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.

Dil - What a magnificently eloquent and insightful contribution. You must be very proud. All readers of the thread must surely count themselves extremely fortunate to be able to gaze upon your well thought-out and balanced musings.

While Dil's posting is a little direct in many years of posting he has rarely been wrong!

In which case, with that huge talent, he must be a very wealthy man, with no need to work for a living. As I'm sure that must be the case he must have a lot of time on his hands with which to compose such elaborate and eloquent postings.

few words from the Welsh-you know!! is he still winning the share challenge? I've given up checking I'm such a disgrace.

Courtesy of TheHamster on ADVN..

Digital shakes up entertainment
By Alfred Hermida
Technology editor, BBC News website



Digital television is changing viewing habits
The people who make films, TV and music are trying to work out how to survive in a digital era where the consumer is in control.

This was the predominant theme at a conference on the future of digital content held at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London earlier this week.

Delegates heard about a world where TV and music companies would struggle to stand out in what one TV executive called "digital fog".

But the days when an entertainment giant could largely influence what people do in their spare time are over.

"TV has moved from being a fairly passive medium into this digital era," said Simon Gunning, Head of Interactive Media at Celador, the company behind Who Wants to be a Millionaire.

"Audiences expect more control and greater access to stuff," he told the In the City Interactive conference.

More than TV

He highlighted new satellite channels which were a far cry from the traditional fare on TV, such as Fancy a Flutter, a betting channel, and Avago, an interactive games channel.

There is now an infinite choice of music and the stores are always open

Danny VanEmden, EMI Music UK
"This is leading to a change in the way we interact with our telly," said Mr Gunning.

It means that TV producers need to think beyond just making a show for broadcast. Instead they now had to look at ways of offering more through digital TV, mobiles or online.

"With big peak time monster formats you are looking at mass participation," he said.

"As devices and platforms change, ways to engage the viewer change and become essential," said Mr Gunning.

His comments were echoed by Anthony Lilley of Magic Lantern, which has been working on setting up a broadband documentary channel for Channel Four called 4Docs.

"Ideas jump across platforms and they mutate," he explained. "The experience you get is diverging not converging."

The record industry has already had to come to terms with the digital era, largely due to the rise of the popularity of file-sharing over the internet.

In just a couple of years, there has been a sea change in the attitude towards making more music available online.

"There is now an infinite choice of music and the stores are always open," said Danny VanEmden, Digital Media Director at EMI Music UK.

"The changes are unprecedented."

Next generation

The impact of digital extends to all forms of media, including traditional news organisations such as the BBC and the Financial Times.


Mobiles are offering new ways of getting music and video
They are operating in a world where news is everywhere and people can get their information from a multitude of sources, from established newspapers to bloggers.

"We are in the middle of a rather uncomfortable generational shift, especially in the UK," said Nigel Pocklington of the Financial Times.

"We are shifting to a generation that has not grown up reading newspapers."

"We are now dealing with online and digital worlds, where people get news from screens and mobile devices," said Mr Pocklington.

"It is a challenge to manage that transition."

The conference was part of In The City Interactive events, which focus on digital content issues.

regards

Good post. Was just thinknig we seem to have hit a support level at 9pps, and now we need good news on YOO to give it an upward kick.
Alan

Buys outnumbering sells 10 to 1, Bid price static, offer price up, spread enormous.
Any of you old hands read anything into that?
Alan

10 to 1 buys but if you review last weeks trades all the T and volume 200 & 500 K trades were sells. Providing no bad news on integration then these should be a good recovery play but I am waiting to see what happens as just fallen through bottom of trend line which is never a good sign. ON a positive RSI oversold.

Ofcom says DTV is now in 62% of UK homes
An additional 640,000 UK households made the switch to digital television in the first three months of 2005. According to UK media regulator Ofcom, digital penetration increased by 2.5% to 61.9% over the period.

Ofcom's Digital Television Update estimates Freeview households to have grown to around 5,060,000. In addition, Ofcom reckons there are 445,000 free-to-view digital satellite homes, taking the total free-to-view digital household base to 5.5m, just 1.8m behind BSkyB's UK subscriber numbers at the end of March.

Ofcom says digital cable subscribers grew by 1.2% to 2.54m. Operators ntl and Telewest have still to convert 744,200 analogue subscribers to digital.

Ofcom further estimates 20,000 households are receiving television via ADSL providers Video Networks and Kingston Communications.

At the end of March Sky had a 50.6% share of the digital TV market, down from 55% at the end of the first quarter of 2004, while Freeview had a 32.8% share, up from 26.5% a year ago.

The update disclosed market data from GfK, adjusted by Freeview, showing that 690,500 set-top boxes and 168,300 integrated digital television (IDTVs) sets were sold in the first quarter of 2005.

That takes the cumulative total number of Freeview set-top box sales to 5.8m and IDTVs to 1.09m. Around 290,000 ITV Digital set top boxes are thought to be still active, with the number steadily declining over time.

That means there are now some 7.2m digital terrestrial receivers in the market, with 1.72m having been bought for use on second sets by viewers who already have Freeview, Sky or cable on their main set.

Lovelacemedia | 10.06.2005
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queen1 - I just say it as I see it .

Regards

Not buying any then Scrip ?

:-)

mactavish nobody doubts the market sizing and potential revenues this is all about cash burn, deriving benefit re economies of scale, cross fertilising revenue streams and satisying the market they are managing a vast, some may say over expansion effectively.

where is Ipublic hiding? He's got a lot riding on this as I remember--hope he's still positive. agree merrickman2--only october results will tell us but the last ones were very encouraging IMHO. of course and I'm no accountant.

Dil - Which is fine but why not back up your pungent assertion with reasons for all to share?

Why waste a thousand words when one line says it all.

My comment was not made lightly , I've been looking into these over the last three months or so and posted my conclusion.

sorry Dil, I missed it, what is your conclusion?

Yes i agree with the last post , what is your conclusion Dil? Or are you just talking total crap to justify your bloody ego!

lol , if you were that interested then I'm sure you can skip back a few posts and go look for yourself ... lazy gits.

Dil's post was "what a load of crap". As I'm sure you'll agree, if it took 3 months of analysis and protracted technical thought to come to that conclusion he really should get out more. He may be right but what was it, in those 3 months, that led to the "conclusion"? Why waste a thousand words Dil? Indeed, but on that basis, if you're not interested in the share, what the hell are you doing on the thread?

trying to educate pork by the look of it