Sentences with phrase «as infomercials»

Grind it up, puree it, whatever and clean up... OMG, it really is as easy as the infomercial says it is.

She has that grounded quality the character needed but also the kind of glamour that you'd believe she could get a job as an infomercial hostess.

The film contains so many plugs for Warner Bros. movies like the Harry Potter series and 300 that it could almost double as an infomercial.

Maybe you refer to it as your infomercial?

Not exact matches

In those days, according to Hawthorne, «infomercials could be produced for $ 15,000 to $ 25,000 per production and generate as much as $ 50 million in sales, and one out of three could be a hit.»

And as Jon Nathanson (now Slate columnist) pointed out in his exhaustive breakdown of the economics of infomercials on Priceonomics, in comparison, the U.S. network and cable industry was estimated at just $ 97 billion in 2013.

But consider the household brands that have emerged from late - night infomercials — Proactiv, OxiClean, and George Foreman Grills — and the fact that big names like Geico and Dove are just as likely to be making infomercials these days as ThighMistress Suzanne Somers.

But even as they increase in credibility and in sales, it is unlikely the low - rent aesthetics of infomercials themselves will change.

You say you enjoyed the Ellen product appearances, but what about when Saturday Night Live did an infomercial spoof of your Shake Weight ad's potential to be sold as a product in and of itself?

Caldwell sees the program as an entrepreneur's dream: «Our TV show is like a one - hour infomercial for us.»

Satyanand's transformation from couch potato to runner may have been slow and steady (and clearly mimicable for most people), but just because it wasn't the stuff of late night fitness equipment infomercials, doesn't mean it wasn't just as transformative.

As a sales professional, though, what I especially love is how infomercials magically overcome a buyer's inertial resistance (i.e. propensity to sit there and do nothing) and move them to buy.

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The first 30 - minute production of the Think and Grow Rich infomercial relied on football legend Fran Tarkenton as spokesman, and the venture grossed $ 10 million.

Not to get all infomercial on you, but this queso can also double as a grilled cheese filling.

Olson claims that using the RowBike burns twice as many calories as conventional biking, and he has invested several hundred thousand dollars in a TV infomercial to get that message out.

First, he wasn't a doctor of any kind — not a medical doctor, as he admitted in the infomercial — or a doctor of Oriental medicine, as he claimed to business associates, according to a sworn affidavit.

How about a one - hour infant formula infomercial masquerading as a scholarly seminar?

The Securities and Exchange Commission on Wednesday made like an excitable late - night infomercial announcer as it amped up...

Geek out Dishing up an appropriate «serve» can be as tricky as returning an infomercial blender.

By now, I am immune to infomercials for ab equipments but I see these commercials for Shape Ups and Easy Tone as another generation for exploiting the public's need for immediate gratification.

You probably hear these words thrown around by your personal trainer, yoga instructor or during news casts and weight loss infomercials as being an important part of our training for overall health and fitness.

You may have heard of kettlebell training as being the next big thing in infomercials, on videos or even at your gym.

The only thing they had in this room was one of those infomercial «ab loungers» covered in dust... you know, the ab - chair looking thingy that they hawk on the infomercials as being the end - all solution to a flabby stomach... telling you that you can get a flat stomach and perfect abs just by sitting on this thing and rocking a little bit while you lazily watch tv.

Often these people are just using their videos as very well disguised infomercials to sell their product.

On top of that, when you consider that Infomercial Fat Loss programs such as P90X and Insanity Workout end up costing you HUNDREDS of dollars, this kind of an investment is nearly unbeatable.

The current Al Sears infomercial newsletter promotes extracts from borlotti beans (also known as roman beans), but also containst information about the beans themselves:

«According to the FTC's complaint, Los Angeles - area marketers Window Rock Enterprises, Inc. and Infinity Advertising, Inc., their principals, Stephen Cheng and Gregory Cynaumon, and business partner and product formulator Shawn Talbott have sold «CortiSlim» and «CortiStress» through a number of widely aired infomercials and short TV commercials, as well as radio and print advertisements and Internet Web sites.

Just buy yourself a little larger karabiner (or use one that you got as a prize for excelling at skee ball) and in a few weeks, you too can look like Chuck Norris or Christie Brinkley (the folks from the infomercial)!»

While fitness fads may come and go as fast as their late - night infomercials, some types of exercise transcend trends.

Now, I don't want to be known as the girl who just discusses innovative infomercial products or plays the role of Captain Obvious.

But I can't help but feel assaulted by the billboards and sides of buses and Happy Meals and dolls on the shelves at Target and commercials and then infomercials masquerading as bits on American Idol.

A professional infomercial clapper gets him his 15 minutes of fame but the notoriety ends up costing him his job as well as a budding relationship.

Throw in a fantastic turn from former Batman Michael Keaton as a baddie and hilarious cameos from Chris Evans as Captain America in infomercials for high school kids and you have all the ingredients for a fun fuelled romp that is a notch above many super hero blockbusters.

Many scenes seem staged, with the inventor stiffly performing a day in his life for the camera crew as if this were indeed an infomercial.

After hijacking a live infomercial broadcast to tell her story, jumping onstage as the stunned producers debate what to do, she marches into their offices and offers them $ 15 million.

The 20 - minute behind - the - scenes featurette, American Beauty: Look Closer..., digs a bit deeper and is a lot more nicely produced than similar extras on other discs, but that's because of its origins as a piece of awards campaign propaganda — the feature (infomercial, really) had aired on Los Angeles cable systems as part of the Oscar push (a tactic originated by Miramax).

Born Offer Shlomi, he's famous as the face, voice, and rage - inducing personality of Sham - Wow, a miracle product he's pitched on infomercials which netted him fame and fortune.

Bigfoot, on the other hand, wants out of the law enforcement game, moonlighting as a bungling extra in TV cop filler like Adam - 12 and heading up crass infomercials dressed in a hippy fright wig.

What can we do as educational and cultural workers, at this crucial moment in history, when corporate revenue expands as the job market shrinks, when there is such a callous disregard for human suffering and human life, when the indomitable human spirit gasps for air in an atmosphere of intellectual paralysis, social amnesia, and political quiescence, when the translucent hues of hope seem ever more ethereal, when thinking about the future seems anachronistic, when the concept of utopia has become irretrievably Disneyfied, when our social roles as citizens have become increasingly corporatized and instrumentalized in a world which hides necessity in the name of consumer desire, when media analyses of military invasions is just another infomercial for the US military industrial complex with its huge global arms industry, and when teachers and students alike wallow in absurdity, waiting for the junkyard of consumer life to vomit up yet another panacea for despair?

In his infomercial on behalf of for - profit education enterprises, there is a technological determinism that assumes no opposition from or conflict with special interests such as teacher unions, administrators, and education bureaucracies.

We don't have any movies or tv shows on demand here and it would be nice to be able to rent a movie and watch it especially the tv shows as I work restaurant hours and close after video stores and late night tv here is all infomercials.....

So far most of the videos RIM has put on YouTube have been showing off the PlayBook to both consumers and enterprises but they just put up a video titled «BlackBerry PlayBook Tablet for Business» as a sort of fluffy infomercial.

While the late - night infomercial may be as much about the advertising as the «amazing» products it features, it certainly doesn't diminish the sense of mystery that comes from wondering if that little gadget really is the miracle they make it out to be.

The film was financed by Barnett Ravenscroft Wealth Management, which manages portfolios using products from Dimensional Fund Advisors and Vanguard, so they clearly have a vested interest in promoting the strategy, but it would be unfair to dismiss the film as an hour - long infomercial.

For the rest of us — those who know the organization's line of misrepresentations, inaccuracies, and flat - out fabrications all too well — such «estimates» are taken about as seriously as the claims accompanying wee - hour infomercials.

A number of scenes, such as Matthew Korahais's performance as a junk food coffin salesman, venture toward slapstick, while others, like Carolina Do's infomercial for artisanal air, are sci - fi parodies that dissolve wonder into giggles.

His videos, performances, installations, and photos all incorporate sterile and formally recognizable structures such as PowerPoint presentations, academic lectures, photographic evidence, infomercials, gallery exhibitions, or educational videos.

First shown at MMK Frankfurt in 2016 and reconfigured for the exhibition, this hypnagogic environment, replete with watercoolers, plants, posters, people working at desks, as well as a waiting area and corporate infomercial, conflates time and space, compounding the quasi-authenticity of the scene and pseudo-legitimacy of the proposition.