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.

iPublic

Good to see the sp recovering - volumes not so high; some positive days at 17p saw no share movement. How do you justify projection of 30p given that would mean cap. of 135M. Have little doubt of potential but suspect it may take quite a bot longer. Shouldn't we have had Evolution statment by now? Letting the CFD position run and may well add to it on positive news.

Eric

What's happened to the Evolution statement? I doubt they've gone shy; more likely gone away with their money!

Eric

Eric,

Your confidence in this company is such they should reward you, but I doubt it as it might take money out of the Directors pockets and that would never do! John

We've been promised--the next Microsoft!! LOL.

john

Confidence in the company is a commodity with which I am left little (that's a nice tortuous statement - a bit like YOO's directors!). I was interested to receive an offer doucment from MLS (Medical Solutions) raising money with some urgency. Half the money via placement, the other half in a one for 10 to existing holders. The YOO's directors statement that they didn't have time for a partial rights issue was a load of codswallop! A lot of us have long memories and are left with a sore head the size of an elephant's!

Eric

Well, finally decided to get out of this. With small rise last week was tempted to hold on and recover my hefty loss but after it fell yesterday I'd had enough.
Better choices elsewhere and I'm >10% up so far this year so sod it, looking to get my money back elsewhere, which of my three flyers shall I top up on, MDW/SEO or IDS?
Good luck to everyone who sticks with this one, I no longer wish to be part of a company that screws its investors and I am happier that I no longer have to look at them in my portfolio. As EW says, could have been done so differently.
Good Luck.

Andysmith...For the short term I cannot blame you but regardless of recent happenings, long term this is still a good investment so I am sticking with it. Out of the 3 other stocks you mention go for SEO. IMHO this is likely to make a packet this year and longer term whoopeeeee!!! SEO have my money as well as NOP another potential ten bagger.

Good Luck.
Diana

Thanks for that, I am a big bull on SEO for reasons you may see on their thread.
I really thought YOO could deliver for me but a big %age loss was getting on my nerves and with others flying I thought I'd get rid and try and recover elsewhere as I think it might take YOO at least 12-18months to show it can deliver. Its on my watchlist though and I may come back in later.
Glad I only dipped my toe in though, %age loss bad, actual dosh loss can live with.

andysmith

I suspect most of the trades I do result from comparing a share I don't hold with one I do. Have just bought SEO today (via CFDs) with funds from extracting myself from a sizeable loss with PET. Down to one CFD with YOO which seems a reasonable way to play them. But SEO start from a smaller cap. and are really on the launch pad. Have decided to retain the interest in YOO until the results and take it from there. But my frustration remains at the treatment meted out to existing shareholders.

Eric

I am completely fed up with YOO. Every time they rise a little they are going to be whacked by some newbie dumping 900,000 chunks onto the market. Have been shafted by YOO and am looking for better climbers elsewhere.

Sell, this will take years if ever to come good.

Poverty,
I'd get rid if I was you, take the hit and move on, it just gets on your nerves and eats away at you otherwise. My tips, SEO, potential ten bagger and MDW.
I have IDS which is flying and I am >150% up on but for real massive potential to recover your losses, it has to be SEO/MDW.

Andysmith- For the longer term this is still a good share, I'm holding out for the future. I totally agree with you though SEO is a future ten bagger and I am certainly in that one for the longer term too.
Diana

I am in for the longer term as the recent deal has made the company a much bigger player and more likely to bring in big investors etc. I have added with fingers crossed!! Talk of SEO needing to raise funds today so although their tec. is good their finances are a little worrying-damages, court case expenses etc. so I'm staying out for a while. lost too much money on a dog called SIP.

I lost money on my PET too!!!!!!

I haven;t caught the SEO bug yet - not too convinced! They are on a cap of 50m already and lots of folks seem to be using this little spike as a chance to hoppit and sell. Reading the SEO BB you'd think they'd found gold under the carpet or something

Interesting comments. I think it all depends what your investment objectives are. YOO is now a medium-termer with potential to climb towards the mid-cap. I suspect a lot of us were looking for a decent killing as they rose towards 100K; that potential has been removed by what I see as an immoral, but unfortunately not illegal, act. That doesn't stop me trading them though and I am holding them in a CFD awaiting a piece of good news.

Eric

Anyone selling Yoo to buy others, should still consider the size of director and quality of institutional investors.

I know nothing of the other shares tipped on this thread but I am aware that LloydsTSB has taken a 3.2% stake in Yoomedia among other top quality institutions.

Some of you seem to forget that Yoo can be compared to a mini BSKYB. A broad spread of divisions, but most importantly, we now have our own return path and browser. We can develop our own in house content, launching multiple channels on Sky, Cable and indeed Freeview, using our mobile technology as the return path for Freeview. In addition we can provide the broadcasting infrastruture to third party program makers, providing them with all their requirements, independant of SKY or anyone else.

Some of you seem very short sighted and appear to feel 18 months or two years is to long to see if Yoo can make it into market cap 200m+. With the current cap around 80m, this does not feel at all expensive when one considers the potential here.

I'm expect Yoo to provide content, return path, for the new ITV4, interactive gaming and gambling channel, to be launched later this year. Debbie Mason, the lady in charge of ITV4, founded AVAGO and will almost certainly now be a Yoomedia shareholder. This will be major league mainstream, 24 hour interactive content.

I feel we shall be treated to much good news, in the next 12 months. Good luck whatever you decide.

When I can see signs of results being delivered then I might step back in but for now I had some new things I wanted to try. I had to sacrifice something and with most of my others doing well or having equal or better potential I was reluctant to sell them so I sacrificed YOO as they had done existing shareholders. I do however agree with the view that there is massive potential for YOO but with so many shares in issue, most preferentially bought at low prices it might take a while to break past 20p and stick.
20p is 33% profit for some lucky sods and even 18p is 20% so they will keep taking it in dribs and drabs just in case it doesn't come off as expected. I can't wait that long to break-even.
I respect anyone prepared to hold and wait, Good Luck.

iPublic/mactavish:

I am not sure who you represent but if for instance YOO were prepared to post on their Website the internal Business Plan that was used to justify the last acquisition, and then started to meet some of the numbers used, we as humble investors might start to change our minds about what is going on here and put some of hard earned cash on the table. To suggest YOO is another Microsoft, suggests massive growth in which case you will not mind publishing the numbers, because that sort of growth has to come through to the bottom line very quickly. I suggest to you that YOO is not another Microsoft and these statements are mispeading to say the least. I look forward to you proving me wrong?