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Infiniti in Black

Tuesday, January 31st, 2006

Infiniti started airing informercials on BET that feature prominient black artists being interviewed. In the interviews the artists discuss the car but don’t drop the brand name until the end, Infiniti spokesman are adamant that htis is not an infomercial to prevent being associated with the hucksters of that industry but we all know what […]

Interesting Infomercial Statistics

Tuesday, January 31st, 2006

Disclosed in the sptimes today….

“Infomercial producers, who estimate only one of every six products turns a profit, don’t disclose sales data”

What is interesting about that is that the ones that do succeed do so fabulously. Seemingly more than make up for other past losses.

Business: Talk of the bay

Amazon starts online infomercials

Saturday, January 28th, 2006

Amazon decided to start an online infomercial format that is interesting. Since its opt in and features Bill Maher. The new format will start in June and have Bill interviewing artists and authors.

Amazon to debut an online infomercial

Kevin Trudeau Files Law Suit

Thursday, January 26th, 2006

Head Quack Kevin Trudeau filed a lawsuit against a publisher of infomercial rankings trying to get his listed as number one.

Kevin Trudeau Files Suit to End Misleading Infomercial

Infomercial’s Claims Uncovered

Wednesday, January 25th, 2006

The American Council on Exercise released a series of studies debunking a ton of products featured in infomercials. IN particula r they found that many of the lose weight fast ro super easy super effective work out claims were false.

who would have guessed ? heh

The truth about infomercial claims

John Trudeau gets a spanking

Wednesday, January 25th, 2006

Infomercial King John Trudeau was a feature on ABC Nightline and found himself on the pointy endof a investigative interview. The poor guy got hammered for providing false information, dodging questions, and trying to mislead the public.

ABC News: Is Infomercial King a Helper or Huckster?

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