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.

(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???

Yes, absoulutely.

Recoqnised by Celador, for Who Wants To Be A Millionare, rolling out our time stamping technology to the 'Walkaway gsme' in all countries whose mobile infrastructure support the technology.

whats the reason for the mark down today i public....

Hmm - silly market maker games - or is there pre-news about thursdays figures??? This is an important time for YOO and their figs - need to be positive (the figs I mean)...

some b big sells today!

Personally, I think anyone selling now, so close to results, with all the good news you can look back on this board posted since the merger,as well as news items which relate to Yoomedia's market in general at www.dtg.org.uk, has made a big mistake.

I stand to be corrected if I am wrong, and whether I am will only be known after the results are announced.

Everyone can speculate, good or bad, you never truly know the reason for a sell, it could be personal reasons, somebody may need some cash quickly, a sell does not mean that somebody knows something that we don't, somebody/institution may have bought recently at 21p, and a stop loss has triggered in.

I am sticking to my personal belief that the results will show that the company is in a strong position after the merger, and is on target to break into profit by this month.

I have not heard or seen anything different to make me think anything is amiss at Yoomedia - total news blackout has not helped for those who have not been prepared to Do their own research, - Yoomedia management cannot be that concerned, or else thay would have put out an RNS with some of the good news unearthed on this board over the past few months.

One way or the other, all will be revealed, very soon, that is the only certain thing anyone can say for the moment - bad news is only speculation, and if you believe it, then you must sell - personally, I am happy to sit tight, based upon my own research into DTV and iTV in general, as well as Yoomedia specific research.

Just also remember - some of the recent subscribers to the placing agreed to a lock in - this is a decision that would not have been taken lightly, given the nature of this share being an AIM share.

Regards

One tranche of shares sold 650,000 against 450,000,000 issue - is this such a worry ????

Not really a mass exodus that deserves a 8.5% drop in price - MM's have to make their money somehow I suppose.

Regards

The ASOPS Challenge Portfolio has 28 shares down by an average apporaching 3% against 10 rises, suggesting a deal of end of year profit taking. Well, there aren't any profits in YOO but there may be some nice losses to offset. Somewhat surprised that the quite heavy mark down on relatively low volume of sales failed to attract buyers. Basically, just three sales, one of which was T impling that someone else was buying. The one I really liked was the purchase of one, literally, share. How do they calculate the stamp duty on a 17p buy? And what about the commission? Mind he/she will get a nice glossy report, presumably. Its not you, is it, Poverty! More likely to be Penury!

I suspect the EVO projections may be more relevant than the prelims given that that is essentially historical and pre-acquisition.

Eric

eric: you could be right in the fact that people are offloading stock with the new tax year next week. I think the market in general will rise from this.