Company Profile

YooMedia plc is one of the fastest growing interactive entertainment companies in the UK.
Since 1997 we have been developing and launching leading B2C consumer brands in the gaming and community sectors. We also work in a B2B capacity with leading brand owners, agencies, content developers and broadcasters to design and develop their interactive content strategies.

Led by Executive Chairman Dr. Michael Sinclair and Group Managing Director Neil MacDonald, YooMedia has assembled a highly experienced management team that possesses a unique blend of skills and experience in the areas of Digital TV, Internet and mobile phone services and technology.

With main office locations in London, Exeter and Maidstone, YooMedia manages core assets including:

Over 30 office locations throughout the UK alone

State-of-the-art studio, production and post-production facilities at our Wapping location.

UK broadcast return path & bandwidth owner

Fully fledged UK Bookmaker License

Database with over 350K UK singles

SMS Engine access with international reach

Fully staffed 50 seat Customer Contact Centre in Maidstone, Kent

YooMedia Dating & Chat - Our dating subsidiary company manages the oldest and largest UK-owned dating brands including Dateline, Club Sirius and Avenues. YooMedia Dating has over 20 office locations throughout the UK and also manages YooChat, our world-leading interactive chat service found on UK digital cable on the Telewest platform (platform extensions planned for 2005).

YooMedia Gambling & Games - Combining the brands of Avago and Channel 425 (in partnership with William Hill) YooMedia is on the leading-edge of interactive fixed odds, casino and poker gambling services for digital TV, the web and 3G mobile phones. Our gaming business also manages YooPlay, the only interactive just for fun games channel found on all four Digital TV platforms in the United Kingdom.

YooMedia Enhanced Solutions (YES) - YES works with brand owners, agencies, content owners and broadcasters to clarify the options, define the strategies and deliver the interactive content that enhances consumer and audience experiences. YES customers include the BBC, Nestle, Celador, William Hill, Channel 4, ZipTV, The Cartoon Network and HR Owen.

I think buying at the level of Leo Noe is beyond the call of duty and therefore reflects the fact that he beleives the shares are cheap and he can make a decent packet to supplement his income.

Eric

yes, you can't help feeling that he thinks buying at this price is money for old rope...so I've haad a few more myself!!
getting carried away now (or maybe I should be)....but all we need is a decent update to carry us back to 20p

Moving up gently yesterday and today. Maybe people have started to realise these are cheap.

certainly something afoot...

One of Sky tv's lead stories is the explosion of online poker. Quite a long story giving the pro's and con's, ie. a story of a lady who's won a fortune and the opposite. Poker growing 50% annually. Can only be good news for YOO as exposure to onine poker cannot come bigger than this, a major news story repeated hourly for the whole day. New story says poker accounts for 4,000,000 a day in the UK

but no mention of YOO?

016622. No mention of YOO>

Gambling and Games to Drive Mobile Entertainment Growth - From $17.6bn This Year to $59bn by 2009

Hampshire UK, 5th May 2005: A rapid expansion in mobile content, allied to a sharp increase in 2.5G and 3G handset adoption, will combine to deliver global mobile entertainment revenues of more than US$59 billion by 2009, according to a new report from Juniper Research.

But while adult content frequently heralded as mobile's "killer app" will generate healthy revenues of nearly US$2.2 billion by the end of the decade, the key drivers of mobile content are expected to be gambling and games, with their respective markets worth US$19.3 billion and US$18.5 billion respectively by 2009.

According to report author Dr Windsor Holden, "Lotteries are ubiquitous in many countries, and if you start launching lotteries on mobile handsets than you're tapping into a form of gambling in which the majority of adults indulge on a weekly basis, while sports betting and casinos are also high-revenue businesses."

Dr Holden added that mobile games were also beginning to generate substantial revenues, while sales in emerging markets with little or no established PC or games console base were particularly encouraging.

Other findings from the report include:


The mobile entertainment market will reach US$17.6 billion in 2005, up by 71% on 2004


After gambling (33%) and games (31%), the most popular entertainment services in 2009 will be music (16%) and sports (8%)


Ringtones which currently account for 31% of the mobile entertainment market will contribute no more than 8% by 2009


The increasing adoption of non-voice services in the US and Canada will push North American revenues to US$11.3 billion in 2009, up from just over US$1 billion in 2004.

White papers and further details of five new studies (Adult, Gambling, Games, Music & Ringtones and Sport & Infotainment) that comprise the 'Mobile Entertainment Content Series (second edition)' can be obtained at www.juniperresearch.com or from Michele Ince at

michele.ince@juniperresearch.com, Telephone +44(0)1256 345612.

Juniper Research provides analytical services to the global hi-tech communications sector, providing analyst reports, consultancy and industry surveys.

NTL swings into Q1 opg profit 16 mln stg from loss 7 mln - UPDATE


(Adds detail on customer numbers and drivers behind opg earnings)
LONDON (AFX) - UK cable TV and telecoms group NTL Inc said it swung into an
operating profit of 16 mln stg in the first quarter from a loss of 7 mln a year
earlier, mainly as a result of an increase in customer numbers, better operating
cash flow and lower depreciation charges.
The Nasdaq-listed group said overall revenues were up 0.7 pct at at 517.3
mln stg, with a 4.0 pct increase in domestic customer revenues to 384.5 mln and
a 9.7 pct rise in revenues in Ireland to 19.2 mln, partly offset by a 10.1 pct
fall in revenues from business customers to 113.6 mln.
At the net level, the group's loss from continuing operations narrowed to
62.6 mln stg from 75.5 mln a year earlier.
"We have started the year with continued margin expansion, robust gross
additions, improved customer churn and continued growth in our triple play
(internet, TV and telephone packages) customer penetration," said NTL chief
executive Simon Duffy.
Duffy added that the group yesterday concluded the sale of its operations in
the Republic of Ireland for 325 mln eur, "reinforcing our focus on building our
UK cable business".
Duffy said NTL added a net 58,100 residential customers to end the quarter
with 3.19 mln, up 4 pct from a year earlier and he added that improvements in
customers service have resulted in a reduction in the customer churn rate to 1.4
pct.
"Continued strong performance in gross additions and further improvements in
churn should put us back on track for our long-term on-net target of over 50,000
net customer additions per quarter from Q2 onwards, resulting in over 200,000
on-net customer additions this year," he said.

Replace "ntl" with "yoo"

here we go!

Hi 016622
I'm a novice and I'm in this share in a fairly small way. I don't understand your last couple of posts. Remembering that I am blonde and stupid, how is this NTL report so good for YOO? Keep it simple for me cos my IQ is similar to the ULT bid price!!
Thanks in advance
alan

Hi H!

McTavish would be the one to guide this question at.
To be perfectly honest, I have'nt got much of a clue whats going on and am just a little bored with no upward movement!

The NTL post would seem to suggest, however, that things in the industry are "hotting up" and that this should be good for YOO. But as I say, its not showing in the sp at t' moment!

Good luck H - and grab a few more if the do start a northward push!

thanks for that
alan

Very quiet today which is surprising bearing in mind the great write up in Shares Mag today.
Di

Haven't seen the mag yet....did they not recommend a sell a few weeks ago??

Yes Mr Mole but it was based on wrong info. Todays article is a extremely positive one saying that top property magnate Leo Noe has bought 1m shares recently and now owns 2.93% of Yoo. Invesco Perpetual holds 4.07%. It then goes on to say how Yoo are leaders in a rapidly expanding market and that profits will soon be on the horizon.

Share's Mag is rapidly becoming a joke.

A few weeks ago YOO was a sell, then it became a grudging hold and today it is a buy. There appears to be no editorial control over consistency and their analysts (I use that word loosely) are allowed to write what they like.

That is the very reason why i do NOT subscribe to Shares.

buyers coming back today...
yes - the lst shares comment was the infamous sell-haemorraging cash

be nice to see this back upto 20 smartish!