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.

The story is they shafted ordinary shareholders last year and now its gone tits up they have some explaining to do to the institituions who happily snapped up shares at a massive discount last year but those smiles will be fading now as will the people who's pension funds have taken a beating. YOO get what YOO deserve and at this rate they will be the ones being acquired. I just feel sorry for the loyal ordinary investor.

I managed to get out at 18p but I think this has now gone far enough. Back in today.

HI all,
Buying activity at 9pps. Opinions please. Have investors spotted a buying opportunity and the worst is behind us poor investors or has someone just dropprd a dead cat from a high window?
Hope it's the former!!!
Alan

I'm not in at the moment but I would not be a seller at this price. If this sp was all that was justified then they would have a takeover bid tomorrow given their market leadership role. Not buying because I haven't the free lolly, but iturama, and others buying now, should do well IMO.

Eric

holding on with gritted teeth!!

MP..SNAP :-(

saw some decent size buying going through and bought some more at .904p all buys so I'm backing my instincts!! also topped up DGT and GMC as they are on the rise--now off to enjoy the lovely Devon sunshine! have a good weekend all and cheers Di-I'm with you.

mp & dyn

snap...and pleased it was not me jinxing the stock after all. :{

Ruthie

I have a feeling next week they''ll be on the up, after the market jitters have settled down. no results due until Oct so I hope we get some reassuring RNS or co. announcements before then.

Suggest, folk,(particular damsels in distress) you take GMC as a guide. Price has risen on clearing a long line of stock on the offer. Obviously there is a lot of stock about with large holders: the fact that the sp is not rising is enough for them to want to sell. There has to be an Evolution update soon: maybe Docherty has been a naughty boy and certainly, I would suspect, a careless boy, but is that sufficient to wipe a third of the sp? Should be trading update end July. The only major downside I can see is that they have bought a pup with DITG: very competitive market but you would never expect a bookmaker to lose money, would you?

Eric

Do we have 3 years to wait then?

Pile of crap.

Hi Dil, I expressed similar comments recently and based on our past performance I'd like to wager we are right again!

Still hopeful and still holding. But what else except eternal optimism would you expect from a lifelong Leeds United and Yorkshire cricket fan? 8-)

Dil - What a magnificently eloquent and insightful contribution. You must be very proud. All readers of the thread must surely count themselves extremely fortunate to be able to gaze upon your well thought-out and balanced musings.

While Dil's posting is a little direct in many years of posting he has rarely been wrong!

In which case, with that huge talent, he must be a very wealthy man, with no need to work for a living. As I'm sure that must be the case he must have a lot of time on his hands with which to compose such elaborate and eloquent postings.

few words from the Welsh-you know!! is he still winning the share challenge? I've given up checking I'm such a disgrace.

Courtesy of TheHamster on ADVN..

Digital shakes up entertainment
By Alfred Hermida
Technology editor, BBC News website



Digital television is changing viewing habits
The people who make films, TV and music are trying to work out how to survive in a digital era where the consumer is in control.

This was the predominant theme at a conference on the future of digital content held at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London earlier this week.

Delegates heard about a world where TV and music companies would struggle to stand out in what one TV executive called "digital fog".

But the days when an entertainment giant could largely influence what people do in their spare time are over.

"TV has moved from being a fairly passive medium into this digital era," said Simon Gunning, Head of Interactive Media at Celador, the company behind Who Wants to be a Millionaire.

"Audiences expect more control and greater access to stuff," he told the In the City Interactive conference.

More than TV

He highlighted new satellite channels which were a far cry from the traditional fare on TV, such as Fancy a Flutter, a betting channel, and Avago, an interactive games channel.

There is now an infinite choice of music and the stores are always open

Danny VanEmden, EMI Music UK
"This is leading to a change in the way we interact with our telly," said Mr Gunning.

It means that TV producers need to think beyond just making a show for broadcast. Instead they now had to look at ways of offering more through digital TV, mobiles or online.

"With big peak time monster formats you are looking at mass participation," he said.

"As devices and platforms change, ways to engage the viewer change and become essential," said Mr Gunning.

His comments were echoed by Anthony Lilley of Magic Lantern, which has been working on setting up a broadband documentary channel for Channel Four called 4Docs.

"Ideas jump across platforms and they mutate," he explained. "The experience you get is diverging not converging."

The record industry has already had to come to terms with the digital era, largely due to the rise of the popularity of file-sharing over the internet.

In just a couple of years, there has been a sea change in the attitude towards making more music available online.

"There is now an infinite choice of music and the stores are always open," said Danny VanEmden, Digital Media Director at EMI Music UK.

"The changes are unprecedented."

Next generation

The impact of digital extends to all forms of media, including traditional news organisations such as the BBC and the Financial Times.


Mobiles are offering new ways of getting music and video
They are operating in a world where news is everywhere and people can get their information from a multitude of sources, from established newspapers to bloggers.

"We are in the middle of a rather uncomfortable generational shift, especially in the UK," said Nigel Pocklington of the Financial Times.

"We are shifting to a generation that has not grown up reading newspapers."

"We are now dealing with online and digital worlds, where people get news from screens and mobile devices," said Mr Pocklington.

"It is a challenge to manage that transition."

The conference was part of In The City Interactive events, which focus on digital content issues.

regards

Good post. Was just thinknig we seem to have hit a support level at 9pps, and now we need good news on YOO to give it an upward kick.
Alan