Health Brands Hims and Hers Flout Facebook’s Rules on Drug Ads
Health Brands Hims and Hers Flout Facebook’s Rules on Drug Ads
Business, Spoken · SpokenLayer
July 5, 20199m 12s
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Show Notes
On television and radio, the ads are fairly innocuous: “Hey guy,” a female narrator says playfully in one TV spot for Hims, a men’s wellness brand that sells prescription drugs to treat erectile dysfunction, oral herpes, social anxiety, hair loss, and other conditions. “Hi there. Welcome to Hims.” The ad invites viewers to “get ED treatment started for only $5,” next to a close-up of a young man pressing a white pill seductively to his lips.
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