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.

Your behaviour today is a disgrace.

Gull wrote:

"The other cause for concern here is the potential dumping of another 25%(120m) of the shares in issue during the course of next year. One has to deduce that this will put further pressure on from the beginning of 2006."

What Gull forgets to mention, is he is refering to the 120m shares, the new Yoomedia directors own, the board of DITG & TGG. Why would they sell? Has the Gull any evidence to suggest they will? Of course he has not! Why did the Gull deliberately not mention, what shares he was refering to. So the Gull is suggesting, NO share is EVER worth buying, incase the directors sell!

and

"Just to top things off the longer this takes to recover the more time is given to other companies to possibly develop better technologies ie by the time we are able to remove the diving gear someone may have developed something better."

I really don't understand this at all. Gull feels a depressed share price, means Yoomedia won't be able to deliver it's products and services. What utter rubbish. Gull, I'm not sure Mr David Bainbridge, Director of Yoomobile would agree with you, or any of the Yoomedia board for that matter. Can you please clarify this statement, or readers will see it for the utter drivel it is.

I don't believe you own any shares and suspect you sold today, at 18p or below.

Can I remind all the readers of this BB, what Gull stated, on another BB yesterday.

Apparently, he left 10000 in his current account, without realising he would not receive any interest and got a complete shock when the 12 month passed. What a complete and utter fool. Should he even be let near the stock market, if he can't even manage his own basic cash savings. Please remember this, the next time he posts his drivel.

I have lost all respect for you as a poster and an investor.

So Gull - iTV does not have a future, so why is one of the biggest national UK broadcasters, ITV, who just happen to be a client of Yoomedia, are putting so much into iTV ( just a couple of weekends ago primetime saturday night TV on ITV was dominated by Yoomedia interactive TV, not forgetting they have a regular saturday TV slot on CD:UK ), and here is one recent news release from ITV regarding iTV:-

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.

End of story.

Also, why is Celador rolling out its SMS partnership game with Yoomedia worldwide ????? - its not for the fun of it, it is because the additional revenue it is providing

Why is it that interactive & SMS marketing suddenly seems to be flavour of the month with a lot of the large international companies, such as Nestle, who happen to have appointed Yoomedia to run its current national Kit Kash marketing through to September this year ???????

Why is it that Yoomedia was able to easily raise 28 million recently to enalarge the group of companies, to become second only to BSKYB in the iTV arena ?????????

Oh yes, have you forgotten about the 15 million NHS contract Yoomedia have, and the fact that Yoomedia are currently working in a framework to bring 12 Local Authories onto DTV.

Maybe you did not see, that Yoomedia, in partnership with NTL, are soon to launch Broadband TV, do you know what the possibilities with this are ???, video on demand etc ????,interactive gaming of a quality found on the internet via broadband.

Do you understand the significance of Yoomedia owning a digital red button return path, if not, I would suggest you do some research to find the significance of this.

Do you understand the significance of Yoomedia being able to timestamp, and guarantee delivery of 1.8 million SMS messages during a live broadcast, via its Whoosh technology, to enable outcomes of votes and competions before the programme ends ????

Do you understand the significance of Yoomedia being able initiate a return path during live TV and Radio broadcast via a mobile phone, for those digital viewers that watch via Freeview, or anologue TV ?????

Do you realise the significance of having David Docherty on the board of directors, do you know his background, and the high regard he has from many people in the broadcasting industry. ?????

Did you not know that 20 months ago, Yoomedia turned over 300 K, with a shareprice of 1p, and are likely to now in 2005 turnover in excess of 100 m and return a profit ( not bad for a company that is going nowhere in your opinion ), with a shareprice that has gone up 19 fold as of today - all will be revealed in a trading statement soon - check out the last five years accounts of BSKYB - that should make interesting reading for you.

Did you know that Yoomedia have an association in one form or another with BBC, ITV, Channel 4 & Channel 5 - all the major national broadcasters - did you know that Yoomedia are the only company in the UK that are able to provide interactive services across all digital platforms - BSKYB, NTL, Telewest and Freeview.

Did you know that Yoomedia now own Avago - the company that got its 1 million set up fees back in the space of three months of launch, did you know that William Hill, one of the biggest bookmakers in the UK, is in partnership with Yoomedia's Sky Active channel 425 ???

Did you know that revenues from Fancy a Flutter are currently increasing month on month ????

Did you know that by 2012, the whole of the UK with be viewing DTV - yes the entire nation will at some time use a Yoomedia service of somesort.

Did you know that ITV is fast losing its advertising revenues, as it fights with over 400 UK independent TV stations, so it has now realised the potential that iTV has to add necessary revenue with partners such as Yoomedia.

Do you regularly visit www.dtg.org.uk and take a copy of Broadcast to see what is happening in the world of DTV and iTV.on a global basis.

Did you follow Yoomedia when the shareprice was in the 50p - 59p bracket, and did you see that Dr Michael Sinclair bought shares at 55p, and has never sold any when he could have taken massive profits ????

Did you know that DTV is now also fast growing in the USA, and that Turner Broadcasting is one of the biggest broadcasters in the USA, who just happen to be a client of Yoomedia.

Did you know that Sony have a stake in Yoomedia ????

Did you know that there are currently 2 Billion mobile phone users worldwide, with further forcast growth to 3 Billion over the next few years, all potential Yoomedia customers, Do you also know how many TV sets there are in the world, I will leave you to find that one out, you will be staggered to see how many potential Yoomedia customers there are when you find out that figure.

I have complete confidence in where Yoomedia are going to end up in 5 - 10 years time,down to indepth research of the DTV market, the current share price is still a credit to a company that less than two years ago, was a pure gamble at 1p, with a very small turnover.

Now, lets see what long list of facts you can come up with to back up your argument that Yoomedia and iTV and DTV is going nowhere but downwards ????? - answer please.

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Gull

You are incredibly misinformed.

You wrote, on another BB.

"If this company is also so rosy and the potential is so great then why has the city marked this company down over the recent past?"

Due to the placement, you know this, what a stupid thing to say. The city is waiting for confirmation of current trading, results and also company news concerning the future. The news blackout end on Monday.

and

"Are trying to tell us that you know more about this company than the EVO themselves??"

EVO will not have any inside information, I probably know just as much.

also

"You do not have to believe that I am a holder of shares here but that is your choice and I am not going out of my why to proove it."

I still don't believe you.

and this

"I said there is a great potential that 25%(120m) shares are potentialy going to be dumped on the market from the beginning of next year, you dont need to be super clever to work out that this is going to put pressure on the share price."

You really are a complete moron! You must be utterly devoid of any commensense. What Gull forgets to mention, is he is refering to the 120m shares, the new Yoomedia directors own, the board of DITG & TGG. Why would they sell? Has the Gull any evidence to suggest they will? Of course he has not! Why did the Gull deliberately not mention, what shares he was refering to. So the Gull is suggesting, NO share is EVER worth buying, incase the directors sell! So Gull, would only buys shares, where NO directors own shares!

finally

"Further more there has been no financial statement since June04, think one is seriously overdue & they should definately make some comments on Monday as it has been a very long time now, if nothing is said on Monday it will be further testiment to the lack of integrity that is being revealed here."

This statement proves how utterly incompetant the Gull is, as an investor and also a writer of facts. The aquisition letter to shareholders, on 26th Nov, contained a full trading update, with financial details. Before this, we had the interims in September. The Gull doesn't even know this, what a fool. What a complete load of drivel he writes!

I will be here Gull and I believe it my resposibilty to warn potential investors what they are in for, when reading your misinformed and irresponsible posts.

Can I remind all the readers of this BB, what Gull stated yesterday.

Apparently, he left 10000 in his current account, without realising he would not receive any interest and got a complete shock when the 12 months passed. What a complete and utter fool. Should he even be let near the stock market, if he can't even manage his own basic cash savings. Please remember this, the next time he posts his drivel.

I have lost all respect for you as a poster and an investor.

I public I will advise any potential investors to stay away. This is an institutional game at the expense of ordinary investors. It is obviouse! Even you know this and it is my duty to inform people of the potential risks so that they do not get burnt like everyone else and will continue to advise of the risks here until this is trading +30p.

Poverty...For your information Yoo does have Dynamite.... it has me. This share maybe a slow starter this year but the potential is huge, Yoo has brilliant products and as a medium to long term share Yoo is going to make those who stick with it piles of dosh!

Mactavish...well done for your post and for taking the time top outline the brilliant stuff at Yoo.

Basically if you are a person who is after a short term profit Yoo is not the share but if you want a long term star...Yoo is the one and there is no point in all this stupid and unsubstantiated negative drivel. OK some people are sitting on a loss, myself included, but why be negative? Just average down and wait for the upward ride to begin.
Di

Gull

Can't bring myself to accept financial advice, from someone who leaves 10000 in a current account, for 12 months and then is surprised when no interest is credited. Are you for real?

iPublic and everyone else having a go at Gull. I totally agree with you but dont you think you were a tad bit harsh on Gull. Some entertaining posts though- iPublic reminds me of Peter Jones on Dragons Den when he totally rips apart the pitcher. LOL.

Yes the Gull does talk a great deal of shit! Oh and one bit of further info that will make you all laugh, hes actually a Commercial Manger!!!!!!Which is suprising when he can't even manage his own personnel bank account.

Come On YOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Do it for the LADS!!!!!!!!!!

Gull, Hows the food at the Institution. I see they have let you use the computer again.

Hope the nurses are improving. They might even be able to offer you some sound financial advice!

Jim

Hey there Oily, did not know you were a holder here. I think the nurses could have surely provided me with better financial advice than the biased rampers here. LOL

MR PTKENNY
Is that your attempt at a ramp?LOL
ps if I could not manage my own bank account then I would be insolvent, and we both now that is not the case, now dont we ;-).

Australia see's fast digital take up in a short 8 month period - from www.dtg.org.uk today, read on :-

Foxtel to unveil first Oz PVR

Australian pay-TV operator Foxtel will next week unveil the country's first personal video recorder (PVR) service.

Foxtel will offer consumers previews of the PVR service in department stores before sales begin a few weeks later.

Foxtel's web site - which is inviting consumers to register online for the demonstrations - said the PVR, available to Foxtel Digital subscribers, would "change the way you watch television forever".

In November Foxtel announced its digital service had passed the 500,000 home mark just eight months after launching.

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Yoomedia down under soon, on the back of the Nestle promotion of Kit Kash, which took place in Australia last year.

Amstrad to invest into the DTV revolution, from www.dtg.org.uk today:-

PVR demand boosts Amstrad

Strong sales of digital set-top boxes over Christmas helped boost Amstrad half-year revenues to 63.5, up from 29.5m in the six months to December 31, 2003. Half-year pre-tax profits doubled to 14.2m.

Amstrad chairman Sir Alan Sugar said the "exceptional" rise in turnover reflected "significant" sales of personal video recorders (PVRs) to BSkyB, and digital set-top boxes to Sky Italia. Neither products were sold in the previous half-year.

"The industry is now well into the digital revolution and the transition from analogue consumer products is rapidly gaining momentum," said Sugar.

"For Amstrad we see the sacred treasures of our business as being advanced telephony and digital gateways into the home such as PVR and more importantly the transition away from

the VCR to read-write DVD technology. The company intends to invest in development in these exciting new areas to lay a solid foundation for the future."

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Excellent news, another large UK company benefiting and seeing the potential worldwide of the growth in DTV

Regards

USA to speed up DTV transition, from www.dtg.org.uk today:-


US lawmakers mull move to speed switchover

US lawmakers yesterday hinted they might introduce a bill to speed up digital switchover. Under current laws, analogue television signals cannot be switched off until 85% of US households can receive digital television. The hope was that figure could be reached by December 2006, but so far only 12% of homes have digital receivers.

At a hearing of the House Energy and Commerce Committee yesterday, chairman Joe Barton and fellow Republican Representative Fred Upton said they might seek to harden the 2006 deadline and scrap the 85% provision. In order to achieve that, they said Congress would have to subsidise the cost of digital converters for many of the 21m homes - 19% of total US households - that only receive free, analogue terrestrial television.

According to official US data half of those 21m homes have incomes under $30,000. Converter boxes could each cost up to $100, indicating a government subsidy programme of between $460m and $2bn depending on the number of boxes to be subsidised, and income limits.

Said Upton: "If Congress did nothing, those households which rely exclusively on over-the-air television services could see their television sets 'go dark' at the end of the digital television transitiom." Barton suggested using cash forecast to be raised from the sale of the liberated spectrum to pay for converter subsidies.

As the Associated Press reported, the subsidy programme could swell to up to $10.6bn if it was extended to subsidise converter boxes for analogue cable and satellite pay-TV services.

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Excellent news for Yoomedia, especially as they already have US Broadcaster Turner TV as a client.

Regards

This is from another board.



NickB - 18 Feb'05 - 11:02 - 5839 of 5878

Yoo guys should listen to TriggerTV he has done good research.

I work in TV and itv now has a real buzz behind it, it IS the way it is going in one form or another, and YOO at least in the UK is in a very strong position indeed, and it would be difficult for a competitor to now get business from the broadcasters.

Nick - my connections in TV are giving me the same story - YOO is coming up all over the place.
A script writer friend of mine is now getting asked to write treatments with interactivity in mind. We are talking TV dramas here - not just game shows....
I think I may have already said too much...

Whoosh, with its return path technology is already creaming it - watch the revenues mushroom over the next 2 years.......

Malc

Great story for the patient holder--I am hoping to keep adding while they are still a bargain.

Interesting to see a significant drop today on relatively small turnover. May be that the MMs have a line of stock to sell and are looking to bring buyers back in. Great to see The Gull being savaged. These shorters (derampers or whatever) seem to chose quite appropriate names - SEO has suffered recently from Filthy Poor. Gull's swoop down and peck their victims indiscriminantly but there is no substance to the attack. Interesting that this particular bird (not meaning female) did not have any decent arguments to put; this is typical of the genre - no intelligent research, just half truths, innuendo and downright lies.

Much happier to follow where those most intelligent birds, di and mp lead. Two of the shrewdest investors around, seldom putting a web-foot wrong! Suspect the sp is at buying level again. iPublic: an EVO statement next week? If not, probably because there are so many smouldering irons in the fire that they want to get to the Prelims first; end of March?

Another week with a nice contented SEO-glow so can afford to wait!

Eric

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http://digitalhollywood.com/%231Media2005/Media05ThursdayThree.html

Thursday, February 10
12:30 PM - 1:45 PM
Session A:
Digital Cable & Satellite Television Strategies: Channel Launches, SVOD-VOD, HDTV, International and Interactive
With DTV having passed the threshold of consumer acceptance, reaching over 40 million homes, the consumer is now first experiencing what the future of cable and satellite programming is all about. A decade ago, industry leaders speculated on the future and market value of the 500 channel universe and now it is here. With DTV, HDTV and broadband rolling out in communities across the country, the opportunity to innovate, to offer unique and exciting new channels and subscription and VOD packages will be the ongoing challenge for the industry. The entire universe of basic and pay services will be up for grabs in the coming five years. The combination of new technologies, new services, new partnerships, content innovation, aggressive marketing, not to mention new investment will remake the landscape of home entertainment.
Mona Abutaleb, Executive Vice President, New Media and Network Services, Discovery Networks, U.S.
Richard Siderman, Managing Director, Credit Analyst, Telecommunications and Cable Group, Standard & Poor's Ratings Services
Judith Pless, Senior Vice President, Digital Media Group, Showtime Networks Inc.
Mitchell J. Weinraub, Senior Director, New Media Initiatives and Implementation, Comcast
David Docherty, Chief Executive, YooMedia
David Asch, Senior Vice President, Programming, iN DEMAND Networks, LLC
Marc Scarpa, Producer/Director, Chair, Producers Guild of America, New Media Council NY Committee, Moderator

This article is worth re-posting for the newer posters here, that may not have seen this article a couple of months back - A good insight the forethought and respect that David Docherty holds in the world of Broadcasting:-

Analysis - Profile - The man who sees the future.
Susan Thompson
16 December 2004 16:40

Under David Docherty, new media's leading visionary, Yoomedia's turnover is rocketing and the company's starting to look like a serious interactive rival to BSkyB.

David Docherty, Yoomedia's chief executive, is something of a media clairvoyant. Even BBC director general Mark Thompson, and last week the busiest man in the industry, took the time to tell Broadcast why he still regularly rings his old colleague for a forecast. "What he is thinking about now, the rest of us will all be thinking about in three or four years' time," Thompson says. Alan Yentob, the BBC's creative director, adds: "David has always been on top of new technologies. It is uncharted territory and you need foresight to see and think ahead. He is very good at imagining the future." It's an interesting insight into Docherty, the former BBC and Telewest executive, who this month orchestrated Yoomedia's 28m acquisition of the Digital Interactive Television Group (DITG) and The Gaming Channel (TGC), the company behind betting service Avago and William Hill's betting channels. The group is now the biggest interactive TV company after Sky and the only one to operate its services on all platforms - satellite, Freeview, ntl and Telewest. It will focus on gaming, dating and chat and the red-button technology services that were provided by DITG. As an enlarged entity, Yoomedia has increased its annual turnover from around 300,000 to more than 60m. Not a patch on Sky's 300m plus turnover but, according to Mathew Horsman, director of research at consultancy Mediatique: "Watch this space." In the next year alone, Docherty hopes to launch at least one channel - "a dating channel, because that would complete our set" - and expand into the US. "It's a few years behind us in interactive TV so if you are seen as being one of the leading players here then you have a market waiting for you over there." For Docherty, all of this can't happen quickly enough. This is a man who, after all, has been imploring people to jump on the interactive bandwagon for the best part of 10 years. "I was in the BBC when nobody cared about digital and the possibilities of interactive TV. I cared about it from 1994. John (Birt) was great about the internet in 1996 but not digital TV," he says. It was not until 1998, when Docherty was scheduling BBC1 and BBC2 as deputy managing director of television and director of new media that he said to his then boss, Will Wyatt, that they should get digital going. "So we created a team made up of producers such as Roly Keating and said we want to create a raft of TV channels. "We launched UKTV and all the BBC digital channels. I came up with the idea for the children's channels CBeebies and CBBC - it was a fantastic time. We also did BBC Choice. My original vision for it was to be interactive. I had convinced John Birt to sign it off and then the techies turned round and said that they couldn't do it yet!" Thompson puts Docherty's work at the BBC into context: "So many of the things that TV is now centring on - the new digital channels, the idea of interactivity and using interactive television to build beyond the main channels - a lot of this thinking was first developed by David. He was ahead of his time in many respects." This reputation is also undoubtedly why Docherty led one of the hypothetical pitches this month for Ofcom's proposed public service publisher (PSP). Docherty's proposed brand "Six" was the perfect opportunity for him to let the creative juices flow. It was also a release: "I was doing the PSP when I was doing the (Yoomedia/DITG) deal. It took me out of the grind of working through the detail and I liked the idea of doing my own quixotic bid." Docherty, who's writing his fourth thriller and is learning to play the piano (how does he fit it all in?) says he's "terrified, even petrified" of regret. "I'm 48 and I hate the idea that I'm going to get to 65 and think: 'If only I'd written that novel or if only I'd learnt how to play the piano'." Yet he is happier now than he has ever been. As interactive TV begins to come of age, it looks as though this innovative Scot is coming of age as well. "If one was doing a profile on David 15 years ago one would have heard accusations of arrogance, an absolute ability to believe in one's own rhetoric," says David Kogan, chief executive of Reel Enterprises and one of Docherty's PSP teammates. "Certainly in the past four or five years there has been a radical change there - he has learnt to listen a lot more." The turning point, says Docherty, was breaking free from the BBC in 2000. Persuaded by his friend and new chief executive of Telewest Adam Singer, Docherty made the move into the commercial world as managing director of broadband at the company. He describes it as being like the "Wild West" compared with the BBC - and for the best part of two years he championed a series of content projects including "Living Health", an NHS-backed interactive content pilot. His move into the commercial world was rewarded when Yoomedia executive chairman Dr Michael Sinclair offered him the role of chief executive. Adam Singer, now a member of the Ofcom content board, says: "David was first an academic and then he was a BBC person. Telewest allowed him to stop being a public servant and reinvent himself as a commercial person. He did get a reputation in the BBC of being quite angular but at Telewest he worked very hard at being a team player." "And," adds Thompson, "when you add that commercial experience he has now picked up, it looks like he is going to be an unstoppable force, really."

Source:broadcastnow.co.uk

Regards