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Yoomedia PLC 24 July 2003 YooMedia plc ('YooMedia' or 'the Company') Ground breaking deal with NTL Home YooMedia today announced an agreement with NTL Home, the UK's leading cable company, to distribute all its products on its digital interactive cable platform, which include Cartoon Network, Games and Chat channels, and Dateline services. NTL Home customers will soon have access to one of the largest portfolio of interactive TV games, an advanced 24/7 chat system and the most established and well known dating service in the UK. The agreement will see YooMedia's entire suite of services including an interactive games and chat portal, Cartoon Network and Dateline all launch on NTL Home digital cable service later this year. Andrew Fearon, YooMedia's Chief Operating Officer says: 'It has always been our strategy to deliver multiple products across all digital platforms in the UK. This deal sees all our products launch on NTL and demonstrates the value of high quality content for companies like NTL. All these products will eventually be available throughout the UK to all digital TV users.' Andrew Fearon continued to say, 'It is our intention to continue delivering the best in interactive entertainment to the digital viewer. Our distribution across all UK cable channels is a strong foundation from which to develop more cable, satellite and DTT orientated channels and allows for more interaction between cable subscribers.' YooMedia and NTL Home have agreed to work together to launch the entire suite of Yoomedia products on its platform in the next eight months. YooMedia's games and Cartoon Network games will be the first to launch. The new games portal will bring Tetris and Solitaire to viewers. The new chat service will enable NTL Home cable customers to access one of the most sophisticated chat systems available on interactive TV and they will also be able to chat to subscribers on other cable platforms. Cartoon Network will also launch on NTL Home with branded pay-per-play games including the Tom and Jerry Cheese Chase game and The Powerpuff Girls game alongside editorial pages, jokes, tips on gameplay, cheats and competitions. The games are accessible directly from the Cartoon Network channel, using the red button on the subscriber's remote control, making it the first red button games portal on the platform. Leigh Bennett, Director of TV at NTL Home comments: 'The deal gives NTL customers access to a large portfolio of games and community building products such as chat. YooMedia is totally committed to interactive TV and has developed a superb range of really unique and engaging content. This is more great news for NTL customers.' According to Andrew Fearon the deal is the result of YooMedia's focused product development as well as a unique partnership approach with strong brands which concentrates on creating channels, games and chat events that complement the digital TV demographic. For further information, please contact: Andrew Fearon Chief Operating Officer 020 7462 0870 Anick Sinclair Public Relations 020 7462 0870 About YooMedia: YooMedia is a digital TV entertainment company, which provides services including chat, games and dating products. YooMedia's suite of iTV and eTV services and products allow digital network operators and broadcasters to build communities of loyal viewers and establish new revenue streams. YooMedia works with licensees and publishers to create classic parlour games, multi-player games and real-time arcade action games for interactive TV. YooMedia has the exclusive licence for Tetris across UK digital cable. It recently launched Cartoon Network on Telewest and the interactive games channel will debut on ntl at the end of the year. YooMedia is an established provider of interactive TV chat, with a variety of messaging applications. The Company currently provides exclusive DTV chat for Sky One, Gamestar and Sky News channels on satellite in the UK. This service is also available to other broadcasters and operators. The Company launched an interactive Channel on Telewest digital cable TV called yoome2 earlier in 2003. The Channel includes the UK's only cable chat service, yoome chat, along with a suite of games (including the first cable launch of Tetris). The Channel also includes competitions, prizes and mobile phone ringtone and logo downloads. The technology developed for the Channel and chat services can also be used as a core framework for similar interactive services by broadcasters and branded accordingly. YooMedia has signed an exclusive partnership with Dateline to develop and launch all of its interactive dating services on digital television, mobile phones and other wireless devices. The first of these iTV services is expected to launch on Telewest. YooMedia is quoted on the AIM market. www.yoomedia.com This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock Exchange

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