But advertising can have no place in the NIPAs. It is totally an intermediate product, because its only purchasers are producers who include its cost in the price of the final products (only final products count toward GDP) they produce.
Shane Mage
"When we read on a printed page the doctrine of Pythagoras that all things are made of numbers, it seems mystical, mystifying, even downright silly.
When we read on a computer screen the doctrine of Pythagoras that all things are made of numbers, it seems self-evidently true." (N. Weiner)