To anyone who’s ever looked up to the streaks in the sky and asked, ‘What the heck is going on?’” Lee Zeldin has an answer ...

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

Ron Popeil, the infomercial icon who popularized the catchphrase "set it, and forget it" for Showtime Rotisserie oven, has died. He was 86.

Welcome to WatchMojo, and today we’re counting down our picks for the silliest, most laughable, and amateurish infomercials that make us question how they got on our TV screens. Let us know in the ...

Everyone knows the people who populate the parallel universe in which infomercial products are life-saving inventions and not just a quick cash grab are idiots.

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 ...

Your infomercial will seldom be watched by anyone from beginningto end, so you must break up the half-hour show into separate,interesting segments with a “closer” or “call to action” at ...

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.

9. Sweating to the Oldies We all remember Richard Simmons's late '80s dance-aerobics program: The series' infomercials were epic displays of people dancing to a live band in a balloon-filled room.

Addressing ESPN's mass layoffs, Dan Le Batard says younger people are "empirically" less interested in sports.