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.

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

The bid for Freeview Channel reached over 7.30 million - also, Yoomedia will benefit from Freeview 138 million marketing campaingne financed by the BBC - What a dream come true for Yoomedia - there 1 million per year gamble on Freeview seems to have paid off - - effectively this has to add certain value to the Yoomedia market cap with immediate effect - read on - taken from www.dtg.org.uk - 3rd February 2005

http://www.dtg.org.uk/news/news.php?id=618

MPs praise BBC's role in Freeview

An influential committee of MPs has praised the BBC's role in rescuing the UK's digital terrestrial platform, and the way it then set about promoting Freeview.

In its first report on BBC spending, the Public Accounts Committee examined Freeview, currently in 5m UK households. The report reveals the BBC expects Freeview to be in 9.4m homes by 2014.

By then the BBC intends to have spent up to 138m marketing Freeview.

The report said: "When ITV Digital went into administration in 2002, there was widespread uncertainty about the future of digital terrestrial television. The BBC's investment helped ensure that digital terrestrial television continued and was available subscription-free."

The committee called on the BBC to establish whether a new subscription-free satellite service would be cost effective in areas where Freeview is not yet available.

Freeview is one of six BBC spending areas the National Audit Office (NAO) is allowed to investigate. The NAO cannot choose independently which aspects of BBC spending it examines. The Public Accounts Committee wants the NAO to have wider powers to probe the corporation's 2.6bn of annual licence fee income, and has written to culture secretary Tessa Jowell on the issue.

Committee chairman Edward Leigh wrote: "Our aim is not to rewrite the storyline of EastEnders but simply to ensure that the BBC is as accountable to Parliament as any other organisation spending public money."

A BBC spokeswoman said: "Though in its infancy, we think the arrangements with the NAO are working well and should be given time."

Meanwhile, the bidding contest for the spare channel slot on the Freeview platform closed this week. According to Broadcast magazine, the bids went as high as 7.3m. Bidders were said to include Channel 4, ITV, five, Disney, Universal, Turner, Top-Up TV and Sit-Up TV. Channel 4 and ITV are thought to have bid the highest amounts.

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So, with 138 million of advertising paid for by somebody else, a high profile addition the Freeview stable - either ITV or Channel 4 - both of which are currently clients of Yoomeida - what a double Whammy.

nice 91k "T" trade buy at close.

mactavish, why do we comment on a 91,000 trade but not a 10,000,000 trade at the selling price?

10 million! That must be one of the placings at 15p sold at 17p. Suggests there is probably quite an overhang on the market so that it doesn't move, even on positive trading.

Eric

EW, there does seam to be a huge overhang lets hope it does not take forever to clear, I do fear though that this could just keep happening for a long time as there does not appear to be to much interest from ordinary share holders anymore as they say once bitten twice shy.

Undertand that, M le Gull, and it may be more of an institutions share now. Having enjoyed the ride, though, the last week with NTR helps you understand the potential of this part of the market. Once a company like YOO moves, it can build up a lot of momentum very quickly and then the sky is the limit. I certainly intend to play the Evolution report and leave things open from there.

Eric

Stanley,

Didn't you buy in at 28 Doh!

PS Hows bo--ock brain and gay Sebs doing?

Oily Jim
Dont come here and shit on the penguins hey.

There's a history here ... bit I don't think I want to know it! Eric

Well, if this Saturday evening does not reinforce the true potential of iTV, nothing will

Both prime time slots on ITV this Saturday were occupied by prize giving interactive TV - WWTBAM followed by The Memory Game - right up to 22.50 yes, thats 20.00 to 22.50 of people pressing their red buttons and sending time stamped SMS messages to win cash in their home at the cost of 1.00 per go plus the cost of standard texts on top.

This is the start of the future picture of all the companies generating more revnues using Yoomeida's patented technology to boost dwindling advertising revenues.

Amazing boost for Yoomedian this weekend, which happened at primetime with in excess of 7 million viewers

Regards

a little snippet from the ic prior to the reverse takeover...8/10/04

A stream of deals is now producing explosive revenue growth at Aim-quoted Yoomedia. And, on top of this, there is evidence of strong uptake of digital TV in this country - according to Sky, 85 per cent of digital users go interactive at some point. So it's a plus for Yoomedia that it's the only interactive entertainment group with a presence on all four digital TV platforms: Sky, NTL, Telewest and Freeview.

Yoomedia's most recent deal was to buy MMTV, which holds the contract to provide NHS health information to all four platforms, for between 5m and 11.5m, depending on earn-outs achieved. But, so far this year, growth has been fuelled by the dating business, Dateline. And next year, it looks as though growth will be driven by gambling, accelerated by the recent acquisition of Go-Play TV and Fancy a Flutter. The full effect of these acquisitions won't be felt until next year. Evolution Beeson Gregory expects full-year pre-tax losses of 5.4m, but it's looking for profits of 2.6m and EPS of 1.7p in 2005.

regards