1983, from info- + commercial (n.). Before the televised infomercial was the newspaper advertorial (1961).
word-forming element abstracted from information.
"an advertisement broadcast on radio or TV," 1935, from commercial (adj.). Earlier as a noun it was short for commercial traveler (1855).
updated on November 22, 2015
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