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HealthTech Marketing Agency

Marketing for consumer digital health: health app user acquisition, wearable device marketing, digital therapeutics, and employer B2B distribution channels.

Consumer HealthTech Marketing That Converts Downloads Into Paying Users

Consumer healthtech marketing is not the same as health IT marketing. You're not selling software to hospital procurement committees — you're competing for attention in crowded app store categories against thousands of wellness apps, convincing consumers to change health behaviors, and then keeping them subscribed long enough to generate return. The marketing challenge is different at every stage: app store optimization to get discovered, conversion-focused landing pages and paid social to acquire, and lifecycle marketing to reduce the brutal churn rates that define most health app categories. Kobelphi builds consumer healthtech marketing programs around the metrics that determine whether a digital health company survives: cost-per-paying-user, 30/60/90-day retention, and the B2B employer channel that provides scalable distribution at lower acquisition cost.

Consumer HealthTech and Digital Health App Marketing
OUR SERVICES

Consumer HealthTech Marketing Services

Marketing programs for direct-to-consumer health apps, wearables, digital therapeutics, and wellness platforms.

Consumer Health App User Acquisition

Mobile UA and app store optimization for direct-to-consumer health apps: fitness trackers, mental wellness platforms, chronic condition management apps, and nutrition tools competing in crowded app store categories.

Wearable & Connected Health Device Marketing

Go-to-market and ongoing digital marketing for wearable health devices, remote monitoring hardware, and connected wellness products — bridging the device and the data service subscription in marketing that drives both hardware adoption and app retention.

Digital Therapeutics & DTx Marketing

Marketing for prescription digital therapeutics (PDTs) and evidence-based wellness apps — navigating the dual challenge of building clinical credibility with prescribers and consumer appeal with patients simultaneously.

Health & Wellness SEO

Search visibility for health condition and wellness intent queries — under Google's strict YMYL health content standards, where E-E-A-T signals from medical reviewers and clinical references determine whether health content ranks or gets filtered.

Employer & Health Plan B2B Marketing

Demand generation for healthtech companies selling to self-insured employers, HR benefits teams, and health plan formulary committees — the B2B channel that unlocks scalable distribution for consumer health products.

Health App Subscription & Retention Marketing

Lifecycle marketing programs that reduce subscription churn for health apps — behavioral trigger emails, re-engagement campaigns based on usage decline, and milestone content that reinforces habit formation and perceived value.

OUR PROCESS

Our approach to consumer healthtech marketing

We instrument the full funnel from app store discovery to paying subscriber — then build the acquisition and retention programs that improve the metrics that determine healthtech survival.

Step 01

Project Kick-Off, Analysis & Market Research

Start with a kick-off meeting to align on project goals, and optionally conduct market research and analyze client needs to shape the approach.

Step 02

Strategy Development

Create a tailored marketing strategy designed to drive growth, visibility, and align with your business objectives.

Step 03

Design & Asset Creation

Develop all marketing assets required to execute the strategy—visuals, eBooks, videos, landing pages, and tech integrations.

Step 04

Campaign Execution & Optimization

Launch campaigns with continuous management and optimization to improve conversion rates and overall impact.

Step 05

Performance Tracking & Insights

Monitor key metrics closely, deliver actionable insights, and refine the strategy to fuel ongoing improvements.

SUCCESS STORIES

HealthTech Marketing Success Stories

See how our HealthTech marketing strategies have transformed growth for healthcare technology companies.

Mental Wellness App Grows Paid Subscribers 3.4X in 12 Months
Case Study

Mental Wellness App Grows Paid Subscribers 3.4X in 12 Months

3.4X increase in paid subscribers
30-day churn reduced from 58% to 34%
Cost-per-paying-subscriber down 41%
Connected Glucose Monitor Builds Employer Channel Distribution
Case Study

Connected Glucose Monitor Builds Employer Channel Distribution

12 employer benefit plan contracts in year 1
Employer channel represents 38% of device activations
Average employer contract = 310 device activations
Digital Therapeutics Company Earns Prescriber Adoption
Case Study

Digital Therapeutics Company Earns Prescriber Adoption

4.8X increase in physician portal registrations
Condition-specific SEO delivers 2,200 monthly patient visits
42% of prescriptions now initiated by patient request

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Frequently Asked Questions

Find answers to common questions about our services and expertise.

How is healthtech marketing different from medtech or healthcare marketing?

Healthtech marketing (this page) focuses on consumer-facing digital health products: wellness apps, wearables, mental health platforms, and direct-to-consumer health tools. The audience is individual consumers making personal health decisions, and the marketing channels are app stores, consumer social, and search. MedTech marketing (/i/medtech-marketing) focuses on enterprise health IT software — EHR platforms, telehealth SaaS — selling to hospital procurement committees. Healthcare marketing (/i/healthcare-marketing) covers providers and health systems broadly. The audiences, buying processes, and regulatory constraints are fundamentally different across all three.

What marketing channels work best for consumer health apps?

App store optimization (ASO) is the single most important channel for consumer health apps — the majority of app downloads start with App Store or Google Play search. Beyond ASO: paid social (Meta and TikTok) works well for condition-specific and wellness audiences; Google Search captures high-intent users searching for solutions to specific health problems; and content SEO targeting condition and symptom queries can build sustainable organic traffic under strict YMYL health content standards. The channel mix shifts significantly by app category — mental health apps perform differently than nutrition apps or chronic disease management tools.

How do healthtech companies sell through employer and health plan channels?

Employer and health plan B2B distribution is increasingly important for healthtech companies because it provides scalable user acquisition at subsidized cost. Self-insured employers buy wellness and disease management tools for employee benefit programs — the buyer is the HR director or VP of Benefits. Health plans add digital therapeutics and wellness apps to their member engagement programs. Marketing for this channel focuses on clinical evidence, utilization data, and ROI case studies (reduced claims, absenteeism, or care costs) — not consumer appeal features. We build separate B2B content and ABM programs for this channel alongside consumer acquisition.

How does Google treat health content for SEO?

Health content is Google's most scrutinized YMYL category. The August 2018 algorithm update specifically targeted low-quality health content, and subsequent updates have continued deprioritizing health pages that lack genuine E-E-A-T signals: medical reviewer credentials, clinical citations, author expertise disclosures, and institutional affiliation. Health apps competing on content SEO need medically reviewed content, transparent author information, and clear clinical sourcing. Generic wellness blog content written without medical oversight rarely achieves sustained organic visibility in competitive health categories.

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Office Location

123 Business Avenue, Suite 500
San Francisco, CA 94107

Business Hours

Monday - Friday: 9:00 AM - 6:00 PM
Saturday - Sunday: 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM

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