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.

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Thanks for confirming my comment re Sportingbet (that the deal was cancelled some time back because YOO were entering the market directly). Taken a stake in GMC (Gaming Corporation) on the back of their announcement of a new portal for on-line poker. Strikes me that DTV is an excellent medium for on-line poker as it has a better social context than the computer: better for groups and simpler to understand operate. How do you see this field?

Eric

I agree with you Eric as this country seems to have gambling fever and the red button would seem to be much easier to play poker thru' your tv. I love a game of poker myself and the television set would be ideal for me.

Small caps seem to be bouncing back now following the FTSE. Seems to be a lot of overall trend in my stocks recently rather than the usual variation.

Positive piece in Shares Mag today: 'Profits could be anywhere from 3 million to 5 million this year and possibly double that in 2006'.

Chad

More please.

Pretty please!

10m 2006 profit, no tax to pay, due to 29m of tax losses. Currently on a forward, 2006 PE of 7.5!!!

When the new broker research document arrives, it will be eargerly anticipated by the investment community.

Hang on in there chaps!

Copied from Share Mag

YooMedia
(YOO:AIM) 17.5p
market value 91 million
YooMedia is a speculative punt on
digital interactive TV taking off.
Interactive TV offers a range of
services such as chat rooms, dating
services, games and gambling.
Some forecasters expect the UK
interactive TV gambling market to
double to 1.7 billion by 2007 with
Sky taking a 25% market share.
YooMedia is the only operator to
deliver interactive services via all
four main TV platforms – Sky, NTL,
Telewest and Freeview.
The twin purchase of Digital
Interactive Television Group and
Gaming Channel for 28 million
three months ago transformed the
company. Yoo is now the only
interactive competitor for Sky,
allowing it not only to deliver its
own products but those of other
companies as well. Gaming
products can also be delivered
online and on mobiles.
Just how it will all work out
remains to be seen, with house
broker Evolution not expected to
issue another note until the 2004
losses are announced in late March.
Profits could be anywhere from 3
million to 5 million this year and
possibly double that in 2006.
YooMedia was tipped as a Shares
Play of the Week on 7 October ‘04.

Thanks bhunt1910

Nice article, but they have the market cap, totally wrong.

450m shares * 17.5p = 78.75m.

At today's price of 16.5p, the cap is only 74.25m.

Well spotted IPublic

Sportingbet - amazing growth over the last 12 months via online gambling - check out latest results.

Yoomedia, had a deal in the bag with them to bring their services to DTV across all platforms.

Appears this was scrapped when Yoomedia aquired their own DTV gambling channels, Fancy A Flutter, together with DITG's Flagship Avago, together with Channel 425, which invloves FTSE 100 partner William Hill, and all available on the popular free to view Sky Active channel, which in undergoing heavy marketing and updates by BSKYB - certianly in my opinion a better proposition than the Sportingbet Deal - and basically now puts Yoomedia ahead of Sportingbet in bringing Gambling to DTV - just look at the growth of online gambling over the last 24 months, well, I think DTV gambling will certianly appeal more to the older generation - they know how to use a TV Remote, Just spare a few lunchtimes and monitor a few bookies - the people in there seem more likely to bet via a TV, It will ceratinly take custom from the internet, I am sure - and easily marketed via William Hills national high street chain - a sure fire winner for the Yoomedia gaming and gambling divison.

Am sure we will soon get a DTV poker channel too, when gambling law allows.

Still happy to hold, and notice the consensus of the board over the last few days, seems to be turning to the longer term,

Regards

mactavish

I totally agree - gambling has taken off on-line in a big way but that means sitting at a computer ! Imagine if this nation of couch potatoes cottons on to the fact that without getting out of the horizontal position they can place a bet on their favourite team by just using the red button. And don't forget that digital Tv is still a long way off (another 5/6 years) achieving full UK coverage and take up. Big things happening for YOO

I agree, the television is an extremely powerful gambling medium and it's great to see Yoomedia on the web with fancyaflutter.co.uk. I'm particulary impressed with the experience of Damian Cope, Managing Director Gaming & Games, Yoomedia, who of course, joined us from DITG/TGG. I do feel television, has not even begun to fulfill it's potential as a gambling medium. I caught my mum using AVAGO yesterday, yet she is totally against gambling of any kind! Gambling through the back door of the mind!

Damian has worked in the interactive gambling industry since its inception and co-founded the UKs first Internet betting service, Blue Square. He went on to work at Hilton Group where he was instrumental in developing Ladbrokes.com into a leading multi-lingual gambling portal. Damian joined DITG in 2003 to head The Gaming Channel which operates the Avago channel and Channel 425 on Sky, the latter in partnership with William Hill, the UKs largest bookmaker.

So we can therefore expect great things from the gaming division. Yoomedia can expand aggressively, on both digital television and the web. The beauty of an investment in Yoomedia, is this only represents one divison, so all our eggs are spread around the interactive media sector.

Good piece in the Shares. Confirms what we expected that we have to wait until end-March for results and Evolution pitch. The latter is bound to be pretty strong as they will seek to justify their placing strategy. Personally quite happy as it gives time to build a better position up, hoping, for instance, that SEO will have gone into orbit before then. In the meantime, have made a reasonable sum on NLR, moving money around, and am enjoying a successful current play on GMC, portals for casinos and poker. I don't think YOO has really been picked up yet as a gambling play because of their diversified approach, but that is bound to take the lead. DTV is the ideal environment as it allows the evnet to be social as in a casino. One thing I would be quite certain about is that 2006 will be a much bigger multiple of 2005 than double!

Eric

150k buy at full offer just went thru'. just ticked up.

Nearly all buys today. Suppose the Shares mag article has helped it along.

100k buy at full offer 19p.

Maybe the rise/interest is due to Yoomedia getting a mention on BBC2 last night?


The Culture Show last night BBC2 discussing national timescale for digital tv (3 year timespan?). Spokesman from YOO, McCloughlin (or similar name) talked briefly about an ongoing free trial of Digital Tv in a small Welsh town.

It is apparently very successful but....the villagers have received the digital boxes for free !

Regards.

iPublic is a leading supplier of interactive digital television solutions for the UK Public Sector.

We provide Local Authorities, Health Service Organisations, Central Government Departments and Government Agencies innovative and engaging service delivery solutions.

iPublic delivers its Local Authority solution and Health Service solution via selected Channel Partners and provides a bespoke service working directly with Central Government customers.

In July 2004 YooMedia was pleased to announce the appointment of Margaret McDonagh as Chairwoman of iPublic and Waheed Alli (Lord Alli of Norbury) as a non-executive director.

Ms McDonagh is former general secretary of the Labour Party and a former general manager of Express Newspapers. Lord Alli co-founded Planet 24, the leading independent television production company, and was subsequently managing director of Carlton TV Productions and a main board director of Carlton Communications plc. He is chairman of Chorion, a leading owner and manager of entertainment brands.

YooMedia has more than 6 years experience in creating innovative interactive digital TV content and is the only company with the capability to deliver services across Sky, Freeview, NTL, and Telewest. These skills were recognised in 2003, when iPublic was selected by the Office of Deputy Prime Minister (ODPM) as the only dedicated interactive TV company to take part in the iTV e-voting framework.

For more information on iPublic, please contact

Bryn Jenkins
Director of Strategy & Services
iPublic Ltd.
+44 (0) 207 462 0882

this is it:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/cultureshow/



More research.....

http://www.digitaltelevision.gov.uk/

I suspect this is the decisive move to start the sp recovery. Charts are fairly neutral but will respond well to two or three days good trading. The sp is still bargain basement so hoping it doesn't move too far too quickly for me to top up - attention elsewhere, particularly with GMC which has affinity with YOO though internet rather than dTV.

Eric

More research.


http://www.europa.eu.int/information_society/eeurope/2005/index_en.htm