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The media itself often stage stunts for movies and television shows. This image is of a publicity stunt for the series Corner Gas, where CTV paid for 400 tanks of gas for area commuters. Stars of the then-newly popular series, including Brent Butt (shown), pumped the gas at the event.

A publicity stunt is a planned event designed to attract the public's attention to the promoters or their causes. Publicity stunts can be professionally organized or set up by amateurs. Image File history File links Wiki_letter_w. ... Download high resolution version (1612x2400, 1278 KB)Publicity stunt for Corner Gas, (C) CTV, deemed fair use This work is copyrighted. ... Download high resolution version (1612x2400, 1278 KB)Publicity stunt for Corner Gas, (C) CTV, deemed fair use This work is copyrighted. ... Corner Gas is a Canadian situation comedy which has aired on CTV and The Comedy Network since 2004. ... CTV is a TLA that may stand for: CTV Television Network - a Canadian English language television network Channel Television - the main television broadcaster in the Channel Islands Chukyo TV. Broadcasting - a Japanese TV station in Nagoya This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that... Brent Butt on a gas station sign during a free gasoline promotion during the fall of 2004 to promote the second season of Corner Gas. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ...

Amateur stunts can be trivial or deathly serious. Among the trivial are students occupying a university building to highlight grievances, politicians progressively releasing leaked material to boost their profiles, software companies challenging hackers, etc. Serious publicity stunts include strikes, mass demonstrations, hijacks, kidnappings, hunger strikes, and murders. Hacker is a term applied often to computer software or computer hardware programmers, designers and administrators, and especially those who are perceived as experts or highly accomplished. ... A man carries a sign at the September 24, 2005 anti-war protest, a demonstration in Washington, D.C. American Civil Rights March on Washington, leaders marching from the Washington Monument to the Lincoln Memorial, August 28, 1963. ... Hijacking or highjacking is the forcible robbery from, or seizure of, a vehicle in transit. ... A hunger strike is a method of non-violent resistance in which participants fast as an act of political protest, or to provoke feelings of guilt or to achieve a goal such as a policy change. ...

This also makes clear that many publicity stunts try to exploit succès de scandale mechanisms for attracting attention. This article or section is not written in the formal tone expected of an encyclopedia article. ...

Many people would maintain that attempts to raise awareness of serious causes are not "stunts". That depends on the point of view of the observer.

One way of perhaps drawing a distinction might be to label as stunts, events specifically designed to attract publicity. Events designed to gain an objective and which incidentally attract publicity can be exempted from the term. For instance, if an animal rights enthusiast were to rescue a dancing bear in India and that action became known through a report on a court case, that would not be a publicity stunt. If however, the activist arranged for the press to cover the rescue, it would be a publicity stunt. A civet, or sea fox, photographed in the Zigong Peoples Zoo, Sichuan, 2001. ...

The media itself often stage stunts for movies and television shows. The photo of a man at a gas station was a publicity stunt for the series Corner Gas, where CTV paid for 400 tanks of gas for area commuters. Corner Gas is a Canadian situation comedy which has aired on CTV and The Comedy Network since 2004. ... CTV is a TLA that may stand for: CTV Television Network - a Canadian English language television network Channel Television - the main television broadcaster in the Channel Islands Chukyo TV. Broadcasting - a Japanese TV station in Nagoya This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that...

Some record companies famously use publicity stunts to promote new material from artists on their roster. A famous example would be The Beatles 'Rooftop Gig' in Central London. More recently, in 2003, after a 1 year hiatus, Britney Spears appeared at the MTV Video Music Awards to promote her upcoming album. Rather than simply performing a song taken from the album, Britney Spears took to the stage for a collaboration with Madonna and so-called rival Christina Aguilera. The performance in itself would have brought a lot of attention from the media, but an unexpected faux-sapphic kiss between Madonna and Britney Spears stole the limelight, and subsequently the media spotlight worldwide. This was a key marketing tool for the record company, and was key in the launch of the album. Incidentally, the album debuted at #1 on the Billboard Charts. The Beatles were an English rock band from Liverpool whose members were John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr. ... 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The MTV Video Music Awards were established in 1984 by MTV to celebrate the top music videos of the year. ... Madonna Louise Ciccone Ritchie (born August 16, 1958), better known as simply Madonna, is a six-time Grammy[1] and one-time Golden Globe award winning American pop singer, songwriter, record and film producer, dancer, actress, author and fashion icon. ... Christina Maria Aguilera (IPA pronunciation: [1] born December 18, 1980) is an American pop and R&B singer and songwriter. ... Sapphic may mean: Related to Sappho, the 7th century BC poetess (notably, the Sapphic stanza) Related to female homosexuality, see Lesbian (Sapphic Erotica) This is a disambiguation page: a list of articles associated with the same title. ... On January 4, 1936, Billboard magazine published its first music hit parade and on July 20, 1940 the first Music Popularity Chart was calculated. ...