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.

From Smash n Grab on ii. Great post.



Part 1. Remember this.....

Yoomedia recently signed a partnership agreement with Electra Entertainment Ltd, a provider of interactive entertainment services for Freeview set-top boxes, to supply a collection of free and premium interactive services on Freeview.

Financial details were not disclosed.

The new content will be supplied to households nationally using YooMedia's newly-launched datacasting service as announced in its interim results statement in September.

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

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Part 2. Now read this.....

Freeview gets iTV services to rival Sky
By Gareth Jones

Freeview audiences will soon be able to access enhanced iTV services rivalling those offered by Sky, in a move that will open a new market generating millions in revenue via the digital terrestrial platform.
A range of next-generation red- button applications - including a branded electronic programme guide, a TV listings magazine and an on-screen DVD rental service - are being developed to add value to the existing Freeview offering.

In an effort to be the first to capitalise on the rapid growth of the market, iTV company Electra Entertainment is working with all the major set-top box manufacturers to integrate its proprietary red-button technology into all new DTT receivers.
As well as enhanced games, news and betting services, the software can be combined with wireless connectivity to provide additional red-button features such as email, video clips and music downloads, to viewers with personal video recorders (PVR).

Once the service goes live in the first half of 2006, brand owners will be able to take advantage of iTV advertising opportunities that allow consumers to click through to dedicated advertiser locations (DAL) from the Freeview EPG supplied by Electra.

BT is preparing to launch Nevis, a video-on-demand service that will provide Freeview audiences with access to additional films and programmes. However, Electra looks set to be the first to offer DTT viewers enhanced iTV services for a monthly subscription fee, in a move that's could open the floodgates to other companies.

"The growth of Freeview into the biggest single digital platform in the UK represents a significant opportunity for companies providing additional content services," said Guy Bisson, senior analyst at Screen Digest.
With ZenithOptimedia predicting that Freeview will outstrip Sky, to reach 8.8m homes by 2008, broadcasters, media agencies and iTV firms are racing to tap into the potentially huge market for additional red-button applications on the DTT platform.

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Part 3.....

Dont forget Gemstar will also offer an EPG to manufacturers and use YOOs datacasting service and the two will also collaborate for commercial advertising etc.

ALL POSTS COVERED! Lets hope Freview continues to grow. V exciting indeed.

SnG

Sigh...

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Support finally gone this morning. Fundamental analysis now supported by TA. For all those who haven't yet got the message it is time to leave the party.

I note that Dil and I took an almightly beating on Langbar also. They have finally come out today and admitted the whole thing was a fraud. One of my constant driving forces for posting is my utter comtempt for ill informed rampers, fraudlent posters and management. On more than one occasion I have gone to the FSA to alert them to market abuse, it's disgusting and takes money from people who can least afford it.

There is no doubting that gold dust in valuable but when it gets in your eyes it tends to obscure your vision.

I should point out I'm not applying all the above to YOO, Just saying that the market is there to make money from you not for you. So just be careful!

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Not a chartist and not a lot of faith in charts when applied to developing fledgling companies anyway........more news driven than anything else.

What I do see when I look at that chart though is the sp hasn't been much below it's current value since the beggining of August and since then there have been many very positive developements (deals). When you add to that the fact that a deal for Dateline is in the pipeline (approaches been made) I don't see much downside from here without bad news.

I'm not a chartist either, but I am keen to learn the secrets of this black art.
I have seen similar charts posted many times on other boards, talking about breaking out of a downward trend, and bottomed out, and turnaround of fortunes.
I am not in the business of rubishing what anyone puts on here. I would just like to know why this chart is so lousy, when similar ones on other companies have signalled a good time to buy.
Alan

TS ... with illiquid small caps charts are not always as accurate but this share is very liquid and very tradeable so TA is as accuate here as almost anywhere.

Add to that the fundamentals are a total pile of crap and voila ..... a candidate for biggest pile of sh*te of the year.

Dil

So as you got totally stuffed with LGB, should we trust your judgement??

Have a nice weekend!

Oh go read the whole thread dickhead .... I wouldn't even invest a penny of yours in that basket case.

Told them weeks ago you can't get money out of Brazil due to the laws but no one listened.

Maybe a few of the brighter ones will here.

Unfortunatly Dil even if you are proved right one million times rather than the many correct calls you have constantly made, some people just don't get the message. It's their bloody loss at the end of the day. I honestly don't know how many times it takes to warn people, they just don't listen.

Sad thing is Scrip , from experience most of these rampers hold very few shares in the companies they ramp and do it for the hell of it.

scrip and Dil.....it is unbelievable....would be laughable if not so serious...LGB has ben a con however the people that insist in holding YOO will end up with pretty much the same....bugger all or a tiny percentage back at best.

some people cannot be told.

But surely you are not saying that YOO is as lost a case as LGB turned out to be, i personaly did loose a very small amount on the LGB debarcal but i think it has probaly taught me lessons more valueable that the money i lost. Having said that when blatent fraud is involved it makes it very difficult to to make the corrct judgement, when i invested i knew it was either a good investment or someone was going to prison, i knew the risk i took that chance. Do you really see YOO in the same light, what if it does become cash flow positive Q1 2006 also do you see the red button on your TV being a big success at all.

It didn't become cash flow positive every other quarter the board predicted so why believe them now ?

Pile of sh&te imo.

Dil

err......because the Hill's contract is on vastly improved terms. FACT!

because YOO will be receiving revenue from serveral new sources in 2006. FACT!

Then imagine the effect of a major contract or two, on revenue projections.

We cannot be far from cash flow positive and we just need an extra push.

I appreciate cash flow positive has been put back, due to poor performance in Gambling and Games, but the bears have not posted anything to convince me 2006 will not be the turn around year. Only generalistic comments.

Also, if Gambling and Games was closed, one is left with a profitable business NOW. So YOO will never go bust, at worst Gambling and Games will be closed.

Sorry bears, yoo will have to do better than that!

An interesting thread on the betfair forum:


Have you ever paid to get the results via red button?

Muqbil 26 Nov 13:41


I tried the red button today, and found out it costs money to simply check the results!!




werbie 26 Nov 13:48


i also pressed the red button this week for the first time ,cant believe anyone would want to pay for something that is readily free elsewhere .




Tallywagger. 26 Nov 13:49


thats why they dont stop banging on about it. Leeches.




Muqbil 26 Nov 14:29


They must be hoping to serve the totally compulsive gamblers who do not have access to the internet, dont have a working telephone, and do not want to change the channel to check the results on teletext!!

A valid point, Fundy, But...............
I find myself arguing this kind of case almost weekly with people who drink from the minibar in a hotel room, knowing it will cost them an arm and a leg, while a 30 second walk will take them to the hotel bar which is all inclusive. With people who happily pay extreme interest rates because they cannot be bothered to change lenders, with people who will pay the extra for an unecessary convenience that is probably no more convenient at all (Ever used your mobile in a pub, to call a landline? People do and pay up to 50p per minute instead of the payphone at less than 20p per minute).
Human nature is a strange beastie. People all over the world pay for things they do not need, do not use and could get free, or do without.
I have lost count of the number of people who have moaned that the television schedules are terrible, and that their 40 per month to Sky is a total waste, because they never watch it. Have they all had Sky disconnected? Not a bit of it. Most of them have upgraded to Skyplus, or had another box and another subscription in another room!!
If a service is there, people will use it, regardless of cost or need. The real question is whether it can be made a first choice. If it can, then cost and availability elsewhere is almost irrelevant.
Alan

"If it can, then cost and availability elsewhere is almost irrelevant"

Not with gambling, the essense of gambling is value, it's price not convieniance that is the lead. You may attract casual punters but they are a tiny tiny part of the market.