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.

Cynic...just an end of day "freak"

thanks tabby .... it'll be interesting to see what happens on the morrow then ..... i don't think volume was that big today either

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3.5m against daily norm of 4.0m

tabasco
Not expensive for me. I have had no position on Blinkx.

I do still think it is a rubbish company and that is the way it will pan out.

Tabasco

I think rather than trying to score points off my opinion of traders, you might have made reference to this post:

ptholden - 10 Aug 2010 21:58 - 2076 of 2299
Err, and your point exactly?

I've spent a little while this evening trying a bit of unscientific TA; the results of which would indicate a rise up to 100p, assuming the SP isn't forming a double top (I still don't think it is). Interestingly this chimes with Hilary's educated guess and the broker note.

If it should reach that far, I believe it may well then become a profitable short for the following reasons:

1. Company valuation far in excess of reality
2. 7 bagged in a very short time scale = unsustainable rise
3. MACD will have formed a double top

Well, something along those lines. The above will probably turn out to be a right load of rubbish, but we'll see :-)

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I can't really work out why you have such a low opinion of traders (although I have a good idea) you forget most if not all are also investors. Gausie had an opposing view to my own, but set a stop and has reversed his position, never an easy thing to do. I think if you compare his trading / investing style with your own, say, using MDX as an example you will be able to work out where you went so badly wrong. But this thread is about BLNX not personalities, although you constantly strive to make it so.

Is English your main language, Tabster?

I have to ask because you don't seem to have understood my posts where I've repeatedly said that I can see this going to 90p. You also don't seem to have understood the parts of my posts where I've said I won't short it while it's in an uptrend.

Like Haystack, I still believe this is massively overvalued but I am nonetheless pleased that you and others are making good money from it.

This is part of tabby's problem. He behaves as though a high share price was a sign of a company being successful and that the high share price is justified because of all the hype and marketing announcements.

In the .com boom people lost huge amounts becuase of that attitude. Traders traded on margin with many losing their homes because of it.

How much of the technology that Blinkx is using is understood by tabby? How can you quantify the possible revenues and profit from such a business at this stage?

There was a company recently, that was supposedly turning voicemail messages into text. They had to admit in the end that they were using people to transcribe the messages. This is a very diificult area of computer technology and I am very suspicious of any company that thinks they have cracked the problem.

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I think it was Spinvox

12 January 2010
A couple of weeks ago, the American speech-recognition firm Nuance paid $102.5m - around 64m - for the British voice-to-text firm Spinvox, and we speculated that most of the investors would get very little from the deal. Now I've found out just how little.

The people who had poured in over 100m to a company which claimed that it had world-beating technology ended up with just 600. No, not 600 each - that was spread among the owners of 5.3 million ordinary shares and 1.9 million A shares.

The likes of Carphone Warehouse and Goldman Sachs have probably not even bothered to collect their few pounds. As for Spinvox's co-founders Christina Domecq and Daniel Doulton, they also appear to have got nothing. So who got that 64m - or at least the 40m or so that was in cash rather than shares?

The answer is that it went to pay off the emergency loans that Spinvox received as it struggled to stay afloat last summer. It's quite the most spectacular destruction of shareholder value I've seen since, ooh, the dot.com collapse of 2000.

I've also learned something interesting about Nuance - just like Spinvox, it relies on human beings to convert voice messages into text. Nuance uses FocusMT, a company based in Bangalore in India for its healthcare products, which transcribe voice notes made by doctors.

It bought the Indian company in 2007, and says it has since diversified its business into all its speech-related activities, including voicemail transcription.

When I got in touch with Nuance, the company stressed that it had always been open about the involvement of humans: "We have call centres based in India and we've talked about that for years," said John Pollard from Nuance.

But he insisted that there was a high and increasing level of automation, with a large number of messages that did not need quality checking by human agents.

Nuance is currently looking at the call centres used by Spinvox around the world, and working out which of them it will need to keep on.

There are data protection issues here for Spinvox customers. Not only do all their existing messages now reside with Nuance - though I'm told that data will not be taken off to the United States - but their new messages could be going over to India for transcription.

The Information Commissioner's office tells me this is OK, as long as Nuance tells customers about it.

You traders are all stations from 3p to 90p.it wont be long and you will even have to revise that spreadits called Dont ask meI aint got a Scooby doobut you are all happy to advise
Peterever thought of taking up weather forecastinghow about the day will remain drywith sunny periodsfollowed by persistent rain and sleetwe will see temperatures rise from between -10 and +35 degreeswith largely clear skies and low-lying fogdont forget your umbrellas as a cyclone is possibleand if you are travelling on our roadsplease remember your car

Haystackyou know nothing about meMay 2000...I had a bad bad monthbecause of my styleI recovered exceptionally welldont preach to meyou talk far too much bollocks for my liking.

Forget it Tabasco, tried to be nice to you, but rationale seems to bounce off your thick arrogant skull. Ta ta, in the squelch box you go, I really can't be bothered with you anymore.

tabby .... you really do blather on ..... i'm delighted that you are making money on blnx, but to pretend that you know (have prescient powers perhaps?) that the company is going to the stars, is a load of bollocks ..... as far as i can see, the company is indeed in far better shape than it was even 6 months ago, but it STILL has to turn in proper profits - none of this manipulated crap whereby excluding X,Y and Z the company is profitable; it ain't and just remember that

one then comes to the question as to whether the larger players will want to acquire it ..... well google is very doubtful and with the economic jitters in usa likely to continue for a good while yet, it is unlikely anyone else will get the urge ..... and again don't come up with the crap of it being against the better interest of the shareholders .... everyone is here to make a profit, and a t/o is a wonderful way for that to crystalise at the drop of a hat

10 years ago the majority of people couldn't see how selling over the internet could work - let alone selling advertising over the internet.

Technology is moving on rapidly and in 10 years' time you may look back on this early Blinkx technology and begin to undestand what it was all about.

Tabby,

Posters on here have gone the extra mile to be civil to you much to my surprise .

Actually, unless Tabby has sold some he ain't made a bean yet.

jeffmack
That was exactly the problem with the .com days. Plenty of paper profits that vanished overnight.

I suppose I was one of the lucky ones in the .com boom/bust in as much as I didn't lose my house/shirt/marriage etc but I still kick myself when I remember that I sold my holding in QXL at 7, thinking that I had done really well, only to see it soar to 100+. Shit happens eh?!

Talking of shit, there has been a hell of a lot of it on here recently!

I have traded BLNX several times (sorry Tabby, but there aren't so many good divis around these days!) but have not managed to make anything substantial because I always seem to catch the ups at the wrong time, which kind of supports the reasoning behind shorting. I would have made more out of shorting BLNX in the past but don't have the facility to do that, though I suppose it would be quite easy to do so. When BLNX first started I thought their website was absolutely awful, and as the months went by nothing seemed to improve. I have to admit though, that the site is much better these days and the "product", if you can call it that, does seem to be gaining support/admirers at an accelerated pace. They have a lot in the pipeline and some competent people on board. Whether or not they will become another "dotcom boom" type of company I cannot say, but at present they are in the right position to capitalise on the latest and best technology of it's kind.

I bought for the long term last week and the sp promptly fell. Typical, I thought. Today I moved into profit and my long term decision went out of the window and I sold, leaving just 250 free shares and cash for a nice holiday. OK, that's fine, better than a loss! But why sell when I had made my decision to hold long term? Simples, as Tabby would say, (though he might not say this bit!), I really cannot work out the real value of this company. One half of my brain says it is a duff company riding on a wave of ..... something! the other half says it is hugely undervalued, with a massive potential. I cannot decide, there are good arguments for either view. There will either be a spectacular crash here or a pot of gold at the end of the BLNX rainbow. I might be going for gold tomorrow.

If you want to a profitable business then read this

http://file.wikileaks.org/file/scientology-uk-annual-returns-2008.pdf

kim - i don't think that at the moment it is remotely undervalued ... indeed, i think there is already a lot of blue sky built in ..... however, i get the feeling that once (i should live that long) the company starts making real profits, it becomes almost exponential as i don't think the o'heads increase significantly

i could easily be wrong - meme moi!

PeterreForget it Tabasco, tried to be nice to youwhen? Thank fcuk you aint tried to be nastylike the rest of the gang you always cover your arseonly you sit on the fence more than mostI have been pleasant to you over the last few monthsbecause I admire and respect your achievements in your workyour social expertise is limited and of a Machiavellian nature
Cynicdoubt my luck at your peril!I research my industry down to the last blade of grassother friends and associates research financial markets with the same importancelike all good friends we share our knowledge and all become lucky thickos
AldoI must confess I had the lovely Carol on watch last nightI was being lazy with a glassthe family and Liverpoolbut she does disagree with your edited postfirstly she knows I am not a plonkersecond she knows people you mention have not been civil to me.and thirdly she knows that I dont beat about the bushI tell it how it is and Im never usually wrongdo a little more research Aldo!
Jeffyou always jump in on a marathon at 25 miles.I have a very nice max. punt at 12p.I predicted a day before it happened.an attack imminent on this share.please check!I have traded this stock eleven times from that daynine of those trades were for 56p or less and sold back for 65p or more.you do the math?I was also called all sorts of nice names by Hilaryand the gangthey werent aware I am a jugglerand an expert at "catching a falling knife and throwing it back up"
HaystackI cant take you seriously?
Kimplease dont apologiseI think you were suckered into trading because of your doubt in the stock compounded with other negative postsnothing wrong with thatunfortunately traders beat each other up55-60% will still loose money on a great stock and pay a bit of tax along the waymy initial investment has been taxed and is 6X plus change..and Ive beaten nobody up.you are a good honest guy that I cant remember ever writing a bad word aboutplease advise the gang if this is incorrect!

for goodness sake learn to be succinct!
basing investment on one's own hunches and "lucky streak" is dangerous enough; to do so on someone else's is potential suicide
for myself, i may (or may not) buy back into blnx .... i may dump a couple of other dogs in my portfolio and buy this pup in lieu

your posts, even if they have something interesting to say (pretty questionable) are far too long to make reading worthwhile

Cynicjust answering points thrown at meone of them which was yoursthe alternative is to be rude and ignorethat may well be your choice?
You are not false to read!.I am glad you stated my methods were potential suicide for yourselfthey would be!and try not to be quite so rude...