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by em500 3609 days ago
Right, I found estimates of $600B yearly ad spend. To put that into context, total annual spending (aka world GDP) is over $70T, meaning that less that 1% of all spending in the world is on advertising.
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And you can probably slap another one or two dozen trillion dollars onto that surface GDP figure. The underground / black market economy is very, very substantial.