What's the difference between commercial and infomercial?

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	What's the difference between commercial and infomercial? By Anonymous Asked Nov 2 2009 2:10AM	9 Pts Rate Question

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by Steak Sauce Hoss on Nov 2, 2009 at 2:17 am Permalink

commercials are advertisements that are usually 30 seconds to a minute long while infomercials are 30 minutes or longer.
you get more info in that time period than you do with a regular commercial.
that's the only difference i know of :)

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by technios on Nov 2, 2009 at 2:35 am Permalink

a commercial and an infomercial should technically not have the same purpose now that you make me think about it that way... my former views were that an infomercial was a commercial that blatantly pounded a product into your head for an obscene amount of time. Now I think an infomercial might be one of those ones that are strictly "informative" and say "call to participate" rather than "call now for prices".

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by Sharona Magic loves the hungry on Nov 2, 2009 at 2:23 am Permalink

A commercial is a short informative advertisement and an infomercial is a longer much more inclusive advertisement usually lasting a half hour.