With video search set to be the next big growth area BLNX have the software the likes of Microsoft, Google and NewsCorp would love to have.

In fact BLNX have done deals with most of these, the most recent being the UtargetFox deal which has been reported in the USA but not RNS'd in the UK.

Alexa rankings confirm the continued growth in usage as its viral effect spreads:-

http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details/blinkx.com

The ITN RNS confirms blnx is the best in the market and is growing fast:-

Leading News Organization ITN Extends Advertising Deal with blinkx Based on Proven Campaign Success




blinkx Selected to Power Advertising across ITN Website and Syndication Partner Sites




SAN FRANCISCO, CALIF. - July 2, 2008 - blinkx, the world's largest and most advanced video search engine, today announced that it has won an extension contract that will augment the scope of its advertising partnership with ITN, one of the world's leading news and multimedia content companies. Under the terms of the new agreement, ITN will use AdHoc, blinkx's patented contextual advertising platform for online TV and video, to serve advertisements on the ITN website and its syndication partner sites, including Bebo.




Through AdHoc, ITN has already been effectively monetizing its premium news content on the blinkx.com network for over six months. During this time, ITN achieved a significantly better return, greater search volume, and higher monetization through blinkx than through other syndication partners.




AdHoc uses blinkx's patented speech-to-text transcription and visual analysis technology to understand video content more thoroughly and effectively than any other service today, and can therefore dynamically place the most pertinent advertising against it. The AdHoc platform offers media companies and advertisers a unique value proposition -- video advertising which combines the emotive power of TV promotion, with the relevance and utility of contextual search advertising.




The confluence of ITN's premium TV content, blinkx's extensive syndication network, and AdHoc's uniquely powerful targeting capabilities was a formula for success. By extending its partnership with blinkx, ITN aims to achieve similar returns by leveraging the AdHoc platform to deliver contextually relevant video advertising on its own website and across its distribution partner sites.




'We're thrilled to be broadening our relationship with ITN,' said Suranga Chandratillake, founder and CEO of blinkx. 'News content is one of the most popular categories of online video and there's clearly a tremendous opportunity for monetization. The success of our partnership with ITN is evidence that the blinkx AdHoc platform is a uniquely powerful solution for online video advertising today.'




'We've been delighted with the results of our partnership with blinkx and are looking forward to implementing the AdHoc technology on our site,' said Nicholas Wheeler, managing director, ITN On. 'blinkx AdHoc has proven that it can achieve significant monetization of our content, effective marketing for advertisers and, most importantly, a useful, non-disruptive experience for our audience.'




As a pioneer in video search technology, blinkx has built a reputation as the most effective way to search new forms of online content such as video. With more than 350 partners and 26 million hours of indexed video and audio content, including favorite TV moments, news clips, short documentaries, music videos, video blogs and more, blinkx uses advanced speech recognition technology to deliver results that are more accurate and reliable than standard metadata-based keyword searches.

Would suit me too, Tabby, to re-stock on this stock. My average buy price is 17p for this one - not that I want to see it drop that low again!

Well done Toya good girl! I have reloaded above my max a few times [I might sound recklessbut I am disciplined] I look at my portfolio and have to pinch myself truth is this stock over a period is only going one way imo..Even a fully fledged gang member is buying blnx.ffs if Trig buys.. this must be good lol
Treblewide- 22 Jul 2010 15:04 - 1363 of 1519
i have picked a few of these up this morning

A cross-dressing robber with fake breasts and a blonde wig has been arrested by police because he failed to shave off his beard.


Fake ladyboy

I see Tabby is quite today is BLNX not doing so good

Clubbynot quite.I play a lot of games?.the markets dont warrant a great deal of attention todayblnx down on no volumefully expected by me. my portfolio takes care of itselfset a couple of buys and loading up with a few nice horseslooking forward to trumping shorters next week bingo

tabasco
And who gave them the title "the world's largest and most advanced video search engine". And who said "they have indexed more hours of audio.. Video.. viral and TV content than anyone else". You do seem more than a bit gullible as regards marketing hype. The technology is not 'protected' as you like to style it. Technology progresses and Google and others will come up with newer technology. Google probably already has better search methods even now. Algoritms to do almost anything get improved and reinvented all the time.

When will they make a profit? Will they ever make a profit?

Here are some comments from Blinkx employees

"The company is propped up like a fancy magic act. Lots of smoke and mirrors. They promise software that can turn the audio in a video clip and make it searchable. The software they use for this, from their parent company Autonomy, does not work. These people employ more lawyers than actual engineers. Suranga is bi-polar, some days he's pleasant, most days he's a jerk that will use his Cambridge education to insult you. The CTO Matt is better suited to be a comedy writer than to lead any engineering team."
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"This business really is going nowhere. Not only is it run by a group of highly unpleasant individuals, it also has no clear strategy and completely falsifies its product, users and technical capabilities.
Any positive postings on the share site and here are written by the PR or management team at blinkx"
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"It's amazing that you can find some of the most despicable people in the industry, lump them together, and put them at the helm of a software company. There is absolutely no upside working for blinkx. The CTO is inept and has no management skills. The CMO keeps the fake hype floating, the COO isn't afraid to show preference certain folks, and don't get me started on the CEO. Wow, he needs to go to therapy to fix his feelings of inadequacy."
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"No regard for employees as human beings. No communication from senior management of corporate strategies - even though there weren't any real missions or strategies or goals they didn't even convey whatever foolish plans they were conceiving. Didn't trust employees, listen to them, or properly utilize their skills. Just head down into their own ultimate destruction. Very odd work environment, no one really seemed to like each other. The MO seemed to be share nothing and if you're forced to, share less than will help your colleague. The attitude trickles down from senior management. Whatever was happening in reality didn't seem to ever line up with whatever they're reporting to the world. Nothing worked as it was supposed to and results appear to be very inflated"
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"No Effective decision making
Keeping employees always in pressure
There seems to be no effective planning coming out from executive management.
Unprofessional attitude towards employees coming out from Executive management.
Lot of work that comes with stress because of no planning."
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"senior management unable to steer the company with clear strategy, keep releasing different products diluting company's mission, none of which really work that well anyway.
Poor trade PR - no consumer PR
no industry knowledge
No HR whatsoever, people terminated without any reason, and immediately escorted from building so that they can't even collect their own stuff."
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"Poor execution on products
Terrible treatment of employees
Poor communication- starting at management
Bogus PR: papering the industry with meaningless press releases
Lack of support, yet all the obligations on accomplishing things"
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"A complete lack of transparency on any level. Management would commit to specific deadlines long in advance but not tell engineering until days before. Maybe it was a motivational tactic; always keep your employees near an impending crisis and they'll work harder. Just promoted confusion and stress.

No visible product roadmap. Products, to the extent that there were any, were specced out on the spot by looming managers. No one had any idea what we'd be working on the next week let alone the next month. Much more time was put into the press release schedule than the engineering schedule.

Loud, bullpen-style office. No separation between PR, engineering, management, etc. Meaning often management will shout something all the way across the room and expect a response, distracting the hell out of everyone in between.

Many, many more fictitious demos and presentations than actual products. I'd call the driving force of Blinkx software development 'lie-based engineering' - hack up some demo for a product that might take months or years to complete properly, show it off to someone with money, then in the rare chance they actually bite, deliver the goods piecemeal until said customer gets fed up and stops paying. If more engineering time could be spent on the core product than these demos, Blinkx might actually be a usable website or search engine.

Shouting matches in the office from senior management. Multiple firings began with a manager calling someone "(strong expletive) stupid" repeatedly in front of the entire bullpen and ended with the employee escorted out that same day.

Most of the engineering team is hired straight out of college so they can pay the least amount possible to people too naive to know that a real company should have organization and direction. Meaning there's no senior engineers to fall to for mentoring or advice."

and from what splendid publication did you acquire those little gems?
obviously it is from a source of 150% irreproachable repute, but without giving attribution, it's just as likely to be a load horseshit

If that is true only one way for this stock

Haystackdont you think Google et al would have something to say about those claims if not true.and the analysts? and as far as gullible marketing hype try that magic ingredient Boswell Lux from GarnierMatt Boswell /Adrian Lux or directed at youOswold Bollocks!!!!..I dont need someone that uses a sat.nav. to find his way home.advising me thanks all the same..go shortttttttttttttttttttttttttttt!

All these tech companies indulge in hype. Companies like Google don't bother to complain about very bit of hype they see. They would have no time left for anthing else. I think i know more about these issues than you. I used to be the MD of a software company and have been in IT for a very long time.

Good answer! lol....
This attack on blnx was plotted weeks agoI even posted it.I will keep saying the same thinggo fcuking short.please!.this is attack is known by many and it has now turned into a circus.you are being laughed at inside out!.I would love to see this drop to under 50p this week.luvvly jubblyand if it does bingo.I have a feeling this is too widely known for the MMs to dare risk it.we shall see?but fighting a battle todaydont seem to be too many being frightenedlol

I see you used to be an MD..would that be manic depressive?

so hayseed, you are effectively admitting that it's just a load of malicious claptrap, published (by you too!) merely in an attempt to destabilise .... and just how much do you know about the internal workings of google? ..... about as much as you do about the veracity and unbiased nature of some/much of the reporting by al jazeera et al is my guess

Gausie

The more I look at Blinkx, the more it reminds me of another company called Dialog (DLG). That ended very badly if you remember. It was shorted into extinction.

The thread needs a newspaper cutting.

Where's Kayak?

500,000 shares tradedlol and the same ones for the last few weeks.they spin them right round baby Right round like a record baby.grow up haystackyouve been sussed.take the afternoon off and take the bird down the market for a kebab.if you can find it?

Down again. The technical indicators are all now screaming SHORT!!! I see the RSI uptrend broke today.

H, I remember it well. Good times. I wonder if the infamous "Bear of Dialog" is up for a re-run.....

The thread needs a 'psychiatrist' for the gang!