Events for promotion mean various events that can be done to promote a film.
Events for promotion ironically, are radically different from the most important tool for promotion - Gimmicks for promoting film - as gimmicks mostly have an element of sensationalism involved with them; whereas Events for Promotion are more genuine in nature.
The most common events take place in colleges, as today almost 70% of audience base are youths and young adults!
For example during Bajrangi Bhaijaan there was a remarkable Event for promotion - a selfie contest!
When the promotions of Hero started, there was an equally interesting event for promotion; it asked the youngsters to tell about "Who is your hero and why?"
Some EfP (Events for Promotion) are a mix of EfP & gimmicks like -
During the release of Dawat-E-Ishq the lead pair Aditya Roy Kapoor
and Parineeti Chopra distributed Hyderabadi Biryani to audiences when
they visited select multiplexes across India two weeks prior to the
release of the film.