Promotion may refer to:
Marketing
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Promotion (marketing)
In marketing, promotion refers to any type of marketing communication used to inform target audiences of the relative merits of a product, service, brand or issue, most of the time persuasive in nature. It helps marketers to create a distinctive ...
, one of the four marketing mix elements, comprising any type of marketing communication used to inform or persuade target audiences of the relative merits of a product, service, brand or issue
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Advertising campaign
An advertising campaign is a series of advertisement
Advertising is the practice and techniques employed to bring attention to a product or service. Advertising aims to put a product or service in the spotlight in hopes of drawing it att ...
, a promotional campaign
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Film promotion
Film promotion is the practice of promotion specifically in the film industry, and usually occurs in coordination with the process of film distribution. Sometimes called the press junket or film junket, film promotion generally includes press re ...
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Promotional recording
A promotional recording, or promo, or plug copy, is an audio or video recording distributed free, usually in order to promote a recording that is or soon will be commercially available. Promos are normally sent directly to broadcasters, such as ...
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Radio promotion
Radio promotion is the division of a record company which is charged with placing songs on the radio. They maintain relationships with radio programming, program directors at radio stations and attempt to persuade them to play single (music), sing ...
Status or progress
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Promotion (chess)
In chess, promotion is the replacement of a pawn with a new piece when the pawn is moved to its last . The player replaces the pawn immediately with a queen, rook, bishop, or knight of the same . The new piece does not have to be a previously ...
, when a pawn reaches the eighth rank
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Promotion (Germany)
A doctorate (from Latin ''docere'', "to teach"), doctor's degree (from Latin ''doctor'', "teacher"), or doctoral degree is an academic degree awarded by universities and some other educational institutions, derived from the ancient formalism '' ...
, the German term for the doctoral degree
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Promotion (rank)
A promotion is the advancement of an employee's rank or position in an organizational hierarchy system. Promotion may be an employee's reward for good performance, i.e., positive appraisal. Before a company promotes an employee to a particular ...
, the advancement of an employee's rank or position in an organizational hierarchy system
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Promotion and relegation
In sports leagues, promotion and relegation is a process where teams are transferred between multiple divisions based on their performance for the completed season. Leagues that use promotion and relegation systems are often called open league ...
, in sports leagues, is a process where some teams are transferred between multiple divisions based on their performance for the completed season
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Social promotion
Social promotion is the practice of promoting a student (usually a general education student, rather than a special education student) to the next Educational stage, grade after the current school year, regardless of if they learned the necessary ...
, in education, is the practice of advancing a student to the next grade regardless of their completion of material from the preceding grade
Arts, entertainment, and media
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''Promotion'' (film), a 2013 Bengali film directed by Snehasish Chakraborty
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"The Promotion" (''The Office'' episode)
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The Promotion
''The Promotion'' is a 2008 American comedy film written and directed by Steven Conrad. A look at the quest for the American Dream, it focuses on two grocery store managers vying for a promotion. The film premiered at South by Southwest
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Other uses
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Professional wrestling promotion
A professional wrestling promotion is a company or business that regularly performs shows involving professional wrestling that has little relationship to the rules of the amateur olympic form. "Promotion" also describes a role which entails man ...
, a company or business that produces professional wrestling events
* ProMotion, an Apple proprietary
variable refresh rate
Variable refresh rate (VRR) refers to a dynamic display that can continuously and seamlessly change its refresh rate without user input.
A display supporting a variable refresh rate usually supports a specific ''range'' of refresh rates (e.g. 30 H ...
technology
* Promotion or trump promotion; see
glossary of contract bridge terms
These terms are used in contract bridge, using duplicate or rubber scoring. Some of them are also used in whist, bid whist, the obsolete game auction bridge, and other trick-taking games. This glossary supplements the Glossary of card game ter ...
See also
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Demotion
A demotion is a compulsory reduction in an employee's rank or job title within the organizational hierarchy of a company, public service department, or other body. A demotion may also lead to the loss of other privileges associated with a more se ...
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Promoter (entertainment)
A promoter works with event production and entertainment industries to promote their productions, including in music and sports. Promoters are individuals or organizations engaged in the business of marketing and promoting live, or pay-per-view ...
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