The number of digital coupon "events" increased by 12.3 percent in 2011.
Effort takes interactive marketing to the bathroom mirror.
Google coughed up $500 million to the U.S. Justice Department to settle an illegal pharmacy advertising case.
For pharma brands, the FDA is the elephant in Facebook comment room.
Hacking incident will not affect drug maker's brand- or disease-related Facebook pages.
Google courts pharma as Facebook prepares to force comments on their pages.
Product specific pages may be be permitted to prevent user comments.
Pharma marketers that disable comments on their Facebook pages are in for a change.
Company has set aside $500 million for a possible DOJ settlement.
For heavily regulated pharma ads, Google says low CTR is a good thing.