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.

Yoomedia PLC
21 December 2004


YooMedia plc ('YooMedia' or 'The Company')

ACQUISITIONS AND PLACING COMPLETION

Further to yesterday's announcement YooMedia is pleased to announce that the
acquisitions of DITG and TGC were completed at 8.00am today, 21 December 2004,
following the admission of the consideration and placing shares to trading on
AIM.

21 December 2004

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17 December 2004
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The man who sees the future Under David Docherty, new media's leading visionary,
Yoomedia's turnover is rocketing and the company's
starting to look like a serious interactive rival to BSkyB
BY SUSAN THOMPSON
DAVID jDocherty, Yoomedia's chief executive,
is something of a media clairvoyant.
Even BBC director general Mark
Thompson, and last week the busiest
man in the industry, took the time to tell
Broadcast why he still regularly rings his
old colleague for a forecast.
"What he is thinking about now, the rest
of us will all be thinking about in three or
four years' time," Thompson says.
Alan Yentob, the BBC's creative director,
adds: "David has always been on top
of new technologies. It is uncharted territory
and you need foresight to see and
think ahead. He is very good at imagining
the future."
It's an interesting insight into Docherty,
the former BBC and Telewest executive,
who this month orchestrated Yoomedia's
28m acquisition of the Digital
Interactive Television Group (DITG) and
The Gaming Channel (TGC), the company
behind betting service Avago and
William Hill's betting channels.
The group is now the biggest interactive
TV company after Sky and the
only one to operate its services on all
platforms - satellite, Freeview, NTL and
Telewest. It will focus on gaming, dating
and chat and the red-button technology
services that were provided by DITG. As
an enlarged entity, Yoomedia has
increased its annual turnover from
around 300,000 to more than 60m.
Not a patch on Sky's 300m plus
turnover but, according to Mathew
Horsman, director of research at consultancy
Mediatique: "Watch this space."
In the next year alone, Docherty hopes
to launch at least one channel - "a dating
channel, because that would complete
our set" - and expand into the US. "It's
a few years behind us in interactive TV
so if you are seen as being one of the
leading players here then you have a
market waiting for you over there."
For Docherty, all of this can't happen
quickly enough. This is a man who, after
all, has been imploring people to jump on
the interactive bandwagon for the best
part of 10 years.
"I was in the BBC when nobody cared
about digital and the possibilities of interactive
TV. I cared about it from 1994.
John [Birt] was great about the internet in
1996 but not digital TV," he says. It was
not until 1998, when Docherty was scheduling
BBC1 and BBC2 as deputy managing
director of television and director
of new media that he said to his then boss,
Will Wyatt, that they should get digital
going. "So we created a team made up of
producers such as Roly Keating and said
we want to create a raft of TV channels.
"We launched UKTV and all the BBC
digital channels. I came up with the idea
for the children's channels CBeebies and
CBBC - it was a fantastic time. We also
did BBC Choice. My original vision for
it was to be interactive. I had convinced
John Birt to sign it off and then the
techies turned round and said that they
couldn't do it yet!"
Thompson puts Docherty's work at the
BBC into context: "So many of the things
that TV is now centring on - the new digital
channels, the idea of interactivity and
using interactive television to build
beyond the main channels - a lot of this
thinking was first developed by David. He
was ahead of his time in many respects."
This reputation is also undoubtedly
why Docherty led one of the hypothetical
pitches this month for Ofcom's proposed
public service publisher (PSP).
Docherty's proposed brand "Six" was the
perfect opportunity for him to let the creative
juices flow. It was also a release: "I
was doing the PSP when I was doing the
[Yoomedia/DITG] deal. It took me out of
the grind of working through the detail
and I liked the idea of doing my own
quixotic bid."
Docherty, who's writing his fourth
thriller and is learning to play the piano
(how does he fit it all in?) says he's "terrified,
even petrified" of regret. "I'm 48
and I hate the idea that I'm going to get to
65 and think: 'If only I'd written that
novel or if only I'd learnt how to play the
piano'." Yet he is happier now than he
has ever been. As interactive TV begins
to come of age, it looks as though this
innovative Scot is coming of age as well.
"If one was doing a profile on David
15 years ago one would have heard accusations
of arrogance, an absolute ability
to believe in one's own rhetoric," says
David Kogan, chief executive of Reel
Enterprises and one of Docherty's PSP
teammates. "Certainly in the past four or
five years there has been a radical change
there - he has learnt to listen a lot more."
The turning point, says Docherty, was
breaking free from the BBC in 2000.
Persuaded by his friend and new chief
executive of Telewest Adam Singer,
Docherty made the move into the commercial
world as managing director of
broadband at the company.
He describes it as being like the "Wild
West" compared with the BBC - and for
the best part of two years he championed
a series of content projects including
"Living Health", an NHS-backed interactive
content pilot. His move into the
commercial world was rewarded when
Yoomedia executive chairman Dr
Michael Sinclair offered him the role of
chief executive. Adam Singer, now a member of the
Ofcom content board, says: "David was
first an academic and then he was a BBC
person. Telewest allowed him to stop
being a public servant and reinvent himself
as a commercial person. He did get a
reputation in the BBC of being quite
angular but at Telewest he worked very
hard at being a team player."
"And," adds Thompson, "when you
add that commercial experience he has
now picked up, it looks like he is going to
be an unstoppable force, really."
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Yoomedia PLC
29 December 2004


YooMedia PLC (the 'Company')

HOLDING IN COMPANY



The Company was informed on 29 December 2004 by Perpetual Income & Growth
Investment Trust plc that they are the beneficial owner of 17,137,500 ordinary
shares of 1p each in the Company, representing 3.80 per cent. of the issued
share capital of the Company.


These shares are registered in the name of Vidacos Nominees Limited.



29 December 2004





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Yoomedia PLC
29 December 2004


YooMedia PLC (the 'Company')

HOLDING IN COMPANY


The Company was informed on 29 December 2004 by Lloyds TSB Group Plc that they
are interested in 14,850,000 ordinary shares of 1p each in the Company,
representing 3.30 per cent. of the issued share capital of the Company.

This notification was made on behalf of Lloyds TSB Group Plc and its
subsidiaries.


29 December 2004





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Evo research note will be out in the new year. Notifiable interest releases today show the kind of Parties getting involved who would never have even looked at YOO prior to enlargement............take heart from this. Theres no looking back now!

Institutions on board just wait for the acquisitions to start producing results and then the sp will go north! I feel a possible multi bagger for those with patience and vision!! they won't be this price in 6 months time--IMHO. DYOR etc!

Like the look of this so bought in earlier. Looks a good year ahead for yoo. Doin well on jarvis at the mo.

wilbs

moneyplus,
We were saying won't be paying this price when at 25-30p not so long back, we were right, the tossers reduced it significantly. Before you say it, I know it looks good for the future from here and maybe they say it had to be this way to get the funds but still not happy that existing holders did not get a chance of options at 15p. Anyway, still holding at loss, if you are right I will get out when I have my money back and invest in a company that treats non-institutional, ordinary shareholders with a tad of decency and respect.
Strange thing is, I should have bought shares in Jarvis instead, would have made decent profit by now that could have been put into Yoo at less than 20p!!
That's ya choice, invest in basket case and make a quick buck or invest in decent looking company and get screwed by the management!!
My head says buy more YOO but,,,, not a happy bunny.

Andy-don't blame you for feeling sore! I feel the same about CFP, change of management shares driven down etc! But despite the way it was done and the weak excuses that they needed the cash asap. the deal looks excellent for their future growth so I hope the institutions must be buying for long term and I'm happy to hang in there with them. ps I jumped in and bought more CFP--sucker or what?? 2005 fingers crossed. Didn't have the nerve to buy Jarvis as I got my fingers badly burnt with Marconi--will take years to even break even there!

When they believe the company to be worth more than it is at the moment they will issue more shares. +/- 20p for a couple of years if all goes well.

moneyplus

You and I are suckers in common - in YOO and CFP! Mind you, look back at the success stories and it is rarely a straightforward process; ASC is a good case in point. I reckon one is generally better off trading companies you know, partly because you are better able to predict movements and, if the unpredictable happens as with both YOO and CFP, better able to react promptly. My view is that both will be amongst the winners for 2005.

Eric

Standard life disposed of all their shares in May 2003, cant seam to find when they reinvested. Anyone care to enlighten?

andysmith, only just read your post and it reflects how i feel. will the price make rapid progress?Once everyone had got their cheap shares you would think the price would have already moved north?

Will, on some other bb's such as BPRG, i know investors are pissed off with traders driving the sp and some are on hefty losses right now. What pisses me off with this one is that normal people invest in a company and get screwed.
Tempted to say fuck it, sell the bastards and send the money to the Tsunami fund, a much more deserving cause than these "feather your own nest" wankers.

I still think YOO will do well, just don't like way we've been treated, like alot of things, not what you do, it's the way that you do it.

Still if SEO do as I expect, I won't give a shit, Yoo is less than 5% of my portfolio anyway.

andysmith

I share much of your frustration. I do accept, though, that the company has moved on to higher ground with substantial institutional investors. The price doesn't seem to react to the previous level of small trades, nor even to the #30K sale late today. A key event will be the expected forthcoming Evolution statement which presumably will include forecasts. Any talk of YOO being the microsoft of digital TV is bound to bring the speculators. Sky may be a better comparator but that type of comparison would also take them to higher ground. However, my interest has waned somewhat because its difficult to see the multiples with the cap already at #60m.

Eric

Yep, definitely frustrated with this one, let my anger out in last post.
I will see what happens but if no tick-up in sp early in 2005 will put the dosh elsewhere and forget about it.

To all, apologies for my appalling language on post 410, just how it makes YOO feel. 2004 was my first year at this with more downs than ups but some good winners and good potentials for next year that I am ever hopeful of.
Made mistakes, hope I learn from them but YOO shows some are out of your hands.
Good luck to all in 2005.

This BB has given me my best year for years. Better than any mag. tips to follow the threads and research the ones that interest you. I try to watch then pick ones that make decent profits for a bit of safety, plus lots of potential growth even then you need the market to like them and push the share price up otherwise you sit on them for months with very little movement--boring!!
Good ones so far are ACE, NLR, SBT. I am still waiting for SCD and PAY to take off but I'm confident they will. This is only my opinion not recommends DYOR and good luck for 2005! Any shares that Goldfinger posts on are usually but not always worth following he does a lot of research. The real money seems to lie in trading but I'm too much of a coward! cheers MP

Yoomedia Launches FancyaFlutter.co.uk
By staff
16 December 2004, London. Yoomedia PLC ('Yoomedia'), the interactive entertainment company, has today announced the launch of FancyaFlutter.co.uk. in a move that extends its position at the leading edge of interactive gaming in the UK.

The launch of the new website marks Yoomedia's first step into online gaming, and is an important step in the company's goal to establish its gaming brands across all the major interactive media including Digital TV, the web and mobile phone. Since its launch in February 2003, FancyaFlutter has also enjoyed a prominent position within Sky Active's Betting Zone.


The move also compliments Yoomedia's recent merger with DITG (Digital Interactive Television Group), whose gaming assets include the Avago and William Hill channels on Sky. All of Yoomedia's gaming brands operate in the 'soft', fixed odds gaming market, a sector which has seen massive growth in the last 12 months, particularly among women.


The launch of the online version of FancyaFlutter has allowed Yoomedia to develop better quality, more sophisticated games than are possible over digital interactive television. New features of the online games include animation that improves the visual experience for gamers, a winners area which showcases the latest lucky players and the ability to adjust the volume and picture quality according to the speed of your internet connection. New games include Neptune's Keno, Grand National Keno and Kenosaurus, as well as multi-line slot games, Horror Show and Monte Carlo Millions. The site will also include roulette, Beachball Bingo and scratch card game, Dino Scratch.


Commenting on the launch, David Docherty, Yoomedia's CEO, said: 'The launch of FancyaFlutter.co.uk consolidates Yoomedia's position at the forefront of interactive gaming in the UK. Yoomedia now have a strong presence on all the main interactive platforms, including television, mobile and now online. FancyaFlutter has developed into a strong, popular brand on Sky, and due to the high quality of the games we have developed, and the simple way in which you can play for as little as 10 pence, we expect FancyaFlutter.co.uk to attract large numbers of players in the online world'.


FancyaFlutter.co.uk will be supported with a promotional campaign and will include email, mobile, affiliate and SEO elements as well as partnership promotions.




http://www.onlinecasinonews.com/ocnv2_1/Article/article.asp?id=7028


http://www.fancyaflutter.co.uk/nav?page=home

wilbs

Lots of buying today-sp recovering, those who are still in should be feeling happier. I hope 30p by Easter!