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.

WILBS

"OPTIMISTIC SEEKS AIM LISTING WITH SUPPORT FROM TV COMEDIANS

Media entrepreneur Jasper Smith and Channel Four's former strategy director David Brook will receive stakes valued at over six million pounds from the floatation of their television programming business, Optimistic Entertainment, on Aim. Mr Smith and Mr Brook will be chairman and chief executive of the listed firm, which was set up a year ago. They qualify for the majority of the 4.5 million pounds options package granted to management under the terms of which the firm is reversing into a private shell company."


Optimistic Entertainment, formerly The Optimistic Network, operate Nation 217 on SKY.

They ARE a customer of DITG who provide the return path and other services for Nation 217. So this is more good news for Yoomedia. This is mentioned in the aquisition letter and Nation217 is also listed as a partner on the TGG website. So more business coming Yoo's way.

Tv commerce, not heard of but will research if I find time. Currently snowed under with paperwork!

OEP.

Trading has started with the placement price of 5p. The SP is already 6.5p. At 5p, the market cap was 26.77m, so now well above 30m.

Then consider Yoomedia only paid 28m for DITG, with the two channels, AVAGO and the Willaim Hill branded channel, all the gambling games, third party content agreements and the whole technology package. Sounds like the deal was a bargain.

Could this be the sexy sector of 2005, creeping up on us?

Thanks for that iPublic. I cant find much on Tv commerce but like yourself Ive got alot on but will try and find something on them.

iturama. Thanks for the post. You are down from 10-12 stocks to 5; I am up from 5 to 8; perhaps having become too much overweight on ASC. Technically speaking you are right re momentum and the signals are very neutral. YOO management are absorbing their acquisitions and have also restructured. Evolution, pointed out above, are not able to make a statement for two months after the EGM, say about 21st Feb. My expectation, I think reasonable, is that this will be newsworthy and set a positive target for share value. But YOO is in number 6 to 8 of my shares and has to compete with new investments I've taken on board: SEO, PDX and MDW already this year. So what of prospective ASC down-sizing goes into YOO is a question that I will leave to an appraisal at the time.

Eric

Just so you all know, the integration of the DITG/TGG aquisitions, appears to be going well.

I sent an e.mail to AVAGO, using the address on the AVAGO website and recieved a very prompt reply from

Dannii Lower
Marketing
Yooplay Gambling and Games

A very good sign.

I.M.H.O.

Thank you, Eric. Actually, I am only down to 8 at present but intend to reduce to about 5 and keep more cash on hand for the right opportunity.

ITV/Yoomedia, Millionaire text game, smashes expectations.

http://www.yoomedia.com/pdfs/MediaGuardian.pdf

Read the last paragraph. For the first time ever on this BB, I'm speechless!

Have a nice weekend.

iPublic

Good spot! Good reference! Good future - the shape of things to come!

Eric

Millionaire hits text jackpot
Dominic Timms
Wednesday January 19, 2005
ITV has received more than a million texts since it began an interactive mobile
version of its long-running gameshow, Who Wants to be A Millionaire?
In a welcome boost both to its coffers and the six-year-old show's ratings, ITV hit
the million text milestone just over two months after launching the Walkaway
game last November.
As traditional advertising revenues come under pressure, ITV has banked its
proportion of the 1m generated by the game which it shares with Celador, the
programme's producers, and Yoo Mobile, the interactive entertainment firm which
provides the service.
The text version has also helped retain audiences for the show, which has
become the most popular TV quiz show in the world since it launched in
September 1998, but has been hit by a falling ratings.
The text version of the show comes into operation when a contestant decides to
walk away from the next question and keep what prize money they have
accumulated.
Once this happens host Chris Tarrant throws the question open to viewers who
have pre-registered for the text service. The fastest one to reply correctly to a
text message tie-breaker wins 1,000.
The text version has seen the fastest take up rates of any Millionaire spin-off,
according to Celador's head of interactive TV, Simon Gunning.
"The take-up rate has been fantastic. It taps directly in to what everybody is doing
on their mobiles anyway but it also plugs into what they normally do, which is
shout at the telly with the right or wrong answer," he said.
Launched first in the UK but also rolling out in France, Germany and Slovenia,
the Walkaway game is also helping to stem the fall in ratings in the 105 territories
in which the show now airs.
"Walkaway gives viewers additional reasons to stay with the show. It extends the
vitality of the programme."
ITV has used Millionaire as a launchpad into the world of interactive TV and
gaming and now has PC, Playstation, online and arcade versions of the hit show.
Celador said it was planning to roll out the show across many of its international
markets that supported Yoo Mobile's time-stamping technology.

"Celador said it was planning to roll out the show across many of its international
markets that supported Yoo Mobile's time-stamping technology."

"Launched first in the UK but also rolling out in France, Germany and Slovenia,
the Walkaway game is also helping to stem the fall in ratings in the 105 territories
in which the show now airs."

This news should cheer everyone up for the weekend--those with patience will be holding a multi bagger IMHO. of course! I'm hanging on to mine. cheers MP

"As traditional advertising revenues come under pressure, ITV has banked its
proportion of the 1m generated by the game which it shares with Celador, the
programme's producers, and Yoo Mobile, the interactive entertainment firm which
provides the service."

ITV will definately be using our exclusive, patented, time stamping technology, in ever increasing proportions. Two things among dozens of other projects in the next 12 months will be:

1. ITV, energised by this new, substantial revenue stream, will work with Yoomobile and other indendant content producers to develop and broadcast quiz shows, on prime time TV, where the viewers are encouraged to answer say half a dozen questions, each and every show, bringing in millions of texts, as the concept of fully immersive, viewer participation, sweeps the nation. This is not a dream, it's going to happen. ITV have to do something about their shrinking advertising revenues.

2. For future series of Millionaire, Celador either, expand the text game to engage the viewer ever more, OR, create a spin off of Millionaire, produced exclusively for the players at home. Celador are obviously delighted.

I understand now why Yoomobile have or have patents pending, in all sectors of the world. This is going to be huge, gradually buliding up a head of steam over the next 12 to 18 months. Then in 18 months time, when we march into the FTSE 250, you will look back on this day and realise it was the moment when you realised all the hype and talk, was about to be realised. This is just the start.

I'm convinced Yoomobile will develop into a highly profitable business in it's own right inside 18 months, capable of commanding a 100m+ price tag alone. That's only one of many divisions of Yoomedia.

Great news all round - when this filters through I am sure we'll see upward movement on the shares. A thought for all you techno-buffs, what is the next logical step to a text game ? If 3G takes off in a big way are in we for video clips or interactive participation ? Just a thought. I am sure that YOO is in the right place at the right time and is going to be big.

Yoo Mobile will now recieve guaranteed and significant revenue streams as Celador roll out the 'Walkaway' concept across Europe and other international markets, who's mobile infrastructure support Yoo Mobile's time-stamping technology. A possible 105 countries using our patented, exclusive, time stamping system.

In my excitement, I overlooked this paragraph on page 2.

"The "ancillary" income generated by interactive games, voting and other services
has quadrupled in value over the past five years. According to figures released by Ofcom, overall "ancillary" income rose 51% in 2003 to 981m, outstripping the 11% rise in subscription income and 3% growth of advertising."

iPublic

You are such an advocate of YOO, I wonder why you have not invested 20K in the Second ASOS Challenge column. Where will YOO be on 1st July? My own view is +50%. Haven't entered YOO myself because too predictable - happy with a CFD or two! Looking for the n-baggers! 8 p.m. Sunday cut off.

Eric

iPublic

Im looking to buy into YOO as Im finally convinced of its long-term potential. I just wanted your opinion on where the SP is heading in the short-term. Is now a good time to buy or can you see any reason for temporary weakness in the next few months? Do you think the action will begin with the run up to the preliminary announcement in march?

Chad

I feel all of your questions have already been discussed over the last few weeks.

New broker research note coming in a few weeks, I know this as I e.mailed the research analyst at EVO and asked him. The downside is limited by a top blue chip like Lloyds TSB taking a +3% stake in Yoomedia. They would not have invested in an AIM stock lightly.

thanks iPublic

Tipped in the Daily Express - http://www.sharecrazy.com/dailies/paper/index.html

350k buy just went thru'@19.50p above buying price of 19p.