

ping new procedures for reviewing their safety, efficacy and quality.

Professional from academic institutions, pharmaceutical industries, health care indust

acks can make adCenter an inefficient and frustrating platform.

But Microsoft® hardly is standing still. In May, the company acquired De

y and representatives from various regulatory agencies are working out to design the regulatory requirements for manufacture and sale of combination products

pMatrix, a site-traffic measurement and analytics firm. When DeepMatrix is integrated fully by late 2007, Microsoft® expects better perfo

.

As there is an increasing trend of the combination products companies manufacturing such products should be able to tackle the problems involved in the de

mance from existing reports and a host of new ones.

Time will tell whether Microsoft® can get ahead in the on-line advertising race. Bu

elopment. They need to be wiser in analyzing the market trends and the regulatory requirements.

Companies that provide selfless information through particip

whatever the outcome, the good news is advertisers can look forward to stronger PPC options and better return-on-investment in marketing

tion in industry events and feedback to regulatory authorities would be able to face the challenges and will be successful in developing combination products

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