Infomercial star Billy Mays died suddenly of a heart attack in 2009. Here is everything to know about the pitchman’s passing.

The infomercial has long been the object of ridicule. ... Only a good showman could get the people to stop while on their way to other distractions so he could hawk his wares.

It’s like ’The Brave Little Toaster’ but with 100% more murder. Humanity is so bereft of ideas it is finally time for the world of infomercials to become a horror franchise.

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Last year, people sitting at home watching television spent $91 billion on products they saw on infomercials, more than the gross domestic product of New Zealand. They lapped up products that ...

Research over the past 20 years—the time period in which infomercials became an advertising superpower—has shown that most people who make purchase decisions while watching infomercials are ...

Rick Cesari has spent the past 20 years in Seattle making sure those late-night infomercials draw in the casual channel-flipper. He’s the driving force behind the highly successful, if sometimes ...

The infomercial should be avoided if at all possible, as it contains many demonstrations of people scraping the undesirables off their feet while describing what they wanted removed.

Infomercials take time to produce. For instance, if you want toinclude testimonials, you have to find the right people and,depending on the product, you may even have to travel to shootfootage of ...