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Top 6 Pharma Social Media Break Through in 2019

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February 2020

In a relatively short period of time, social media has reshaped communication for consumers and healthcare professionals alike.

- Ankit Kankar

Top 6 Pharma Social Media Break Through in 2019

No longer are users simply posting content and communicating amongst themselves. Social channels are now dominated by media reaching specifically targeted audiences.

Looking forward to what lies ahead in the social space, have a look at the top social media trends for pharma in 2019 based on innovation, growth, and opportunities.

6 Cleaned up Twitter name

Pfizer cleaned up its Twitter name earlier by acquiring the rights to @pfizer, which replaced the somewhat awkward @pfizer_news handle it had been using for its official Twitter presence since joining the platform in 2009. Years ago, the company was too late in the Twitter game to register its own name, which had already been taken. Now, with the name reclaimed, tweets from @pfizer really are resulting in a gain of interactions and followers that are more than 250K in number.

5 Made record views on YouTube

http://www.youtube.com/user/JNJhealth

Johnson & Johnson has provided many social media firsts in the past, and here’s one that comes after years of pioneering engagement: in 2019, the total number of video views on the company’s YouTube channel exceeded 22 801 417 views.

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