Berlin, 06 October 2015 – YOC AG (Frankfurt, Prime Standard, ISIN DE0005932735) announces the agreement with the buyer of YOC Group‘s former affiliate marketing segment on the variable purchase price component from the sale in financial year 2014. The deal results in a cash inflow of around EUR 0.2 million for YOC AG. According to contract, the maximum variable purchase price component from the sale of belboon GmbH would have been EUR 0.3 million.

The affiliate marketing network belboon was sold in July 2014 in the course of YOC AG’s strategic focus on its core business mobile advertising. Since then, the company’s focus has been on data driven mobile ad solutions such as mobile programmatic advertising. Most recently, YOC has introduced the newly developed mobile ad format YOC Understitial onto the market. Together with Forward Media, an affiliate of Havas Media Germany, and Telefónica Germany, the specialist for mobile advertising launched the video version of YOC Understitial in the context of an O2 campaign.

About YOC

Since its foundation in 2000, YOC has been a pioneer and market leader for mobile advertising, and is currently the leading independent provider of mobile advertising solutions within Europe. Thanks to its ground-breaking technologies such as Programmatic Media Trading and Programmatic Data Targeting, YOC enables advertisers to access specific target groups and make efficient use of their advertising budgets. YOC provides technical solutions and creative mobile advertising formats for optimised marketing of mobile advertising inventory. Already in 2012, YOC received the Mobile Gold Award from Cannes Lions for the YOC Mystery Ad format. Top international advertisers from all industries such as Microsoft, Google, Mercedes-Benz, Vodafone, Coca-Cola, Dior and Samsung work with YOC. The company has an impressive, high-quality mobile premium inventory comprising a portfolio of over 300 international publishers, with extensive coverage and guaranteed brand safety – both for branding and for performance goals. Through its technology platforms, YOC reaches mobile internet users worldwide. YOC has been listed in the Prime Standard on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange since 2009, and has offices in Berlin, Düsseldorf, London, Madrid and Vienna. 

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Martina Serwene
Investor Relations
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10405 Berlin
telephone: +49-30-726162-322
fax: +49-30-726162-222
martina.serwene@yoc.com