WHY THIS MATTERS:These 16 executives sit on the front lines of the industry's transformation and represent a range of disciplines: advertising/media, content, distribution, local TV, entrepreneurship, technology and more.
Netflix has completely disrupted the entertainment industry model. Ironically, in marketing, the most visible part of any business, that disruption has gone less noticed than in more conventional areas, such as original content development. Netflix has helped usher in the new era of people-based marketing, which is already transforming industries, such as retail, and is now coming for entertainment. Today's relevant question: Who is my customer and what's my relationship to them?