In an annual review of pharmaceutical promotions, SDI, a leading healthcare market insight and analytic firm, reported that more pharmaceutical advertisers are reallocating their budgets toward additional electronic promotion ("SDI Finds Pharma Shifting Budgets," 2010). With respect to the pharmaceutical category, SDI cited a
135.0% increase in spending for Internet advertising versus an 8.5% decrease for magazine advertising. However, the study noted that Internet advertising represents just 6.5% of overall spending in the category, whereas magazine advertising represents a 27.9%o share of spending. Interestingly, the shift to electronic media was at the expense of mass media rather than other direct marketing media, such as direct mail, thus resulting in an overall increase for direct marketing media.