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

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!

;-)

Cynicthat last post [thong]..Ive cracked it..I know who you remind me of.have you ever watched Benidorm?the Mum with the spazmobile has a boyfriend that owns five tanning saloonshe also has nice swimwear....know who i mean?

no idea m8

DD - quite possibly or even probably, but things can change in both directions ..... see the likes of CNT!

Mail Online
By Geoff Foster
Last updated at 11:41 PM on 19th August 2010

One of the year's top performing stocks so far is video search engine Blinkx. It jumped a further 7p to 74.75p, and people in the know are confident that it will be trading above 1 before Christmas. Last month, Korea's Samsung Electronics selected Blinkx for participation in applications for Samsung phones.

Where would be without our resident experts cynic, haystack and hilary :-))

I cling onto their every words :-))

I thought Cynic said he wasn't a expert .

" i accept that i don't really understand digital advertising "

Wont stop him posting his negative drivel though and even though he's made
an abysmal call with this one he will continue to post on the thread, these type
of posters are never wrong you see :-))

but RDG, you said my posts were of no interest to you whatsoever, so how come you keep reacting to them? .... i may well talk drivel, and have never denied same, but it seems that you are one of the tosspots who cannot bear someone disagreeing with their own view - usually one of total hype

Here we go, now it's getting a little personal, always a sign when you have
touched the truth nerve on the internet !

Oh blimey, the resident MoneyAM basket case has turned up on the thread.

Have you got any crap tips that I can short, Gravy?

Dont worry about me Hilary, i'll make my money and you carry on with
the abuse, join forces with Cynic, you'd make a nice couple :-))

Well I've never worried about you so far, so what makes you think I'm about to start now? I can't speak for cyners, but it's my best bet that he feels the same.

PS. How are your pizza deliveries coming along up those Liechtenstein hills?