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.

strange share price movement today. Always assuming there is any logic to price movements , its difficult to understand the buy price being lowered from 12.5p to 10.9p.Perhaps they have a different guy on Thursday and he thinks that everytime someone buys you have to lower the price! I would not have thought it was an overhang of stock after yesterdays bonanza

bought one million at 4p =40,000

Bought 1,000,000 at 4p = 40000 Could sell at 11p = 110,000 - How much Capital Gains Tax do I have to pay?

75%

Bull its 40% after the first 8500 which is exempt, therfore profit of 70000-8500=61500 muliply that by 40% = 24600. It could be lower depending on your other income......but I d have to charge you if you wanted a detailed calculation lol

I am sure that you have to keep them for 2 years, this being an AIM share, if you sell them before 2 years it is 75%.

Never come across a rule like that in my career, on the contrary there should be more tax relief as you are investing in such a risky and growing market as with venture capital trusts .....

Taper relief is then split into two types -- business assets and non-business assets. The former is far more generous and grants a reduction in the gain of from 50% after one year and 75% after two or more. The latter grants a reduction of from 5% after three years up to a maximum of 40% of the gain, but only after ten years.

The effect is that for a 40% taxpayer, the minimum CGT on a business asset share is 10% and 24% on a non-business asset share.

Unquoted shares, including AIM-listed companies, are treated as business assets. Also, employee scheme shares are generally treated as business assets in any company. Other than these, straight investments in fully listed companies, where there is no employee involvement by the shareholder, are treated as non-business assets.

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Every once in a while you come across a ground breaking opportunity - to see your investment increase 10 fold+. Like many others I have focused on companies that had great technology but was disappointed when they failed to commercially apply it. The difference with YOO is that they have really great products and have multiple applications that generate revenue. I believe they are in the right space at exactly the right time. Gaming & Dating must head the league table of personal / social activity. Given our increasingly busy lives the ability to participate in those activities via mobile is an absolute winner. The recent RNS's have confirmed my future YOO strategy - Add and Hold

What about the competitiors? I don't see particularty high barriers to entry which probably explains why they have been unable to price their multitude of trendy services at a profit.

You're all wrong, it's your inc tax rate - so for higher rate tax payer 40% but as scrip says, you get taper relief on AIM stocks but you have to hold for long term - anyway david i shouldn't worry about it unless you sell now, they'll be back down to 50 grand in 2 weeks.

And then shoot up to 200000, in 4 weeks as new buyers come into the market

hope so! but doubt it

doubt you, hope for yoo.....

touchy

I was a day out with my 9.5p target, next week should see plenty of profit taking and will top up again at around 7.3p

Hi all,

Hope you all those who sold recently made money, I am out with a 175% profit, quite a bit better than my 100% I was expecting.

A typical drop would be 50% to 66% of the rise, so back to 8p I think, probably next week, then a quick bounce back to 10p. Barring any more news of course :)

Cheers,
PM

New IDS Survey Reports Enthusiasm for ITV Advertising
IDS, the advertising sales arm of programmer Flextech, has published the results of its second annual online survey of the UK advertising industry. The survey, which was undertaken by Media Intelligence, was designed to gather experiences and opinions of interactive TV advertising. Its results are compiled in a free report, entitled "Interactive TV--A Maturing Medium," which compares those results with the results of last year's survey, and which can be downloaded from IDS's Web site (www.idigitalsales.co.uk). According to IDS, the survey showed that more and more advertisers are using interactive TV, that the vast majority of respondents had a positive experience with the medium, and that more advertisers intend to run more interactive TV advertising campaigns in the future.

Among the survey's findings:

69% of respondents said they had run an interactive advertising campaign before, compared to 62% last year.
Usage of Dedicated Advertiser Locations (DAL's) and Mini-DAL's increased considerably as respondents recognized the branding power of the medium.
DAL's replaced impulse response ads as the format advertisers and agencies were most pleased with.
57% of respondents who used interactive advertising before rated their experience as "good" or "very good," which represents a 58% increase from last year.
3/4 of respondents said they would definitely use the medium again, compared to 61% last year.
70% of respondents said they would like to see more education and information on ROI, while 62% said they would like to see more case studies. 71% of respondents said that providing this information was the responsibility of the sales houses.
A plurality of respondents (36%) said that the main advantages of interactive advertising are the brand experience and viewer engagement. 22% of respondents said that the main disadvantage of the medium is its cost.
According to IDS, the survey also showed that the advertising industry is viewing creativity in interactive advertising as increasingly important, and that there is a demand for creative agencies in particular to become more involved in the medium.

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Talent Television to Produce ITV-Enabled "How Euro Are You?" for BBC Two
Talent Television, the company behind the popular interactive quiz show, "Test the Nation", has been commissioned by the BBC to produce an interactive TV show, called "How Euro Are You?" The 90-minute show, which will air in the early fall on BBC Two in a primetime slot, will poll viewers in real time, via the Web and mobile and land-line phones, on their knowledge of and attitudes towards continental Europe and the European Union. It will be hosted by the BBC's political editor, Andrew Marr. "We are delighted to be working with BBC Two for the first time," Talent TV managing director, Tony Humphreys, said in a prepared statement. "This new interactive polling event builds on the skill and expertise that we have built up during the long-running 'Test the Nation' series and this new format promises to be a success with viewers when it broadcasts later in the year. This commission demonstrates our continued progress in developing and owning original formats and programming."

Earlier this year, the BBC commissioned another six episodes of "Test the Nation," in a deal that will see versions of the format airing on BBC One through 2006. The show features a red-button app, and also allows viewers to participate via land-line and mobile phones, and the Web. In an interview with [itvt] last year, the BBC's head of interactive, Emma Somerville, said that "Test the Nation" has proved to be one of the Corporation's most successful interactive programs--in part, because of the ability of the show's red-button app to provide viewers with a personalized response: "We get big audience numbers with 'Test the Nation'and those audiences stay with the interactivity throughout the program," she said. "We know that one thing people love is getting a personalized response: people were amazed when they saw that they could use the Test the Nation app to get their own IQ or find out what kind of personality type they are."