Promotional gimmick

The answer

TIEIN

5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the TIEIN answer page.

Used 8 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1999. It appears in 7 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other answers for this clue

The same clue has also been answered these ways in the xd corpus. Answers inside this collection link to their own answer page.

• HYPE (1 uses in xd)
• PLUG (1 uses in xd)

Other clues for TIEIN

Every other clue in this collection answered by TIEIN, most used first.

• Connection - used 28 times, most recently in 2025
• Promotional link - used 25 times, most recently in 2024
• Advertising gimmick - used 11 times, most recently in 2023
• Link - used 11 times, most recently in 2019
• Marketing ploy - used 9 times, most recently in 2024
• Promotional connection - used 9 times, most recently in 2025
• Connect - used 8 times, most recently in 2023
• Marketing connection - used 8 times, most recently in 2021
• Kind of sale. - used 7 times, most recently in 1997
• Marketing gimmick - used 7 times, most recently in 2024
• Cross-promotion - used 6 times, most recently in 2026

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