The industry that brought you 30-minute paeans to the Abdominizer, the Flowbee Vacuum Hair Cut System and BluBlocker sunglasses now wants to sell you something slightly less tangible: a trustworthy ...

NPR's Alex Chadwick talks with Marketplace correspondent Tess Vigeland about the recent announcement by the "infomercial" industry that it is taking steps to police itself. If an infomercial producer ...

With his open, honest-seeming Midwestern face and interview-show format, infomercial king Kevin Trudeau has been ubiquitous on television for well over a decade, peddling products that claim to extend ...

Years of peddling the secrets to instant weight loss and finding free money have caught up to Kevin Trudeau. The well-known late-night television pitchman will have to sell his schlock in a federal ...

The television pitchman was convicted of conning customers through infomercials for his best-selling weight loss book. By The Associated Press Trudeau was sentenced to 10 years in prison in March 2014 ...

Before “influencer” was a job title reserved for the likes of social media personalities marketing different products to folks scrolling aimlessly at home, infomercials existed to turn us into suckers ...