Creative

EMD Serono brings back "Birds & Bees" infertility effort

Matthew Arnold July 27, 2011

EMD Serono refreshed its "Birds & Bees" fertility issues awareness campaign with a Facebook page and a music video.

GSK launches new Alli spots, hands five OTC brands to Meda

Ben Comer January 05, 2011

GlaxoSmithKline launched new commercials for Alli, in time for New Year's resolutions and holiday overeating remorse, and handed off five OTC products to Meda Pharmaceuticals.

AstraZeneca airs "consuming" consumer for Seroquel XR bipolar depression

Matthew Arnold December 17, 2009

AstraZeneca launched the first consumer TV and print ads for Seroquel XR for bipolar depression, playing on the all-consuming way in which patients experience the disease.

Last chance to grab glory

June 04, 2009

If you still haven't entered the MM&M Awards 2009, then you'd better move fast--today (June 5) is the final deadline for submissions.

Pfizer taps McGarryBowen on Chantix, snubs McCann

Ben Comer February 02, 2009

Pfizer passed Chantix creative work to McGarryBowen, ending McCann HumanCare's contract on the smoking cessation drug, agency sources confirmed.

Advil ads take all-in-one approach

Matthew Arnold January 21, 2009

Wyeth Consumer Health has launched a TV and print ad campaign for Advil advising consumers that they can do more with fewer bottles of OTC pain meds clogging up their purses, thanks to "The Every Pain Reliever."

Alli gets celebrity spokeswoman in Judd

Matthew Arnold January 09, 2009

GlaxoSmithKline has signed country singer Wynonna Judd to serve as the face of its OTC weight loss drug Alli.

Motrin viral suffers digital slings and arrows

Matthew Arnold November 18, 2008

In a reminder that the new media world is not without its perils, Johnson & Johnson is backpedaling from a Motrin campaign about slings aimed at moms that drew arrows from the Stroller Mafia.

Dusa, Topin & Associates take three Doctors' Choice awards

Ben Comer September 24, 2008

Dusa's ClindaReach professional ads, created by Topin & Associates, snagged three awards at the AMM's Doctors' Choice Awards luncheon.

Pfizer brings back tortoise, hare in Chantix extended remix

Matthew Arnold September 16, 2008

Nine months after it pulled Chantix DTC amid concern about possible psychiatric side effects, Pfizer's tortoise and hare are back on the air with a new 90-second TV spot long on risk information.

Doctors' Choice names top journal ads

Ben Comer August 05, 2008

The AMM's Doctors' Choice awards has announced 13 finalists. Winners will be announced at a luncheon on September 24.

2007 MM&M AWARD WINNERS

November 02, 2007

Synova seeks to stage a comeback with the Today Sponge

Matthew Arnold July 31, 2007

It was a plot point on a famous episode of Seinfeld, but that was the high point for the Today Sponge in recent years. Now, 12 years after Wyeth stopped making it, a new owner is looking to relaunch the contraceptive sponge to a highly-segmented swatch of consumers with brighter packaging, print ads and a Web site.