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public service announcement

message in the public interest, often disseminated as a free advertisement
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public service announcement

Summary

public service announcement ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (5,290 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • public service announcement is a type of advertising[2].
  • public service announcement is a type of public communication[3].
  • public service announcement is a type of announcement[4].
  • public service announcement's Commons category is recorded as Public service announcements[5].
  • public service announcement's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Public service announcements[6].
  • public service announcement's different from is recorded as educational advertisement[7].
  • public service announcement's different from is recorded as public information film[8].
  • public service announcement's hashtag is recorded as psa[9].

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Definition and Type

Recorded subclass of include advertising[2], public communication[3], and announcement[4].

Why It Matters

public service announcement ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (5,290 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 17 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[10] It is known by 49 alternative names across languages and contexts.[11]

Related Entities

advertising

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [10] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [11] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). public service announcement. Retrieved October 7, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/public-service-announcement
MLA “public service announcement.” 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph, 4ort.xyz, 7 Oct. 2026, https://4ort.xyz/entity/public-service-announcement.
BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_public-service-announcement_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{public service announcement}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/public-service-announcement}, note = {Accessed: 2026-10-07}}
LLM prompt According to 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph (aggregator of Wikidata, Wikipedia, and authoritative open-data sources): public service announcement — https://4ort.xyz/entity/public-service-announcement (retrieved 2026-10-07)

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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 11d ago · Susmuffin · 2026-09-25 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → advertising-public-service
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ [[Property:P13772]]: advertising-public-service, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289915672|advertising public service (#289915672)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/"
  2. 19w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-27 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Subclass of → —
    Aliases → —
    Subclass of → advertising, public communication, announcement
    Different from → educational advertisement, public information film
    + 1 other property edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|2 */ [[Property:P8189]]: 987007292937205171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
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