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.

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."

With all this good news and lovely press articles why is it that YOO still seems intent on rising as fast as a led weight in a sloppy trifle?

loving the post queen1!

Maybe the lead weight's getting lighter....up almost 10% this morning.

http://www.dtg.org.uk/news/news.php?class=countries&subclass=193&id=759

Poker channel joins Sky channel line-up

http://www.thepokerchannel.co.uk/

The sharp mark up this morning, may be explained by the information above.

An opportunity to deliver our red button, fixed odds gambling games, behind the broadcast stream, in the same way as Yoomedia provide this service to certain third party operators at the moment.

Nice to bring a smile to your world, proptrade.

(and mine)

Double the smiles, double the share price?!

Prelims 31st march.

chad how do you know this?

Says so on my broker site.

exciting times!
lots hope the sp responds...

Taken from another GMC board:

Gambling on cellphones to be worth US$2 billion next year

A rapid proliferation of mobile casinos, lotteries and sports betting services should see gross revenues from mobile gambling mushroom to more than US$19.3bn by 2009, according to a new report from Juniper Research.

The report reveals that lotteries will be the largest money-spinners, with gross revenues of nearly US$7.9bn worldwide by 2009, followed by sports betting (US$6.9bn) and casino-style gaming (US$4.5bn).

According to report author Dr Windsor Holden, "Governments are generally less censorious about lotteries than other forms of gambling, with the result that mobile lotteries are likely to become established fairly quickly in a greater number of markets. Given the ubiquity of the lottery culture, it will only require a very small percentage of players to buy their tickets via the mobile handset for the resulting global revenues to run into billions of dollars".

Dr Holden added that if existing prohibitions on casinos and betting services are lifted, then overall revenues could be substantially higher.

"These forecasts are based on the premise that a number of countries -- most notably the US and China -- will remain strongly opposed to the introduction of most mobile gambling services in the short and medium term. Should this situation change, then quite clearly the figures would be revised upwards to reflect this".

Other findings from the report include:

2005 will see total mobile gambling revenues pass the US$2 billion mark, including more than US$800 million on sports bets By 2009, the Asia-Pacific region will contribute the largest share of total gross revenues (39%) followed by Europe (37%) and North America (15%).
Total European gambling revenues are expected to rise from US$202 million in 2004 to more than US$7.2 billion in 2009, with European sports betting revenues up from US$110 million to US$3 billion
Despite the regulatory constraints, 7.6 million North Americans are expected to use mobile sports betting services by 2009, with more than five million using casino-style services.


Would it be safe to say that time-stamping would play an intergral part of purchasing lottery tickets via mobile phones as well as other forms of gambling (horse racing, greyhounds etc) where there is a "place your bets" time frame?

It seems as though everything is in place with this share, we just need something to light the touchpaper.

This stock is really interesting, with a new post revealing more and more potential uses for this technology.

Where will it all end ?

Even though my holding is 10% down at present, I bet (excuse the pun) that it wont be for much longer.

March 21, 2005 - ICTV Announces the Opening of UK Based Offices to Serve International Interactive Television Market

http://www.ictv.com/whats_new/2005/press_2005mar21office.html

February 9, 2005 - ICTVs HeadendWare Named Hot Technology at Upcoming NTCA Show

http://www.ictv.com/whats_new/2005/press_2005feb9ntca.html

Interesting ICTV have based it's European operations in the U.K, considering.....

http://www.yoomedia.com/press_releases/pr13sept.html

Learn all about the possibilty's of the 'Broadband TV Group', the partnership between Yoomedia and ICTV.

http://www.ictv.com/advantage/cable/index.html

The agreement with Yoomedia is ICTV's first venture into the European cable market and opens interactive doors for Yoomedia in Europe.

http://www.ictv.com/pdfs/ICTV_Games.pdf

http://www.ictv.com/pdfs/ICTV_HeadendWare_Overview.pdf

http://www.ictv.com/pdfs/ICTV_TV_Customer_Support.pdf

http://www.ictv.com/pdfs/ICTV_Local_News.pdf

http://www.ictv.com/pdfs/ICTV_Email.pdf

This has the potential to cause a shift in the balance of power from Sky to Cable, over say, two years.

Was this the reason for the mark up on Thursday?

http://www.poker425.com/index.php

Poker 425 launched at 11pm on 23rd March 2005

so to clarify, is YOO a global leader in time stamp technology for phones???