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.

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Aegis claims marketers are shifting ad spend to digital channels
By Claire Armitt

Marketers worldwide reduced their spend on TV, radio and print advertising and increased their budgets for interactive channels in Q1 2005, according to Global agency group Aegis.
Aegis, home of media planning/buying agencies Carat and Vizeum, said its Q1 2005 results showed that the trend of marketers' shifting ad spend from traditional to digital outlets showed no signs of slowing.
The group's digital media planning/buying agency network Isobar contributed 13% of the company's media revenues in Q1 2005, and Aegis expects this figure to grow over the coming year.
Overall, Aegis' Q1 2005 revenues were 12.5% higher than those in Q1 2004.
The agency group won $425m worth of new business, against $285m over the same period.
The company has been on the acquisition trail over the past few months, snapping up Turkish media agency Medyaturk and US Internet consulting and development firm Molecular, which is due to become part of Isobar.

Morning guys.
Do you ever get the feeling someone knows something we don't?
Anyway, I still think this company has great potential and a good future.
I'm holding and may get a few more yet.
Alan

bloody pain in the a... this stock, still, will have to ride it down to 5p if needs be!

ITV plc AGM

For the second Annual General Meeting of ITV plc today the Chairman, Sir Peter
Burt, said:

Over 2004 we achieved our twin objectives of improving our current business and
laying the foundations for our future growth. We have completed the merger,
delivered ahead of schedule the #120 million per annum of cost savings that we
identified and have achieved strong growth in the business with 2004 operating
EBITA up by 49%. Our new channels ITV2 and ITV3 are performing exceptionally
well and are the leading digital channels in Digital Terrestrial Television
homes. During the summer we expect to hear from Ofcom with the results of the
review of the financial terms of our channel 3 broadcasting licences.



From this base we can now exploit the opportunities that we have in the digital
world including our objectives to:

* lead and grow the UK commercial TV market;

* develop our content production business; and

* increase our revenue streams beyond spot advertising.



We have already made progress in a number of these areas including:

* the creation of a new business division that will focus on developing
consumer based revenues for our content; and

* the acquisition of SDN, the operator of one of the multiplexes on
Digital Terrestrial Television, which gives us the opportunity for future
capacity on the digital platform where our highly successful family of
channels performs best.


Current performance


The viewing share for the ITV family of channels(*) has continued to grow on all
the main platforms over the last six months(+). Within Digital Terrestrial
Television the increase has been greatest with ITV's channels growing by 1.9
share points and accounting for 27.8% of all viewing over that period.


In all multichannel homes the share of commercial impacts grew over that period
by 1.9 share points to 41.7%.


It is estimated that over the six months to June, ITV plc's* advertising revenue
overall will increase by approximately 3% on the same period last year. The
combined advertising revenue for ITV1, ITV2 and ITV3 over that period is
expected to be broadly in line with last year.



Programmes


ITV1 is the most popular channel in peak time, broadcasting the top 370
commercial programmes in 2005. ITV's soaps continue to dominate the genre with
Coronation Street, consistently the most popular programme on UK television,
attracting an average audience of 12 million viewers and a 50.9% share and
Emmerdale with an audience of 9.5 million viewers, regularly beating Eastenders.



ITV1 has broadcast seven of the top 10 dramas this year, including "Ahead of the
Class" which attracted 10.1 million viewers and "Diamond Geezer" which attracted
9.9 million viewers. In entertainment, Ant and Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway
and the Paul O'Grady show top the ratings. In sport, ITV1 broadcast the Boat
Race for the first time, attracting 6 million viewers and in boxing, Amir Khan's
rematch with Mario Kindelan was watched by 6.2 million viewers. ITV1 also
broadcast one of the most widely-watched football matches of the year, Liverpool
knocking Chelsea out of the Champions League on May 3, was watched by more than
10.2 million viewers at its peak.


The new look ITV Day was launched on April 11 and is providing a significant
ratings boost in daytime for ITV1. Over the four weeks since launch ITV1's
share of commercial impacts for housewives during ITV Day programming is up by
1.3 share points to 46.4% compared to the same period last year.


Looking ahead to the autumn, we have a drama line up that will bring ITV1 an
upmarket ABC1 audience profile. This will include new titles including
"Jericho" with Robert Lindsay, "Vincent" with Ray Winstone, "All about George"
with Rik Mayall and "Wallace and Edward" with Joely Richardson; as well as new
series of many returning favourites like "Poirot", "Midsomer Murders", "Foyle's
War", "Doc Martin" and "Miss Marple".



Charles Allen, Chief Executive, said: "Our success in growing our audiences is
the result of planning and scheduling our new channels and leveraging the
resources of our unparalleled production business and programme library. We
will continue this work and will launch another new channel, ITV4, later in the
year aimed at a male demographic."

someones taking the mickey here. again more than 50% of trades are buys and the sp drops.
you're 'aving a larf.
alan

Is this a stock from the next dimension?
Spooky, sells outweigh buys today by 8 to 1 and the sp rises!!
My head hurts.

From information I have received expect some good news in June.

Thanks for that mactavish. I am a long term holder and not too bothered about these short term shinnanigans, but it would be nice to know whos playing silly buggers!!
Alan

Sorry I cannot expand on this but can say that forecast for turnover in 2005 is 100million and profit is expected to in the region of 6- 8 million.

Heres hoping. Really grateful for your input and of course I wouldn't expect you to disclose any details or the sources you have. Big Brother is watching.
Have a good weekend.

cheers mac--thanks for cheering me up for the weekend. have a good one yourself.

Thanks everyone, long weekend get on.

moneyplus

Got back into these today...just looks like the bottom to me. Here's hoping for some really good results to kick it back up!
Have a good weekend. Tuesday may be interesting...June flowers and all that.

Ruthie

hope so Ruth...my bottom just keeps getting deeper

!!

sorry!
good weekend all...

Virgin Mobile plans TV handset service to lift customer spend

Richard Wray
Friday May 27, 2005
The Guardian

Virgin Mobile is planning to launch a television service that will allow customers to watch a range of digital channels and even record programmes on their mobile phones.
Sir Richard Branson's telecommunications business, which yesterday announced its first dividend since flotation last year and predicted strong growth in 2005, will test the service over the summer with a view to a full launch towards Christmas.

Mobile firms have become increasingly interested in TV as a way of persuading customers to spend more money. This month Orange announced it will provide a range of channels over its 3G network while Vodafone is expected to launch a similar service in the UK later this year.


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Next month, rival O2 will start trials of mobile TV in Oxford using a new broadcast technology known as DVB-H.
But the Virgin Mobile service, provisionally named VMTV, will take the existing digital broadcast signal and adapt it so it can be viewed on a mobile phone. Virgin Mobile has also abandoned its network partner T-Mobile for the service, although it will use the company's 3G network to offer interactive elements.

Virgin Mobile refused to name its broadcast partners yesterday but is understood to be in talks with a number of digital TV providers, including BSkyB. It is also seeking to use handsets that will allow customers to record programmes and watch them later.

Its first annual results since its flotation in July last year saw profits before exceptionals and financial charges up more than 27% to 100m and a maiden dividend payout of 4.88p. Annual pre-tax profits were 53m.

The company, which makes most of its cash through pre-pay customers, reported turnover of 521m with revenues from mobile telephone calls and texts rising 16.2% to 457.3m.

It forecast growth in 2005 "in the mid-teens" compared with rivals, who are looking for growth of less than 10%.

Just so you all know.

Over the last 12 months, Mactavish has been copying many of my posts, made on other BB's and passing them off as his own work, on Moneyam.

Mactavish has VERY rarely contributed any words himself and when he is not stealing my work, he posts news items, which I have found.

It's important to credit an author, when posting the text. Mactavish prefers to claim it as his own.

thanks for all the work IP--I have faith-you have faith and a bundle riding on it!! some day soon we'll celebrate together I hope.

Don't want to be involved in a slanging match over who the author is, so thank you whoever you are, be it IP or Mactavish. The importatnt thing is that we are all vindicated in our faith and cash being placed in this company. I really do believe it has the potential to be a big winner in the mobile and digital revolution that is now coming of age.
As I posted on another board, even if I have over estimated the potential of YOO, this sector is odds-on to see hostile activity in the acquisition arena, as the bigger boys seek to expand quickly to take advantage of the newest technology, and lucrative contracts held by the minnows. If this is true then this share should be worth holding for that potential alone.
Have a good weekend, guys, and lets hope for top notch news very soon.
Regards
Alan