What Does Publicity Mean?

Publicity is a way of promoting a person or product or service, to get their name in front of the public and ensure that more and more people know about them. Methods of publicity include magazine and newspaper ads, television and radio promotion, and direct mail efforts. A good publicity campaign also includes a good copywriter. 

Information that attracts attention to a company, product, person, or event

It means advertising or making it public (letting the public know) through print or visual media (TV, newspapers, magazines, radio, billboards, etc).