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 axe7979



The big change .............

Dating channel :- Docherty has gone, (that was his brainchild). The new MD, Neil McDonald, who did a fantastic job at Dixons (PCWorld was his brainchild) has been tasked with consolidating Yoo's business, instead of racing ahead with new ventures with the associated start up costs. His future aims are to secure longer contracts with reputable clients to drive the bottomline. He is concentrating on what Yoomedia do already and has axed non performing parts of the company, which included their Yoo chat service. The cost-cutting and integration have gone very well, being ahead of targets with 4 million + of savings expected by year end.

The 'dating business' is doing well. Confirmation that this is the most established dating service in the UK, it has the largest data base of active singles. The biggest brands Dateline (fun end of the market, 15 per month) and Avenues (900 per person) compliment each other well. These will continue to generate the company money, increasing as the contract with 3G and mobile video dating takes off. (150% min growth 2006) Theirs been great initial take up on this. This should increase further as the take up of 3G phones increases. 3 are doing nearly all the marketing. The appointment of Josie Adams as Chief Executive of YooMedia - Dating, was a big result for Yoo Media. There's no-one bigger in this field. She knows how media and interactive businesses work and she was the mastermind behind the success of dating and personals business of Yahoo! Europe.

Broadband TV :- Something that has been developing over the last 16 months and is now into live trials this next week with NTL in the south west.
BSKYB's reaction to this new cable technology is that they are raising 1 billion to keep pace with NTL and buying into ISP providers. ( which NTL already are ), they will then have to provide infastructure into ALL the BT exchanges ( NTL do not need it, they have their own direct cable into peoples homes ). Even after throwing 1 BILLION into it, BSKYB still have to get it up and running,
NTL could be up and running this side of Christmas on a planned roll out basis. Now that the merger of NTL / Telewest has been announced (it will probably take another 3 months to finalise) that will give a far wider audiance for Yoo's broadband interactive TV for 2006. The way that this product is going to be billed is still under formulation, split between NTL, Advertisers, and viewers?

Yoo Media are in the final stages of obtaining their patent for time stamped SMS services both UK and Worldwide( guaranteed processed time stamping to 1/10th sec, instant result by time out, does not get swamped with the call rates!) ever tried making that "new year call?" - This is opening up lots of opportunities for third party license of Yoo's technology and is a bolt on addition that can be placed on many different systems. Nobody else in the world has this.

Broadband TV, a partnership with Channel 5 / Endemol with the likelyhood that this will be extended past the 13 week trial.

Willam Hill to put channel 425 into its shops from Jan 2006 onwards.

YooMedia Enhanced Solutions (YES) and Yoomedia Public Sector have so far been a great success.
YES customers (BBC, Nestle, Celador, William Hill, Channel 4, etc.) are very impressed and the client list is growing. The NHS Direct contract is the first and biggest contract of its kind in the world, on BSKYB it has the largest iTV database in the world - Yoo Media's success - quite an achievement, that's something that isn't going unnoticed by companies that could benefit from such an interactive channel in the worlds arena.


Today Yoo Media process over 5.5 million iTV transactions per month from the UK. and this with only a 60% coverage of DTV - Therefore as this figure heads for 100% (by the year 2012), their is natural growth as more and more people go digital, on a daily basis.

Yoo Media have identified their four major client groups that use its services, they are able to identify their main growth areas and focus concentration on them.

Yoomedia operate their gambling services from the UK, and have a full UK gaming license. They are a licensed bookmaker in their own right, most of the online companies operate from outside the UK to get around complicated gaming rules which they cannot comply with. Theirs no guarantee that some of the operators will be granted one, no hold ups for Yoo Media.


The Yoomedia / ICTV 50 / 50 partneship, could be the all important 'marriage' for the company, with ICTV being USA based this should give Yoo Media a head start in USA growth opportunities. ICTV having spent 100 million over six years, to pick Yoomedia as it's partner for Broadband TV says how respected Yoo Media are, as foo ninja said, this gives people the opportunity to receive the equivalent of The Microsoft Home Media Entertainment suite, for no outlay - this isn't going unnoticed by the likes of Microsoft, especially when it is seen who the current content partners are taking part in trials - ITN, MTV, NTL,Turner - well respected companies, that all benefit from the direct access they will have to their audiances in the most popular worldwide entertainment medium - TV.
The fact that it all relies on a server at the Cable Company's end and not on the STB, and given the assortment of set top boxes out there, the proposition is as future proof as you can get.

testing

First Mip 'Mobies' handed out

MIPCOM NEWS: The buzz around mobile TV at Mipcom reached its zenith last night when the festival's first ever awards dedicated to the medium were handed out.

The day began with a packed crowd at the opening keynote by Endemol chief creative officer Peter Bazalgette, proceeded by oversubscribed conference sessions and screenings.

In the evening the Mipcom Mobile TV award winners were announced in seven categories, having been whittled down from a shortlist of 23 contenders.

Best Made for Mobile TV Content/Format went to SmashBrain from CinemaElectric, US. Best Repurposed Video, Film, or Animation Content for Mobile was handed to Brain Food: Glowing Mice, from ScienCentral, also of the US. Best User Interface for a Mobile TV Channel/Programme Guide Label Studio TV was won by Universal Music Mobile, France

YooMedia picked up Best Mobile TV Channel or Service for its Dateline service, one of three award winners from the UK. Audience 'Best of Show' Prize went to Inventa Productions for Pete Tong's Fast Trax. Buena Vista International Television UK's recaps of Desperate Housewives walked away with the Orange Grand Prize for Best Innovation in Mobile Content.

MIP! Mip! Mooray!! at last some positive recognition maybe the sp will now start rising.

Reposted as includes dates - Just to show proof it is recent. Doing my research so need to check everything.

First Mip 'Mobies' handed out

MIPCOM NEWS: The buzz around mobile TV at Mipcom reached its zenith last night when the festival's first ever awards dedicated to the medium were handed out.

The day began with a packed crowd at the opening keynote by Endemol chief creative officer Peter Bazalgette, proceeded by oversubscribed conference sessions and screenings.

In the evening the Mipcom Mobile TV award winners were announced in seven categories, having been whittled down from a shortlist of 23 contenders.

Best Made for Mobile TV Content/Format went to SmashBrain from CinemaElectric, US. Best Repurposed Video, Film, or Animation Content for Mobile was handed to Brain Food: Glowing Mice, from ScienCentral, also of the US. Best User Interface for a Mobile TV Channel/Programme Guide Label Studio TV was won by Universal Music Mobile, France

YooMedia picked up Best Mobile TV Channel or Service for its Dateline service, one of three award winners from the UK. Audience 'Best of Show' Prize went to Inventa Productions for Pete Tong's Fast Trax. Buena Vista International Television UK's recaps of Desperate Housewives walked away with the Orange Grand Prize for Best Innovation in Mobile Content.


Jonathan Webdale
20 Oct 2005
C21 Media 2005

Well, well, well. What do we think of todays RNS?
Alan

Yoomedia PLC
21 October 2005


YooMedia plc / Ticker: YOO / Market: AIM / Sector: Media

21 October 2005

YooMedia plc ('YooMedia' or 'the Group')

Electra Partners with YooMedia for Richer Interactivity on Freeview

YooMedia plc, the AIM traded interactive media and games group, has signed a
partnership agreement with Electra Entertainment Limited ('Electra'), a provider
of next-generation interactive entertainment services for Freeview set top
boxes, to supply a collection of free and premium interactive services on
Freeview.

The new interactive services accessible from any channel will feature richer
functionality, graphics and sound than that currently available on Freeview
interactive content. The new content will be supplied to households nationally
using YooMedia's newly-launched datacasting service as announced in its interim
results on 26 September 2005. The technology required to receive the Electra
service will be licensed to consumer electronics manufacturers for incorporation
in devices such as digital set top boxes, integrated digital televisions and
personal video recorders.

Additionally, YooMedia and Electra will collaborate to develop advanced fixed
odds gaming and dating services for inclusion in the Electra Freeview service
platform.

YooMedia's Group Managing Director, Neil MacDonald, said: 'We are delighted to
announce our first datacasting service on Freeview, working in partnership with
Electra. We developed the datacasting service to provide a sophisticated and
state of the art interactive delivery mechanism for the rapidly expanding
digital market. Freeview is the fastest growing digital TV platform in the UK
with over five million households. Many industry commentators believe that
Freeview will emerge as the largest single platform over the coming years and we
believe that the time is right for high quality interactive services to be made
available on it.'

Electra's Chairman, Jasper Smith, said: 'The Freeview world is evolving fast
with new channel launches, enhanced boxes and rapid take up. We believe
Electra's technology and services are the next stage in transforming the
Freeview entertainment experience. As the UK's largest independent interactive
provider, YooMedia is an ideal partner for our business.'

* * ENDS * *

From the interims:

" * YooMedia's new datacasting service for the fast-growing Freeview platform will deliver sophisticated interactive capability for our partners' services. This will operate in conjunction with next-generation set top boxes that are currently under development by some of the world's largest consumer electronics manufacturers."

today:

"YooMedia's Group Managing Director, Neil MacDonald, said: "We are delighted to announce our first datacasting service on Freeview, working in partnership with Electra. We developed the datacasting service to provide a sophisticated and state of the art interactive delivery mechanism for the rapidly expanding digital market. Freeview is the fastest growing digital TV platform in the UK with over five million households. Many industry commentators believe that Freeview will emerge as the largest single platform over the coming years and we believe that the time is right for high quality interactive services to be made available on it.""

This IMHO has massive potential - how many other 'clients/partners' might there be requiring this datacasting service?

regards

I signed a contract with Barclays last week to provide me with banking facilities ..... so what ?

Thats a little disengenous,Dil and you know it!
If you were the middle man for several million individuals, and you were taking them all to Barclays, then that would be excellent news for Barclays and the contract would merit an RNS and a review of the shares valuation.
Yours didn't because it involved a single account to buy and sell sheep.
Alan

What a Dil!

it is only amatter of time till we see double figures.

So Dil, did you ever actually manage to call Yoo and confirm some of the statements you were so negative about? Or have you forgotten about all that?

Ah, this would be the running out of cash situation, then? Think that ones been put to bed by Electras Due Diligence. They would hardly be likely to sign an agreement for a long term developement partner with a company who could't pay the tea lady, would they?
Next.
Alan

seems Dil has no further comment on that subject!

What a Dil indeed.

Must be too busy with his sheep.

lol

Is it time to get back into this one yet ??

I think so Baza, but let the record show, I struggle to find my arse with both hands. I am bad enough to sometimes wonder if I am a blonde essex girl with irish parents, trapped in the wrong body!!
Alan

I knew I had a sister somewher - but my parents would not say where !!