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.

agreed

If you ask me,it's the market makers as much as anything else that are responsible for bringing down prices.When 80% of the shares traded are buys,as is the case here,they should be marked up and not down.
No wonder the system is on the verge of collapse when there is an absence of logic!

MMs are basically saying they do not want stock on their books, so if you want to sell, you get what's on offer

One of the few shares down today. I still feel it will drop below 15p SP

Apparently,the 7th ranking by Hitwise referred to above translates to being level with Yahoo at 1.25%

Tis interesting, I've been watching CBM very closely particularly at the start of trade. If the market goes down CBM goes with it and vica versa but the trades are all MM adjusting the price as to what they deem fit ie it is impossible to get ahead of them. Thus the MM's are determing the prices of all AIM and small stocks. There is little retail or institutional trades in these at all. The only way to beat them is to take a gamble the night before on which way the SM will go.

Yesterday, CFM rose about 60% from it's depressed levels. The MM's effectively did it because it was oversold and the sp was always ahead of the last buy which in effect made it look like a sell. Unfortunately because of a temporary lack of cash; lack of confidence in what I see + the way it was done stopped retail investors noticing what was happening, meant I missed out. I may be wrong, but I suspect the same thing will happen for a short time today.

So I concur with posts 295 and 296.

Happened again this am with CFM now heading back.

Suggests to me that if an AIM stock such as BLNX hasn't risen with the market, then unless the unusual happens, the MM's haven't as yet finished with marking them down so on that basis alone, I expect BLNX to travel further south.

yep, down for another week or two to 15p or lower.

no quick money to be made here.

Once again ,the price movement of this stock is baffling.5 million shares traded,with about 75% being buys,but a 9% drop in SP.I expect it somehow has something to do with the results due out next Monday.

Good short sell

Agreed.

Will be shorted to the results.

god help them if they're bad!

This sounds quite good to me,but its not my scene.
The appeal is obviously to the youngsters.
RNS Number : 5665H
Blinkx Plc
06 November 2008



blinkx Partners With ExitReality to Introduce Video to the 3D Web




40 Billion Virtual Worlds and 26 Million Hours of Video Merge in One Online Partnership




SAN FRANCISCO, CALIF. - November 6, 2008 - blinkx, the world's largest and most advanced video search engine, today announced a partnership with ExitReality, the company that converts the entire Web into three dimensions. Users of ExitReality will now have access to millions of hours of Internet video to view and share in 3D spaces, courtesy of blinkx.




Gartner analysts have predicted that 80% of all active Internet users will have a virtual-world presence by 2011, a potential not lost on either company. It has also been noted that visitors stay longer in 3D virtual worlds than on 2D Web sites, giving media companies and advertisers new opportunities to engage potential customers. blinkx will deliver TV and video to these 3D environments, providing an immersive and social media viewing experience for users across the entire 3D Internet.




blinkx users who download the ExitReality browser plug-in can now experience a special 3D-enhanced version of blinkx.com. Visitors will also be able to deck out their own virtual environments on popular social networks, creating and sharing their own 3D virtual worlds.




Rather than creating a virtual world in a silo on a Web site, ExitReality has developed a novel technology that transforms the entire two-dimensional Web into a 3D universe. Internet users who download ExitReality's browser plug-in can view their favorite Web pages as 3D spaces, with rooms to explore, games to play and items to interact with, as well as meet and chat with their friends and people with the same interests.

Through the partnership with ExitReality, blinkx has developed a space for viewing and interacting with online video. Users will be able to:

Search for, watch and chat about online video in a social environment with people who have the same interests.
Collect virtual products such as the blinkx Video Wall, which can be customized with videos related to news, sports, entertainment, weather, and more. The blinkx Video Wall can be used to decorate any 3D space, or given to friends as virtual gifts.
Take blinkx products, such as flat screen televisions, to decorate their own 3D ExitReality spaces, such as the ExitReality apartments available on Facebook, MySpace and Bebo.
Invite friends over to watch video available in blinkx's index of more than 26 million hours of content.
'blinkx is delighted to be pioneering with ExitReality,' said Suranga Chandratillake, founder and CEO of blinkx. 'We're very excited to be taking advantage of ExitReality's technology and eager to develop innovations that will augment the Web as a 3D space.'

'ExitReality adds a new dimension to the online experience,' said Danny Stefanic, founder and CEO of ExitReality. '3D is a large part of the future Internet. It will enable immersive shared experiences on countless sites. In addition, blinkx's massive library of free, on-demand content is now especially relevant as users look for creative and inexpensive opportunities to connect with friends and family. As virtual world technologies progress, consumers and businesses will adopt - and adapt - more and more ways to integrate existing products, services, and social networks into the 3D sphere.'

'Social Networks were revolutionary in that they extended a concept of common community to the Internet. The true innovation of ExitReality is that it takes that concept to the next level. ExitReality is the enabling 3D technology that makes real-time social interaction and exchange possible on every existing Web site across the Web,' said Stefanic.

As the pioneer in video search technology, blinkx has built a reputation as the smartest 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.





You can access blinkx in 3D by clicking here or visiting www.blinkx.com.




About blinkx

blinkx plc (LSE AIM: BLNX) is the world's largest and most advanced video search engine. Today, blinkx has indexed more than 26 million hours of audio, video, viral and TV content, and made it fully searchable and available on demand. blinkx's founders set out to solve a significant challenge - as TV and user-generated content on the Web explode, keyword-based search technologies only scratch the surface. blinkx's patented search technologies listen to - and even see - the Web, helping users enjoy a breadth and accuracy of search results not available elsewhere. In addition, blinkx powers the video search for many of the world's most frequented sites. blinkx is based in San Francisco and London. More information is available at www.blinkx.com.




About ExitReality - the Entire Web in 3D

ExitReality is a free Internet plug-in that allows anyone to view every web page in 3D.


Over 40 billion websites are now instantly available as one massive virtual ecosystem, allowing web citizens to convert their 2D web pages into a 3D customisable space; meet and chat with people at any website; or search and explore thousands of online 3D communities. ExitReality also boasts the world's largest index of Web3D content.




Not just for consumers, ExitReality's technology is based on 3D open standards, allowing anyone to participate in the 3D web including 3D content developers, website publishers and advertisers.




Globally launched into Public Beta on September 18, 2008, the entire web is now in 3D.




More information at www.exitreality.com.




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16p is looking tempting as a buy signal, or even 15p if you are brave enough to risk missing the bottom.

15p was my target price but I have a feeling the SP will go below this and my gut feeling says leave it alone until some contracts are gained. OK I may well end up buying at 20p or more but I need to see more news than new partners.

if ExitReality is as good as they say, then the audience figures will go up=
this could bring in more of Blinkx mostly younger customers

"Respected" poster on ADVFN claims to have been told by top Blinkx man that results are better than expected......... (from Orslega LSE Board)

hope no one short of these, though that is unlikely ...... figures are pretty good and also nice, even if over-optimistic, for Citi to put out a target of 80p - though they don't say by when!

Yes the co. is growing very well--I'm satisfied this one will do well. I've opened the bottom drawer and shut them back in again! In say 2 years the sp should be much higher---IMO.

turnover still tiny....still loss making......do nto see anything here to suggest the sp will increase much in medium term

3.75m traded today vs average of 1.5m, and Citi also strongly disagrees with you, having put out note with target of 80p