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.

YOO is busted flush.

FACT.

Dil is correct with his analysis on this shit bag of a company.

What wonderful English onthedolegit. Perhaps this is the reason for your lack of a job?

No offence.

dil is quite wrong it does have viewers Sinclair and Macdonald watch it, so 2 viewers is better than none lol.

lol

Seems to be a race between YOO and ZOO to be the first to reach 1p, at the moment ZOO looks to be hot favourite but you never know with YOO, they could easily beat ZOO in a photo finish.

Looks like someone has just dumped 2 million reason for the fall. Institution selling had enough?

Sums it up Bulletin board favourite!!! funny

SmallWorld: Would Yoo believe it?

Yoomedia has always been one of those companies to watch from a distance. A favourite of the bulletin boards, it has lurched unsteadily from acquisitions and contract wins to profit warnings and disasters. In the process, the share price has slid ever lower.

Neil MacDonald, managing director since last June, is aiming to steady the ship. Yoomedia provides "interactive content and services" (translation: it organises betting, dating, voting, buying and selling via the internet, TV and mobile phones). Mr MacDonald is shifting the business model slightly - rather than organising these services for its own consumer brands, Yoomedia will now organise them for bigger organisations who don't have the in-house expertise. The client list already includes Gala Bingo, Celador, Boots, Budweiser, Nestle, NHS Direct, the BBC and Sky.

It's a sensible strategy. Yoomedia has the expertise, but doesn't have the resources to promote new consumer brands. Far better, then, to focus on the technical know-how and leave the marketing to others.

But there are drawbacks. The company is now reliant on partnerships with large companies, whose priorities can change overnight. What is a core project one day can be low priority the next. Yoomedia's projects have been delayed by M&A activity at both William Hill and NTL in the last year. If Yoomedia worked on a simple contract basis, such delays might not be too serious. But in order to maximise future income, many of Yoomedia's contracts are based on revenue share. If the larger partner delays implementation, Yoomedia's revenues suffer.

So despite the promising reorganisation ("We'll get back to being a single company, rather than the five headed monster we resembled last year," says Mr MacDonald,) Yoomedia's revenues may well remain volatile for a while. So while its worth a closer look than it was last year, don't expect a smooth ride.

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Lol bit bullish that article aint it ???

Cafff , tell us again where we're going wrong .

Ta

hi dil, come and read the Dowgate thread you might be interested in whats happeneing!

Okey kokey

First impression , looks like a bit of a dog and chart crap.

Will try and take a closer look but it just aint my cuppa tea.

Good luck Kivver.

no dil, read the thread, the last few posts.

Dil

DGT is certainly not a dog, read the article in The Business today. It finally confirms what quite a few of us have been saying for over two years.

Apologies for being off topic.

pth

every shares a dog to dill being a sheperd he only knows sheep and dogs

and he's good at spotting rampers!

thats why he thought your share was a dog

lol, nice one dgt .8p today. have you looked at the yoo share price graph, are you positive or negative on this share, ive not read the thread for ages. By the way if i would have listened to Dil on the BPRG thread i would be a lot better off today!!

Yeah saw the Business were ramping it Kivver :-)