\nOne source I came across indicated that pharmaceutical display ads typically pay between $50 and $100 per 1,000 page views, while other advertisers pay at most $15. Unfortunately, we haven\u2019t seen many drug ads on these sites thus far.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Which is fine as far as an observation goes while randomly looking at a particular site a few times over a 2 or 3 month period. But it’s not really contributing to the understanding of the underlying business model in this space unless you’ve done an actual, objective analysis (or simply asked them in the survey conducted, which wasn’t done). <\/p>\n
And then some opinions are just in contradiction to other professional forecasts and data:<\/p>\n
\nAnd the opportunity for profiting from generous pharmaceutical industry spending may decline significantly in the future as more brand name drugs go off patent, since brand competition is what drives advertising outlays.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Yet eMarketer, which tracks trends such as online pharmaceutical and health spending, actually reports that 2008 ad spending will again rise by approx. 20% from 2007 (when it also rose about 19%), and is expected to grow another 20 to 25% in 2009. This objective data doesn’t jive with such opinion.<\/p>\n
Overall, however, I found the report a must-read for anyone who wants to understand how these kinds of sites are doing and whether they provide any real value to e-Patients and other consumers. I have my doubts as they exist today, because they still lack the volumes necessary to make their data of value (and valid).<\/p>\n
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Ruth Given has written a paper entitled, MD Rating Websites: Current State of the Space and Future Prospects (PDF), that was recently published on THCB. It’s a 39-page informal analysis (with an emphasis placed on informal) that takes a fairly good and comprehensive look at the space of doctor rating sites as they exist today. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[21,1,6,62],"tags":[76,215,214,135,123,134,217,216],"coauthors":[8261],"class_list":["post-599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-e-ptsresources","category-general","category-newsgossip","category-reforming-healthcare","tag-doctors","tag-md","tag-physician","tag-rating","tag-ratings","tag-review","tag-reviewing","tag-reviews"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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