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.

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...

you think that's rude? ..... you ain't heard nuffink bruv!
as you may care to note (pretty doubtful on past record), it takes just a little discipline to answer both briefly and to the point

Tabby

Your so far up your own arse its a wonder you can't see daylight

CynicIm not that clever look forward to your extra rude commentsbut I think you would struggle to be nasty?

Cynic

Was that brief and to the point ?

Aldosilly boy

Let us not get carried away here.
Blinkx floated at 45, now it is 74.The fact that it went down had much more to do with people trying to sell it down the Swannee (Stephen Foster by the way) than any lack of real potential that is at last starting to be realized.
Take the blinkers off and see with your own eyes .There is real money to be made in Blinkx

short as a thong!

chess - the market doesn't talk good stocks down for very long .... not so long ago, blnx very nearly went belly up ..... it now looks to be on firmer footing ..... that the company managed to get away at 45p does not mean that the company/shares were remotely worth that amount at the time ..... it was merely the level of pain which people then would accept

Personally, I think you all miss the point.

How can a company that was valued by the market a few months ago at 13p now be worth 70p. There is no rational argument to support that as I for one didn't think the results were anything that special. I agree with tabby about Dr Lynch but for me the rise is purely a technical/trading one.

When the results broke the shorters stopped shorting which pushed the sp up to around 25p. What I think happened then was a bear squeeze (tightly held stock?) which forced the sp to 50p. It then dropped to 35p and rose again back to 50p. Surely, the shorters went back in and were squeezed once again as the sp rose to around 60p. I believe there was another bear sqeeze last week which was why the sp shot up some 30% for a few minutes before coming back down again.

I think all this happens simply because the shares are tightly held and by and large it is irrelevent what the company does or says. AIM stocks are as much likely to be 100p or 5p which is why the risk/reward ratio is so high. TAN is another good example of this. Before credit crunch 200p which is a rubbish valuation but a great trading stock. Now what does the market think it worth. Peanuts?

All IMO of course.

"How can a company that was valued by the market a few months ago at 13p now be worth 70p"

Everything is worth as much as people are prepared to pay. If people are prepared to pay a tenner in twelve months time, then a tenner will be what it's worth. Simples innit.

DD - i don't concur ..... i accept that i don't really understand digital advertising, notwithstanding that my younger son works in that industry ..... your argument is flawed, i think, because it is the market that sets an sp value, which is not quite the same as saying that a company's underlying prospects, and thus value, is considerably more (or less as the case may be) .... as i wrote earlier, if/when blnx becomes truly profitable, then its potential, and thus value, increase (questionably) exponentially .... the big question is guessing when that will be, if at all ..... imo, the balance has now (very recently) swung in favour but the timing is much more difficult to determine given the underlying weakness of international economies.

Yes thank you for the lesson hilary

I'm simply saying the rise is technical as much as anything else and I for one will jump on the back of it to make money.

.. and you were saying it was dead and buried at 13p cynic!

;-)