Tater gets it.
Most advertising is about developing the brand. Producers and retailers understand that they are unlikely to sway you with a 30-second TV spot. They've been in the business long enough to know that consumers are fickle, independednt, and busy with other things. Their goal is to make you remember their brand the next time you consider purchasing a type of product they sell.
There are only 3 types of people who have any concern about the informative content of ads:
1) People who actually watch infomercials and base their purchasing judgements upon information gleaned from them.
2) People who are technologically illiterate/lazy and therefore incapable of performing the very simple task of product research when there are billions of consumer reviews available at a glance.
3) People who have so little faith in other people and their judgement that they think ads are the work of evil, soulless corporations making a conscious effort to brainwash us into consumerism.
The rest of us just prefer that the scheduled interruptions of our chosen program be at least mildly entertaining and original. It's actually a fairly demanding stance, given the fact that revenue generated by commercials allows us to enjoy televised entertainment for free at any time we please, or at least at the rates that competing cable or satellite broadcast companies can afford.