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.

Some more news...

http://www.prnewswire.co.uk/cgi/news/release?id=153657

News Release
Wednesday 14 September 2005, 7:00 GMT Wednesday 14 September 2005
TV
TECHNOLOGY
YooMedia plc and FremantleMedia


YooMedia Launches FremantleMedia Titles on UK Digital Cable TV


LONDON, September 14 /PRNewswire/ -- YooMedia plc, the interactive media group, today announces that ntl and Telewest, the UK digital cable operators, have approved two new branded interactive television games for the YooPlay games portal.

The new games are based on the popular TV shows Blockbusters and Baywatch and have been developed by YooMedia under license from FremantleMedia, one of the largest international creators and producers of programme brands in the world and the company responsible for hit programmes such as Pop Idol, The Bill, Rainbow and The Price Is Right.

Blockbusters Gold Run is a single-player, interactive television version of the popular TV game show. Players have to complete a gold run by correctly answering the questions and creating an unbroken line from one side of the board to the other. Baywatch Slots allows players to enjoy the classic casino game for fun and both games allow players to earn points and qualify to win great prizes.

YooPlay is one of the most entertaining interactive game experiences on UK digital television and is the only games portal found on all UK digital TV platforms including Sky, ntl, Freeview and Telewest. The games announced today can be played by all UK digital cable subscribers using their TV remotes on a pay-per-play basis.

Neil MacDonald, YooMedia Group MD, said: "This deal is another important step in bringing entertaining and engaging content to our YooPlay interactive games portals. Blockbusters and Baywatch are huge brands and will be instantly recognisable by our game loving audiences."

Dom Wheeler, Vice President, Licensing, UK, FremantleMedia Licensing Worldwide added: "We are really pleased with the great work YooMedia has done in translating some of our classic brands into the interactive television space. These games are yet another example of how well our portfolio of brands travel in a multi-media environment and we're delighted to offer fans even more ways to interact with their favourite shows."

UK digital cable subscribers can find YooPlay by accessing the interactive menu and selecting YooPlay Games.

YooMedia is a leading provider of commercial TV, iTV, internet and mobile content and services to the UK media market. www.yoomedia.com

FremantleMedia is the production business of the RTL Group, Europe's largest television and radio broadcast company.www.fremantlemedia.com

Distributed by PR Newswire on behalf of YooMedia plc and FremantleMedia

YOO taking a but of a thumping today..thought the news on the post above would give the SP a bit of a push.

I confess to being surprised . I thought that anything below 10.5 would be seen as cheap and would create a bounce. However the price reduction does seem a little over zealous I bet if 1 million buys go through it will not return to the start price! So i think there mat be an agenda here as well, especially ,as you say ,with another positive post released

Well what a surprise 1 million consecutive buys have just gone through including one for 250k and youll never guess ! The price has not gone back to where it started!(That was a good guess of mine 17 minutes ago!) I know you are as amazed as i am.The games children ( market makers) play eh

they need stock. i doubt we'll be at 10p for longer than this week. i think there is plenty more to come from yoo.

250k was a sell, if you look at the time of the trade the bid was at 9.75p at 10:20

fairly even buy v sell now.

no it was 250k buy at 10:34

yes see it now 250k m trade was of the page before i looked, my apologies

Boys I think somethings wrong here, I was long with IG Index and am trying to close my positions and am having difficulty as they say there is no one willing to buy my sell positions....

yes kalsi, and....?

Can someone please explain what on earth is going on here? Are they trying to get people spooked into selling cheap to build their stock or is it more serious.....The same message is going on the CHP board!!!!

whats changed since last week? nothing, so personally I wouldn't panic. it may stay at this level for the rest of the week, but i think the next bounce up is around the corner. all imo.

Personally the message I posted was for spread betters cause of margin calls but if I had stock I wouldnt bother...and hold long term

Newtrim - seems like this all over the place today. Every bloody tree is being shaken! SEO, CHP, YOO all at uncomfortable levels...... If nothing has changed in ur opinion of the longterm prospects, dont sell..... I'm not!

totally agree however i think youve called WHOG right.but SEO and YOO hang on in there

'Blockbusters' makes digital cable comeback
Wednesday, September 14 2005, 22:55 BST -- by James Welsh

An interactive TV version of Blockbusters will launch on the interactive services available on digital cable from NTL and Telewest.

YooMedia has licensed the format from FremantleMedia along with a casino-style Baywatch game.

"This deal is another important step in bringing entertaining and engaging content to our YooPlay interactive games portals. Blockbusters and Baywatch are huge brands and will be instantly recognisable by our game loving audiences," said Neil MacDonald, YooMedia Group MD.

"We are really pleased with the great work YooMedia has done in translating some of our classic brands into the interactive television space," added Dom Wheeler, VP of UK licensing at FremantleMedia Licensing Worldwide. "These games are yet another example of how well our portfolio of brands travel in a multi-media environment and were delighted to offer fans even more ways to interact with their favourite shows."

The games will be available on digital cable through YooPlay.

As above...

http://www.avinfo.co.uk/index.php?main=story&itemid=15044121

Switchover case must be made: Whittingdale

John Whittingdale, Tory chairman of the Commons culture committee, says the Government still has to make the case for digital switchover. Ahead of culture secretary Tessa Jowell's keynote speech in Cambridge tonight, in which she is expected to rubber-stamp Ofcom's proposed 2008-2012 region-by-region timetable, Whittingdale told BBC Radio Four's Today programme that ministers had still not explained the full costs of switchover, "both to the taxpayer and the consumer, and why we are doing it at all".

Jowell's speech has been leaked to several media outlets. She is expected to announce that the Government will provide some form of subsidy to elderly and disabled householders, and explain how the BBC licence fee will be used as a source of the funding.

Reports said Jowell would tell members of the Royal Television Society at their biennial Cambridge convention that digital television was no longer a probability, "it's a certainty, and I believe it can leave us with a legacy of more choice for more choice for more people than anywhere else in the world".

She is expected to add: "For the first time, everyone in this country will by 2012 have the same access to digital television: no more rural communities effectively cut off from the media world the rest of us inhabit, the disabled pensioner having the same access to digital as the City broker."

Whittingdalewhose select committee is poised to conduct an inquiry into the Government's switchover timetablesaid he wanted the full facts. "What we need to hear from Government is a precise explanation of how much all this is going to cost, what the technical difficulties are, how they are going to be overcome, and why the Government thinks that it is still important that we should extend Freeview from 75% to 100% [coverage] and that the benefits of doing so are going to be greater than the costs involved."


Meanwhile Ofcom confirmed that by June 30 63% of UK households had made the transition to digital television.

Lovelace Consulting | 15.09.2005

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