Promotion may refer to:

• Promotion (marketing), one of the four marketing mix elements, comprising any type of marketing communication used to inform or persuade target audiences of the relative merits of a product, service, brand or issue
  • Advertising campaign, a promotional campaign
  • Film promotion
  • Promotional recording
  • Radio promotion

• Promotion (chess), when a pawn reaches the eighth rank
• Promotion (Germany), the German term for the doctoral degree
• Promotion (rank), the advancement of an employee's rank or position in an organizational hierarchy system
• Promotion and relegation, in sports leagues, is a process where some teams are transferred between multiple divisions based on their performance for the completed season
• Social promotion, in education, is the practice of advancing a student to the next grade regardless of their completion of material from the preceding grade

• Promotion (film), a 2013 Bengali film directed by Snehasish Chakraborty
• "The Promotion" (The Office episode)
• The Promotion, a 2008 film
• Promotion (song), 2024 song by ¥$ from the album Vultures 2

• Professional wrestling promotion, a company or business that produces professional wrestling events
• ProMotion, an Apple proprietary variable refresh rate technology
• Promotion or trump promotion; see glossary of contract bridge terms

• Demotion
• Promoter (entertainment)