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.

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.

Sony in digital-only set marketing drive
Consumer electronics giant Sony Europe has announced it is to cease selling analogue-only television sets.

Tim Page, technology marketing manager at Sony Europe, said 2006 would see Sony selling only integrated digital televisions (IDTVs), which include both analogue and digital terrestrial television (DTT) tuners, "including into markets where DTT has not yet been launched".

Page said the move demonstrated "Sony's commitment to DTT and will help encourage broadcasters and network operators in evolving countries to start considering DTT and do the necessary steps for launch".

He added: "The more analogue TVs that continue to be sold each year the more products will have to be converted to digital when it comes to switchover.

"Therefore we must encourage the market to start promoting and selling IDTVs so they become the automatic choice of the consumer when they are chosing their next TV."

In February Sony announced that all its television receivers larger than 23 inches would be digital-only.

Lovelace Consulting | 01.12.2005

Scrip - i fully understand the company has 'used' lots of money, and the share price has come right down. The point of the thread now is 'where does it go from here'. From what i can gather the company needs even more money and some of you think this is the beginning a new and better era, some you think it is complete waste of money and the company stands no chance.

Im just interested to see who gets it right, because you have been giving each other a bit of stick. 7p starting point!

Now they have some money they have a better chance than when they were about to issue an RNS saying, "Oops, we have run out of money"

I still think they are overated now. There are better prospects out there.

I don't think most holders realise just how close they came to shutting up shop. As it is they have significantly diluted existing shareholders. So which ever way you look at it is was and has been a terrible deal for existing shareholders.

I will keep an eye on it.

Branson takes on Murdoch in media battle
By Andrew Murray-Watson
(Filed: 04/12/2005)

Sir Richard Branson, the billionaire entrepreneur, is to take on the might of Rupert Murdoch by creating a giant television, internet and telephone company.

It is understood that the new Virgin media group will make an audacious attempt to snatch the Premiership television rights from Sky when they come up for auction next year.


Sir Richard plans to merge Virgin Mobile with NTL

Sir Richard plans to merge Virgin Mobile with NTL, the huge cable television company, in a 4.5 billion deal that will give access to television screens in more than five million British homes.

This would make Sir Richard one of the most powerful figures in television and threaten Sky TV, part-owned by Mr Murdoch's News Corporation - the owners of the Times, Sunday Times and Sun - and run by his son James.

The new Virgin media and entertainment group will also have 2.5 million broadband internet customers, 4.3 million fixed-line telephone accounts and more than five million mobile customers.

One investment banker said: "It's the battle of the brands -Virgin versus Sky."

Virgin will become the first company in Britain to be able to offer a package of mobile and fixed line telephones, pay-television and high-speed internet services. It will also show television programmes on Virgin mobile telephones.

Claire Enders, of Enders Analysis, a telecoms research firm, said last night that the deal will increase the pressure on Sky.

"The Virgin brand is exceptionally powerful," she said. "The deal makes great financial sense for NTL and will strengthen its proposition. Virgin Mobile is one of the most successful mobile companies of its type in the world. It has excellent growth prospects."

Sky paid 211 million this year to buy Easynet, an internet company, so that it could sell broadband internet services to its 7.8 million television customers. However, it does not have a mobile phone arm and could find that its customers are lured away to the new, wide-ranging Virgin entertainment group.

Sky could see defections accelerate if Sir Richard wins the right to broadcast live Premiership football.

In strictly financial terms, the deal will see NTL acquiring Sir Richard's Virgin Mobile. However, the cable company's name will be replaced by the Virgin brand and Sir Richard will be the largest shareholder in the new company.

The takeover is subject to the approval of other Virgin Mobile shareholders, although Sir Richard owns 72 per cent of the company.

Tomorrow, Virgin Mobile will announce that it has received a takeover approach. That could cause its share price to rocket.

The deal is Sir Richard's largest ever in the City. It will create a company worth close to 5 billion and confirm him as a leading player in financial markets

Yoomedia PLC
05 December 2005


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

5th December 2005

YooMedia plc ('the Company')
Change of Nominated Adviser and Broker


The Board of YooMedia plc is pleased to announce that Seymour Pierce Limited
have been appointed as Nominated Adviser and Broker to the Company with
immediate effect.

* * ENDS * *


Contacts:

Michael Sinclair YooMedia plc Tel: 020 7462 0870
Neil MacDonald YooMedia plc Tel: 020 7462 0870
Mark Percy/Liam O'Donoghue Seymour Pierce Tel: 020 7107 8000
Isabel Crossley St Brides Media Tel: 020 7242 4477


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.


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

Confirmed.......

'Virgin Mobile is in the spotlight after NTL today confirms the speculation that it has made an approach, though to be for around 820m, with the view of creating a TV, telecommunications and mobile company all under the Virgin brand, with Virgin stating its was still considering its response'

just about every programme on TV these days has sometimes several opportunities for viewers to ring or text --the only thing that soothes my irritation with it is the thought that possibly it is all revenue for Yoo !! am I right?

No.

Buy Vodafone!

I believe now that EVO are out of the equation we will see more buys from institutions.

I understand some institutions would not touch any shares where EVO were brokers, which after EVO's bad publicity, you can't blame them.

This will be a turning point for the company, coupled with a more accurate broker note.

With anticipated profits in Q1 2006, we will have an interesting few months ahead.

Regards

this is one of my bankers for 06 20p by feb and then up we go.

Hate to see your other picks.

Anyone know why volume so high today?

Hope you`re right Tanker but I saw your prediction for Morrisons some months ago saying buy before they rise, undervalued. That was months ago and no change. Not that I bought in, but I take any predictions with a large pinch of salt.

Has somebody got wind of some good news in the pipeline judging by the sudden buying frenzy today ? News or comment would be welcome. Obe