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.

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.

Stop messing around on this thread Dil get back into ACE.
You know it makes sense.

Fingers crossed for Wales at the week end.

capa

I bought a load after seeing the post above from tomcress2000 saying that they will go to a 1. Thats over 10 times what i've paid so i cant lose.
Cheers Tom.
d.

Dailos,
I have to tell you that it should not be comments on BB,S that make your investment decisions.
Of course being a holder I hope it happens but it is the state and prospects of the company that gave me the confidence to invest.
DYOR (do your own research)at all times.

WT

Yes......be very careful Dailos!

Some of the smartest conmen around are to be found on investors bb's. They can and do cost people thousands, as can dodgy management! Take Enron for example..........the company has made a fortune over the years but not to the benefit of it's shareholders.

However, re ULT, I'm very bullish and think many will be surprised over the next year+ at just how much this companies revenues will grow.

Edited to add........some of these conmen are in sindicates and so will be part of a group of posters, posting as though they are completely seperate individuals to talk up or down a stock.

Dailos .... if it weren't for derampers they would probably be worth 2 quid already.

Buy some more Monday , bloody bargain at this price .... how's your Engeris holding doing ?

English tw*t :-)

Thanks for the advice chaps, am a bit of a novice so will have to watch what i read and not believe everything i see i suppose. I shant be acting on advice on bulletin boards from now on and will pick my own stocks.
P.S Anyone got any tips?

Don't eat yellow snow.

2 on its way

here d i hear AU. was a good hold into Thursday...pity you missed the boat though ya fruit loop :-)

oh aye forgot to say D i hear ULT is a short...bag of shite allegedly :-)

Don't forget SKEA, D - someone said it was a great buy at the beginning of the year. And look where that is now.
And we never did get a picture of the rubber chicken :S

Ult a short?

Well, good luck to 'em............they'll certainly need it!

Pretty sure ULT will end next week higher than it's achieved this........steady rise from monday or tuesday onwards..........we'll see! A lot of ULT shorters were badly burned only this week.

-Some people just never learn.

ult is a screaming pile of poo....a big boy in the playground told me.

dil - Wales, New Zealand, rugby - Splendid!

And was there any need to be all nationalistic and call Dailos an "English tw*t"? I've said it before and, no doubt, will have to say it again, but have you got nothing better to do with your pathetic little life than abuse fellow bulletin-board posters?

but dailos is an english twat

Dil and Treble.....bollox to the both of you!

Actually, it just highlights the fact that dil is rascist and there should be no place for that on this or any other thread.

Thanks to axe79.


From itvt.com's site this morning.......

YooMedia, Gemstar-TV Guide to Team for Freeview EPG
--YooMedia to Provide Datacasting Services to Gemstar

UK-based interactive TV content and services provider, YooMedia, has signed a multi-year agreement with Gemstar-TV Guide, the dominant provider of EPG's in the US, to deliver the latter's GUIDE Plus+ EPG (designed for use in consumer electronics devices) to set-top boxes, DVR's and integrated digital television sets intended for use with the UK's free-to-air digital terrestrial TV service, Freeview. The deal also calls for YooMedia and Gemstar to collaborate on developing rich-media interactive services, including interactive advertising capabilities, that will be integrated with the GUIDE Plus+ EPG.

Delivery of the EPG, which will be incorporated into devices from multiple manufacturers (note: consumer electronics manufacturers that have licensed Gemstar's EPG to date include Hitachi, JVC, LG/Zenith, LiteOn, Matsushita/Panasonic, Mitsubishi, Philips, Samsung, Sharp, Sony, Thomson, and Toshiba) and which will be free to the end user, will be enabled by YooMedia's new datacasting service. (Note: last month, YooMedia announced that it had signed a partnership agreement with a company called Electra--which is led by a team of ITV veterans that includes the ex-European CTO of Gemstar-TV Guide, Jonathan Drazin, as well as PlayJam and Optimistic Entertainment co-founder, Jasper Smith --to develop a collection of free and premium interactive TV services for the Freeview platform. Content for those applications will also be delivered by YooMedia's datacasting service: according to the company, the technology required to receive the service will be licensed to consumer electronics manufacturers for incorporation into their devices.)

[itvt] recently caught up with YooMedia group managing director, Neil MacDonald, and we asked him about the new service: "YooMedia has for some time had some bandwidth for the Freeview platform and a license to broadcast data on that bandwidth," he explained. "Up until now, we have been using that bandwidth to broadcast the YooPlay games channel on Freeview. We'll continue to do that, but we're now using part of that bandwidth to provide datacasting services to third parties. We have had to get agreement from the UK regulator, Ofcom, and from Crown Castle to use this bandwidth for these datacasting services, which are going to be essential for companies like Electra and Gemstar to take advantage of functionality in the new generation of Freeview boxes that will be emerging. For us," he continued, "it's not just about 'Oh, here's some bandwidth'; it's about working with our partners to determine how we can help package up and broadcast their data for them."

According to MacDonald, YooMedia is currently the only company in the UK in a position to offer such datacasting services: "What we've found is that we're the only people in the UK that 1) have the bandwidth available and are licensed to do this, and 2) that have the technical ability to provide this kind of service," he said. "As a result, everybody has been coming and talking to us. Within the space of two weeks, we've announced two deals for this, so that should send a signal about what's going on here. This is an entirely new line of business for us, but I think it's essential to help the development of more functionality on the Freeview platform, as this creates new interactive real estate on that platform that we can then start to exploit with our commercial services."

ICTV and YooMedia Expand their Partnership to Target the 3G Space

UK-based YooMedia and US-based ICTV say that they are expanding their joint venture agreement to encompass the development and marketing of interactive content solutions and services for the international 3G mobile market. The companies' joint venture, BroadbandTV Group, has already integrated YooMedia's cross-platform interactive media gateway and services with ICTV's flagship HeadendWare platform (note: the latter is designed to overcome the limitations of entry-level set-top boxes and other low-resource devices; it pushes complex, IP-based interactive TV applications to those devices from the headend, and allows the apps to utilize a variety of Internet technologies, including HTML, java script, Java, Windows Media Player, Flash, RealPlayer and Quicktime) for an interactive TV trial that is currently underway with UK cable operator, ntl (see [itvt] Issue 5.68 Part 1). The companies say that, as a result of the expansion of their agreement, BroadbandTV Group is now aiming to provide a "unique enhanced" 3G interactive video gateway for 3G network operators, TV broadcasters, publishers, producers and advertisers.

According to the companies, HeadendWare will enable a content-delivery network that will bring broadband Web delivery techniques and tools--including Flash and Shockwave animation, high-quality streaming audio, and full-motion video--to the 3G space. BroadbandTV Group has already aggregated an array of interactive TV programming for delivery over such a network, through a Content Partner Program, whose members include ITN, MTV Networks, Emap, Turner Broadcasting, Sesame Workshop and UKTV. In addition, YooMedia has mobile content properties of its own, including Dateline Mobile, a mobile phone video dating service. "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," ICTV's president and CEO, Jeff Miller, said in a prepared statement. "By combining the power of HeadendWare with YooMedia's innovative applications, BroadbandTV is able to rapidly and cost-effectively deliver rich media services across PC's, mobile devices and advanced digital television."