In 2022, the pharmaceutical industry spent approximately 7.6 billion U.S. dollars on direct-to-consumer (DTC) advertising in the United States, up from 7.2 billion dollars a year earlier – an annual increase of almost six percent.
Pharmaceutical industry's direct-to-consumer (DTC) spending on media in the United States from 2016 to 2022
(in billion U.S. dollars)
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