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.

http://www.webeventseurope.com/Common/StandModules/StandArticleDisplay.aspx?intStandID=307&intArticleID=4012

"Webtrafficker will play a key role in the promotion of Dateline as the leading online dating service by focusing on the target audience and promoting the site using a number of online marketing tools, effectively driving traffic to Datelines new website."

http://www.webeventseurope.com/Common/StandModules/StandArticleDisplay.aspx?intStandID=307&intArticleID=4012

Thought you might like to know the proposed Dateline service has just been advertised under the News /Mensroom area of my ISP homepage under the heading
" Mobile mate".

Green

Thank you

Can we have a link to your ISP homepage, please.........

1. Margins running at 65%

2. Record YooDating turnover in October.

3. Service on DTV about to be revamped, major upgrades.

4. Video based dating ready to be unleashed on mobile phones.

5. Services will knit together to create a truly unique, multi-tiered dating operation.

I've high hopes for our Dating division. Have Yoo?

Di, rd: my trading emphasis is via CFDs which increases the gearing from the investment. The role of the broker, blue index in my case, is to negotiate the trade; with a large quantity you may be outside the spread but at least you can buy or sell them. There's a good supplement in Shares this week on CFDs. After early mistakes (in particular, buying at top of trading range with ASC) I feel I have established a trading strategy which keeps the risks under control. On holiday in Cornwall - but you do need to keep more closely in touch and can't take a complete break. You certainly need to be sanguine about risk. Gearing for SEO is 5:1 and YOO 4:1, so ratios not as large as those quoted in Shares. I see the key technique as an extension to running the profits: the price rises leading to a positive position; you then pruchase another CFD with the surplus. Knowing your ability is stock-picking, di, it would be worth setting aside a sum to trade this way.

Eric

It's good to see the Yoomedia Marketing/Publicity machine at work in earnest
Here's the article to save the link:

WebTrafficker works with YooMedia. ---------------------

Webtrafficker has been commissioned to provide YooMedias Dateline with a range of online marketing solutions including search engine optimisation and PPC and link building campaigns. ------------------------------------------------

Dateline was founded in 1966 making it Britains longest running dating company. This brand was bought by YooMedia in 2004 and sits along side two sister dating brands Club Sirius and Avenues.

Dateline has recently undergone a major development and re-branding process to help it emerge as the most popular and innovative dating service on the web, interactive TV, and mobile phone. This includes a new website, launched in September 2004, which was designed to appeal to a British customer base. About the Website, Managing Director Jim Weir said:

The new Dateline website is altogether cleaner, clearer and more appealing to our uniquely British customer base.

More importantly, its the first step in the integration of our recently acquired stable of dating brands, ahead of the launch of our mobile service and major upgrade of the interactive TV offering on Sky Active.

These services will knit together to create a truly unique, multi-tiered dating operation. Were saying: Whether youre 18 or 80 we have a level of service thats comfortable and affordable for you.

Webtrafficker will play a key role in the promotion of Dateline as the leading online dating service by focusing on the target audience and promoting the site using a number of online marketing tools, effectively driving traffic to Datelines new website.

For more information contact us on 01423 524 300 or email info@webeventseurope.com.--------------------------------

Clare Baines ----------------------------------------------

10/03/2005

iPublic
Isp address :- www.supanet.com/mensroom/frontpagenews/feature.php4

Topped up with a CFD for 80K this morning. iPublic will be pleased to know as my entries into YOO are (usually) followed by a buying spree and price hike. Well, can't me more than a couple of weeks before a trading statment plus evo. barn-stormer!

Eric

I hope you are right Eric...about time Yoo's price moved up amd stayed there. Everything is looking good so hopefully a move up will be a big jump up. I looked at trading CFD's a couple of years ago when I started this share lark. I was turned down as I had no share trading experience at the time. Since then although I have made loads of dosh on buying actual shares I have never managed to make money with Spread Betting so the chances are I won't with CFD's either. That does not mean I have given up; just still trying.

I appreciate the bit about holidays; when we go away we not only have to keep an eye open for share prices but our two websites too.We cannot leave painting orders waiting whilst we are away and we have over 140 artists on our books so we have to log in everyday and sort things out.www.artandparcel.com
Di

Di: will have a look at the art-site when not pressed for time. My own impression is that there is a world of difference between spread-betting and CFDs. The former is a straight bet and I suspect hte odds are somewhat against you. CFDs are really just a way of applying gearing to your trading; I wont say investing. If you are doing well, which I believe you are, then you will do that much better with CFDs. I wrongly quoted the margin on YOO as 4:1 whereas it is 5:1. So I was able to have a position of 80k for the price of 16K and well within 3000. 1p gain in the SP means 800 gain so I will have doubled the money at 22p. Of course, they can go down just as quickly and become negative. You have to be quite clear that the odds are with you. YOO is a good example with a definite support price at 15p if not higher, but upside potential to double at any rate in the not too distant future. A way to start would be to sell say 10Ks worth of shares and put this in your four leasding prospects which would not doubt include SEO and YOO as with me; I have also built up the position in ASC which I see as ripe for recovery. All three shares should move ahead in April with announcements due. The ideal attitude is "cautious optimism" - not a situation for taking high risks!

Eric

Maybe you are right Eric...maybe CFD's are the way forward for me. Hubby thinks I should make a fortune with Spreads as he can write me any program I like to help trading. I know I will go for a free trial and see if I get anywhere with CFD's. Thanks Eric.
Di

Green09,
The supanet supadates service is run by DatingDirect.com
Is this part of YOO ?
I can't find any link to Dateline.

jecsimp

The article appears to be informing readers of Datelines, new exclusive, video mobile service. Does appear to be original and should bring in the volume required to make that 65% margin count.

Thanks iPublic.
That's what I get for clicking a link too soon & only skimmimg over the article.

iPublic.
Thanks for clarifying that. Dateline is a Yoo company.

Green

Yes, absoulutely!

http://www.dateline.co.uk/

http://www.clubsirius.co.uk/

http://www.avenues.co.uk/

Green09 & iPublic,

Having looked at this again, it is annoying that supanet have used this article on Dateline to promote a YOO competitor - hence my confusion. I had clicked on their link near the top of the article, thinking that YOO had added supanet as a new partner but the link "Find your dream dat at Supadates" - http://www.supadates.com/ is run by DatingDirect.com which claims "is the UK's largest dating service"!

Usually a link within an article directs you to a site referred to within the article - not to a competitor's site!

Sorry about my confusion but I wonder how many others would also be mislead that Dateline's new functions were linked to supadates(/DatingDirect.com) and that it was supadates that was "due to launch the service soon."
Do Advertising Standards not apply to the internet ?

jecsimp,
I understand your confusion. However Supadates is an online dating service rather than a mobile based service and although I sympathise with your view
better the promotion for the future YOO service than none at all!

http://www.dtg.org.uk/news/news.php?class=countries&subclass=193&id=752

Triple play boosts Telewest growth


Cable company Telewest said customers choosing to take all three of its services helped drive a 14% hike in annual underlying earnings.

The Woking-based group, which underwent a critical financial restructuring last year, said a surge in "triple play" subscriberstaking television, telephone and internetcontributed to its strongest customer growth in four years.

However, it warned that market conditions remained challenging at its business division.

Telewest said group underlying earnings increased to 494m in the year to December 31, after higher revenues from the consumer division.

Within this arm, average revenues per user (ARPU) lifted by 71p to 45.13 in the last quarter of the year, boosted by demand for broadband which led to a higher number of triple play customers.

The percentage of customers subscribing to two or more services increased from 73% to 77% and the number signing up for all three services rose from 17% to 27%. Customer growth continued into the first quarter of 2005, with around 20,000 net additions expected.

Barry Elson, acting Telewest Global CEO, said: "Telewest continues to make great strides both operationally and financially. We are encouraged by the strong customer growth, our best for four years, the low level of churn and the overall performance of the business.

"This quarter was marked by a tremendous increase in triple play penetration and our best ever quarter for broadband net customer additions. This strong performance is due largely to the effective marketing of our product bundles, which continue to drive profitable growth.

"The content division performed well with growing advertising revenue due to the strong performance of its channels."

Telewest recently announced the launch of its video-on-demand service and the roll-out of personal video recorders to subscribers.

"As we roll-out these products, we are confident that they will enhance customer acquisition and retention and will assist ARPU growth in the future."

Telewest, which provides multichannel television, telephone and internet services to around 1.7m UK households, completed its 4bn restructuring last July.

Under the shake-up, Telewest Communications plc was replaced by Telewest UK, a subsidiary of the new Nasdaq-listed US holding company, Telewest Global Inc.

With the overhaul complete, Telewest has been tipped as a likely merger partner for cable firm ntl after its US-based rival also completed a similar restructuring last year.

http://www.dtg.org.uk/news/news.php?class=countries&subclass=193&id=753

BSkyB to exceed 8m, says Continental


BSkyB is set to exceed its 8m customer target, according to a survey by Continental Research. The research group's Spring 2005 Digital TV Report puts the current UK satellite market at 7.7m subscribers, with a further 600,000 consumers saying they are likely to take a Sky subscription by the end of 2005.

The report, due to be released next Wednesday, also suggests a further 1.8m homes will buy a Freeview receiver, taking its market base to 6.1m. Digital cable is poised to grow by a further 700,000 homes, leaving it with 3.3m customers.

Total digital households will therefore rise from 14.4m homes to 17.3m. Continental said its figures had allowed for some homes with more than one digital TV platform.

Jon Beaumont, director at Continental Research, said: "The fastest growing platform in the foreseeable future will be Freeview. However, Sky will remain dominant and is likely to exceed its 8m forecast homes by the end of 2005.

"We predict limited growth for cable, with some from analogue cable upgrades. In terms of new growth, it is likely that Sky will actually outperform cable.

"Sky seems likely to remain the clear market leader, but the total market still has some way to go to reach the 95% target (23.3m homes) set as a target for full analogue switch off."