I've seen this before and I laugh every time . . . I had a job interview just like this not too long ago (I did not get the job and by the middle of the interview, I didn't want it). Next job interview, I'll just say I'm an expert.
I really wanna see "The Expert's Revenge". Being surrounded by people with money and without clue isn't a bad place to be. You start by assisting the client in defining "perpendicular" (and charging them for it), move on to assigning a scope of "red" "green" and "invisible" while also exposing your client to the cutting-edge work your lab is doing in infra-RED ink and then talk them into an RFP for cats v. kittens and the ideal target market age for feline maturity. You spend a year flying out monthly (on Marketing's dime) to blow up balloons and shake hands, then when their money is almost gone you give them three red links of a heptagram, tell them the rest of them are infragreen and show them a survey that says 50% of those polled prefer their kittens seven sided within 2 degrees of standard deviation. Been there, done that.
It's the future, no doubt. Thing of it is, you need a "channel" and that becomes your job. So it's not so much about making videos as it is about running a TV station... with no budget, very little money, and an alarming share of the profits going to the FCC.
Yeah, I suppose so. When I hear that an institution has a stranglehold on something, I'm always curious about ideas people who have experience in dealing with those institutions might have or what kinds of things people might be doing that I'm aware of, that's all.
The problem isn't one of strangleholds, unfortunately. The problem is that what used to be a highly-profitable specialist industry has become a commodity amateur industry. It used to be that dabbling in broadcast media involved jumping through the hoops necessary to make it onto public access TV - and then, it likely stopped there. Now, anybody can put anything on Youtube and maybe 20 million people watch Bed Intruder. I had an agent tell me yesterday that Amazon adds 250,000 self-published e-books a month. A couple of them will find real success but for the majority of authors they'd have more success with scratch tickets. Youtube, meanwhile, adds 100 hours of footage per minute. Every thousand views is worth about a dollar in revenue for content creators. You don't throw Elie Kazan into that mix and expect him to make money. there was a vetting process to broadcast media that the Internet will never have... although the specialist video channels (Crunchy Roll, Chiller, etc) might get there if people are willing to pay for them. I've had two short films on Chiller. I've yet to see a dime.