Activating Privacy-Forward Healthcare Predictive Audiences

Feb 18

As the healthcare marketing ecosystem rapidly shifts toward privacy-forward engagement, agencies are under pressure to find scalable, responsible ways to reach healthcare professionals (HCPs) and health consumers. Traditional ID-based approaches are losing reliability due to signal loss, regulation, and platform constraints, pushing marketers to seek solutions that meet today’s operational, analytical, and compliance demands.

Where PurpleLab®, Throtle, and Proximic by Comscore Converge

By aligning PurpleLab’s healthcare intelligence, Throtle’s activation infrastructure, and Proximic by Comscore’s predictive methodology, this partnership delivers a complete path from insight to scaled activation. Through the combination of these signals, marketers gain access to high-fidelity Healthcare Predictive Audiences that are modeled without PII, available for immediate activation across leading programmatic channels.

This partnership unlocks the ability for agencies to identify “likely-to-act” audiences with the confidence of deterministic insight, while seamlessly scaling activation and measurement across channels without compromising precision, transparency, or performance.

Why Healthcare Predictive Audiences Matter

Predictive Audiences give healthcare marketers a way to maintain effectiveness even as the privacy landscape evolves. Built to anticipate intent, clinical behavior, or disease likelihood, these segments help agencies reach the right individuals before they enter the traditional ecosystem.

These privacy-centric, predictive segments are:

Powered by robust clinical intelligence from PurpleLab’s medical and real-world data
Enhanced by Proximic’s AI-powered predictive methodology, aligning contextual and behavioral signals with clinical intent
Activated through Throtle’s healthcare-safe identity framework, DSP integrations, and quality controls
Designed to reflect likely prescribing, diagnostic, or treatment patterns
Transacted without personal information
Easily deployable across major DSPs and omnichannel formats

Common use cases:

HCPs likely to prescribe or switch to a specific therapy class
Health-afflicted consumers demonstrating early indicators of a condition or disease pathway
Audience expansion for campaigns with limited deterministic reach
Brand awareness, condition education, or adherence messaging across CTV and digital channels
Top-of-funnel intelligence when DTC or specialty medicine audiences are difficult to scale

Match the Right Audience to the Right Objective

Not all predictive segments serve the same purpose. Aligning audience selection to campaign goals requires intelligence that understands when and why people are likely to act, not just who they are.

This is where Proximic by Comscore strengthens the workflow. Proximic’s AI-driven, privacy-forward methodology analyzes contextual and behavioral signals to predict real-world intent, ensuring predictive segments are matched to specific objectives based on how audiences engage across environments. This allows agencies to move beyond static definitions and apply the right level of precision or scale depending on the outcome they are trying to drive.

Predictive segments help marketers reach further up the funnel, finding audiences long before traditional methods ever could. The result is more efficient, scalable campaigns that extend reach, support the path to prescription, and maintain control across channels.

Discovery to Activation: How It Works

With Throtle, PurpleLab, and Proximic by Comscore, agencies and life sciences companies can now discover, select, and activate Healthcare Predictive Audiences with ease.

Discover the Right Segments: Throtle provides curated lists, taxonomy navigation, and strategic guidance to help agencies identify the most relevant Predictive Audiences based on therapeutic area, behavior, or clinical signals.
Amplify Signals & Predict Intent: Proximic by Comscore applies AI-driven, privacy-forward contextual and behavioral intelligence to model and predict real-world intent—enhancing segment relevance without relying on identifiers. This layer ensures audiences reflect how people actually engage and make decisions, not inferred or static assumptions.
Validate Clinical Relevance: PurpleLab applies its clinical and real-world data expertise to ensure each Predictive Audience represents a meaningful, health-relevant pattern, validated across patient and HCP data ecosystems.
Activate Within Leading Programmatic Platforms: Throtle streamlines deployment across DSPs, ensuring accuracy, compliance, and interoperability across omnichannel destinations.

These segments can be used immediately across display, video, native, CTV, and audio.