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.

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

For MR. MOLE.




Extract from LSE rules

3130 A member firm may accept an order for a protected transaction, on the basis that the terms of
improvement may take the form of completing the full order at the lowest sale price or highest purchase
price agreed as being acceptable. An improvement on size shall be accompanied by an improvement
in price whenever reasonable.

Hope thats crystal clear!!




I've been told that the rationale for a trade's being protected is that it shouldn't destabilise the bid-offer spread. That may be the spirit of regulation 313

http://www.egrmagazine.com/cgi-bin/articles.pl?action=display&id=434&section=20&keyword=yoomedia

Remy Minute, head of Fancy A Flutter and commercial director at interactive media company YooMedia, analyses how the new UK Gambling Bill will affect remote operators
While media coverage of the Gambling Bill has focused on the arrival of Las Vegas-style resort casinos in the UK, its impact on remote operators promises to be as significant.

Under the new legislation, operators of phone, internet and interactive gaming services will be able to operate under a remote gambling licence. The idea is that by bringing these businesses onshore, the government can monitor the industry more effectively while helping it grow.

Child protection
One of the primary motivations for the Bill is to combat child gambling by forcing operators to introduce stringent age-verification procedures.

An investigation conducted by charity NCH found children as young as 11 could set up online gambling accounts. And, according to Mark Griffiths, Nottingham Univer-sitys professor of gambling studies, gambling addiction among adolescents is twice as common as it is in adults.

Under the new Bill, operators will be expected to conduct rigorous age checks or face massive fines. They will be policed by a new body, the Gambling Commission, with the power to conduct spot checks, enter premises and seize data.

With regulation in sight, more forward-looking operators are voluntarily adopting a tough verification policy. This involves asking all new users to enter their name, age and address, which are checked against databases such as the electoral register. If the data doesnt tally, access is refused.

Restricting underage access to gaming services is not the only area in which remote operators will have to work differently. Under the new regulations, betting exchanges central protagonists in the recent race-fixing allegations will be required to register all customer details and make this information available to the Gambling Commission. By creating an audit trail of who is using betting exchanges, the Commission hopes it can track down fraudsters attempting to manipulate the market.

Law and order
By tackling contentious issues like underage usage and fraud, the Bill is taking gambling further into the public mainstream. Under the proposals, all operators will have to provide safe areas for gambling on the internet and through television. And to further ensure high standards, the Parliamentary Committee has recommended a general prohibition on adverts from operators outside the European Economic Area unless the Gambling Commission is satisfied their standards of regulation are adequate.

As the Gambling Bill becomes law the make-up of remote operators is likely to change over time with established brands entering the market. Channel 4 has said it will launch mobile and online betting services beyond its TV heartland and brands such as Virgin have launched online casinos.

Remote gambling has shown it can appeal to new audiences such as young adults and women who traditionally shy away from the betting shop. By giving consumers confidence they are using well-regulated services from trusted brands, the popularity of remote gambling should extend further still into the mass market.

Interactive lift-off
While all remote gambling methods should benefit, the Bill promises to have the most dramatic impact on interactive television (iTV). Since its launch in the late 1990s, iTV has tried all manner of new media services searching for its killer application. In the past 18 months, the solution has arrived in the form of gambling a market already worth 600m a year on iTV.

iTV gambling is restricted to fixed-odds betting such as racing. However, with the proposed relaxation of gambling laws, the scope of iTV gambling should spread to include games such as roulette and poker, and opportunities to co-mingle jackpots between remote- and land-based gambling.

The Gambling Bill promises to provide greater law and order in the world of remote gambling, by enforcing age limits and higher standards of best practice. Implementing its measures will require time, effort and money, but should reap spectacular results in the area that matters most: increased sales.

iPublic , does this chart scream buy ??????

.... screams avoid like the plague to me.

Good luck

I think Weinstein, he of "A chart is worth a thousand company reports fame" would rate this buy. I certainly do for the reasons expressed on this BB by some most incisive contributors.

Thank you mactavish for that...think I got the gist. Thought a protected buy was two burly men with a briefcase full of notes wearing ill fitting suits. Still learning the ropes a bit.

Hello Mr. Robson. Been a voyeur on these boards for a week or two and thought I'd stick my snout up above the surface and join in (started an earlier thread about AIT (AGP) and was overwhelmed by the...er...one response. Must learn to be more interesting!) Have a bit of Yoo myself. Feel from the educated comments on this board it'll fly....soon I hope.