The county’s public health campaign the campaign will target misuse of prescription opioids as well as heroin.

Elkton, MD—The Cecil County Health Department has selected Aloysius Butler & Clark for a public health campaign focused on opioid misuse. In an effort to link Cecil County residents with prevention, treatment and recovery resources, the agency will provide public relations, social media, website development, paid media and creative services. Funded with a grant from the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, the campaign will target misuse of  prescription opioids as well as heroin.Read full post...

The DUI D-Word campaign from the Delaware Office of Highway Safety

WILMINGTON, DE—Aloysius Butler & Clark, a full-service marketing communications agency, earned video accolades at the 2015 Telly Awards. With silver as the highest award given, AB&C won three bronze honors. The first two came in the category “Online Video—Online Webisodes, Segments, or Promotional Pieces—Health and Wellness.” AB&C won for MedStar Georgetown University Hospital’s deep brain stimulation campaign and Delaware Division of Public Health Comprehensive Cancer Control Program’s Healthy Delaware skin cancer testimonial videos. Additionally, in the public service category, AB&C and the Delaware Office of Highway Safety won bronze for the DUI D-Word campaign.Read full post...

In 2012 alone, 3,328 people were killed in distracted driving crashes.

Every day on my way to work I witness an amazing number of people who put their lives and the lives of others in jeopardy. People eating, reading the newspaper, smoking, putting on makeup, talking on their cell phones and — worst of all — texting. For what?

They swerve, drive too slow, run off the road, cut you off and stop abruptly. They piss off everyone around them. And most of the time they’re oblivious to the potential danger they’re causing. For what?

I’ve tried every way I know to deal with this, including ignoring them. But it’s impossible. It doesn’t seem to matter to them that using their cell phone while driving is illegal. It’s a dangerous epidemic on America’s roadways. And the statistics don’t lie: In 2012 alone, 3,328 people were killed in distracted driving crashes. For what?Read full post...

WILMINGTON, DE — Aloysius Butler & Clark, a full-service marketing communications agency, and four of its clients won a combined seven awards at the 35^th annual Telly Awards. With silver as the highest award given, the agency took home seven total awards: one silver and one bronze with Delaware Office of Highway Safety; one silver and one bronze with Delaware Division of Public Health; one silver for its Choose Health Delaware campaign; and two bronzes with MedStar Health — the largest healthcare provider in the Maryland/D.C. region.Read full post...

Once again, a study has confirmed that there are significantly more risks associated with not vaccinating children than there are with vaccinating them. The study — published on September 30 in Pediatrics — looked at rates of pertussis (whooping cough) in California, and compared them to rates in areas where parents withheld vaccines from their children. The findings? People who weren’t vaccinated were 2½ times more likely than the norm to live in an area with high levels of whooping cough.

Why is this important? Because as the study states in its background, “In 2010, 9120 cases of pertussis were reported in California, more than any year since 1947.” How could this happen in the United States in the 21^st century? Why would parents withhold one of the most effective preventers of communicable diseases in the world?Read full post...

Wilmington, DE – AB&C, a full-service marketing communications firm, took home gold and silver at the 2013 ADDY Awards in Philadelphia. With more than 600 of the region’s top creative professionals on hand, the agency won gold in the public service “non-traditional advertising” category for its My7Minutes unicorn t-shirt. My7Minutes is a youth tobacco prevention campaign conducted for the Delaware Department of Public Health. In the category “fractional page newspaper advertising in color,” the agency hoisted a silver ADDY for its MedStar Good Samaritan Hospital Gilligan colonoscopy print ad.Read full post...

Poorly researched concepts are one of the main causes of failed campaigns.

You’re in a concept meeting. Your client, a skin cancer organization, has asked you to come up with an advertisement that will convince young women to stop using tanning beds. Your coworker, the mother of a teenage daughter, speaks up. “My daughter Kelly had no idea that tanning beds can cause cancer until I told her recently,” she says, “so the ad should probably focus on melanoma.” Her idea is received with nods of approval, the creative team is informed, and out goes the fear-appeal ad. How easy was that?

Easy, perhaps, but at what cost is such a strategy used by adverting agencies? According to the experts, great cost. Read full post...