You’ll recall that actors Justin Long and John Hodgman achieved advertising fame in the latter part of the 2000s for their participation in Apple’s long-running Get a Mac campaign.

Now, the pair have reunited for Novo Nordisk’s There’s Only One Ozempic campaign, which debuted Tuesday morning.

In the spots, Long represents Ozempic and its FDA-approved indications, while Hodgman represents “other GLP-1s for type 2 diabetes.”

Novo’s latest consumer-focused brand campaign seeks to differentiate Ozempic from other GLP-1 drugs on the market by underscoring its multiple clinical indications for people living with type 2 diabetes.

As such the pair are featured in a handful of light-hearted ads that take place in front of a water cooler, a whiteboard and on a game show set.

To promote the ad campaign, Long and Hodgman joined managing editor Jack O’Brien for a lively joint interview on this week’s episode of the podcast.

In lieu of our Trends segment, we have some audio bites from editor-at-large Steve Madden’s time on the ground at the J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference in San Francisco.

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Few people in medical marketing have as accomplished of a track record as Matt McNally.

Over the course of more than three decades, Matt has worked across numerous major holding companies and impacted the industry in innumerable ways.

In late 2024, he found his career at an inflection point.

Having led Omnicom Health Group for a few years, his future was put in question when Omnicom announced its multibillion dollar takeover of holding company rival IPG.

As industry stakeholders speculated about whether he or IPG Health CEO Dana Maiman would lead the new Omnicom Health vertical post-merger, Matt submitted his resignation, effective January 1, 2025.

Then, just over a week later, he returned to Publicis to serve as global CEO of Publicis Health.

In his first year on the job, Publicis Health has benefited from the robust performance of MM+M Agency 100 honorees like Digitas Health, Heartbeat, Razorfish Health and Saatchi & Saatchi Wellness.

Additionally, Publicis Health welcomed medcomms agency P-value Group into the fold over the summer.

On this week’s episode, McNally joins us to talk about how his return to Publicis Health has gone, what he makes of the new-look Omnicom and what else is on his radar for 2026. It’s a conversation with a medical marketing tastemaker that you won’t want to miss.

For our Trends segment, we have a few updates on those Untitled Letters the FDA has been sending out to drugmakers.

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The first episode of the MM+M Podcast in 2026 centers on the bright lights of Las Vegas.

Like clockwork, early January in Vegas is dominated by the Consumer Electronics Showcase – which is routinely ranked as the most-attended trade show in the U.S.

While CES is, in accordance with its name, more consumer-focused in nature, the four-day bonanza always offers a healthcare hook.

Alison Woo, a former CNN journalist and comms lead for pharma giants like GSK and Novartis, has been stationed in Vegas since media availability began on Sunday.

You may remember Alison from the last time she was on the podcast, which was one year ago when she covered CES 2025 for us.

This week, Alison and managing editor Jack O’Brien chat about all things CES: the omnipresence of AI, innovation that will actually make a difference in healthcare as well as only the most pertinent medical marketing takeaways for you the listener.

And for our Trends segment, we’re discussing some of our medical marketing industry resolutions for 2026 and say goodbye to reporter Heerea Rikhraj.

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