Med Ad News asked Agenda 2021 participants to write their own questions and answer them regarding what will have a major impact on pharma marketing during 2021.

2021’s crystal ball: Six AI predictions from Aktana management that will shape a new commercial model.

Those pesky ones and zeros lurked behind virtually every key trend in pharma marketing in 2019, and their influence will only grow in 2020.

The age of blockbuster drugs has officially given way to precision medicines that are customized for rare diseases and individual patients. We are in the early days of a decades-long trend that will influence changes throughout the entire life sciences industry and lead to groundbreaking cures and treatments.

Industry contributors shared with Med Ad News topics that will have a major impact on pharma marketing during 2020.

Artificial intelligence generated plenty of chatter amongst the pharma marketing intelligentsia in 2018. Will 2019 be the year when the industry fully embraces it as more than just a tactic?

For years and years, pharmaceutical pricing has been under attack by consumers, professionals, and payers. More recently, the U.S. government has dramatically stepped up its assault, with price reduction proposals from Congress and stern words from President Trump indicating that drug pricing is a major ongoing focus of the administration. The 2018 timeline was dotted with government jabs at pharma pricing, as well as some attempts to take real action.

A sales rep preparing for her week isn’t thinking, What’s in my sales dashboard? What is my progress towards my call plan? She’s thinking, What are the burning issues in my territory this week? How should I adjust my plan based on the latest events and information that I have? Then she manually navigates her way through dashboards and reports to find these answers.

The market research company Gartner predicts that consumer demand for voice devices such as Amazon Echo and Google Home will generate $3.5 billion by 2021. These intelligent voice assistants, plus other digital technologies such as the Apple Watch, are slowly but steadily being adopted in healthcare.

Ogilvy Health recently asked some of its agency leaders – in creative, payer, digital, planning, and account – to share what they’re tracking in 2019.