In healthcare, clarity is a duty of care.
Healthcare marketing agency
People don’t browse healthcare websites for fun. They arrive worried, time-pressed or responsible for a decision that affects others. Marsmedia is a healthcare marketing agency from Amsterdam, working for healthcare organisations in the US, the UK and Europe — building clear, compliant and trusted digital experiences for patients, professionals and payers.
We keep the scope deliberately digital: websites, branding, search and AI findability. Twenty years and more than three hundred websites taught us where digital healthcare communication is won — and where it quietly fails.
For the patient who needs to understand, the professional who needs to verify, and the payer who needs the evidence.
4.9 average on Google, 44+ reviews
Why healthcare marketing is different
Generic marketing breaks on healthcare. Four reasons this work asks for a partner who knows the field.
Patients read for reassurance, professionals for substance, payers for evidence. The same website has to serve all three — and most healthcare sites quietly pick one and lose the others.
We structure story and site so each audience finds its layer, under a single, consistent brand voice.
In healthcare, nobody converts because a button was orange. They convert because the organisation feels credible: clear language, visible expertise, no overpromising.
That changes what design has to do — credibility first, clarity everywhere, and proof where it can be checked.
Healthcare communication has to work for users with visual, cognitive or mobility impairments — and for anyone reading in stress or pain. Plain language, clear structure, accessible assets.
We apply accessibility practice across every touchpoint, because in this sector reaching every reader is the actual job.
Health claims, privacy, patient data — regulation shapes what you can say and how. Communication that ignores it becomes a liability; communication that hides behind it becomes unreadable.
The craft is doing both: compliant and clear, at the same time.
4.9 average on Google, 44+ reviews
Healthcare marketing: what we do, specifically
Healthcare websites
Healthcare web design that works for the whole readership: findable for the searching patient, substantive for the professional, evidenced for the payer. Designed and built by one team, with accessibility and speed built in from day one.
The website is where every other channel sends people. It has to be the strongest link, not the weakest.
Healthcare branding
As a healthcare branding agency we design identities that feel credible and human at once — logo, typography, colour and tone as one system, documented in guidelines your team can work with.
That includes employer branding: in a sector facing structural staff shortages, how you present yourself as a place to work is brand work too.
Healthcare SEO
Being found at the moment a patient, professional or partner searches your field. As a healthcare SEO agency we build technically sound pages, content matched to real search behaviour, and the patience to compound authority in a field where trust is ranked.
Measured and reported on what actually happens — positions, impressions, enquiries.
Findable in AI answers (GEO)
Patients and professionals increasingly ask ChatGPT, Claude and Perplexity before they ask a search engine. We structure healthcare content so those systems can read and cite it correctly — a discipline most healthcare marketing agencies don’t offer yet.
AI visibility has become measurable with tools like Ahrefs Brand Radar — we set that measurement up for you.
What we deliberately don’t do
No offline campaigns, no TV, no print media buying, no patient recruitment call centres. Not because they never work — but because our value sits in digital, and we’d rather be excellent at four things than average at ten.
If your question is offline, we’ll say so in the first call and point you to people who do it well.
“In healthcare, nobody converts because a button was orange.
They convert because they trust you.”
— Marsmedia
What working with us looks like
Picture the kickoff: your medical director, your communications lead and your board at one table. To ask the right questions, we need to already understand how care pathways, referrals and payer logic shape what your organisation can say — and we do.
Twenty years across healthcare, medical and life sciences taught us the vocabulary and, more importantly, when to use it.
The hardest question in this sector isn’t describing the care — it’s articulating why yours matters when neighbouring organisations sound alike. That’s usually where the kickoff earns itself.
Excellent clinicians and administrators: experts in their field, rarely storytellers. That’s not a flaw. It’s why we exist.
The patient scans, the professional verifies, the payer checks the evidence. We structure story and site so each finds their layer — without flattening the expertise that earned your credibility.
Clarity a first-time reader can follow, in language your clinicians can approve.
Ninety per cent of our clients continue after the first project — some relationships run past ten years. In a sector where services, locations and regulations keep moving, that continuity pays: we already know your organisation when the next change lands.
“Mars had a quick understanding of our industry needs”
“With Mars, we felt supported from start to finish. Their quick understanding of our industry’s needs and proactive approach kept the project on track, ensuring both websites launched right on time.”
Stanislava | Communications Officer at Avantium
Working on something the world should understand? Let’s talk — we’ll keep up.
How we work
Three steps. Everyone knows what is needed, and when.
We listen, at level
The kickoff runs two to three hours, leadership included — with your clinical and communications people at the table. We come in understanding care pathways, audiences and compliance, so the conversation starts at the substance, not the glossary.
We find the difference
Neighbouring organisations in this field often sound alike. We keep asking until the real differentiator surfaces — then build the story, structure and site around exactly that.
We stay as it moves
Services change, locations change, regulation changes. We stay involved as they do — 90% of our clients continue after the first project, which in this sector is the whole point.
Connected services we offer
Brand
Website
Frequently asked questions
A healthcare marketing agency helps healthcare organisations be understood and found by the people who matter: patients, professionals and payers. Our work spans healthcare websites, branding, SEO and AI findability — deliberately digital.
The test of good healthcare marketing isn’t whether it sounds impressive. It’s whether a worried patient understands it, a professional trusts it, and a payer finds the evidence.
Three things: the reader is often under stress, the rules read along with every claim, and the same site serves audiences with opposite needs. Marketing that would work anywhere else fails quietly here.
The craft is being compliant and clear at the same time — and structuring one site so patients, professionals and payers each find their layer.
It depends on your audience. For patient-facing organisations, search-optimised websites and accessible content are critical. For professionals, substantive thought leadership carries the most weight. For payers and procurement, data-rich case studies and white papers perform best.
A strong digital strategy integrates the relevant channels under one consistent brand voice — that’s exactly what we build.
Being found at the moments that matter: when a patient searches symptoms or services, when a professional searches your field, when a partner checks who you are. Technically sound pages, content matched to real search behaviour, and authority that compounds.
Healthcare SEO rewards trust signals more than most fields — expertise, sources, clarity. Which suits us fine, because that’s the work anyway.
Generative engine optimization: making your content readable and citable for AI systems like ChatGPT, Claude and Perplexity. Patients and professionals increasingly ask those systems first.
In healthcare that shift matters double, because wrong or missing information has real consequences. We structure your content so AI answers cite you correctly — and we set up the measurement to track it.
Yes. In a sector facing structural staff shortages, how you present yourself as a place to work is brand work — values, culture and development opportunities, communicated authentically to nurses, doctors, technicians and administrative staff.
We treat it as part of the same brand system, not a separate campaign.
As standard practice, not an add-on. Plain language, clear structure, and digital assets that work for users with visual, cognitive or mobility impairments — from web content and video subtitles to downloadable materials.
In healthcare, accessibility is the difference between communicating and excluding.
That depends on scope: a website with SEO foundation asks for different work than a full brand-plus-website-plus-content programme. Early in the conversation we share an estimate per phase, so you see what each part costs before it begins.
Yes — a substantial share of our clients are in the US and the UK, alongside Europe. We work from Amsterdam through shared Slack channels and biweekly calls, in a process built for time zones years ago.
In practice, American clients rarely see us in person. The work doesn’t suffer for it; understanding your field quickly counts for far more than sharing a postcode.
Three things.
One: twenty years and more than three hundred websites and brands, a substantial share in healthcare, medical and life sciences — by a deliberately compact team of seniors. Fewer questions upfront, faster to the core.
Two: strategy, brand, website and content in one team. No handovers where the nuance gets lost.
Three: we build for findability in both worlds — search engines and AI answers — which in this sector almost nobody offers yet.
That focus means choosing, too: high-volume B2C and offline campaigns aren’t our work. Volume isn’t our position. Depth is.
Offline media, TV, print buying and call-centre patient recruitment. Our value sits in digital healthcare communication: websites, branding, SEO and GEO.
If your question is offline, we’ll say so in the first call — and point you to people who do that well. We’d rather be excellent at four things than average at ten.
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