"gained publicity" is a perfectly valid and correct phrase that can be used in written English.
For example, you could write: "The movie gained a lot of publicity when it won an award at the film festival."
But their marriage had gained publicity; it was even announced in The New York Times.
Charlotte Roche She certainly gained publicity for her erotic novel Wetlands, but unfortunately the reviews were a bit rotten.
The leading senatorial families gained publicity by sponsoring major new buildings named after themselves in the Forum and elsewhere.
Mr Aygun, who is also a Kurd, was released 48 hours later, but kidnappers gained publicity by abducting an MP from right under the authorities' noses.
It first gained publicity when it picketed the funeral of Matthew Shepard, a gay man who was beaten to death in 1998 in Wyoming.
It has previously gained publicity for funding advertisements which the group says are to encourage people who want to leave Islam but feel unsafe doing so.
"They are inciting the public over a hot issue to gain publicity and attract paying members over the internet..
Cynics, though, might say these are attempts to gain publicity.
Neturei Karta, he said, "represented a small fringe, but were very good at gaining publicity".
The network at first rebuffed the Democratic group, claiming it was just trying to gain publicity.
"And we are gaining publicity and interest now because of our growth".
