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.

From this mornings itvt newletter, good to see the story is still doing the rounds:

Five, YooMedia Team to Launch New ITV-Enabled Channel on Sky

UK commercial terrestrial broadcaster, Five, has teamed with interactive TV content and services company, YooMedia, to launch a new channel on the Sky satellite platform. Dubbed "YooPlay TV," the channel, which began broadcasting last week, features a variety of ITV programming, including YooMedia's Puzzle Time and Cash Quiz formats. As of yesterday, the channel has also been airing an extended version of Five's daily quiz show, Brainteaser, in what the companies describe as a "pilot run": the YooPlay TV version of the show has no contestants in the studio; instead, the show's host poses questions directly to viewers at home. (Note: the Endemol-produced show, which airs on Five between 1:00PM and 2:00PM on weekdays, will air daily on YooPlay TV between 2:00PM and 6:00PM.) The joint venture agreement between YooMedia and Five will see the latter cross- promoting the YooPlay TV version of Brainteaser from its channel: the broadcaster will run promotional inserts for the extended version during and after its own broadcasts of Brainteaser. YooMedia says that its partnership agreement with Five is "for an initial pilot phase" of 13 weeks, and that it includes an option to extend the partnership into 2006: it says that YooPlay TV is not expected to make a material contribution to its operating profits during the current financial year. "We are delighted by the prospect of both developing the YooPlay brand through the launch of this channel and the regular broadcast of our own participation TV show," YooMedia group managing director, Neil MacDonald, said in a prepared statement. "The opportunity to host an extended version of the UK's most successful format of this type and to work with partners such as Five and Endemol is an added bonus for YooPlay TV."

You got any viewing figures for these Channels ?

Do you or anyone you know ever watch them ?

moneyplus ... SOR look interesting but I'm not really looking at much at the moment.

reminder for those interested who have not already looked, Brainteaser 1p.m. Channel 5. A poster on iii claims this is Endemol's second most lucrative show after Big Brother. Anyway I'm going to watch, see what we're involved with.

So mac ... you got any viewing figures for these Channels ?

Do you or anyone you know ever watch them ?

Buy hey Dil, look at potential. Worldwide there are 6bn people if only 1% of them watch this crap the stock will skyrocket. My broker said these were a screaming buy and the chart shows a breakout and on level two one of the MM's has moved his spread from 50% to 75%. All positive stuff. They only blew 41m of shareholders money getting to this stage as well. Re-mortgage the house.

And its not expected to make a material contribution this year .... nothing ever has !

Make more business sense to start a porn channel imo.

Poor Dil your pining for sue

A sheep porn channel for Dil lol.

Why jonny ?

Has she started a porn channel ?

Told you she was a slapper.

I think she changed her name to macbullsh*t ... he a tw*t like her.

Confirmation at last dil of what a lot of us have known for a long time - that you're a complete wanker. Unsubtle I know and not a little risque but having confirmed it for us we can all go our separate ways safe in the knowledge that whatever you say the box of tissues won't be far away. Bless.

http://www.yoomedia.com/services/public_sector.html

Interactive Digital TV (iDTV) is a vital contact medium for Local Authority organisations ensuring that their e-government service approach actually includes all social groups. YooMedia Public Sector can assist Councils, Police Forces and other local authority bodies to provide a range of solutions that deliver text/video/audio content for static and dynamic information, encourages feedback, supports applications and bookings, processes payments and engages your communities through the use of forums, online events, polling facilities and even chat services. Our approach also integrates iDTV with Mobile to provide citizens with a wider choice of interaction methods and supports streamlined integration with your other systems improving efficiency and utilization of resources.

In addition to delivering the largest iDTV based health information service in the world YooMedia offers iTV solutions that address some of the key issues for the efficient use of Health Service resources. Our approach to home based care allows patients to interact via iDTV and Mobile with their physician or consultant on a range of treatment monitoring and consultation topics. Our Choose & Book approach supports patient identification and selection of appointments and includes reminders sent to their mobile phone to reduce missed appointments. We can also provide solutions for carers, patients and family members allowing them to participate in numerous forums to share information or experiences, provide support and to gain access to "one to many" Q&A sessions delivered by health care professionals.

YooMedia Public Sector supports Government Departments to develop engaging iDTV solutions which address national initiatives for the wider inclusion of citizens accessing central government services. We utilise our full portfolio of capabilities to deliver innovative solutions which provide services that people will use and that support Government Departments to achieve their objectives. We are also the only independant iDTV solutions provider included within the ODPM's framework for E-Voting.

dil

why so bitter....did you lose out on a short? or failed to get in at 4p?

just bite the bullet and buy some...have you done any research? do you hold any shares?

if not...then why are you here?

eco

http://www.yoomedia.com/services/public_sector.html

Interactive Digital TV (iDTV) is a vital contact medium for Local Authority organisations ensuring that their e-government service approach actually includes all social groups. YooMedia Public Sector can assist Councils, Police Forces and other local authority bodies to provide a range of solutions that deliver text/video/audio content for static and dynamic information, encourages feedback, supports applications and bookings, processes payments and engages your communities through the use of forums, online events, polling facilities and even chat services. Our approach also integrates iDTV with Mobile to provide citizens with a wider choice of interaction methods and supports streamlined integration with your other systems improving efficiency and utilization of resources.

In addition to delivering the largest iDTV based health information service in the world YooMedia offers iTV solutions that address some of the key issues for the efficient use of Health Service resources. Our approach to home based care allows patients to interact via iDTV and Mobile with their physician or consultant on a range of treatment monitoring and consultation topics. Our Choose & Book approach supports patient identification and selection of appointments and includes reminders sent to their mobile phone to reduce missed appointments. We can also provide solutions for carers, patients and family members allowing them to participate in numerous forums to share information or experiences, provide support and to gain access to "one to many" Q&A sessions delivered by health care professionals.

YooMedia Public Sector supports Government Departments to develop engaging iDTV solutions which address national initiatives for the wider inclusion of citizens accessing central government services. We utilise our full portfolio of capabilities to deliver innovative solutions which provide services that people will use and that support Government Departments to achieve their objectives. We are also the only independant iDTV solutions provider included within the ODPM's framework for E-Voting.

Like the bit about US expansion

Playing The Mobile Dating Game

The U.K.-based interactive-TV provider YooMedia is confident it can make a strong impact in the mobile-television space for interactive entertainment applications. The company recently launched a mobile gaming channel linked to its Avago TV channel and Web site, and it claims to be one of the first examples of seamless interactivity with viewers and players across all mainstream digital media: television, Internet and mobile.

According to CEO Neil MacDonald, There are two areas: dating and gambling. We are doing dating under the Dateline brand, where we launched the U.K.s first, if not the worlds first, mobile video dating service last week. You use the cameras capabilities on your mobile phone to record your own profile. We are starting to use the phone handset as a way of capturing content from the viewer. The dating-service approach is highly appropriate.

McDonald also believes mobile gambling will become the next big thing: We know how people love to gamble on TV, and we know that people will like doing it on their mobiles because it is easy, convenient and very entertaining. That is going to grow rapidly.

The key to YooMedias success in the mobile arena hinges on whether it can replicate the TV experience on the small screen. We want to introduce more video into it, and more participation and community elements. We want to try and replicate what we do on digital television on mobile, MacDonald says. We havent seen anything like that yet, so we know from our own experience with TV that consumers will respond very well to that kind of service packaged up in that way. To read more about YooMedias plans to enter the U.S. marketplace, read todays issue of Inside Digital TV. For a trial subscription, go to go to http://www.telecomweb.com/cgi/catalog/trial?IDTV.

New lease of life for Millionaire 17 Aug 2005
Celador's hit quizshow Who Wants To Be A Millionaire is seeing a revival of fortunes in Spain, Sweden and the Middle East, where it's returning to TV screens having been off-air for several years.

So what ?

ITV is running shot of the century vote on the 27th, will it be a revenue raiser for Yoo?

Millionaire is back on Saturday, more income for YOO.