Digitas Health

Digitas Health
Company typeSubsidiary
IndustryMarketing (Health care)
PredecessorMedical Broadcasting Corporation
Founded1990 (1990)
Headquarters,
Key people
Brian Lefkowitz (President)
ServicesMarketing agency
Number of employees
600 (2014)
ParentPublicis
Websitewww.digitashealth.com

Digitas Health is an American interactive marketing agency catering exclusively to healthcare and pharmaceutical companies.

History

The company was founded in 1990 as Medical Broadcasting Corporation and became a unit of Digitas in 2006 as Digitas Health.[1] In 2011, the agency became independent of Digitas, and integrated into the Publicis Healthcare Communications Group (PHCG), the world’s largest healthcare communications network.[2] PHCG is part of Paris-based Publicis Groupe the world’s third-largest communications group, second-largest media counsel and buying group, and in digital and healthcare communications.[3]

In 2014, Digitas Health was re-branded as Digitas Health LifeBrands with more than 600 employees working in Philadelphia, New York, San Francisco, London, and Mumbai.[4][5]

References

  1. ^ "Digitas to acquire Medical Broadcasting Co. - Boston Business Journal". Boston Business Journal. Retrieved 2015-12-29.
  2. ^ "Medical Broadcasting is called Digitas Health". www.bizjournals.com. Retrieved 2023-12-18.
  3. ^ "Publicis Healthcare Welcomes Digitas Health".
  4. ^ "Top 100 Agencies 2014 Digitas Health LifeBrands". MMM. July 2014. Retrieved 2015-12-29.
  5. ^ "Digitas Health appoints Craig Romanok as chief commercial officer to drive strategic growth and commercial excellence". PharmaLive and Outcomes. June 23, 2025.