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.

Must be true if its on the ADVFN free board !!!

sp heading in the right direction so I'm happy holding for the next year if necessary
what shares are you in Dil? are they doing well I know you like NLR but always welcome a few recommends to look at. dull old weekend down in Devon so looking around the market.

Poker Channel goes interactive from August 15
Poker fans will soon be able to play their favourite games on TV following a deal between interactive media group YooMedia and The Poker Channel. From August 15, YooMedia will provide a red-button link from The Poker Channel to a Poker Channel-branded, interactive fixed-odds gaming portal that will offer games such as Poker, Roulette, Virtual Trackside and Spin to Win. Viewers will be able to play games for fun or for real. [Aug 4]

buyers will come back in today big style.

Yoomedia are well placed to rise further this year, bearing in mind that Yooemedia are working away to get their interims out early September - must have something good to report - we already know that turnover is well up, in March it was 8,000,000 per month and with many new contracts secured since then, 10,000,000 per month is now nearer the mark, we also know that company is trading cash positive - all good indicators IMHO to send the price up in September, especially as the trading statement is sure to be upbeat too, where we will learn more about the reason why the profits warning had to be issued, and more about that 5 year contract with FTSE 100 partner, William Hill.

Certainly soaking up the sells must be a big buyer out there.

Cable operator Telewest expects to be operating a fully digital television network by the end of 2006. The company, which is due to merge with larger operator ntl later this year, said the transition to a fully digital network would free up "significant amounts of bandwidth", allowing "extra capacity for video-on-demand (VOD), high definition TV, broadband speed increases and other services".

Telewest said it ended the three months to the end of June with 1.3m television subscribers, an increase of 11,000 during the period, the best second-quarter performance for four years. Of that 1.3m, 1.19m were digital subscribers, up 40,000 in the period.

"Our VOD roll-out is continuing and is now available to approximately 120,000 subscribers in the South West," said Telewest. The Teleport-branded service includes a replay feature, allowing subscribers to view programmes from the BBC and others within a seven-day window.

Telewest said it planned to continue its region-by-region VOD roll-out during the second half of this year and complete the national roll-out by early 2006. It also expected to launch personal video recorder services towards the end of 2005.

At the end of June Telewest had 852,838 broadband customers, up 66,000 in the quarter.

Rising customer numbers boosted Telewest revenues to 381m, up from 326m in the year-ago period. The company made a 19m profit, up from a year-ago loss of 126m.

When pressed on whether Telewest's content arm Flextech would be sold, Telewest's acting chief executive Barry Elson, said: "At this point in time we like both businesses (distribution and content). As the multiplicity of platforms (increases), content has to become more valuable and not less valuable."

Earlier this week, Telewest issued a sales memorandum for its digital channels arm Flextech ahead of the widely anticipated merger with ntl. Analysts said Flextech could expect to attract bids of around 900m. It remains to be seen whether the move is merely an attempt to put a realistic market value on Flextech as ntl and Telewest consider merger terms, or whether Flextech really is up for sale.

Lovelacemedia | 12.08.2005
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From this mornings itvt newletter, good to see the story is still doing the rounds:

Five, YooMedia Team to Launch New ITV-Enabled Channel on Sky

UK commercial terrestrial broadcaster, Five, has teamed with interactive TV content and services company, YooMedia, to launch a new channel on the Sky satellite platform. Dubbed "YooPlay TV," the channel, which began broadcasting last week, features a variety of ITV programming, including YooMedia's Puzzle Time and Cash Quiz formats. As of yesterday, the channel has also been airing an extended version of Five's daily quiz show, Brainteaser, in what the companies describe as a "pilot run": the YooPlay TV version of the show has no contestants in the studio; instead, the show's host poses questions directly to viewers at home. (Note: the Endemol-produced show, which airs on Five between 1:00PM and 2:00PM on weekdays, will air daily on YooPlay TV between 2:00PM and 6:00PM.) The joint venture agreement between YooMedia and Five will see the latter cross- promoting the YooPlay TV version of Brainteaser from its channel: the broadcaster will run promotional inserts for the extended version during and after its own broadcasts of Brainteaser. YooMedia says that its partnership agreement with Five is "for an initial pilot phase" of 13 weeks, and that it includes an option to extend the partnership into 2006: it says that YooPlay TV is not expected to make a material contribution to its operating profits during the current financial year. "We are delighted by the prospect of both developing the YooPlay brand through the launch of this channel and the regular broadcast of our own participation TV show," YooMedia group managing director, Neil MacDonald, said in a prepared statement. "The opportunity to host an extended version of the UK's most successful format of this type and to work with partners such as Five and Endemol is an added bonus for YooPlay TV."

You got any viewing figures for these Channels ?

Do you or anyone you know ever watch them ?

moneyplus ... SOR look interesting but I'm not really looking at much at the moment.

reminder for those interested who have not already looked, Brainteaser 1p.m. Channel 5. A poster on iii claims this is Endemol's second most lucrative show after Big Brother. Anyway I'm going to watch, see what we're involved with.

So mac ... you got any viewing figures for these Channels ?

Do you or anyone you know ever watch them ?

Buy hey Dil, look at potential. Worldwide there are 6bn people if only 1% of them watch this crap the stock will skyrocket. My broker said these were a screaming buy and the chart shows a breakout and on level two one of the MM's has moved his spread from 50% to 75%. All positive stuff. They only blew 41m of shareholders money getting to this stage as well. Re-mortgage the house.

And its not expected to make a material contribution this year .... nothing ever has !

Make more business sense to start a porn channel imo.

Poor Dil your pining for sue

A sheep porn channel for Dil lol.

Why jonny ?

Has she started a porn channel ?

Told you she was a slapper.

I think she changed her name to macbullsh*t ... he a tw*t like her.

Confirmation at last dil of what a lot of us have known for a long time - that you're a complete wanker. Unsubtle I know and not a little risque but having confirmed it for us we can all go our separate ways safe in the knowledge that whatever you say the box of tissues won't be far away. Bless.

http://www.yoomedia.com/services/public_sector.html

Interactive Digital TV (iDTV) is a vital contact medium for Local Authority organisations ensuring that their e-government service approach actually includes all social groups. YooMedia Public Sector can assist Councils, Police Forces and other local authority bodies to provide a range of solutions that deliver text/video/audio content for static and dynamic information, encourages feedback, supports applications and bookings, processes payments and engages your communities through the use of forums, online events, polling facilities and even chat services. Our approach also integrates iDTV with Mobile to provide citizens with a wider choice of interaction methods and supports streamlined integration with your other systems improving efficiency and utilization of resources.

In addition to delivering the largest iDTV based health information service in the world YooMedia offers iTV solutions that address some of the key issues for the efficient use of Health Service resources. Our approach to home based care allows patients to interact via iDTV and Mobile with their physician or consultant on a range of treatment monitoring and consultation topics. Our Choose & Book approach supports patient identification and selection of appointments and includes reminders sent to their mobile phone to reduce missed appointments. We can also provide solutions for carers, patients and family members allowing them to participate in numerous forums to share information or experiences, provide support and to gain access to "one to many" Q&A sessions delivered by health care professionals.

YooMedia Public Sector supports Government Departments to develop engaging iDTV solutions which address national initiatives for the wider inclusion of citizens accessing central government services. We utilise our full portfolio of capabilities to deliver innovative solutions which provide services that people will use and that support Government Departments to achieve their objectives. We are also the only independant iDTV solutions provider included within the ODPM's framework for E-Voting.