• An infomercial is a form of television commercial that resembles regular TV programming yet is intended to promote or sell a product, service or idea...
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  • Infomercials is an umbrella title for independent, quarter-hour television comedy specials airing on Adult Swim. Unlike actual paid programming, all of...
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  • and speaker best remembered as an infomercial personality in the late 1980s and early 1990s. His late-night infomercial featured Vu surrounded by luxury...
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  • infomercial for a specific manufactured product. Barnard hired CinĂ©craft Productions, a Cleveland sponsored film studio, to produce the infomercial....
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    Vince Offer (category Infomercial pitchmen)
    better known as Vince Offer or Vince Shlomi, is an Israeli-American infomercial pitchman, screenwriter, actor and director. Offer's first major work...
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    Kevin Trudeau (category Infomercial pitchmen)
    involving the US Federal Trade Commission. His ubiquitous late-night infomercials, which promoted unsubstantiated health, diet, and financial advice, earned...
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    Billy Mays (category Infomercial pitchmen)
    although some reviews were poor. He was very well known for shouting during infomercials. For example, The Washington Post staff writer Frank Ahrens called him...
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  • Known as the "Infomercial King," Khubani is the founder and CEO of the infomercial firm Telebrands and a pioneer of the infomercial industry. He is...
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  • Cathy Mitchell (television personality) (category Infomercial pitchmen)
    author and television infomercial host for numerous "As seen on TV" products. Mitchell is best known for hosting television infomercials for a wide range of...
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  • psychic service operating in the United States in the 1990s. The company's infomercials were aired frequently on late night television at that time. In 2012...
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  • Ron Popeil (category Infomercial pitchmen)
    the direct response marketing company Ronco. He made appearances in infomercials for the Showtime Rotisserie and coined the phrase "Set it, and forget...
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    use of direct-response marketing techniques, including its late-night infomercials that began airing in 1997. The videos typically involve camera crews...
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  • infomercial, which featured Chuck Norris and Christie Brinkley as spokespersons. Total Gym has become one of the longest-running fitness infomercials...
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  • The block, which airs on Saturday mornings, is programmed solely with infomercials, which usually air on networks and broadcast television stations during...
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  • Anymore" videotape with an infomercial. Stephen Barrett of Quackwatch registered a complaint about the content of the infomercial, and subsequently reported...
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  • appearances on the television series Shark Tank. In 1985, he created his first infomercial after identifying an opportunity to utilize the late-night and early-morning...
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  • fitness personality and businessman, who is best known for his fitness infomercial products. Little is a certified personal trainer and identifies himself...
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    Hybrid LLC. In January 2015, Ion Life began incorporating blocks of infomercial-based and compensated religious paid programming scheduled in an interspersed...
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  • available on DirecTV (under a brokered programming arrangement using a 24/7 infomercial channel slot), along with apps for Apple TV, Roku and Amazon Fire TV...
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    Magic Bullet (appliance) (category Infomercials)
    countries. It is widely marketed through television advertisements and infomercials and sold in retail stores under the "As seen on TV" banner. A feature-limited...
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    American entrepreneur known as the father of the infomercial industry. He has been referred to as "Mr. Infomercial," creating more than 100 businesses and selling...
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  • Mike Levey (category Infomercial pitchmen)
    August 2, 2003) was an American infomercial host. He was best known for hosting Amazing Discoveries, a series of infomercials that aired on late night television...
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  • describing dramatic or literary work that contains both elements of an infomercial and propaganda. The term has been sporadically used in both the popular...
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    At the event, the Big Money Rustlas trailer was screened twice. An infomercial for the event was released online by Psychopathic Records. After the...
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  • pseudoscientist, and alkaline diet advocate. He is best known for his infomercials that contained alternative health claims and his work with professional...
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    record label. In 2018, she made her television debut in an Adult Swim infomercial titled "Flayaway". In 2019, Sherman opened for fellow comedian Eric André...
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    then-husband Scott Styles, whom she married in 1998, and Ron Jeremy in an infomercial for a male enhancement product called ExtenZe. She also appeared as herself...
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    to producing infomercials. He is the author of The Complete Guide to Infomercial Marketing. He has been called "the king of the infomercial." Hawthorne...
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    and lasted for about two seasons. In 1993, Waggoner was the host of an infomercial, "Let's Talk With Lyle Waggoner", which advertised "Y-Bron", supposedly...
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  • that sells health and beauty products directly to consumers through infomercials, television ads, direct mail, telemarketing, e-mail marketing, and the...
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