get media attention

Magazines, tv, radio, and the newspaper are all examples of the “media”. If a person or group are featured on one of these, you can say they are “getting media attention".

He got a lot of media attention with the corruption scandal.

His app has been getting a lot of media attention lately, like on a few different websites.

Note that “media attention” generally isn’t used for social media, but can be used for online newspaper and magazine articles.

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