auto-promo

English translation: self-promotion

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French term or phrase:	auto-promo
English translation:	self-promotion
Entered by:	Jacqueline McClure-Zerbe (X)

12:42 Apr 7, 2008

French to English translations [PRO]
Bus/Financial - Marketing / Market Research / IT - adserver

French term or phrase: auto-promo

When the adserving campaign has reached the agreed upon quota of displays, the adserver runs "des campagnes auto-promo" to avoid having blank spaces.

I understand what this is, but can't find the equivalent English term. I did find some similar contexts where "public service ads" are run in lieu of the advertiser's content, but this doesn't quite seem to be equivalent.

I am considering something like "default ads" which gets the point across, but if there is some specific term, I would love to find it.

See this link (warning - possibly offensive photos) for a good explanation of what this auto-promo is about, it is very similar to my context.

http://www.adtocash.com/faq-regie-charme.php#11

Lori Cirefice KudoZ activity Questions: 65 (none open) (4 closed without grading) Answers: 117 France
Local time: 15:56

self-promotion

Explanation:
Not always the shameless kind. Can also be legitimately pursued by broadcasters for business reasons, such as in the case described.

Selected response from:

Jacqueline McClure-Zerbe (X)
Canada
Local time: 09:56

Grading comment

Thanks, I had considered this but didn't think it could be used in this context. Your answer came just after my deadline, so I ended up using "default ads"
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer

Summary of answers provided

own promotion [ads]

Ian Davies

self-promotion

Jacqueline McClure-Zerbe (X)

Discussion entries: 1

Answers

19 mins confidence:

own promotion [ads]

Explanation:
This may not be perfect but it gets the idea across.

Example sentence(s):

Of course, you can also do your own promotion to further increase the visits to your site and therefore increase your referral commissions as well.

Reference: http://209.85.173.104/search?q=cache:l1uTtYe05_wJ:www.better...

Ian Davies
Australia
Local time: 23:56
Specializes in field
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 38

14 hrs confidence:

self-promotion

Explanation:
Not always the shameless kind. Can also be legitimately pursued by broadcasters for business reasons, such as in the case described.

Reference: http://www.thefreedictionary.com/self-promotion

Jacqueline McClure-Zerbe (X)
Canada
Local time: 09:56
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 4

Grading comment

Thanks, I had considered this but didn't think it could be used in this context. Your answer came just after my deadline, so I ended up using "default ads"

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