Educational DTC Drug Advertisements: "Minky Viagra Noni Noni Boo-Boo Plats"

We have posted before (most recently here) about the need to be very skeptical about direct-to-consumer (DTC) pharmaceutical advertising. On the other hand, DTC proponents often claim that the ads are valuable because they are educational. However, Alex Berenson just reported in the New York Times on television ads by Pfizer Inc for Viagra now being aired in Canada,

The ads feature middle-aged men and women talking in a made-up language, save for one word.

'Viagra spanglecheff?' says a man to a friend at a bowling alley.

'Spanglecheff?' his friend asks.

'Minky Viagra noni noni boo-boo plats!' the first man replies, with a grin that suggests he is not talking about the drug’s side effects. The ads end with the slogan, 'The International Language of Viagra.'

I cannot wait to hear from Pfizer how complete gibberish is educational. But maybe to a drug marketer, it is.

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