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.

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

The 2.6m profit estimate for this year, was before the merger.

Actual 2005 profit, will be well in excess of this figure.

Just had confirmation from David Bainbridge at Yoomobile Ltd, that yes indeed, Yoomedia did provide the SMS service for ITV's prime time TV slot on Saturday Night, The Memory Game - excellent news - ITV now a business partner.

This really is the future of cash strapped Independent TV companies to be able to realise revenue from their broadcasts, as advertising revenues dwindle - expect to see more of this type of programme interaction at prime time slots in the future - it really is the future, if you have a mobile and you are in a room with TV, then you can take part - including whilst out down the pub - lots of possibilities here - like - who scored the first goal - what is the score going to be etc etc.

Just to also reiterate, Yoomobile are the only company, with a patent pending to able to deliver 1,800,000 time stamped SMS messages during a one hour period, to enable broadcasters, like ITV did on Saturaday, to annouce a winner during the broadcast.

Soon, if it is not already happening, Yoomedia will be booked up in advance, as broadcasters fight to secure a slot with them to be able to broadcast interactively via SMS.

A great time ahead, and Yoomedia dominated interactive TV on national ITV on primetime Saturday Viewing - fact - not fiction like some uninformed people post here from time to time.

This should be the wake up call to a lot of people who have yet to invest at these silly prices - and this is just one division of the company !!!!!!!!

Regards

Encouraging mactavish. YOO does look crazily undervalued. The potential does seem enormous. Just need to see some positive results on the back of all those acquisitions.

Yoomedia's RTMSPlatform (Real Time Messaging Service) has a completely unique ability to receive and process up to 1.8 million text messages an hour and provide an audit trail of exactly when those messages were sent by consumers. Other technologies in the market struggle to deal with more than 200,000 messages in an hour and cannot tell precisely the time of sending. This coupled with the ability to live feed captions on-screen via ITVs play-out centre, makes Yoomedia's RTMSPlatform an extremely powerful tool for broadcasters and production companies looking to engage viewers in a completely compelling new way.

iPublic

i don't understand, are you saying there is another companie (whoosh) who also have technolgy or are they part of YOO
Thanks

Shao

shao

Yoomedia bought Whoosh last summer.

Sorry for the confusion and I will amend text above.

More business for Yoomobile??? ITV already a Yoomobile business partner.

http://www.dtg.org.uk/news/news.php?class=countries&subclass=193&id=629

Coronation Street goes iTV


ITV is planning to add interactivity to its long-running soap opera, Coronation Street. The move comes as ITV steps up its involvement in interactive television.

Jane Marshall, controller of interactive television at ITV, told a Financial Times supplement: "The time is right for us now to look for the next level of interactive television beyond votes and competitions.

"2004 was a fantastic year with revenues from our interactive television services up 100% on 2003, and the number of individual interactive transactions made by ITV viewers up from 45m to 72.4m.

"Now that interactive television has proved itself a viable business, we want to enhance ITV viewers' television experience by driving interactivity into new areas."

The FT said the interactive Coronation Street on digital satellite and cable platforms could include additional sub-plots, out-takes, background information and competitions.

http://www.m-ontheweb.com/downloads/news/Loyalty_evolves_on_a_mobile_bedrock__Marketing.pdf

Has anyone got any forward P/E figures for YOO?