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.

In close cooperation with another Yoomedia shareholder, I'm attempting to judge the percentage of shares owned, by retail investors, reading the Yoomedia BB's. We do have access to professional advice if needed. Please e.mail the number of Yoomedia shares held and your BB nickname, to the address below. All information will be treated in the stricted confidence.

mrbenbond@yahoo.co.uk

Meanwhile, if you hold the share certificate, expect your Proxy Voting Form soon.

If your shares are held in a Nominee account, please contact your broker as a matter of the utmost urgency, requesting a Proxy Voting Form. It will NOT be sent to you otherwise.

We only have three weeks, time is not on our side. Please contact your Nominee provider and request a Proxy Voting Form.

Please contact me, via the above e.mail address, with your shareholding and BB nickname.

mrbenbond@yahoo.co.uk

Thanks

Well done, iPublic, for taking the initiative with regard to the EGM. I will send details of holdings (not a lot, but it is the principle) to your e-mail address. I have written to Jeremy Lacey (he published my last letter re PET) with objective not just of him printing my letter but that he should take up the cudgels on our behalf and on behalf of all his readers who could be similarly bitten elsewhere. mactavish - your perspective please or are you a bit close to the company?

One positive piece of news is that Scottish Widows Investment Partnership have subscribed for 25.7m of the existing shares or 15.4% of the equity. In other words, the enlarged company comes into the range of a significant part of the institutional market. If there are buyers like Scottish Widows around, it could hold the share price up with some share shortage, that is until the EGM floods the market with the placed shares. Personally, its a matter of finding the right time to sell (which could already be past!).

evolution were hammered in the Sunday Times yesterday with news of short-sellers swooping on the company. Great news if they go belly up although too late for YOO investors. Agree with jgt that anything evolution says is likely to be treated with disdain and disbelief. Another article on BT's interest in this market-place does highlight the potential attraction of YOO as a tasty morsel to swallow. I am less concerned that YOO will not be able to make the acquisitions work for them - they have certainly made good progress with other acquisitions. This just makes the nature of the deal all the more frustrating.

Eric

Hi Eric, Good for you that you are writing to shares, I agree with what you say. Its a disgrace that we are getting ripped off, someone warned me of this Evolution a long time ago but I never took any notice. I never thought YOO would be so niave to let them get away with this placing at 15p.

iPublic - what are your intentions? I doubt the users of this board have 1M shares between them - so what can we do? We can't stop the deal now - with the board and their chums owning 40% plus.

All the shares are placed apparantly - plus the large holders are restricted in selling them until March 2006.

May I remind all shareholders to REQUEST their Proxy Voting form, A.S.A.P.

If your shares are held in your nominee account, please contact your provider TODAY, to REQUEST a Proxy Voting form. Please hold on to the form at this stage.

Do not let apathy, stand in your way.

Please e.mail me, stating the number of Yoomedia shares owned and your BB nickname.

mrbenbond@yahoo.co.uk

iPublic on moneyam = TriggerTV on a d v f n . c o m ;-)

Working with another, long term, Yoomedia shareholder, I'm attempting to judge the percentage of shares owned, by retail investors, reading the Yoomedia BB's.

Our aim to get as many independant retail holders to join together, so we dont get walked over or overlooked. Strength in numbers!

Once I have your e.mail address, you are on our database and can be contacted at any time.

We do have access to professional advice if needed. Please e.mail me, the number of Yoomedia shares held and your BB nickname, to the address below. All information will be treated in the stricted confidence.

mrbenbond@yahoo.co.uk

Meanwhile, if you hold the share certificate, expect your Proxy Voting Form soon.

If your shares are held in a Nominee account, please contact your broker as a matter of the utmost urgency, REQUESTING a Proxy Voting Form. It will NOT be sent to you otherwise.

We only have three weeks, time is not on our side. Please contact your Nominee provider and request a Proxy Voting Form. Hold on to the form for the next week, you have until the 18th December anyway.

Please contact me, via my e.mail address, with your shareholding and BB nickname.

mrbenbond@yahoo.co.uk

Thanks

Please take iPublic's request seriously! Even if the holdings are not large the number of votes has media significance if nothing else. And write to Shares (as I have done), IC, other press. This is such an open travesty of justice it must have as much publicity as possible!

Eric

2m shareholders have now expressed an interest. Keep those e.mails coming please. It may yet prove very useful.

mrbenbond@yahoo.co.uk

The running total is now 2.2m, thank you for your kind replys.

If you have not yet responded, please do so at the earliest opportunity. We may arrive in a situation where every vote counts.

Please REQUEST your Proxy Voting Form, as a matter of urgency, if you hold your shares in a nominee account. They WILL NOT send you the forms otherwise. Do NOT post the form yet. You have until the 18th of December.

Now 2.85m.

I promise you complete discretion.

mrbenbond@yoomedia.com

Yoomedia PLC
30 November 2004


30 November 2004


YooMedia PLC ('the Company')

Director's Interest

The Company was informed on 29 November 2004 that on that date Mr. Andrew
Fearon, a director of the Company, purchased 37,500 ordinary shares of 1p each
in the capital of the Company at a price of 17.85p each. Following this
acquisition Mr. Fearon has an interest in 1,364,026 Ordinary Shares representing
0.82 per cent. of the current issued share capital.


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

If shares are held in nominee account then there are two options. If the holder intends to attend the EGM, they will need a letter of representation.

If they intend to vote without attending, they will need to complete & send in the proxy form.

At this stage, we are not advising people to do one thing or the other, but perhaps we could get an indication of which way you all intend to handle things.

1. Your vote for the merger, Yes, or No.

2. Do you intend to return the Proxy Voting Form, or attend the EGM, by applying for a Letter of Representation.

mrbenbond@yahoo.co.uk

However, if you send in your proxy forms, you will not be able to obtain a letter of representation and attend, or their is a danger that you could vote twice.

If they already have requested their form and they intend
to go to the EGM, then they need to exchange it for a letter of representation.

Sorry about this, I was not aware and only just found out.

Those holding share certificates, intending to attended the EGM, do not need a Letter of Representation.

Working with another, long term, Yoomedia shareholder, I'm attempting to judge the percentage of shares owned, by retail investors, reading the Yoomedia BB's.

Our aim to get as many independant retail holders to join together, so we dont get walked over or overlooked. Strength in numbers!

Once I have your e.mail address, you are on our database and can be contacted at any time.

We do have access to professional advice if needed. Please e.mail me, the number of Yoomedia shares held and your BB nickname, to the address below. All information will be treated in the stricted confidence.

mrbenbond@yahoo.co.uk

We only have three weeks, time is not on our side. Please contact your Nominee provider and request a Proxy Voting Form if you intend a postal vote OR a Letter Of Representation, if you wish to attend the EGM. Hold on to the Proxy Voting Form for the next week, you have until the 18th December anyway.

Please contact me, via my e.mail address, with your shareholding and BB nickname.

mrbenbond@yahoo.co.uk

I wish you well i public but bailed out when the so called defenders of shareholder value dropped me in the Sxxx after suspension( The term obviously means defending the value of the cheap shares/shar options they obviously got during the deal not those owned by existing shreholders)
I would'nt buy this share again as they would probably just do the same again and just when you least expect it.Just would not tust them)

willfagg

Your position is fully understandable. In addition to the moral issues, there is a major question in my mind regarding retention even at the current value. OK, a director has bought at present price but the amount is relatively small and appears to be 'tokenism'. I personally tend to focus on emerging companies in the less than 100m cap. area. YOO are still there but with 500K shares, they are already 100K at 20p. Reasons for holding? you see them moving to 200K cap. over the next couple of years with moving into profit and additional acquisitions; you see them as a very likely takeover target once they have assimilated these acquisitions. Reasons for selling? price held back well into the new year with new shares in issue (constraints don't apply to placed shares, onlt those used in takeover); better options elsewhere. You make your YOO choice or take your money!

Eric

EWROBSON

1. 29 tax losses. Effectively tax free profits for several years, boosting EPS.

2. It also makes Yoo a very hot takeover candidate from H2 2005, once the hard work and 'bedding in' has occured. Preditor will be very interested, once the company moves into profit, before it becomes to pricy. Broad spread of interactive division, forecast penetration rate of 82% of U.K. households by 2008 and strong visabilty of brands/awareness of consumer, means Yoo may well be on the radar of a bigger fish before long.

Anyway, we shall see. I'll be here in 12 months!

EVO going ahead on their own today!
2p ahead of others on bid and 2 1/2p on the offer

What do they know that we don't?.....

or are they just trying to reduce their embarrassment?

Taken from a moneyam rival.


First I am going to get the negative out of the way.

Some of the long term posters on this board may have remembered my dismay at the announcement that EVO were to become company brokers, as my first thoughts, having seen them shaft the investors of The Wigmore Group a couple months prior, lost my complete faith in them.

Well, now the reason for their appointment has come to light, they have access to money, and if Yoomedia were to pull off this deal, which was known internally back in July 2004 when negotiations commenced, they would need someone on their side to pull it off. EVO was their answer. As the reverse takeover documents outlines, should EVO not be able to place all of the shares, they will indeed, step in and buy the remainder, or all if none are placed ( we know Scottish Widows are on board now by the RNS slip, so it won't be all ). That one point should give any one thinking about investing to get in now, because EVO know they are onto a good thing, the only way is going to be up.

So yes, at 15p, without any ordinary share holders like us being given any rights to purchase at this price, we have been a little shafted by this placing price, it should have been around 23p in my opinion.

All that said, personally, I can live being shafted by them, because, maybe without them giving the certianty of the cash to make this " reverse takeover " happen, we may not even be in this position now.

Just look at it this senario:-

Yoomedia - small AIM listed company - turned in losses again this year - still some vunerability there as they are still growing - may still run out of cash as they are pre merger - suddenly Mr Sinclair decides he see's an opportunity to aquire another loss making company - but bigger than them - but knows a reverse takeover would get them to nearer to where they want to be, quicker - needs 28 million ???????? - how else could he have done it, other than offer a placing at below market value ( or costly interest bearing loan notes etc ) - he has now been clever in getting EVO on board - they have the cash ready and waiting - and the deal happens in lightening quick time. Also, we have mopped up a possible competitor, which could have slowed our progress in the future.

I personally believe that in 3 - 5 years time, none of us will be even crying over this short term price drop.

We have all put our complete faith in Mr Sinclair over the last 18 months, I for one am not going to start doubting his reasons now, if it was not for Yoomedia, I would not have done the amount of indepth research that I have on DTV and its associated products over the last 18 months, to arrive at the point in my investing hobby, where I think I have at long last got in on the ground floor of something that is going to grow beyond belief over the next 10 years. The Digital revolution, truly is the biggest thing that has happened to that little box in the corner of most peoples rooms ( some not so little now ) since John Logie Baird invented it.

A few years ago it was just a box that transmitted 4 programmes, now, it is starting to challenge the internet, and in as short a time as 5 years, will, be bigger than the internet and run comfortably along side it, it is more user freindly, and more people have access to them, so we have a head start on the PC from when it started to become popular, and look where the PC is now where people had to phisically go out and buy an expensive item, most new TV's now come digital ready, and if you have to upgrade, it is as little as 35 now, and that will drop.

Cast your mind back 18 months ago when Yoomedia were hovering around 1p, when nobody was interested in this " battered" penny share, now look where we are today, on the verge of acquiring a company bigger than us, with a price tag of 28 million, that takes some doing, and I am sure it won't stop here, we also have shareholders such as Sony on board, and institutions that would never normally touch such a share on the AIM market.

Before anyone votes no against the judgement of Mr Sinclair, who has far more to lose than any of us, think very carefully where you want Yoomedia to be in 5 years time, because without what they are about to acheive with the reverse takeover, it could add another 3-5 years on the timescale for payback time. This deal can only add strength to the current board of Directors too.

It is still not a silly thing to equate Yoomedia to Microsoft, just think, at present, we are exclusive to the UK, I am sure that will not be the case in the coming years as the DTV becomes part of everyday life across the globe.

To say that I am excited by this current chain of events is an understatement, I for one, could not have imagined 12 months ago, that we would have advanced quite so quickly.

This share is heading towards FTSE 250, without doubt - and could even acheive FTSE 100 with the growth that is ahead of it, you never know, the next reverse takeover could be SKY a few years down the road.

Regards

Paul

yes.. I've been out drinking too...