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.

Ruth Garrett Stockmarket Report.

Interactive services group YooMedia saw its share price soar almost 30%, after its joint venture with ICTV, BroadbandTV, announced an agreement with NTL. The venture will trial interactive services with greater bandwidth on the cable TV provider's services from 2005. The company compared the difference between current interactive TV offerings and its new technology as similar to the difference between a dial-up modem and broadband for internet services. The shares gained 5.75p to 26p.

rkauser and others wondering whether to buy YOO at current level, 27p

Tremendous buying momentum today with over 250 trades, volume buys to sells of 2:1 but far more buy trades offset partly by larger sells. Worth looking at graph for prices last year: took off in September on interim results. These showed only 400K of revenue but there was a range of technology and partnership announcements. We could well be in the same boat this year. There should be further rises tomorrow with inevitable press comment following the announcement - this opens up vistas stretching into the future, though again little in the way of short-term revenues. However, the acquisitions, particularly Sony Leisure, give a significant jump in revenue. mactavish is confident about positive revenue. If that is the case then I would expect the graph to be emulated up to 60p or more. The least we are looking for is a recovery to the 40 to 50p that Dr Sinclair and others were buying at early in the year.

Congratulations again to mac - here's a wee dram to you! What impresses me most is that you spotted the buy volume last Friday and got straight in. How come? Suggest others purchase tomorrow morning first thing. It was difficult to trade on line this morning (see comment above) and you could be wise to be straight onto your dealer at 8 a.m. The pattern today was a strong rise first thing, then an easing of the price around 9 a.m. on profit taking; then a continued rise during the day. Still a buy in my view up to 35p (i.e. pre the interims, with further potential then). Good luck!

Eric

Been looking at Yoo for quite a while now, felt this was the right time to get in after all the drops in price. Over the last few weeks there has been large buys going thru', someone was getting a lot of shares on the cheap. A small rise on thursday made up my mind.

Shares in Yoomedia, the interactive media group, leapt 5p to 26p on its entering a trial with NTL, the cable group, through a joint venture unit.

From "The Times"

Up another 3p today still buying at 30p.

Does any one have any idea what day the interim is?

lots of selling going through, everyones taking their profits today!!!

Another high volume day with 3.5M shares traded, not far short of 3% of the equity, as yesterday. Buying and selling volumes nearly equal, so there are still a lot of new, probably, buyers around and understandably some taking advantage of the 50% jump in price. Trading pattern was interesting: good buying opportunity in the first hour; price getting over-heated in second hour without significant volume; sellers then attracted in bringing price down. No interim date announcement on News but was 19th Sept last year so must be imminent. Still a buying opportunity.
Eric

Notable constant gainers over four days includes Yoomedia, up almost 60% at 27.5p as investors enjoy news of the company's imminent trials of broadband TV.

http://www.immediatefuture.co.uk/247


YooMedia plc signs joint venture agreement with ICTV

YooMedia Plc

03/11/2003

YooMedia plc, the interactive TV and wireless application service provider, and ICTV, the creator of HeadendWare today signed a joint venture agreement to introduce the next generation of interactive services to UK cable operators.

HeadendWare is a centralised platform that enables cable operators to deliver next-generation subscriber services to any digital set top box. HeadendWare uses headend-based processing power and the existing digital plant to deliver cost-effective, two-way services including high-fidelity audio and full-motion video by performing real-time digital video and audio encoding of existing digital content.

With HeadendWare, digital cable subscribers can use their existing set top boxes and remote controls to interact with robust multimedia applications developed with standard PC, Web and Java tools. HeadendWare supports the latest versions of HTML, JavaScript, Java, Windows Media Player, Flash, RealPlayer and QuickTime. HeadendWare removes set-top box and middleware constraints on the delivery of compelling interactive multimedia content.

Under the terms of the partnership agreement, YooMedia will work with ICTV to introduce advanced levels of interactive multimedia entertainment to YooMedias existing digital cable partners in the UK. YooMedia intends to use its existing cable user management, portal and billing technologies, alongside the HeadendWare technology, to deliver a new generation of original and third party interactive content on cable in the UK.

Eddie Abrams, YooMedias Development Director says, This agreement has the potential to revolutionise the UK digital cable interactive experience. We believe that the versatility of the ICTV HeadendWare solution, combined with YooMedias experience in developing sophisticated interactive TV applications, is an unbeatable combination.

Rick Cluthe, Managing Director of ICTV Europe comments, The availability of content and applications is vital to the success of interactive television. YooMedias commitment to digital cable interactive television in the UK is well recognised; we expect that their applications expertise and the HeadendWare platform will combine to speed the pace of interactive deployment in Europe.

Just emailed Yoo to try and find out the exact date of the Interim Results. Will post back when I get a reply.

Thank you for e-mailing YooMedia. We will be publishing our results prior to 30 September.

Best regards

Investor Relations

Excellent quick response - under 30 minutes

Down 6% today, i've gone in the red, hope it recovers by the end of the week.

rkauser
Drop today was on low volume; less than 0.5% of equity compared with approaching 3% on previous two days. News is getting old and investors focus has moved on. Next milestone is interim results (thanks mac for getting the timing info. from YOO). mac is looking for movement into black - can you substantiate?
Eric

Well im just going by what Durlacher forecast was as far as i can remember,, profit was 500k and turnover was up to 7m but do not take that as fact because my memory is not as good as it used to be .

mac
Thanks for background to forecast which I missed. I don't think this forecast is built into the price. Last year was a loss of 5.4M on turnover of 743K. This year had the effect of the acuisitions of GoPlay (from Sony Pictures) and Fancy a Flutter: I thought I had seen a forecast for the former but can't find it (I share this memory problem!); the latter should contribute 1M. A pbt (obviously nil tax) of 500K would give a high PE but the point of YOO is really the technology research, leadership in a market of huge potential. Any profit should have a very significant effect in boosting the price. I certainly plan to hold until the interims; an investment at the present price is very one-sided (only an up option), with profit-takers out of the way. Wondering about increasing my stake (presently 10% of my portfolio). What do you think as you are sitting on an even better profit?
Eric

Well I feel with sellers mostly out of the way now would be a good time to buy more as you will probably get below the offer price. Over the next couple of weeks you will probably see small price rises leading up to the interims. But this is all my humble opinion.

Channel 4 is planning to launch a range of new digital TV channels as broadcasters position themselves for the anticipated switch-off of the analogue television signal in 2012, amid fears that traditional broadcasters could lose a third of their audiences after switchover.

It has signed an 80m 10-year contract digital transmission deal with Luxembourg-based SES Global, the satellite company that provides the backbone for BSkyB's Sky Digital.

This is the third deal this week between British broadcasters and SES Global. ITV and cable operator NTL have also signed deals with SES to beam more services into digital TV homes, a market that is growing, with 55% of the nation's TV households already having access to digital TV through satellite, cable or Freeview.

Channel 4 is reported to be hiring space on the Astra 2D satellite for about 14 channels. But this number will have to be determined by the extent of interactive services offered, as each of these can demand nearly as much capacity as a broadcast channel.

David Scott, the deputy chief executive of Channel 4, said the deal "will provide Channel 4 with considerable flexibility when considering the expansion and future development of our broadcast services".

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mac
I note that your first post was this time last Friday evening. This has been a very fruitful bb - even those who didn't get in below the current price will not regret it I'm sure. Lets put some targets: 30p+ by the interims; 50p by the finals. These levels have been achieved before when revenue was negligible. From a financial standpoint, you must admire their tactics of buying in profitable revenue (based on a perhaps inflated sp), whilst they proceed with their technological leadership and, whilst not necessarily very profitable, their focus of real effort on the government sector with resultant prestige and technology spin-offs.

Having said that, I went and put the money from some ASOS profit-taking into, pause for breath, earthport (EPO) rather than YOO at 1.08p. The management and TF (for his Shares recommendation at 2.68p) have taken a lot of flak. I believe I have put my finger on a key reason for delay in revenue roll-out and have given these on the EPO bb (532). If you are interested, given your evident comfort with the high tech sector, I would appreciate your feedback, perhaps there rather than here.

Eric

Thanks for info but no spare cash at moment, will keep them in mind though. Perhaps when the spread narrows and I am better fixed money wise, i would certainly have a dabble.