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.

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

really encouraging trading today.

Last years Shares Mag arcticle.




Last weeks purchase of MMTV
for up to 6 million is a highly
significant step in YooMedias
aim of becoming the UKs
leading provider of interactive
services on all four digital
television platforms.
Over half the population can
now receive digital TV. They can
interact by sending text
messages on their mobile
phones to the TV station for quiz
shows and viewer response
based programming.
MMTV is the ticket into the
potentially enormous area of
government spending on
interactive services to educate the
public. Last March MMTV won a
three-year 15 million contract
from the Department of Health to
provide information on NHS
services and an encylopaedia of
illnesses and treatments. It is
likely to be expanded into a
patient appointment booking
service next year.
YooMedia will merge MMTV
with its iPublic offshoot to make
it the leading player in this sector.
Only a small profit
contribution is expected in 2005
but over 1 million is possible in
2006.
The companys largest activity
is gambling and games. It bought
Go-Play TV in January and then
the popular fixed odds channel
Fancy a Flutter which is shown on
Sky. New products are being
introduced and gross revenues
could hit 12 million this year and
23 million in 2005.
Gambling is expected to fuel
YooMedias extremely rapid
growth over the next five years
boosted by UK de-regulation and
growing popularity of TV
gambling as more products are
introduced and the concept
becomes accepted by the public.
One independent research
group, Screendigest, forecasts
gross online gambling receipts in
the UK will rocket from 260
million last year to 1.8 billion in
2007.
YooMedia has also put
together a serious dating service.
It bought the offline and online
assets of One Saturday and Jiles
four months ago giving it a
35% slice of the market with
brands like Club Sirius and
Dateline.
These brands will be relaunched
across all interactive
platforms ie iTV, the internet
and mobile phones to fully
exploit their potential.
House broker Evolution
expects dating revenues to reach
2.8 million during 2004 and
rocket to 7.7 million in 2005
lifting gross profits to an eyewatering
4.3 million.
The chatroom arm will
hopefully be re-energised after
launching it on NTL and Sky next
year. It is currently only on
Telewest. The mobile arm could
also experience rapid growth as
more and more programmes,
both TV and radio, seek
interactive audience participation.
YooMedia has developed
software allowing synchronous
interaction between programmes
and mobile phones.
The company raised 7 million
through a placing in May which
should be plenty as it will start to
generating cash early next year.
Losses of 5.3 million are
expected this year slightly lower
than 2003.
Maiden profits of around 2.6
million are likely possibly
doubling to 5 million in 2006.
This would slash the untaxed PE
to just 6 making YooMedia a great
play on this new sector.
6 Shares
PLAYS OF THE WEEK
by: Timon Day
YOOMEDIA (AIM:YOO) 20.5p BUY
Shares Summary
YOOMEDIA

1 million protected buy after the close at full offer.

Yup just saw that myself...what's a 'protected buy'?

So where were you unearther from, Mr Mole. Good to meet you before you return to your nocturnal habits.

Still feeling buoyant over GMC. Top on hitwise in relation to gambling; nice model for YOO with dTV. Good have some brilliant news end march!

Eric

http://www.yoomedia.com/company_profile.html

An updated page but wait.......whats this!!!

Yoomedia Solutions???

A brand new division!

Yoomedia Solutions - The solutions team is the UKs largest independent provider of bespoke interactive solutions for broadcasters, producers and advertisers on UK digital television.

This is interesting.

http://www.yoochat.com

Could this be suggesting an online chat service in development? Maybe, maybe not!

Thought it worth posting anyway.

Yoomedia CEO, addresses interactivity Stateside.

http://www.yoomedia.com/pdfs/Guardian140205.pdf

New media David Docherty: How to get ahead in Digital Hollywood
732 words
14 February 2005
The Guardian
13
English
Copyright 2005. The Guardian. All rights reserved.
This is a Renaissance moment in the media industry. I don't mean that we are suddenly blessed
with Michelangelos renewing the creative soul of TV, but as with Renaissance art, you need to know
so much to make an impact these days. Fifteenth-century painters realised quickly that being handy
with a brush did not cut it against someone doing anatomy, astronomy and architecture. Similarly,
if media companies are to understand what is going on today, they need to explore those areas
where economics, technology and social forces meet creativity and demand.
This came home to me last week in New York when I spoke at a conference called Digital
Hollywood. The delegates were the usual mixture of Big Suits from the media groups, VCs,
production companies and consultants. But there was also a new group of people calling themselves
DRM (Digital Rights Management) evangelists and senior security architects.
In the old days, a TV conference was about programmes, networks, and at a pinch, broadcast
technology. However, the full title of the summit was: The International Conference on Motion
Pictures, Television, Cable and Satellite, Broadband, Wireless, Publishing and Radio, Print Media,
News Media, Advertising and Marketing. Nothing escapes Hollywood, not while there is money to be
made.
This all-embracing summit seemed to be about the triumph of convergence. But convergence is a
muddled concept and muddies the water when trying to work out what consumers want and what
technologies can do. The simpler truth is that all audiovisual content will ultimately become bits
delivered to devices, and that we as consumers will decide whether we want it to materialise on a
TV, a phone or a video-pod.
The underlying mood of the conference was a huge sigh of relief that the post-bubble gloom was
over, coupled with an anxious optimism about the future. There was no fools' goldrush, and apart
from someone coining the term "mosiology" (the sociology of wireless culture - yuck), no
grandstanding.
The reason it was all a bit sober-sided was that the themes - globalisation, the connected consumer,
everything-on-demand, the trans formation of advertising, the rise of mobile and wireless content -
refer to trends already happening in the US and global markets. Seven companies now control the
worldwide advertising market, and a handful of media groups dominate the US. There are 40m
digital homes in the US, creating the conditions for an on-demand market. Mobile content is already
generating $8bn a year and forecast to grow to $35bn by 2008.
In each session, content creators and distribution companies behaved like people in a dating
service: good-looking network with great coverage looking for fascinating, unique individual to spice
up their life (and balance sheet). But for the production and talent end of the content industries,
there was a cheering message. The techies, advertisers, producers and financiers were all on the
same page as Mel Karmazin, former president and COO of Viacom, who gave the keynote speech.
"It's all about the content," he said.
Karmazin has made his considerable reputation by paying top dollar for stars and sports at CBS,
Infinity, and now Sirius, the satellite radio business, which, despite losing hun dreds of millions of
dollars last year, has bought Howard Stern and NFL rights.
The suits talked a lot about superdistribution, by which they meant sending content to as many
people in as many ways as possible. Importantly, however, there was a realisation that each
medium is different and it is dangerous to treat every device the same way. (WebTV anyone?
Thought not.) Someone made the observation that they can charge 79 cents for a music track and
$4 for a tiny segment of that track called a ringtone. The details make the difference.
The other clear winners from the two-day chatfest were consumers. As one delegate put it,
"bandwidth creates choice, and choice creates fragmentation." And fragmentation is just another
word for lots of things to choose from. Therein lies the Big Suit paradox. As the main media groups
globalise and merge, the internet drives not only localisation but new fickle consumers. To get to
us, the marketeers will have to find us. And Hollywood will have to work harder for our money.
Digital or not.
David Docherty is the chief executive of YooMedia