Full Year Trading Update

Full Year Trading Update

Media Corporation PLC

17th November 2010

Media Corporation Plc
("Media Corp" or the "Group")("Media Corp" or the "Group")

Unaudited Full Year Trading Update

The Board of Media Corp, a leading advertising network and online gaming Group, is pleased to announce a trading update for the 12 month period ended 30th September 2010.

Financial Highlights

  • Revenues of £25.6 million (2009: £3.5 million) an increase of 730%
  • Gross profit of £6.3 million (2009: £0.9 million) an increase of 707%
  • EBITDA loss of £618,000 (2009: Loss of £2,404,000) a reduction of £1.8 million
  • Cash balances of £2.2 million (September 2009: £1.7 million)
  • Both of Media Corp’s principal subsidiaries Purple Lounge and Eyeconomy traded profitably in the period

Trading Highlights

  • Acquisition of Purple Lounge, a leading online gaming brand
  • Gambling.com returned to number 1 in Google’s search rankings
  • Purple Lounge reached an important milestone of 100,000 registered customers
  • Purple Lounge players wagered over £380 million on poker in 2010

Justin Drummond, CEO of Media Corp, commented:

“This has been a transformational year for Media Corp with record growth and a significantly improved financial performance. Whilst increased marketing and software costs impacted profitability in the second half, the additional marketing spend has delivered substantial growth in player numbers and revenues. We look forward to updating the market in more detail when we release our final results in March 2011.

“The new financial year has started well with growth across the Group and the Board looks forward to the continued recovery in 2011.”

--ENDS--

Contacts:

Media Corporation Plc   Tel: +44 20 7618 9000
Justin Drummond - CEO
Nilesh Jagatia – Group Finance Director
 
Northland Capital Partners limited

Tel: + 44 20 7492 4750

Luke Cairns / Rod Venables (Nomad)
Katie Shelton (Joint Broker)
 

XCAP Securities

 

John Grant / Karen Kelly (Joint Broker)

Tel: + 44 207 101 7070
 

Bishopsgate Communications

Tel: + 44 20 7562 3350
Gemma O'Hara / Siobhra Murphy

Notes to editors:

Quoted on the AIM market of the London Stock Exchange, Media Corp is a leading media and online gaming group.

The Group has two principal divisions:

Advertising Network - Formed in 1996, Eyeconomy specialises in mass reach campaigns to up to 50 Million unique consumers per month via its own proprietary ad-serving and tracking technology for clients including AOL, Dell and American Express.
www.eyeconomy.co.uk

Website Publishing - Media Corp has a diversified publishing division specialising in online media and gaming. The impressive portfolio of websites includes a number of market leading websites, such as www.purple-lounge.com, www.gambling.com, www.onthebox.com, www.sport.co.uk, www.creditcardexpert.co.uk and www.flightcomparison.co.uk.

Further information can be found on the company's website, at www.mediacorpplc.com

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