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.

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.

RNS Number:8463H
Multimedia Television PLC
26 January 2005


MultiMedia Television plc

Interim results for the six months to 31 October 2004

Directors Report

Our results for the 6 months to 31 October 2004

The interim statements, which follow, show that MultiMedia Television PLC for
the 6 months to 31 October 2004 has achieved a net profit of #309,000 following
the disposal of MMTV Limited. As explained in our circular of 27 October 2004,
which went to shareholders with the financial statements for our year to
30 April 2004, we successfully completed the sale of this subsidiary to
YooMedia plc in September 2004.

Since that time YooMedia has merged with Digital Interactive Television Group
(DITG), a leading company in the interactive television field. Gambling and
gaming are the two interactive applications generating the most substantial
revenue in the industry at present. For example Sky reported strong growth in
betting and gaming revenues in their First Quarter Results announcement of the
12 November 2004. The YooMedia group is now a major player in both fields with
an important partnership with William Hill created by DITG. We believe that
these developments confirm the wisdom of our decision to dispose of MMTV
Limited and to take a strategic stake in a company that is very well placed
to profit from future developments.

Anything new with YOO?

Nothing new with me how about Yoo;-)

Now, di, what are you doing here? YOO is no longer a penny share; some of us are very unhappy about that because it rose and we didn't have a share in it, in fact we lost. Mind, I still have a CFD and pop in occasionally for news. Will probably give it a run ahead of a potential evolution statement later in Feb.

Eric

Eric,

Yoo is a penny share...a penny share is a share that is under a 1. I have kept my loss making Yoo shares and averaged down by buying more. Yoo is going to make a fortune for me and other Yoo shareholders but only those that keep their nerve cos' it is getting boring but the potential is huge.So we might as well stick with it especially those of us who are making a loss at the mo.
Di

Di

Reckon your right on the potential. Another way into the market being tapped by NLR. I always smile when I see analyses of penny shares in Shares or IC. Take HCEG, which was included as a penny share in the IC even though the cap. was 68M. Then, a sleight of hand with a share consolidation exercise and they are no longer a penny share. Compare SEO and PDX. SEO is a penny share at 8p. The cap. is less than PDX, a 2 share. But SEO is further along the road. If the shares issued were reversed would that make PDX the penny share? Not sure whether this is academic or not - some people go for penny shares; others steer clear. Back to YOO, rather than you, getting rather a vibe feeling about later this month; are YOU?

Eric

Eric,

I think things will start to happen in Feb if that's what you mean.

lots of activity today - over 11 million shares changed hands already.

Interims, September 2003.

"We have invested in and launched the first ever games channel on
Freeview called Free2Play and have secured the right to run pay to play games on
the platform. The strategic value of this deployment cannot be underestimated
as we believe that Freeview will rapidly become a significant alternative to
BSkyB. The distribution deal concluded between MieTV Limited (a company that we
invested in earlier this year) and Crown Castle is for in excess of 6 years from
the date of launch. The channel launched on 23 May 2003."

So Yoomedia have the rights to channel 53, until at least May 2009.

Crown Castle are about to announce the winning bidder for the latest Freeview channel, due to be launched early summer. The winning bid is expected to be in excess of 5m, just for one years broadcasting rights. Yoomedia now own the whole of MieTV, having bought the whole company in the autummn of 2004.

ITV, C4, C5, Disney and other American networks are reported to have placed sealed final bids for the new channel, closing date 31st Jan. Many will be disappointed, still requiring a platform for their respective services.

What an asset Yoomedia now have. I will not speculate on where we go from here, although this is leading in two distinct directions. Either way, it will be very good news for shareholders.

1 February 2005 Prev | Index

Interactive TV begins to reward early investment
The former director of new media at the BBC says interactive television is not standing still and the overall trend is towards a symbiotic relationship between television and interactivity.

David Docherty, chief executive of YooMedia writes about interactive television in a guest column in Ariel, the BBC in-house weekly paper.

He cites Steve Ballmer, the Microsoft chief executive who was quoted to be really excited by iTV, but added admittedly Ive been excited about it for eight years, but the market might be ready for it now (informitv, 6 October 2004).

YooMedia is certainly betting on that excitement. The public company describes itself as one of the fastest growing interactive entertainment companies in the UK. It is a claim that has some foundation given its recent acquisitions, which have led to the creation of an interactive business second in size only to BSkyB, covering everything from public service government information to chat, dating and gambling.

David Docherty, a former director of new media at the BBC, writes that Interactivity should have a symbiotic, rather than parasitic relationship with linear television, adding that it works best when its part of the creative mix, rather than a bolt on.

The original idea for BBC Choice, subsequently re-launched as BBC Three, was as a side channel to BBC One and BBC Two, offering an extension to conventional programming. He admits it was too early in the technology cycle, and the idea was scrapped in favour of a linear channel. Ironically, the hit comedy Little Britain, which transferred from BBC Three, via BBC Two to BBC One, was itself recently the subject of a series of interactive extras.

He goes on to say that interactivity will work even better if it takes advantage of the different mobile and wireless devices that are emerging as companions and competitors to interactive television. The underlying trend for the relationship between interactive devices and television is not convergence, but what you might call permanence, he writes.

He observes that Interactive TV is not standing still and IPTV (internet protocol television) will produce rich media specially optimised for television that will rival PC-based content for richness and depth.

Finally he says that as mobile devices allow for richer interactive TV experiences, programme-makers should think in an integrated way about the creative possibilities for maintaining a relationship with the audience, adding that for the BBC the public value could be huge.

www.yoomedia.com

BBC, Business, Channels, IPTV, Programmes

http://informitv.com/articles/2005/02/01/interactivetvbegins/

wilbs