Yaosh Ho

Director of Worldwide Digital Media, MGM (Los Angeles)
 
Yaosh Ho is Director of Worldwide Digital Media at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. In his current role, Yaosh is responsible for the strategic analysis, business development, programming, and partner management of MGM’s Video and Mobile markets.

Currently, Yaosh supervises the MGM Digital Media’s Long-Form Ad-Sponsored VOD operation, which includes agreements with Hulu, CBS (TV.com), Echostar (Sling.com), Comcast (Fancast), Google (YouTube), and Betawave. Yaosh also oversees MGM’s Short-Form content distribution, including partnerships with YouTube, the Sony Minisode Network, and Moderati.
 
Yaosh first came to MGM in 2007 and began his tenure managing MGM’s Electronic Sell-Through (EST) and Online Transactional VOD (T-VOD) markets, overseeing programming, marketing, and packaging. 
 
Prior to MGM, Yaosh was Manager of Business Planning at the Associated Press (AP) in New York. In that role, Yaosh managed the AP Podcasts, was a member of the launch team of AP’s Digital Cooperative initiative, helping to rationalize AP’s news gathering operations in South America and Asia. Yaosh projects resulted AP’s first ever direct-to-consumer revenue.
 
Prior to AP, Yaosh was a product manager for Amazon Unbox, an innovative effort to extend Amazon’s dominant position in the packaged home video media market to EST and Online T-VOD. Prior to Amazon, Yaosh held several software engineering and product management jobs in Silicon Valley startups. He started his career at Hewlett-Packard.