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.

Neil MacDonald
Group Managing Director
Neil MacDonald was appointed managing director of DITG in November 2002 to propel the company to a market leader position within UK interactive TV services. He joined DITG in February 2002 as sales & marketing director and has been instrumental in developing DITGs presence in the UK interactive television market. Prior to joining DITG, MacDonald was CEO of Sportal (1999 to 2001) and led the business through its launch and expansion across Europe. Before Sportal Neil was General Manager of Internet services at BT working with clients such as Tesco and Yahoo

John Swingewood
John Swingewood founded DITG and The Gaming Channel in 2001, having previously been Director of New Media at BskyB plc with responsibility for developing Skys interest in Internet, E-Commerce, Online TV applications, Telephony, WAP, Mobile and Broadband. Prior to BskyB, John was Director of Internet & Multimedia at Services Division, a 500 million division of BT plc.

David Bainbridge
Managing Director - YooMedia Enhanced Services
David Bainbridge became Managing Director of YooMedia Mobile in August 2004 and subsequently of YooMedia Enhanced Services (YES) in June of 2005. David was a co-founder and Managing Director of Whoosh, an agency providing mobile phone based solutions for broadcasters, brands and retailers which was acquired by YooMedia in 2004.
Prior to Whoosh, David rose through the ranks at Channel 5 to become Deputy Marketing Director, helping build the channels market share from 5.8% to 6.4% and driving turnover past 200m pa. David started his marketing career at top 5 London advertising agency BMP DDB Needham.

Peter Cavanagh
Chief Technology Officer - YooMedia plc
With over 21 years experience in the IT industry Peter has a unique combination of in-depth experience in data, networking, telecommunications and broadcast technologies. Peter joined DITG from BT where he had spent the last 2 years as Head of Advanced Messaging Services and for the 8 years prior to this as Head of Information Systems and BT Broadcast Services.

Aha a rogues gallery, Lets hope they pull back some of the 40m+ this company has already destroyed for shareholders. Try checking a couple of those Bio's out they seem to have missed some information off.

Can anyone explain what this SETs does please and how it will effect me. Totally new to all this and needing to learn.

apologies. Im a muppet. This was meant for another board

EDITED MoneyAM

this is getting monotonous , buys greater than sells ...price goes down. Price penalties if somone tries to buy over 3000 of shares. So we have active discouragement for share purchases and regular dropping of the price from 7p(over last week) for no reason that is apparent or reported.Whats going on?

Full credit to Grahamite2.


Buys have exceeded sells every day now for over a week, with little effect on the SP. The problem is that volumes are low - for instance, 1.74m shares is only 100,000, which is nothing. If you're looking to make a few bob 'day trading' you've missed the boat.

If you're interest is as a medium term proposition, you'll find it easy to research, with the company's own site a good starting point. It has a dating operation, which is probably a sound business but not dynamic - the demand for sex/marriage doesn't change that much. I can see it being disposed of in due course as non-core. The gambling part caused the recent heavy fall, ostensibly because it was announced this year's figures would fall short of expectations. I suspect there's more to it than that - likely that the rate of development with William Hill is slower than initially thought, and isn't fully operational yet.

The interesting bit is YES, the multimedia marketing package. Have a look at kitkash.co.uk for the sort of thing they can put together. Everyone knows that ITV cannot begin to deliver the sort of saturation coverage it once did and if YOO really can, there is explosive growth potential. However, this is the newest part of the business, almost a start-up, therefore completely unproven. However it could make a serious impact with advertisers in the run up to Xmas.

Another thing worth noting is that several extremely successful businessmen have significant stakes. They're not infallible, but you don't get rich by being an idiot who can't tell a good investment from a bad one.

No two ways, YOO is speculative. I'm not expecting any great price change yet (9p or so), but do think that 50p (it's been there before) is achievable if EPS get to 2p, the (limited) consensus estimate for 2006.

this basically is expected to hit sub 4p according to some other boards, I have been watching and waiting

There's no reason for this share to be so low and Yoo will see a bounce back to realistic level soon, i'd be very surprised to see it lower than 10p in a month's time.

check out the board on money am's competitor its being deramped to the hills, some even claim 2.5p is on the way

It is some bozzo with multiple identities who is doing the deramping, trying to get in at a lower price, the same person was saying that YOO would be 20p shortly. that was before he sold at a profit last week.

I am not convinced he has multiple ID's I think its various people, I think your talking about bluedolphin, I have been following him around, he is doing rather well, he is in TED at moment, ramping like a mad man

All, Never fall in love with a position because it will never love you back.

Well why did he start up the 20p thread for Yoo? All the the derampers posts all come about the same time as Bluedolphine. Usually within about a minute of each other.

what you reckon he is going to log off a d v f n and then log back in all, I have tried it and I can tell you its hard work.. not only that a d v f n ban you if you have mulitple user names