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.

OK Radio 5 and Cartoon Network is using it. Who else is using it?
Can you give me a good reason to consider investing in this company, apart from the directors buying shares?

Celador, Who Wants To Be A Millionaire, every Saturday night, CD:UK. The Saturday morning chart show on ITV. BBC's Test The Nation, BBC's Come And Have A Go If You Think Your Smart Enough Sky Sports Sky One, blah, blah, blah!!!

Depends if you are talking purely TV or wish to include the services like the contract with Nestle and the services provided to HROWEN.

And they still issue profit warnings !!!

Bet they are getting screwed by the customers ... little fish in a big pond with no pricing power.

Ooo! Ouch! Has the patent gone walkies? Or was the patent a crock of bollo..& no more impressive than anything else on the market to start with?? WOW FU..ERS BURN!!!!!!

Well, I'm only asking questions here. If they have a patent I'm game. If not , they've got nothing, apart from a fractured infrastructure the CEO left to its own devices.

So let's find out if the patent went walkies. (With the CEO perhaps? Just kidding :)) ).

If they have the patent, why are they not spinning it? I would, if I were them.

Absolutely Niel you are starting lift the mist of spin from the eyes.

And I suppose there is nothing to rival this patent , lol we got another Microsoft on our hands !

Patent or no patent .... still a crock of sh*te imo with a 1p rescue right issue on its way.

All been watching Avago tonight .... thought not !

Niels Hi, you put me onto a very good thing with NOP, and I thank you for that. In return, I can tell you that I expect YOO to reach 8p plus, in the very short term, and as much as 20p by Christmas. I have been following YOO for 3 years. Cheers, PM

Hi All, a new and better version of last weeks news is here ! .... YooMedia launches platform-neutral solution for clients
By Claire Armitt
Interactive technology company YooMedia has launched a division that will allow marketers to identify the most appropriate digital platforms to meet specific campaign objectives.
YooMedia Enhanced Solutions (YES) aims to help brands and agencies create interactive marketing campaigns across mobile, interactive TV and broadband, using technology and consumer insight to predict which mediums would offer the best results in terms of interactivity, cost-effectiveness and response rates.
YES will be led by David Bainbridge, former MD of mobile marketing agency Whoosh and deputy marketing director of Channel 5.
"If a client wants to run a cross-media campaign they often end up talking to lots of agencies and suppliers," said Bainbridge. "We deliver a platform- neutral solution under one roof - fitting the media to the marketing and business objectives."
A dedicated staff of eight account directors will run the division, which will be supported by YooMedia's team of 40 interactive platform designers and developers.
Bainbridge added that marketers need to become more sophisticated at targeting consumers.
"On one side you have agencies and marketing directors encouraged by results of mobile and Web campaigns, but you also have empowered consumers who are now able to choose which bits of advertising they view," he said.
YooMedia claims to be the biggest interactive organisation outside of the BBC and Sky in the UK. It powers over 15m cross-platform customer transactions every month, including the only independent red button return path for the Sky platform.

Hi Paul, glad you are making a profit on NOP. :)

I have not spent more than a few days on YOO, but my gut instinct tells me it's going down. I have been unable to verify that it owns any patents at all. If you have the patent numbers I'll appreciate seeing them.

Also, I don't like their spin "used by Turner Broadcasting"; yeah, in Cartoon Network. lol

I don't see many having picked up their technology. OK, that may come, but they only have a chance if they have patents; others, with more cash, will otherwise crush them.

Could you update your profile with your email please?

Niels.

im confused as to why people see the current sp as expensive for the company.......maybe I drink too much but it looks dirt cheap

Niels

Read the press release that can be found on the yoo website dated 22 May 2002.

Not sure what the situation is at present.

Ahh, looks as if they got an exclusive license to exploit the patent, not the patent itself. I have sent an email requesting the patent number but I don't expect an answer. Well, the sp is up this morning. I could be wrong, I have been wrong once before; that was when I thought I had made a mistake, but I had not.

NielsJensen, this promising company has a lot going for it, it had a temp setback and the fall was overdone due to the extremely profitable practice of selling short on bad news, (bear raiding - hedge funds) which should be outlawed. That has come to an end because there is only so far they can take it befoe they have to close positions and the only way is up once it's been successfully bottomed. You'll notice all the negative posters (which had no reasoning) have disappeared with exception from the odd post by Dil which now stands out - as they've all got back in again cheap.

someone just paid 6p for 70k.

The directors aren't daft, they're going to release a raft of good news in the coming months that will see the sp at least partially recover to around 15-20p and at these levels the co is ripe for takeover.

I'm back in. Had these about 18mths ago at 23p and made a nice profit, only noticed recently the fall in sp and have done days of research and agree the bears have had their day here, expect to see 15 by end of yr at very least, maybe end of the week:).

Courtsey of psmith64.




Just been offered 5.50p for my 3.9p top up from 16th June 2005, up 41% in under 2 weeks

And we haven't even had an RNS yet on further director buys/institutions ?? yet, which must be surely coming, maybe even a bid approach.

Am I selling, course not, my average is still 19p - patience is the name of the game with this one, the shorters must be getting burn't fingers now, as the days go by.

Seems like no one is taking any notice of the 2.5p de-rampers, but it is hardly surprising, there are not many bulletin boards that seriously affect the SP of a share.

I am sure there are more investors taking more notice of the client base that Yoomedia has at present, with national broadcasters such as BBC, ITV & BSKYB, and worldwide programme makers such as " Celador ", not forgetting companies such as Nestle who currently use Yoomedia for its interactive SMS marketing, oh, and then there is the partnership with the UK's largest national bookie, William Hill, who with the recent takeover of Stanley Leisure now have 1600 UK outlets to brainwash its punters to use channel 425 on BSKYB - all tied in to the fact that DTV take up id growing by the day, worldwide, with the UK now having 2/3 rds of the nation converted - who really can predict where this sahre is going to be in 3 - 5 years, could anyone on here have predicted that within a 3 year cycle companies such as Sportingbet would have gone from 20p to 315p ( check out the charts ), and who would have believed the success story of eBay - needs no talking about - $ 2.00 to $ 100 + in three years - both examples of companies operating in a fast growing new area - just as Yoomedia are - I for one would not want to look back on this one in three years time only to say " I wish I had followed my instinc and bought at 3.9p "

Yes it's a gamble, yes it all could go horribly wrong, but equally, it could go the other way, and be one of the biggest UK success stories of recent times, we are due another SAGE, and Yooemdia are in a position heading towards profitbility, in a fast growing sector, with a client base that looks impressive.

If you DYOR ( never take first hand anything written on these BB without doing some homework ), look at the company in depth, look into the main people behind it, and most importantly, look at the market it is operating in, DTV is going to grow at a faster pace than the internet ever did, mainly because even now, more worldwide homes have a TV than a PC - and as a lot of people have already seen, even if you have old equipment, you can still get a set top box to become digital in one of the many formats ,of which already in the UK alone, 66% of the nation.

One other piece of advice, don't just look at Yoomedia for your information, look at other companies in the sector, for example, take a look at PACE, nearly 100% SP growth in the last month, on the back of international set top box contracts which will run over the next few years as worldwide DTV take up increases, doesn't this tell you something about where DTV is heading, and all the companies that have got a foothold in the infancy stage, have a major headstart - why do you think Yoomedia were advertising for a legal executive recently with knowledge of European Law ????, well again, take a look at how DTV is currentky expanding in Europe - take a look back at the worldwide news for the past 12 months on www.dtv.org.uk - this will give you some good indications.

I really don't care either way what the views of the de-rampers are, as I feel confident with my level of research into the market that Yoomedia operate in, that it is well worth the gamble, I have looked at the company grow from a small 300 K per annum outfit, to where it is now, heading for 100 million plus turnover per annum, and on the verge of profitabilty - and all binary can come up with is one liners " its going to crash to 2.5p ", it may well do - but you have to look further than just a a few weeks, months with this share, and while it is at such a price, you may never get a buying opportunity, how many of you have waited the last couple of weeks when you could have got in at 3.5p - already by dithering, you have lost out on 35% growth, due to the market over reacting to a profits warning.

I really do not care if anyone wants to invest in this share ,I do care that people may lose an oportunity if they take note of the one liner shorters who know Fu** all about Yoomedia and the market it operates in, the important thing is, I have invested so they do not affect me, and I am happy with the amount of money I have risked, if I lose it all, well, that is life, it won't be the first time, but if this one heads where I believe its going, then in 3 - 5 years time I will be a very happy investor, I have never been that lucky to get in on a share in the early stages of growth, it has always been my dream to find the next Polly Peck, and this is the type of share that if it turns out right, we very well could see massive gains over the next few years, the proof in the market Yoomedia operates in for massive growth is out there without any doubt, and if you only invest what you can fully afford to lose ( the golden rule of investing ), then too much damage will not be done.

Good luck to all investors, even the shorters, who will probably need more luck at the moment.

Regards

Paul

100k buy at 6.25p.

It's happened to most of my companies - OXB, RTD, MDW I can go on and on, but all are considered high risk but are great cos with unlimited potential and enormous growth prospects but all have suffered setbacks in sp and i have taken adantage of that buying ridiculously low pays huge dividends and YOO are Ridiculously low and this is a fantastic opportunity to get in under 10p, 15p, 20p i will be buying up on dips, this is just beginning. These investments can never be valued in the early yrs until firm yr after yr trading figures are to hand, so alays have ridiculous swings in sp, and are a playground for short term investors. Once the co has a footing with yr on yr profits that is when it becomes an investment from a speculative flutter, but it is just those flutters that can make you a fortune.