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The problem is that if you own your distribution channels you need a massive marketing budget to stand out from the other offerings as you are competing with other distributors instead of getting help from them.
I don't have much more experience as a manager than you do but here are some thoughts.
1. Share the roadmap with your team once confirmed by management
2. Don't force your implementation on the team but let them come up with it and use it as long as it is good enough
3. The time will never come that you feel that your reports are ready for hand over - it will only come by necessity when you are asked to take on more responsibilities so that you have no choice but to hand off this work. So, you may as well start the hand over today as there will never be a better time.
The long term brand plan must be set by the CEO and in the example provided by the parent, the CEO only cares about keeping investors happy in the short term, alas no spend without immediately identifiable ROI.
Absolutely not. None of this is possible or even desirable. We don't want to watch optimized video. We want to watch stories that move us, created by geniuses like Coppola, or whoever you think is good.
There's no personalized targetting in content. It's really one size fits all, or at least the regular S-M-L. It is, obviously, impossible to make different shows for millions of individuals.
What Netflix has is more detailed data of what people watch. So will its competitors is just a few years.
What matters in content is the content of that content. Ideas, emotions, excitement. Technology is irrelevant.