One Media iP Group Plc - Interim Results for the six months ended 30 April 2025
31 July 2025 - Press releaseOne Media iP Group Plc
("One Media", the "Group" or the "Company")
Interim Results for the six months ended 30 April 2025
Music rights portfolio delivers robust performance with renewed management focus on strategic direction
One Media iP (AIM: OMIP), the digital music rights acquirer, publisher and distributor, announces its unaudited interim results for the six months ended 30 April 2025. Following the sale of TCAT Limited ("TCAT"), announced by the Company on 27 November 2024, the results provided are on a continuing basis.
Financial Highlights
- Group revenue at £2.5m (H1 2024 as restated: £2.6m), generated from intellectual property royalties, driven by expert management of copyrights portfolio as well as EBITDA growth.
- Stable net revenue of £1.7m (H1 2024 as restated: £1.7m) with a 11% increase in operating profit to £0.7m (H1 2024: £0.6m).
- 7% increase in EBITDA to £1.2m (H1 2024 as restated: £1.1m) following continued management focus on cost efficiencies and robust performance of music copyrights portfolio.
- Increase in continuing operations EPS to 0.23p (H1 2024: 0.21p).
- Net margin increased to 68% (H1 2024 as restated: 66%).
- Cash balance at 30 April 2025 of £0.5m (H1 2024: £0.9m), reflecting the final divestment in TCAT.
- Further reduction in debt to £1.0m (H1 2024: £1.3m) with continuation of Coutts facility payments in line with refinancing terms.
Operational Highlights
- Sale of TCAT to Round Group finalised in November 2024, with the Company retaining a 5% equity stake in Round.
- Continuing success in revenue generating proactive rights management with multiple Point Classics placements including:
- Light Cavalry Overture in 'We Were Liars' (Amazon Prime, June 2025)
- Dance of the Sugar-Plum Fairy in 'Étoile' (Amazon Prime, April 2025)
- Rosamunde: Andante in 'The Old Man' (Disney+/Hulu, October 2024).
- Renewed Media Attention on Unreleased 1992 Take That Track highlights value of Group's Rights portfolio. National coverage has reignited public interest in Falling for You Girl, an unreleased track from the original Take That line-up, with producer royalties held by the Company identified through its rights acquisition.
- 23.6% increase in Group YouTube channel's year-on-year watch time to 4.5 million hours in the 12-month period to January 2025. Relaunch of The Great British Channel surpassed 100,000 subscribers, contributing to a Group-wide total of 770,000 subscribers.
Board changes
- Non-Executive Director Brian Berg retired from the Board after six years of service and will continue to support the Company in an advisory capacity as required.
Market and outlook
- Continued growth of global music sector provides a favourable backdrop to the Company's model, benefitting from digital distribution, streaming proliferation and increasing demand for music usage.
- Goldman Sachs, in its 2025 Music in the Air report, is forecasting a CAGR of 7.6% through to 2030 and projecting revenues to rise to US$163.7 billion, from US$98.3 billion in 2023.
- IFPI's Global Music Report 2025 reported that Global recorded music revenue had reached US$29.6 billion in 2024, a year-on-year increase of 4.8% and reflecting a tenth consecutive year of growth. Paid streaming subscriptions also grew by 9.5% on the previous year.
- Management and Board continue to keep developments in artificial intelligence (AI) under review as part of its day-to-day operations.
Michael Infante, CEO said: "Following the divestment of TCAT, we have been working on recalibrating the Company to refocus on our portfolio of high quality music rights to help maximise its potential and to ensure that we are being as efficient as possible with our cost base. More recently, we are assessing the future strategy and growth of One Media, including how we can enhance our digital first model and develop scale.
"These robust first-half results support our mission. In the coming months, we expect to identify and implement further opportunities that will contribute to shareholder value."
This announcement contains inside information for the purposes of the UK Market Abuse Regulation. The person who arranged the release of this information is Michael Infante, Chief Executive Officer of the Company.
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