earned

Not paid for; appearing in media on its own merits.

Adjective

  1. Not paid for; appearing in media on its own merits.
    • Earned media has a number of advantages. It's “free” in the sense that clients are not “billed” for the earned media placement. - 2015 March 27, Larry D. Kelley, Kim Bartel Sheehan, Advertising Media Planning: A Brand...
    • This chapter will cover four ways in which media and technology partners have infused data into the creative process to work together with marketers: 1) in paid and earned advertising (including social media) […] - 2017...
    • Ben & Jerry's flexed its brand authority regarding these missions when it took a public stand with the Black Lives Matter movement (witnessed on all of its owned media) at the same time it launched its newest line of...

    Synonyms: organic unpaid

Forms

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Derived

a penny saved is a penny earned earned media earned run earned run average hard-earned money won is twice as sweet as money earned well-earned

Verb

  1. simple past and past participle of earn

Forms

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