The marketing industry spends more than $4,000 per U.S. household every year.
Analysts estimate that 20–30% of that spend may be lost to waste, inefficiency, and outright fraud — tens of billions of dollars annually.
So here’s the uncomfortable question:
If everyone knows the plumbing is broken… Why does the system keep running?
In this episode of Signal & Noise, Rio Longacre and Brett House sit down with Sarah Caputo & David Nyurenberg to unpack what rarely gets said out