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.


How many of you know that Brainteaser is currentky broadcast in 22 other countries, and as we know, the UK is way ahead of the world when it comes to DTV, so naturally, I guess that is why Endemol are piloting the 4 1/2 hopme based interactive version here in the UK with Channel 5/Yoomedia on Yoomedia's BSKYB channel 279, here is the most recent press release from Endemol regarding Brainteaser, and another good reason to keep the faith with Yoomedia, surely a good opportunity for Yoomedia's iTV version to go worldwide when the time is right,

From the www.endemol.com web site:-

Endemol conquers the world with Participation TV
2005-05-02, Hilversum


Brainteaser kicked off in 22nd Call TV country Venezuela last week


Venezuela is the 22nd country where Endemol launches Call TV successfully. As of last week Thursday, Endemol's popular Call TV format Brainteaser airs prime-time on Venezuelan channel Televen. In short time, the world's largest independent content creator has conquered the world with this genre too.


Ten years ago, Endemol Netherlands started with Call TV. Five years later, the company decided to roll out the formula internationally. So far, Brainteaser has been aired in eighteen countries and is currently on air in seven of them. In these countries, the interactive game show has boosted the market shares of the channels in its time slot. In addition to Venezuela, the format was sold to Russia (TV Centre) and Peru (Andino TV) earlier this year.


Brainteaser isn't the only successful Call TV format in Endemol's catalogue. Endemol Interactive is achieving good results with game shows such as Deuna and Day Battle. In Peru, Zengi airs five times a week and in Bulgaria NOVA TV broadcasts ALO Star Academy with great success. This summer, five spectacular Call TV shows will be added to Endemol's format catalogue.


Job van Wagensveld, Director New Media at Endemol International and responsible for Participation TV, says: "The international roll-out of Call TV is doing better than ever! 2004 was a record year for us and with the rising demand for non-spot income we expect to book even better results this year." Regarding the secrets of Endemol's successful Call TV model he says: "A condition for our Call TV programmes is that they have to be good fun to watch. Thanks to our extensive experience and expertise we have been found the right balance between exploitation and ratings. This way we have been able to offer our broadcasters stable incomes and market shares in very competitive markets."


Contact:

Jonni Abbenhuis, Corporate Communications Department +31 (0) 35 53 994 16

Interesting also note they are involved with a lot of other participation TV

Regards

Paul

Fantastic post from our friend Malkie over the road..............

"malkie - 29 Oct'05 - 05:40 - 285 of 286

With the pace that this interactive technology is moving it is easy for any company with exposure to get sucked down a cul-de-sac, jump too soon or back the wrong horse in the race to dominate a particular sector.
Ebay may have a phenomenal business model, but it is currently 100% reliant on one platform. i.e. The computer based Internet. They will need to extend their presence beyond the internet and that will have to happen sooner rather than later.
Convergence - if not total collision, between the internet, TV & G3 mobile (3m+ users already) is already happening and the UK is for once at the forefront of this particular revolution. New enabling technology is being deployed at a varying pace throughout the world. IMS (Internet Protocol Multimedia Subsystem) for IPTV is one such technology set to be huge. BSB are working on a new interactive portal (betaskyinteractive.com - check out the video presentation by Ian Valantine, I defy you to find a sector of this emerging market to which YOO do not already have an exposure) representing SKYs next generation Interactive offering. Again, huge plans, which at first glance may look to be a competitive proposition to Yoomedias BBTV but its not, its a whole new platform which could either be prolific (and possibly also offer more opportunities for Yoomedia), or a white elephant. Nothing in-between!
The pace at which the media is covering this convergence is already starting to escalate. Not a week goes by when there isnt an article in the Nationals or high profile TV coverage. And that pace is set to speed up. Last week was Microsofts vision on BBC news mobile operators are set to bombard the market in the run up to Christmas, and Interactivity is always being pushed on the Box.
But the parameters are so wide, the media are having problems getting to grips with the Revolution and getting the message across. Plus they have to keep it simple for the folks out there, so they actually start to embrace the change thats coming & dont get scared off and and that is easier said than done.. I spoke to someone this week that didnt think people really used the red button on their TV's. 7 years ago he probably thought that the internet was a passing Fad! This just confirms to me that it really is the internet happening all over again but with one very big difference. Convergence will be lead by real commercially viable applications - and that is probably the most significant point of all.
Very soon we will reach the tipping point where enough people get it and then the rush to adopt will be on.
So where do Yoomedia fit in to all this? The truth is that no one can really be sure, simply because everything is moving so quickly.
So one good thing is that Yoomedia are platform agnostic they develop and provide applications that work on all platforms wherever possible, that way, with a foot in all camps they are not going to bet the bank on a betamax style proposition.
They are in the business of delivering commercial applications. Its alright having a killer application, but Yoomedias offerings are designed to hit the ground running in commercial terms. BBTV is one such application with a real mind-blowing & scalable, commercial application. Dateline on 3 is another. Even the recently announced Electra deal has a clear commercial payback proposition, in terms of on going royalties/ license fees.

So back to EBAY; where do they see themselves once all Devices converge and the "Eco Boomers" (get used to this term the kids of baby-boomers and the biggest consumer group that doesn't know the world without cable/satellite TV, mobile phones, video games, and the Internet) will demand that you can do everything on your mobile that you can do on your TV, that you can do on your PC???.
EBAY must embrace Convergence or lose out to a new wave of entrepreneurs only too keen to fill the gap, as must Amazon, Easyjet, Expedia, Barclays, Partypoker.. and all such companies whose business is currently dependent on web-based transactions.
So back to YOO and as trig pointed out before the Company have stated that they are currently developing the proposition of "Seamless integration of one e-wallet over all media platforms, PC, Mobile & ITV"

Even in the unlikely scenario that they dont hook a really big fish, this has still has got to be the most massive market opportunity of them all!!

You can buy these shares today at 7p and the company's current market valuation is 33m! I am holding and looking to accumulate at these levels."

Mug

What a Dil

RNS Number:4913T Yoomedia PLC 02 November 2005

YooMedia plc / Ticker: Yoo / Index: AIM / Sector: Media

2 November 2005

YooMedia plc and Gemstar-TV Guide to launch digital version of
Gemstar-TV Guide's GUIDE Plus+ EPG in the UK

YooMedia plc, the AIM traded interactive content and services provider, has signed a multi-year agreement with Gemstar-TV Guide International, Inc. (NASDAQ: GMST), a leading, global media, entertainment and technology company, to deliver Gemstar-TV Guide's GUIDE Plus+ electronic program guide to Freeview digital set top boxes, digital recorders and televisions in the UK. The GUIDE Plus+ EPG is a subscription-free, seven-day guide that allows consumers to quickly and easily navigate, sort, select, and schedule television programming for viewing or recording, simply by pressing a button.

Under the agreement, GUIDE Plus+ will be built into leading manufacturers' digital electronic devices and will be supported by YooMedia's unique new facility on Freeview, known as "datacasting."

In addition, YooMedia and Gemstar-TV Guide will collaborate to research and develop value-added rich-media interactive services, including advertising, integrated with the GUIDE Plus+ EPG.

A leader in television information and guidance, Gemstar-TV Guide is best known in the UK as the inventor and provider of the VIDEO Plus+(R) recording technology, an instant recording system that gives users a simple way to record television programs in VCRs and DVD recorders.

YooMedia's Group Managing Director, Neil MacDonald, said: "We are delighted to announce the availability of our datacasting service on Freeview and work in partnership with Gemstar-TV Guide, one of the most significant companies in digital television today, to deliver its industry-leading EPG to consumers throughout the UK."

Lydie Levy, Gemstar-TV Guide's European Managing Director, said: "I am very pleased to announce the launch of our GUIDE Plus+ service on digital terrestrial in conjunction with such a well-respected and technically-proficient partner as YooMedia. This relationship will further extend our ability to provide class leading guidance technology to television viewers."

Gemstar-TV Guide's EPGs are built directly into consumer electronics products, including digital televisions, digital video recorders and DVD recorders. The guide requires no subscription or phone connection and is available at no extra cost to the consumer. Gemstar-TV Guide has licensing agreements with more than a dozen consumer electronics manufacturers worldwide.


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Contacts:
Neil MacDonald YooMedia PLC Tel: 020 7462 0870
Isabel Crossley St Brides Media & Finance Ltd Tel: 020 7242 4477
Georgia Juvelis Gemstar-TV Guide georgia.juvelis@tvguide.com


Notes on YooMedia plc

YooMedia is one of the fastest growing interactive entertainment companies in the UK. Essentially, it develops and delivers premium interactive content and services to households and individuals via TV, the web, telephony and mobile phones. It has four main divisions:

YOOMEDIA DATING - MANAGES DATING BRANDS INCLUDING DATELINE AND AVENUES FROM
over 20 locations throughout the UK. Operates across traditional media,

digital TV, internet and mobile phones.


YOOMEDIA GAMBLING & GAMES - INTERACTIVE FIXED ODDS, PLAY FOR FUN CASINO AND
poker related games services for digital TV, the web and mobile phones.

Brands include Avago and Channel 425. It also manages YooPlay, the only

interactive games channel found on all four Digital TV platforms in the UK.


YOOMEDIA ENHANCED SOLUTIONS (YES) - DELIVERS INTERACTIVE CONTENT THAT
enhances consumer and audience experiences. Customers include the BBC,

Nestle, Celador, William Hill, Channel 4, ZipTV, The Cartoon Network and

HR Owen.


YOOMEDIA PUBLIC SECTOR - PROVIDES DIGITAL SOLUTIONS/MEDIA SERVICES TO
leading public sector organisations including the NHS Direct Interactive TV

service for the Department of Health, the Learning and Skills Council TV

Kickstart service and a range of local authority TV services.

The Group's experienced management team includes: Chairman, Dr. Michael Sinclair, who holds a number of directorships in both the UK and the USA having previously founded Lifetime Corporation; and Managing Director, Neil MacDonald, whose career spans 11 years in multimedia and interactive sectors plus a further 19 years in the retail industry.

About Gemstar-TV Guide

Gemstar-TV Guide International, Inc. (NASDAQ: GMST) is a leading media, entertainment and technology company that develops, licenses, markets and distributes technologies, products and services targeted at the television guidance and home entertainment needs of consumers worldwide. The Company's businesses include: television media and publishing properties; interactive program guide services and products; and technology and intellectual property licensing. Additional information about the Company can be found at www.gemstartvguide.com.

This news release contains forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties, including risks and uncertainties related to declines in our magazine publishing business; timely availability and market acceptance of products and services incorporating the Company's technologies and content; our investment in new and existing businesses, including TV Guide magazine, Inside TV, and TV Guide Spot; limitations on our ability to control certain joint venture or partnership businesses; the impact of competitive products and pricing; ongoing and potential future litigation; and the other risks detailed from time to time in the Company's SEC reports, including the most recent reports on Forms 10-K, 10-Q and 8-K, each as it may be amended from time to time. The Company assumes no obligation to update these forward-looking statements.

Note to Editors: Gemstar and TV Guide are trademarks of Gemstar-TV Guide International, Inc. and/or its subsidiaries. The names of other companies and products used herein are for identification purposes only and may be trademarks of their respective owners.


This information is provided by RNS
The company news service from the London Stock Exchange



END

Yoomedia PLC
04 November 2005

YooMedia plc / Ticker: Yoo / Index: AIM / Sector: Media

4 November 2005

YooMedia plc

Enters into Worldwide 3G Video Content Market with ICTV

YooMedia plc, the AIM traded interactive content and services provider, and ICTV
have expanded their joint venture agreement to develop and exclusively market
rich media interactive content solutions and services for the worldwide 3G
mobile market. The joint venture company, BroadbandTV Group, utilizes
YooMedia's cross platform interactive media gateway and services and ICTV's
HeadendWare(R) technology, which have already been successfully integrated for
digital television and are currently under trial in the UK with ntl.

BroadbandTV Group aims to operate and provide a unique enhanced 3G interactive
video gateway for 3G network operators, television broadcasters, content
publishers, content producers and advertisers.

ICTV's HeadendWare(R) enables a content delivery network that brings broadband
web delivery techniques and tools to 3G including Flash(R) and Shockwave(R)
animation, high quality streaming audio and full motion video. YooMedia's
proprietary interactive services include the Dateline Mobile service, the
world's first mobile phone video dating service to deliver live video matching
for singles, which recently was named Best Mobile TV Channel or Service at
MIPCOM's inaugural Mobile Day.

BroadbandTV Group has already developed and aggregated a wide-ranging
interactive UK programming package through its Content Partner Programme,
including ITN, MTV Networks, Emap, Turner Broadcasting, Sesame Workshop and
UKTV.

The Directors believe that this partnership is an important strategic step for
the Company and anticipate that the relationship will make a growing
contribution to its financial results during the year ending 31 December 2006
and beyond.

YooMedia's Group Managing Director, Neil MacDonald, said 'This is another
exciting step in the development of cutting edge and compelling products and
services for the YooMedia interactive portfolio. There is tremendous market
potential, for example, in the ability of our YooMedia Dating services to reach
singles across a combination of mobile, PC and digital television devices.'

One of the fastest growing technologies worldwide, 3G service is currently
offered over more than 75 networks in 36 countries, with subscriber numbers
estimated to grow to approximately 240 million in the next four years. A total
of 26 hardware suppliers manufacture and distribute more than 170 3G handsets
and devices.

Jeff Miller, President and Chief Executive Officer of ICTV, added: 'While 3G
represents a large potential market, the diversity of devices and networks and
the need to reach across other media underscores the need for a unified
solution. By combining the power of HeadendWare(R) with YooMedia's innovative
applications, Broadband TV is able to rapidly and cost-effectively deliver rich
media services across PCs, mobile devices and advanced digital television.'


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Morning Baza,
I wasn't sure what to make of it, but the early trading seems to indicate the market likes it.
Alan

1 here we come

Ah. Not sure they like it that much.

Morning Alan - confess I am out of these at the moment - but keep it on my watch list. managed to follow PM's advice and traded these, getting in after the drop at 5p and out at 11p.

Cant make up my mind what to do about these. They seem to have massive potential (a bit like SEO) - but having dropped from 20p to 4 p overnight - I am a bit cautious about making any long term investment in these yet.

Baza

Bhunt 1910 know what you mean but they only dropped over night from 9p yo 4p see chart 4 your self!

Overhight in its figurative sense.
I'm in Baza, and have been since before the last part of the last drop, so am about trading even, but you know me, I'm loathe to give money to brokers and the taxman, so once I'm in, I'm in for the long haul. Good or bad!
Alan

10.5p by close, if we break 9p

Looking good for your target Katcenka!!!! it seems that people obviously like the sound of it.

next resistance is 10.75p

Great news for all who've kept faith--I'm in for the long haul too.

ARX say no more ;-)

Hi Katcenka,
Sorry but you lost me in that last comment. Was it intentionally vaugue or am I being blonde and stupid again?
Alan

There's no comparison between this company and ARX--the potential and area yoo operates in is huge!! ARX is tiny and struggling to sell it's product good though it is--the breakthrough has not been made. I hope these Yoo contracts have now fired the enthusiasm the company deserves. IMO of course.

And imo its still a pile of sh*te that makes bugger all except for its directors.