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.

You need to read the RNS more carefully!


"Subject to the amendment to the Articles which is proposed at the EGM, the Company intends to enter into refinancing facilities with Lloyds TSB Bank plc in the form of a new 4,000,000 overdraft facility. The Company's existing 2,000,000 term loan remains in place. In addition the Directors also wish to have an ability to borrow further monies should it be considered necessary although there is no intention to do so in the next three months."

Repeat.......

"although there is no intention to do so in the next three months."

Furthermore the following should be read and understood.

"The Company has agreed with Lloyds TSB Bank plc, as part of the proposed arrangements regarding the refinancing of part of the Company's facilities, to grant Lloyds TSB Bank plc warrants in respect of 4,000,000 new Ordinary Shares.
The grant of the 4,000,000 Warrants to Lloyds TSB Bank plc is also subject to the approval of Shareholders at the EGM."

In plainer language....Yoo's bank in return for refinancing PART of its borrowing will except in payment 4m shares priced at 10p.
Now that's a deal!

Lloyds / TSB are happy to have shares in Yoo Media, that's not a bad vote of approval is it. Think they know something?

So Lloyds are so desperate to get YOO shares they put it into the deal. Or, perhaps, have you considered, YOO were so desperate to get finance that they offered this as a "sweetner".

I wonder which one is nearer the truth, I wonder? I mean Lloyds is so small and have such little bargaining power in comparison to YOO.

"Think they know something?"

Yes, more than you it would seem, Lloyds know it is a very high risk loan and YOO were so desperate to get finance and Lloyds so nervous that a chunk of dilutive equity was thrown in as a sweetner.

Come on Mac wake up. I can tell you have no commerical experiance at all, else you would see this for what it really is.

"although there is no intention to do so in the next three months."

is that from the same people who have been intending to be cash flow positive for quite a while now

You havent answered the question as to why the 200,000,000 increase in authorised share capital unless there is a possibility (and a strong one in my book) that they will need to issue them

As to the Lloyds warrants, Id also like to know what the interest rate on the re-arranged debt facility is

Pleased to be the referee, completly neutral of this share, no research, know little about it but have loved reading the thread. Bulls and bears both giving excellent arguments for future of this share even if getting a bit rattled at times. first blood to the bulls because its gone up a bit (very smalll i admit, but a rise non the less) keep it lads and lasses.

7p the starting point.

"first blood to the bulls because its gone up a bit "

I think you will find the bears have been negative from a level 10 times the recent low price. The blood would appear to be all over the bulls.

This is our new shareholder, and this is what he is bringing to the party.

Too much infomation for our resident bird brains though.


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I see CUC another one of my negative picks has been suspended today pending talks with their bankers.

What the fcuk is mcbullsh*t on about now ?

He's talking about YOO spending loads of money on something that will never make it I think.

YOO poised to take advantage in 2006 ?

Mobile gambling set to soar in 2006

A NEW report from Visiongain says that the mobile gambling market is poised to take off in 2006, generating revenues totalling 2.5bn in 2008.

The limited number of operators and the small number of devices suited to mobile gambling is about to change, claims the report.

"As regulatory, technical and other challenges are gradually resolved, gambling operators are expected to begin actively marketing mobile gambling to their customers, starting in the middle of 2006," says report author Jean-Pierre Aubertin. "Initial trials of mobile gambling sites have confirmed the channel as viable sources of income for gambling site operators such as William Hill and Ladbrokes."

ICTV adds thin-client features, more session power
Interactive television (iTV) vet ICTV Inc. has released a new version of HeadendWare that supports a range of new features and applications.

Release 5.0 adds multi-player Internet games, picture-in-picture capabilities for thin-client set-tops without dual tuners, multiple language support and "Channel Linking," a technique likely to be used in an advertising "telescoping" context that pulls up interactive content related to the displayed television channel. The new version also beefs up efficiency, enabling operators to run up to 5,000 simultaneous interactive sessions per operations server, an increase of 300 percent, ICTV said.

HeadendWare, ICTV's flagship product, places most of the processing horsepower at the cable headend, enabling widely-deployed thin-client boxes to handle advanced applications that they would not be able to on their own.

The new version marks the first "significant release from ICTV, post major deployment," said company President & CEO Jeff Miller. The latest features are the result of those asked for by ICTV customers and content partners, he said.

Gaming, he said, is one of the most popular offerings for HeadendWare. Porting popular Web-based multiplayer games to the ICTV platform is the next logical step. ICTV has already distributed kits to developers "and they're making versions for multi-player gaming as we speak," Miller explained.

The picture-in-picture (PIP) capability can enable a key component currently lacking in widely deployed DCT-2000 set-tops-running interactive elements around a scaled down live video window.

"That is important because having to leave a video experience to join an interactive experience is one that doesn't always work," Miller said.

ICTV, he added, was able to boost session performance by incorporating pre-encoded and real-time encoded content. With that combo, one blade on the system can now handle 500 simultaneous sessions, versus just 50.

Adding multiple language support, enabled by a migration from ascii character entry to Unicode character entry, is a reflection of ICTV's market potential, which is spreading into regions such as Asia, where ICTV is in the process of completing an installation and trial deployment with an IPTV service operator.

Presently, cable deployments represent the majority of ICTV's deployments (Time Warner, Grande Communications, et al), but the ratio between cable and telco activity for ICTV could reach the 50-50 mark within the next year, Miller said.

San Francisco, CA and London, UK: The mobile gambling market is poised for rapid expansion as gambling operators develop their remote operations. Companies in the m-gambling value chain are beginning to position themselves and mobile gambling will take off in earnest in Q2 2006. This is the finding from a new study, Mobile gambling: Identifying winning market strategies, published by industry research company, visiongain.

Visiongain estimates that the mobile gambling market will generate revenues totalling $4.26 billion in 2008. The limited number of gambling operators and the small number of devices that are suited for mobile gambling activities have inhibited the number of gamblers who use mobile devices. This is about to change, however, and visiongain forecasts significant growth ahead.

As regulatory, technical and other challenges are gradually resolved, gambling operators are expected to begin actively marketing mobile gambling to their customers, starting in the middle of 2006, says report author Jean-Pierre Aubertin. Initial trials of mobile gambling sites have confirmed the channel as viable sources of income for gambling site operators such as William Hill and Ladbrokes, he noted.

The segments of the mobile gambling market covered in this study refer to services being developed that will complement those currently delivered by fixed and online gaming operators. Visiongain believes mobile gambling represents the logical extension of online gambling, and forms part of the segment of the gambling industry known as remote gambling.

This report examines the significance and impact that mobile gambling will have on the gambling and cellular industries. It outlines and examines the various solutions offered by leading vendors on the market and offers a comprehensive assessment of the attitudes and expectations of end-users. Advice on pricing and pricing levels are also discussed for different segments of the market.


ENDS

Notes for Editors
If you are interested in a more detailed overview of this report, please send an e-mail to sara.peerun@visiongain.com or phone Sara on 020 8767 6711

So it looks like there will be lots of competition for YOO then. It's funny I always thought that was bad news, I must have wasted the last 20 years.

Scrip can't you post in an amusing way rather than such sour comments-those of us that hold in hope are interested in your analysis and agree with the precarious finances-however the new CEO has secured finance for the next few months the bank is supporting the company at the moment and the Chairman is putting up his guarantees---just maybe this will pay off so why rubbish it several times every day with sarcasm lets have a bit of gentle ribbing if you must!!

Agreed, Scrip stop being such a depressing miserable bastard.

So how exactly do you say this is a pile of sh*te in a funny way ?

Try saying it in German. Everyone knows German is an hilarious language. ;-)

dieses ist ein Stapel von shite

Alan

Misthaufen :S
Nope, that's not funny

von shite est steaming up today all of .75!!

Looks like Data Casting is going to be " hot " - take the time to read through the links below.

http://www.worldwidewords.org/turnsofphrase/tp-dat3.htm

http://www.dba.org.au/uploads/documents/Datacasting.pdf

http://www.current.org/dtv/dtv0413datacast.shtml

If I am reading this right, sounds like Yoomedia have a Broadband TV for Freeview in place, as it sounds like this datacasting can send Video etc over the DTV network.

Sounds interesting stuff - now we know why that Freeview Bandwidth is going to come into its own for Yoomedia with such partners as Gemstar and Electra.