Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Payment of a party, especially a disc jockey or radio station, for the promotion of a product or service, such as a commercial musical recording, without making the legally required disclosure of sponsorship.
- noun The money used to make such payment.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun US A
bribe given in exchange for afavor , such as one given in exchange for thepromotion ofgoods orservices (originally one given to adisk jockey to play arecord ).
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a bribe given to a disc jockey to induce him to promote a particular record
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Apparently other bloggers are more fortunate than I, and are cashing in nicely by offering "reviews" of stuff in exchange for payola from the makers and sellers of said stuff.
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Apparently other bloggers are more fortunate than I, and are cashing in nicely by offering "reviews" of stuff in exchange for payola from the makers and sellers of said stuff.
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It costs too much just when we can't even afford everything the government has already bought and comitted to ... it raises the cost of health care ... and it got this far only because of hundreds of millions of dollars in payola to Democratic hold-outs.
Public option may be dropped from final health care bill 2009
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Anytime I see an article referring to Facebook as an equal to Myspace I immediately suspect payola is involved.
Who Needs Another Social Network? - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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A Fox-news-reading FrontBurnervian passes along the shocking (yet not really) news that payola is still alive and well in the music business.
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UPDATE: But according to one of Derek's commentors, payola is even more pervasive in Europe:
Archive 2004-07-01 2004
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UPDATE: But according to one of Derek's commentors, payola is even more pervasive in Europe:
Medpundit 2004
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"What they call payola in the disc jockey business they call lobbying in Washington."
Chicago Reader 2010
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I guess they did get involved when they outlawed "payola" - the voluntary payment to get songs played on the radio for free.
Techdirt Mike Masnick 2010
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I guess they did get involved when they outlawed "payola" - the voluntary payment to get songs played on the radio for free.
Techdirt Mike Masnick 2010
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