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Service 06 · Healthcare & Pharma Media Activation

Healthcare media in DACH: activate, measure, prove

Review, activate, and measure HCP platforms, healthcare DSPs, and area routes. From platform selection through DSP activation to the HCP measurement chain, in one vertical for DACH.

First call within 48 h · 2 weeks · from €2,400 net

You're in the right place if:

US platforms promise Rx attribution that doesn't exist in DACH.

The platform mix has grown, and nobody checks it against DACH availability.

HCP and DTC data run mixed, without separate containers.

Data CPMs add up unnoticed into a second media budget.

MedscapeDeepIntentThe Trade DeskAdform

What we build

Three building blocks. One vertical.

Platform audit, data activation, and HCP measurement, bookable individually or as a chain.

01

Healthcare media & compliance audit

Medscape · DeepIntent · Doximity · PatientPoint

Nine healthcare platforms, five sub-markets, one DACH filter. The audit scores the platform mix from HCP identity to measurement access and separates HCP from DTC legal spaces.

Platform selection matrix with DACH availability, audience map per permission space, compliance review path for legal, US models classified as benchmark or verification case.

02

DSP & data activation

The Trade Desk · Adform · DV360 · AreaSignal

A DSP setup decays quietly: segments without provenance, data CPMs as a second media budget, unused activation routes. The audit lays that open and activates area data cleanly through the seat.

Seat and stack assessment (TTD, DV360, Amazon, Adform), full cost chain per segment, activation-route matrix with geostore check, area data via AreaSignal.

03

HCP campaign measurement

GTM Server-Side · GA4 · BigQuery · AreaSignal

Professional-portal reports and the CRM can't be joined without a clean schema. We build the measurement chain that makes HCP campaigns provable, without Rx data.

Event schema delivered server-side and deduplicated, separate HCP/DTC containers, area holdouts, campaign dashboard from BigQuery Frankfurt.

How it works

From platform selection to provable impact, in four steps.

First check what carries in DACH, then activate cleanly, then measure honestly.

01Selection matrix

Platform audit

Score the platform mix against DACH availability, HCP identity, and measurement access. US promises get classified as benchmark or verification case.

02HCP · DTC · HWG

Compliance mapping

Separate HCP and DTC as two legal spaces, capture consent chains and HWG constraints in the review path.

03geostore · deal · PMP

DSP & data activation

Review seat, data sources, and cost chain, activate area data via geostore, deal, or PMP.

04GTM SS · BigQuery

HCP measurement

Deliver the event schema server-side, separate chains, area holdouts, reporting in your own BigQuery.

Process

Four phases, fixed order.

always starts with phase 1 · no blind build

Phase 1 · 2 weeks

Audit Sprint

Five layers audited, findings ranked, effort estimated. The result is a report you could act on without us.

Phase 2 · 1–2 weeks

Architecture

Data contract, event design, target architecture. We fix where each number is produced and who guarantees it.

Phase 3 · 2–8 weeks

Build Sprint

Delivery in sprints, every module signed off on its own. Your team stays involved, not locked out.

Phase 4 · ongoing

Managed Evolution

Monitoring, release support, platform updates. Optional; plenty of clients run the setup themselves.

What you get

A report, not a workshop afterglow.

The Audit Sprint ends in a document: findings per layer, severity, effort, sequence. Not a slide deck full of recommendations in the subjunctive.

→ Findings with severity and reproduction path

→ Effort estimate per finding, in person-days

→ A draft data contract for the core events

→ An implementation plan another agency could execute

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Deliverables · Healthcare & Pharma Media Activation

4 groups · 14 items
01Platform & compliance3 items
02DSP & data activation4 items
03HCP measurement4 items
04Handover3 items

Structure taken from this page's scope of delivery. The concrete scope comes out of the audit.

Scopes

Three ways in, one starting point.

Recommended start

Audit Sprint

from €2,400 net

2 weeks

We audit what is wrong. Prioritised report + action plan.

Request an Audit Sprint →

Build Sprint

Fixed price

2–8 weeks

Fresh build or restructure, built to spec.

Discuss a Build Sprint →

Managed Evolution

monthly

3-month minimum

Ongoing partnership. Analytics as a product.

Request Managed Evolution →

Asked often

Cleared up front.

Different question? Write to us directly, reply within 48 h.

The audit ends in documents that carry decisions: a platform selection matrix with DACH availability, an audience map per permission space, a compliance review path, a measurement design. Media buying and creative stay with you or your agency; we build the decision and measurement foundation.

No. The audit documents rule spaces, names review needs and structures the path to the legal review, which sits with your legal and compliance owners. We assess; others approve.

Five layers: seat setup and access, audience data sources including provenance, data costs and their visibility, available activation routes per platform, and the measurement design behind it. The result is a prioritised action plan, not a slide deck. It covers the platforms common in DACH: The Trade Desk, DV360, Amazon DSP, Adform, StackAdapt, Yahoo DSP and Microsoft Invest.

Engagement per professional environment, registrations and inquiries in your own stack, CRM consequences per campaign, regional effects through area holdouts. That is less than a US Rx report promises and more than most DACH setups can prove today.

Separate containers, separate event schemas, separate analyses; a joint view only aggregated in the dashboard. The separation is a compliance foundation, not tidiness, and the audit checks it first.

Medtech, pharma and healthcare teams planning professional or patient-education campaigns in DACH while navigating between US platform promises and local rule spaces. Also as the step before an AreaSignal segment.

Next step

Healthcare media is decided before the booking.

Platform matrix, data activation, compliance review path and HCP measurement design in one audit. Scope and terms in the first call.

Juri Saloid

Your contact

Juri Saloid

Founder & Managing Director

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