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.

Thanks to Paul Smith.


Since our meeting in London, I have had a very hectic two days catching up, but having had a little more time to think straight, here are a few more points from the presentation worth a mention.

1) NHS Direct on BSKYB is the largest iTV database in the world - and Yoomedia are responsible for it - quite an acheivement, and something that will not go unoticed by many companies that coud benefit from such an interactive channel anywhere else in the world.

2) Currently - Yoomedia process over 5.5 million iTV transactions per month, purely from the UK, and at a time while the country only has 60% coverage of DTV - we therefore can take comfort that as this figure heads for 100% by year 2012, their is a lot of natural growth ahead as more and more people go digital, on a daily basis.

3) Yoomedia have identified four client groups that use its services, they are therefore able to identify their main growth areas.

4) Yoomedia operate their gambling services from the UK, and operate a UK gaming license, and as such are a licensed bookmaker in their own right, many of the online companies operate from outside of the UK to get around complicated gaming rules, when deregulation does happen, Yoomedia will not need to apply for the correct gaming licenese, they already have one, their is no guarantee that some of the other operators at present will be granted one,which means there will be no hold ups for Yoomedia.

5) Yoomedia are in the final stages of obtaining their patent for time stamped SMS services, both UK and Worldwide - this will open up lots of opportunity for thrd party license of the technology.

6) The Yoomedia/ICTV partneship, could end up being an all important marriage for the company, with ICTV being USA based, IMHO, this will give Yoomedia a head start in future USA growth opportunities, for ICTV having spent several millons over seven years, to then pick Yoomedia as it's partner for Broadband TV tells me how respected Yoomedia are- why did they not pick the more established BSKYB ???? - as foo ninja said, this gives people the opportunity to receive the equivalent of The Microsoft Home Media Entertainment suite, for no further outlay - this will not go unoticed by the likes of Microsoft, especially when you look at the current content partners taking part in the trial - ITN, MTV, Turner - amazing wel respected companies, that will all benefit from the direct access they will have to the most popular worldwide entertainment medium - TV

I like the look of Yoomedia for another reason - look at eBay - they perfected their online auction in the USA, and when the world was ready for it - they took the world by storm - likewise, Yoomedia have now had a three year head start on the rest of the world in the next largest growth area since the internet DTV and the iTV services that come with it - the rest of the world is now catching up - and I see Yoomedia well placed to take advantage when the time is right.

Do not judge this company on the SP alone, which many have done, take the time out, visit the company if necessary, I know any interested investor will be made welcome, make your decision on fact, not on uninformed comments from the type of short term investors who take a chance on short term positions, and who wll never benefit from the long term growth potential of Yoomedia.

Research is key to your comfort in investing with Yoomedia - understand exactly what the company does, and realise that it is the only serious threat to BSKYB in the UK at present, as far as DTV iTV services go.

Regards

Paul Smith

youve certaily done your research Mac T!
good to see you still posting good info having got back in
Regards...

Never ask the barber for a hair cut.

Too cryptic for me Scrip.
WT.

Don't you just love these "we know the real inside story" threads , laugh a minute.

Didn't anyone bother to ask when the cash would run out or do you not think its relevant ?

Dil,

that cash question was raised over 4 weeks ago. And some said there wouldn't be enough money to last a month.... YOO is still here!

If people want to believe what they read here without qualifying it themselves, then more fool them.

I'm still in YOO, and yes it is a gamble, but that is the AIM.

skids

Raised with who ?

share price is still way too high for this company.. share price is 7-1.. rather rediculous

well kat i have not seen your name since you were ramping tfc. but i did make 8000.

tanker, be ready to make another 8k on TFC then... theres a rumour directors are buying, and norwich has just signed a huge contract with them

Mums the word ;-)

yes idid know looking.thanks.buying prty. easy money i retire in may 56 YEARS old i am allready 20k up.

by the way i have hell of a lot of these

oh bad luck mate... hope you dont lose too much on Yoo

Dil

Yes, investors at the presentation DID ask if there would be another cash call and the answer was NO! There is NO need.

12 retail investors took the time to have a three hour meeting with the management last week.

The feedback is as a result of this meeting.

Mipcom mobile TV nominees unveiled

Fox, SFR and CHUM Television are among the nominees in line to pick up the first ever Mipcom award for best made-for-mobile TV content at next week's event in Cannes, France.

The category is just one among four the from the event's first awards ceremony dedicated to mobile in recognition of the growing impact the medium is having on the television industry.

Some 11 projects, including Fox's 24: Conspiracy 'mobisode' spin-off of the company's hit television series, are in the running for the content/format award. France's SFR, Canada's CHUM, the UK's YooMedia and Singapore's Mediacorp are also in the running.

Desperate Housewives episode recaps from Buena Vista International Television feature in the category for best repurposed video, film or animation content for a mobile phone. Other contenders include Disney, Sony and Norway's NRK.

The nominees will be showcased during the made-for-mobile screenings on 19 October and the prizes will be awarded the next day. See C21's upcoming edition of FutureMedia, available at Mipcom, for an in-depth look at how the mobile TV market is developing.

Jonathan Webdale
11 Oct 2005
C21 Media 2005

ipublic , well if this is / was the case then this is the point you should be shouting from the roof top.

Which director said no ?

I've a day off tomorrow and will ring to confirm , funny they didn't make a big play of this fact at the last set of (crap) results but in fairness I do think they managed to agree a bigger overdraft.

Name him and I will try to confirm your statement.

McBullsh*t ..... so what ?

Dil

Sinclair and Macdonald.

1p on the way

Care to elaborate??