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[games] 24/9/2007 15:46

Also snip from Ireland.

[games] 24/9/2007 15:45

From IMD site (doc)

IMD SIGNS UP AS KEY SUPPLIER TO DIGITAL MEDIA ASSET MANAGEMENT SYSTEM LEPORELLO AND OPENS GERMAN OFFICE IN FRANKFURT

5 September 2007 - Independent Media Distribution plc (IMD) after launching its digital distribution service for TV commercials in Germany last month, today announces the signing of its second major client; Leporello. Founded in 1996, IMD is the UK's leading and longest established distributor of advertising commercials, music videos and data to TV & Radio broadcasters.

Leporello, the revolutionary online tool for motion picture images and digital data, will work with IMD as the supplier for the digital distribution of TV commercials in Germany. Leporello, which is currently employed by several major advertising agencies and post production companies, will integrate with IMD to offer its clients a fully comprehensive, high quality, faster and more accurate advertising delivery service.

Leporello's Managing Director Nabil Moghib commented: "I have worked closely with IMD for several months and am convinced that they will be able to offer the highest quality service possible for Leporello's clients. Tapeless distribution of commercials is a logical extension of the tapeless services already offered by the Leporello platform and I know our clients are keen to use the service provided by IMD."

IMD is already distributing commercials digitally to two key German broadcasters and currently has installations underway at two more major broadcasters. As more broadcasters connect to IMD's True Digital Delivery TM system, IMD expects to have full coverage of the German TV market by the end of 2007.

IMD is also celebrating the opening of its German headquarters in Frankfurt. This is IMD's first office in mainland Europe and joins IMD's other offices in London and Dublin. IMD will provide a full ingest and Quality Control service for TV commercials from this office as well as offering customer service for its clients and broadcaster partners.

Simon Cox, CEO of IMD commented, "the opening of our new office in Frankfurt and the signing of Leporello underlines IMD's commitment to working in Germany."

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Further information from:
Ross Priestley, Director of Business Development, IMD [phone] / [e-mail]
Nabil Moghib, Managing Director, Leporello [phone] / [e-mail]
Lorette Nettar, IMD (Trade PR) [phone] / [e-mail] Hudson Sandler PR
Alistair Mackinnon-Musson/Nicola Savage, IMD (Investor Relations) 020 7796 4133 [e-mail]



Editor's Notes

IMD is the UK & ROI's leading media logistics company distributing over 50% of all radio and TV commercials.
True Digital Delivery TM is a digital file based delivery system of TV commercials developed by IMD PLC

About IMD

Independent Media Distribution PLC (IMD), founded in 1996 and AIM listed is the UK's leading digital distributor of advertising commercials, music videos and data to TV and radio broadcasters. IMD works with all of the UK's top creative and media agencies, post production houses and broadcasters connecting more components of the UK's advertising and media community than anyone else. IMD calls this 'Media Logistics''.

IMD's media solutions are operated through four businesses: IMD TV and IMD Radio delivering over half of the ads aired across the UK; IMD Optimad administering over 85% by value of all UK TV ads aired with CARIATM; and IMD Fastrax distributing music videos and audio files to TV channels and radio stations.

UK Republic of Ireland
10 John Princes Street IMDAdSat
London 62 Mount Street
W1G 0JW Dublin
t [phone] t +44 353 (1) 662 9022

About Leporello

LEPORELLO is the revolutionary online tool for motion picture images and digital data. LEPORELLO helps you save space when archiving films, achieve faster co-ordination, send transmission data online, generate market research results quickly, and keep up-to-date at all times about where and how often your programme is broadcasted. It's cost-effective and easy to use, too. Leporello help its customers take control of their workflow and gives them through its functionalily a more independent and efficient workflow.become more efficient through the

[veryniceperson] 13/9/2007 13:55

Still taking a good beating, not sure they are all sales!

[games] 12/9/2007 08:54

vnp, it looks like someone is selling/reducing a position. I added yesterday, but no trade shown, so will watch for a while, or put in a low buy order.

results were good, and sector looks to be improving.

[veryniceperson] 12/9/2007 08:08

Share price seems to be getting a bit of a knocking of late, Doesn't seem to be any good reason. Why?

[games] 31/8/2007 13:40

Dated 20th Aug, but as far as i'm aware only just appeared on IMD's site.


IMD LAUNCHES TAPELESS DIGITAL DISTRIBUTION SERVICE FOR TV COMMERCIALS IN GERMANY WITH SIGNING OF FIRST MAJOR CLIENT PICTORION das werk

Independent Media Distribution plc (IMD) launches its digital distribution service for TV commercials in Germany as it signs first major client PICTORION das werk. Founded in 1996, IMD is the UK's leading and longest established distributor of advertising commercials, music videos and data to TV & Radio broadcasters.

PICTORION das werk, one of Germany's top post production groups, will work with IMD as its preferred supplier of digital distribution services for TV commercials, in Germany, with immediate effect. The Group, which has offices in Hamburg, Berlin, Dusseldorf, Frankfurt, Cologne and Munich, will integrate with IMD to offer its clients a fully comprehensive, high quality, faster and more accurate advertising delivery service.

Continuing its strong investment strategy and its buoyant trading in the UK, IMD is now able to develop its business beyond the UK into mainland Europe, where digital distribution into TV broadcasters is almost non-existent. In Germany, almost 95% of all TV commercials are delivered on video tape by overnight couriers.

IMD has pioneered True Digital Delivery TM used in the UK by several broadcasters including ITV. True Digital DeliveryTM is a digital file based delivery system, which helps broadcasters as well as post production houses by reducing the cost and time involved in handling video tape. This benefit is maximised for broadcasters as the file that is delivered is already in the right format for transmission and requires no further work.

The deal will allow IMD to distribute commercials to two key German broadcasters. As broadcasters connect to IMD's True Digital Delivery TM system, IMD expects to have full coverage of the German TV market by the end of 2007.

Simon Cox, CEO of IMD commented, "We are absolutely delighted to have reached a landmark agreement with das werk, one of the pre-eminent post production groups in Germany and look forward to working with them to bring the benefits of digital delivery of commercials to their clients and German broadcasters".

Michael Endres, MD of PICTORION das werk added, "We chose IMD because of its track record and high quality reputation, which fits both our requirements and the needs of the German market today. The future is digital delivery of TV content, and IMD is the right partner to help us deliver this to our clients."

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Further information from:
Ross Priestley, Director of Business Development, IMD [phone] / [e-mail]
Michael Endres, Managing Director, PICTORION das werk GmbH [phone] / [e-mail]
Lorette Nettar, IMD (Trade PR) [phone] / [e-mail] Hudson Sandler PR
Alistair Mackinnon-Musson/Nicola Savage, IMD (Investor Relations) 020 7796 4133 [e-mail]



Editor's Notes

IMD is the UK & ROI's leading media logistics company distributing over 50% of all radio and TV commercials.
True Digital Delivery TM is a digital file based delivery system of TV commercials developed by IMD PLC
ITV is a UK commercial broadcaster, operating for more than 50 years. Today ITV is a multi-channel, multi-platform, content-driven business. ITV sells advertising on behalf of all 15 Channel 3 regional licenses and produces much of the programming broadcast on the ITV channels. www.itvplc.com

About IMD

Independent Media Distribution PLC (IMD), founded in 1996 and AIM listed is the UK's leading digital distributor of advertising commercials, music videos and data to TV and radio broadcasters. IMD works with all of the UK's top creative and media agencies, post production houses and broadcasters connecting more components of the UK's advertising and media community than anyone else. IMD calls this 'Media Logistics''.

IMD's media solutions are operated through four businesses: IMD TV and IMD Radio delivering over half of the ads aired across the UK; IMD Optimad administering over 85% by value of all UK TV ads aired with CARIATM; and IMD Fastrax distributing music videos and audio files to TV channels and radio stations.

UK Republic of Ireland
10 John Princes Street IMDAdSat
London 62 Mount Street
W1G 0JW Dublin
t [phone] t +44 353 (1) 662 9022

About PICTORION das werk

PICTORION das werk GmbH is Germany's leading network in the field of digital image processing. Well-known clients from the world of advertising, the music industry and film- and TV productions trust the services of our 150 highly qualified employees. We offer assistance in all areas of digital post-production.

Its offices and studios are located in Hamburg, Berlin, Dusseldorf, Frankfurt, Cologne and Munich. In order to encourage innovation, specialisation and creativity, each branch keeps a certain degree of independence. PICTORION das werk stands for innovative technology, quality, flexibility and great service.

[veryniceperson] 08/8/2007 14:01

The share price seems to dropping a bit this week. Anybody know why? Thought the trading statement sounded good unless the European cost of new network frightened them away.

[veryniceperson] 02/8/2007 16:59

Hi games

Certainly think there is more takeovers to come. Think start up cost could be hardware but not sure. They had start up costs when they built the Irish network. Here's a snippet from a trading statement from October 2004.

There have been a number of non-recurring costs in establishing the TV service
together with the unbudgeted costs of opening the Irish network. It has always
been company policy to write off start up costs when incurred and these
additional costs are expected to amount to approximately #260,000. The situation
with Television, in particular, is evolving rapidly and shareholders will be
kept informed as the service continues to develop.

Here is the link



Hope this helps in some way.

[games] 02/8/2007 11:00

vnp, their was also mention of Spain (along with Germany posted above) a couple of months ago on some companies Aim News letter.

Does "start up costs" imply they have not found any suitable takeovers, or if they are planning on more than a couple of countries maybe it is more cost effective.

[veryniceperson] 02/8/2007 08:05

A very good statment indeed. Like the bit of pushing in to europe early.

[ro4dhog] 02/8/2007 07:47

Its always bloody good news when a company states that is performing ahead of the boards expectations, specially when an FD has brought shares and results are a month away.

"Since the statement made at the time of the Group's Annual General Meeting on 25 May 2007, IMD has continued to trade strongly and profitably and ahead of the
Board's expectations. Although the second half results will have to absorb
start up costs from the Group's entry into Europe, where development plans have
been brought forward, the outlook for the current financial year is positive."


"IMD will announce its Interim results for the six months to 30 June 2007 on
Monday 3 September 2007."

[veryniceperson] 17/7/2007 08:29

Been some nice news flow this month, may it continue. Shares price should start heading up soon.

[games] 17/7/2007 01:28

Both links pdf.

IMD Optimad wins major TV Industry tender for Attribution service.




And,

100th Broadcaster Added to UK's Largest High Bandwidth Secure Content Network.

[games] 06/7/2007 10:50

I see IMD now have some US stations listed, owned by various groups.


KEZO-FM

KFAB-AM

KKCD-FM

KOZN-FM

WKRR FM

WSJS-AM

WSMW-FM

WVBZ-FM

WZTK-FM

[veryniceperson] 04/7/2007 17:15

Thanks games!


Its all getting very interesting, there's a big market in Europe.

[games] 04/7/2007 14:01

vnp, ta, forgot to check the news page.

hastings, thanks for that, i actually have those figures, i was wondering when they were last updated.


Little snip (june) regarding ITV.com

[hastings] 03/7/2007 15:30

VNP/Games, Housebroker Bridgewell has EPS of 1.54p pencilled in for 2007. That puts the shares on a PER of 30, dropping to 15 on 2008 forecasts of 3.01p EPS.
Not a screaming Buy, but any hint that expectations will be beaten, then we could be away.

[veryniceperson] 03/7/2007 14:00

Hi games you missed one. We will have to ask hastings to get that information for you.

[games] 03/7/2007 07:50

90Min Express Launched



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Snip from May, with mention for Optimad regarding online.

IPA to tackle burden of digital buying

Mediaweek: 22 May 2007

The Institute of Practitioners in Advertising has resolved to tackle the "burden" of administration involved in media buying that industry leaders have identified as one of the main reasons behind media agencies losing money on digital buying.

Nigel Gwilliam, head of digital at the IPA, said that the trade body has discussed the issue and that action will be taken to streamline processes involved in digital media buying.

He said: "We've been talking about reducing admin because it is such a burden in digital media buying. The job has been done with TV and radio and now we're looking at online.

"Several groups have shown an interest, including Mediatel and Optimad. We're at an early stage, but it's very important to streamline the processes involved in online."



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ps, was any forcasts updated for 07 after the last statement. TIA.

[veryniceperson] 11/6/2007 20:05

Independent Media Director's Shareholding


RNS Number:1681Y
Independent Media Distribution PLC
11 June 2007

Date: Monday 11 June, 2007

Contact: Simon Cox (Chief Executive)
David Haynes (Chairman)
Independent Media Distribution
Tel: [phone]
Corporate Website: www.imdplc.com

Alistair Mackinnon-Musson
Nicola Savage
Hudson Sandler
Tel: [phone]
Email: [e-mail]



Independent Media Distribution PLC

Director's Shareholding

Independent Media Distribution plc ("the Company") has today received
notification that on 5 June, 2007, Mr Philip McDanell, the Finance Director of
the Company, purchased 27,700 Ordinary shares of 10p each in the Company at a
price of 45.0 pence per share. Following this transaction, Mr McDanell is the
beneficial owner of 27,700 shares in the Company, representing 0.08 per cent of
the issued Ordinary share capital of the Company.

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Its always good news when the fiance director buys!

[veryniceperson] 04/6/2007 13:20

And a wise move to. Thanks