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.

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.

Welcome to a Labour government

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."

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Now that YOO have thier Dateline service up and running on the 3 network , this was planned for release about early May this year.

This service will spread evenually to other networks , but i have no info when this will happen! Naturally when more tie ups are RNS , the share price will get another boost northwards!

Just to keep the shorters sweating and up to speed incase they have not fully researched Yoomedia, it is well worth re-posting this information from December 2004:-

300 million budget per annum for Public TV service - Yoomedia already took part in a mock bid for this with other partners in recent times - the presentation was headed by former MD David Docherty, I have not yet seen the result of the mock bid, that is, if it does get published, any way, here is some info:-

from:- http://www.dmeurope.com/default.asp?ArticleID=3912

UK communications regulator Ofcom has called for the setting up of a new Public Service Provider (PSP) which would distribute TV programmes in a digital format through broadband lines, networked PVRs, and mobile networks, as well as more conventional TV distribution systems.

( added 6/08/05 - Yoomedia's RNS this week regarding seamless integration of PC, Mobile and iTV must be seen as a step in the right direction for any future PSP contract )

And it has proposed funding of 430m (300m) a year and that would include the commissioning of TV programmes, and Ofcom said it would be able to spend as much as 290,000 (200,000) for each hour of content it created.

The aim would be to compete with the BBC and other publicly funded TV, to provide high-quality content, and instead of a 24-hour TV channel, it should aim for about three hours of programming per day.

Content of that quality could eventually be made available internationally on a pay per view basis. The PSP would be different to existing broadcasters. Inevitably, in its early years in the transition to digital, much of the PSP's digital content would be more likely to resemble traditional TV programmes, but it would not be a TV channel in the traditional sense, nor would it publish books, magazines or newspapers (as the BBC has done). There should be a series of public bids to run the PSP in the UK, but it should not be awarded to the BBC, insisted Ofcom.

Ofcom said it would not rule out carriage arrangements whereby the PSP secured agreements to distribute publicly funded material on analogue TV before digital switchover. Of course, it is primarily seen as a shortcut to both digital TV programming and internet delivery.

If Ofcom gets this original idea off the ground, there is a good chance that other European countries with prominent public service broadcasting commitments, might also adopt it.

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And here is the details of Yoomedia's mock bid - note comments at the end - Yoomedia's proposal was one of the most exciting:-
PSP proposals revealed
Emily Booth
03 December 2004 12:33


Discovery Europe, Fremantle, BT and The Science Museum were among the consortia members at Ofcoms hypothetical PSP pitch yesterday.

The presentations were led by Human Capital, Yoomedia and Spectrum Strategy, and all mentioned Channel 4 as a potential partner.

Shadow tender presentations were made to an expert panel - chaired by Adam Singer, who sits on Ofcoms content board of Tim Gardam, former Channel 4 director of programmes, David Chance, chairman of TopUp TV, and Joyce Taylor of Mersey TV.

Human Capital led a consortium of The Science Museum and distribution partner BT. Its main proposal was to help publicly-funded institutions such as museums, galleries, state education and the NHS to increase the value for money they provide to tax payers.

This would be achieved in three key ways: using C4s experience as a commissioner of television and interactive content; letting institutions and individuals create content for every platform using BT rich media; and using digital technology to transform the delivery of publicly-funded services.

In response, David Chance praised the proposals idea of logging into the existing asset base. Tim Gardam made the point that he didnt know where the creative centre of the proposal was, although he added: "The idea of a library of material is an excellent one."

Yoomedia proposed the brand Six, backed up by a team consisting of BT, Telewest, Reel Media, Talkback Thames, Thinner Media and Accenture. Its premise was that the PSP should be "dedicated to innovative production, aimed primarily at marginalized but significant minorities in the UK and distributed on all digital and broadband platforms."

It would bring together self-organising communities or Tribes to allow "broader innovation and representation of more diverse talents". These tribes would do things such as vote for commissions and how funds should be distributed. 250 million would be spent on programming, including a dedicated fund of 30 million for "self-commissioning of content".

C4 would have access to all of Sixs content for free, but it would have to commit to a minimum number of hours of content from the fund each year to run in peaktime.

Joyce Taylor praised the public access part of Yoomedias proposal. Gardam said he liked it "a lot", but questioned its scale and whether it provided enough direct competition to the BBC.

The Spectrum Strategy-led consortium, which included Fremantle, Discovery Europe, Vodafone, Bulldog Communications and Vision Architects, came up with the brand name Origin8. Its PSP offering would aim to be "all-original", innovative, creative and risk-taking "in ways commercial broadcasters cannot afford to be".

There would be two strands of content: high quality content, "which is under-provided by the market"; and local targeted content. The budget breakdown would see 211 million spent on content, and would include 12 local TV stations, 12 local portals and 40 websites.

Up to one hour per day of Origin8s content would be showcased in a regular peak-time slot on C4. There would also be cross-promotion of content and services between Origin8 and C4.

In response, David Chance said: "It was the safest proposal weve seen. I commend it." Gardam agreed: "It was the most conservative of the pitches and therefore the most likely to get commissioned," but he added that he wasnt quite sure what it was doing that was new.

In his closing remarks, Ofcoms Ed Richards explained that several key themes, such as distribution and communities, had emerged, in particular the relationship to C4, which "we will have to look at carefully."

On funding, Richards said: "It is a challenge, but frankly it is a challenge that already exists. It is not unique to PSP it washes across the whole broadcasting industry."



Responses from the industry:

Peter Cowley, director of interactive media, Endemol UK

The strengths of all the proposals were that the groups had clearly put a great deal of work in to the idea of creating a PSP, giving Ofcom a free brainstorm from the great and the good of the TV industry. The weakness of all the proposals was that they were under represented by non-broadcast publishers, such as magazines, mobile and online portals and content creators. David Dochertys group was my favourite proposal his team was the only group that showed they had an understanding of how the digital publishing world may be in the years to come.

Andy Duncan, Channel 4 chief executive

A lot of the ideas and thinking was stimulating.

Jonnie Turpie, executive chairman, Maverick Television

Each proposal held valuable insights into the way forward and together they point to the complexity of Digital PSB and that we do not have the PSP model just yet. As Ed Richards said there is a lot of hard work, thinking and planning ahead, but it is absolutely worth it to get PSB in the digital edge.

John McVay, Pact chief executive

You wouldnt say any one was it, but there were elements of each of the proposals that were interesting. Overall Origin8 seemed to be the most worked through proposal.

Alex Graham, chief executive, Wall to Wall

I thought the third pitch [Spectrum] was the most intellectually coherent and well thought-out but also the most conservative and raised most questions about why wed need a completely new organization to do stuff which Channel 4 and the BBC are capable of doing already. Yoomedia's was the most exciting pitch because it genuinely tried to engage with developments outside the mainstream media (file-sharing, blogging etc.) though I think the purpose of the organisation was not at all thought through. I thought the first proposal [Human Capital] was disappointing for the same reasons - it appeared to be a very paternalistic, almost pre-Reithian approach which failed to engage with what audiences are currently doing and watching.


Source:broadcastnow.co.uk

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Anyway, fantastic news that Yoomedia should be considered for the PSB - it shows what respect they have gained as an iTV provider - I am sure what ever happens with the PSB - they will be involved in someway, and just think 300 million added to turnover per annum.

Shorters beware - this is what you are gambling against, just think of the change in SP if Yoomedia announce they have secured the PSB contract - it would be instant incineration !!!!!!!!! - DYOR before you think of shorting Yoomedia, they do not have two highly regarded ex ministers on their board for nothing, and already have a 3 year contract with the NHS to provide its digital TV offering via sky at present, but eventually, across all Digital Platforms.

Regards