The incidental or unofficial promotion of a person or product in the media, sometimes in return for a payment.
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The column is a nice bit of blog plugola from one of the nation's most respected magazines.
When a reporter or disc jockey slips in or passes over information in order to line his pocket, that's plugola, and management would take quick corrective action.
He is guilty of violating the Commission's policy against plugola.
Portland's TV stations regularly employ plugola in news programming as a way of promoting parent network programming.
Sly fellows turn the notoriety acquired through public office into the real coin of the realm, plugola.