In August 2007, ZOO acquired
the authoring business of Scope Seven, providing the group with a base near its
key customers in California and a broader service offering.

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/gaming/a76113/disney-unveils-pirates-dvd-game.html

08 October 2007:
DGP Sign On For ZOOtech Service

DGP, the Soho based Digital post production and New Media Facility, has announced the signing of an exclusive affiliation agreement with ZOOtech to offer production services based on its DVD Authoring System in the UK.
The software has already proven itself, with a number of major studios in Los Angeles embracing ZOOtechs ground-breaking solutions. These range from the automation of the DVD authoring process - previously a very labour intensive function - to the regionalisation of DVD menus and printed materials.

In developing its range of innovative software products ZOOtech has analysed the production workflow and clearly differentiated the underlying programming structure from the content itself. This has enabled ZOOtech to develop products that offer automation whilst maintaining full creative freedom for the designer and author to produce unique and strongly branded titles.

The systems introduce significant efficiencies into the production process, as well as greater flexibility to accommodate changes, whilst at the same time delivering substantial cost savings to the client.

Commenting on the new agreement, Julian Day, Managing Director of DGP said Our marketplace is changing fast. Clients are continually looking for more efficient ways to reduce costs and produce their work more effectively. By collaborating with ZOOtech, we are perfectly positioned to exploit our knowledge and experience of the international DVD market, and pass on the potential savings to our clients. In addition, we will have access to ZOOs upcoming solutions for reduced production times across other areas of our business which include DVD menu regionalisation and the adaptation of printed and promotional materials.

Gordon Doran, President of ZOOtech, added We are delighted that DGP has chosen ZOOtech as a partner in its digital media production business. Whilst we have seen a dramatic increase in interest in our software tools, we are also increasingly partnering with best-in-class service providers and working with them to develop the surrounding workflow processes that can make the tools devastatingly effective. We can now pass on our unique suite of products, together with our experience in making them work, to our new partner DGP to service the UK market on an exclusive basis.

i hear work levels at zootech have been intense over the last few weeks,
hope its a good omen?

Zootech and Scope Seven to produce Lego DVD game
Friday, 23 November 2007
Zootech, the innovative solutions company revolutionizing the video title production industry, and Scope Seven, their wholly owned Los Angeles based production company, have been hired by San Francisco-based board game company, University Games, to design and develop an interactive DVD game based around themes from the successful LEGO brand. Collaborating with LEGO and University Games, Zootech and Scope Seven are working to create an engaging game experience, combining elements of social interaction, fun, and learning. Maneuvering through a variety of LEGO worlds including LEGO City, Racing, Mars Mission, and Castle brands, the player's goal is to be the rst to reach LEGOLAND, an animated version of the popular theme park located just north of San Diego, CA. Players will advance on a game board by answering questions and completing activities on the DVD. Zootech and Scope Seven are proud to be a part of University Games' rst foray into the DVD game space.

ZOO should create a game called "Blind Fools and Donkeys", specifically aimed at investors in the company .......

Cynic: I'm pleased to see you've kept 'working' - I'm creasing myself as I catch up with your latest offerings.

Actually Richard I resemble that remark having 'invested' in this outfit some years ago, think they have to get back to about 10 quid before I turn a profit. Oh well, the certificates should come in useful for summat :)

dec 2007
a european dvd game using zootech software

http://www.jorr-it.net/index.php?pageid=6

Toya .... glad i provide some amusement ..... light relief and sanguinity required in these markets

Hi Cynic - I've just got back! Will settle down with a nice-cup-of-tea and catch up with the day's events!

http://www.thestar.co.uk/business/Zoo-group-doubles-sales.3582351.jp

Friday, 18 Jan 2008

back in the zoo, the snake continues to slither along the ground, perhaps trying to burrow beneath it to hide in shame .... what on earth is any sane investor doing putting his money in this company??

http://moneyam.uk-wire.com/cgi-bin/articles/200803030702261427P.html

the snake analogy still applies

Is it time to "doo the zoo" cynic ??

Zoo expects to return to the black in the current financial year.

"We expect to make a profit in 2008/9," said finance director Helen Gilder. "By the end of the year we hope to be making a monthly profit."

just 1p profit and its 30p+

>>>

BUY Zoo Digital at 13.5p... too cheap to be true.


Zoo: Hollywoods unlikely hero

Due in part to the global downturn, piracy and new technology, Hollywood studios are waking up to a potential horror story. DVD revenues, although still providing the industry with a sizeable $18.1 billion in 2008, were 4.8 per cent down during the year, as sales and rentals both diminished. The diagnosis for this glitzy sector is simple: it must slash costs.

Coming to the rescue is small-cap software developer ZOO Digital, which has built up a portfolio of products that have enabled the Sheffield-headquartered company to snare business with four of the Big Six major Hollywood studios Warner Bros, Paramount, Sonys Columbia, Fox, Universal and Disney.

The companys product portfolio is divided fairly equally between technology and services. While services include creative design, post-production and other consultancy activities, Zoos software is the more exciting element, with sky-high revenues to boot.

Zoos Templated Authoring System helps to automate DVD and Blu-Ray disc authoring a process that is normally very labour intensive, traditionally involving pulling together the film, soundtrack, subtitles, menu, bonus features, etc and reduces the time spent on this from over a week to one day.

Another product, the Menu Regionalization Tool, enables DVD menu items to be automatically formatted for translation into various languages. And a third software offering, the Media Adaptation Tool, speeds up the process of redesigning printed materials such as posters and DVD covers for different languages. Tellingly, one Hollywood studio customer managed to eke out a 90 per cent reduction in the time spent on these processes by employing Zoos products, and managed to save $3 million in the first year after adopting Zoos Menu Regionalization product.

In 2007, Zoo stepped up its penetration into the Hollywood studios through the acquisition of Scope Seven, one of the Los Angeles players in the DVD-authoring industry, then began replacing Scopes traditional methods with its own technology.

In the year to March, with the take-up of the new technology accelerating, group turnover doubled to 6.6 million, buoyed in part by currency movements, with revenues for video authoring increasing 212 per cent and for media adaptation by 224 per cent. Prior year losses of 1.9 million were converted into a 200,000 profit before tax, finance costs and an exceptional write-off of intangibles.

The strong performance was attributable in part to the first full-year contribution of acquisitions but mostly to the increasing traction of Zoos technology in the market. As finance director Helen Gilder explains, customers are getting more comfortable with us and are taking more products and services from us, and we are expanding more within our existing clients.

Boss Stuart Green, CEO and 20 per cent shareholder, who has been at the company since ZOO merged with AIM-listed Kazoo3D back in 2001, adds, Were fairly well consolidated with one customer, which uses software and services for around 40 per cent of its DVD business, and others are still at an early stage. What were seeing is that these studios which are big, slow-moving companies and are divided into lots of different units may start with us in one unit, but when the benefits become apparent, other units start to use us.

Now Zoo, with its foot in the door of three other big Hollywood studio players and eyeing up Bollywood as a potential market, is primed for plenty more growth this year, as its proven ability to pare costs reels in new business. The first few months of the new financial year have been good, enthuses Green. We are ahead in terms of revenues and significantly ahead in terms of profits.

Although Zoo is small and has 3.5 million of convertible loan notes outstanding all held by existing shareholders including Green, Foresight VCTs and Herald Investments it has a disruptive technology in a sector where many tens of millions of dollars are spent every year and is punching above its weight with clients who are warming to its cost-cutting abilities. Its shares offer good medium-term growth potential.

Recommendation: Buy
Ticker: ZOO
Sector: Software & Computer Services
Listing: AIM
Mid-price: 13.5p
Market cap: 2.88m

at last u r on a thread aptly named for you hyleo, lol........dont think the gorillas will be too pleased though.