Metacafe has brought on former Yahoo and Disney executive Scott Bushman as its new Vice President of Business Development. Bushman will be making the connections that work for Metacafe, getting other media companies involved from around the world. This goes for licensing deals, and other "growth opportunities" for Metacafe.
Bushman brings along 15+ years of experience in media and entertainment, with his most recent position being that of senior director, business development, global publisher solutions at Yahoo, where he navigated and executed strategic distribution partnerships with major media partners across sports, music, television, gaming and social networks.
As Internet television grows, and as the influence of online video continues to take over Internet culture, we've seen several mergers and partnerships across content providers, distributors, major media companies and advertisers. I guessed some time ago that these mergers would continue, for consolidated distribution purposes, as certain techniques, technologies and players get weeded out.