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.

It is worth reading the whole thread if you have a traders sub.

tabasco have you looked at ATUK? I'm in early days--very like blnx for potential imo--what do you think? oct 7th is the main launch and google have just upped the free advertising to 15 million.

Shorters getting turned over again.when are they going to learn this is nailed on!

no such thing!

Until now!

it's as much "nailed on" as Mr P telling me this morning i had no hope of buying more RKH at 490 - ok, so i paid 491

Still racing up the charts>

Quantcast US Site Rankings for sites
[85] blinkx.com 11M+ U.S. monthly people. The site attracts a very slightly male biased, younger audience.

The demographice I saw was that the younger audience accessed Blinkx from school or from home. That doesn't look like an audience with much disposable income.

Haystackyou have posted many times that the Quantcast US Site Rankings was a very important negative guide when BLNX were ranked around the 300 mark and told everyone repeatedly on all bbs the company were fading fast and worth only 3p .since we have shot up the rankings to number 80. you are now saying this does not equate to a very positive guideI will leave others to decide?

[80] blinkx.com 12M+ U.S. monthly people. The site attracts a very slightly male biased, younger audience.

Up another 5 places...

Quite right tabby.
The the old expression springs to mind "Let's call a spade a spade ". Quite a silly one really,for what else would you call it. Haystacks would probably call it a fork!
Forking hell!

ChessI think we all know that Haystack talks with a forked tongueand has silliness in spades

Very good.

Alexa.com

Blinkx.com is ranked #1,268 in the world according to the three-month Alexa traffic rankings. The site's visitors view 4.7 unique pages each day on average. Compared with the overall internet population, this site appeals more to African Americans; its audience also tends to consist of low-income men under the age of 25 who browse from home and school and have no postgraduate education.

Does anybody actually have the Alexa Toolbar installed? It's necessary for Alexa to provide their stats, I believe.

I'm damn sure that I personally don't have it and I don't know anybody who does. Just curious.

Google, on the other hand......

Alexa claim several million toolbar users plus that is not there only source of information - "...and other traffic data sources"

Although Blinkx have requested that their top level figures are not shown, the quantcast figures for sub domains is available.

http://www.quantcast.com/blinkx.com#subdomain

Apart from the top three, the rest of the traffic is close to nothing.

I am only posting these rankings because Haystack was keen for all to know

Quantcast US Site Rankings

[79] blinkx.com 12M+ U.S. monthly people. The site attracts a very slightly male biased, younger audience.

Up one more place....

blinkx in partnership deal with Evri
StockMarketWire.com
Video search engine blinkx has announced a partnership with Evri, the real-time content discovery engine.

Evri's new multimedia apps, including EvriThing Tech, EvriThing Gossip and EvriThing Baseball, will be enhanced by video from blinkx's Mobile Video Index, which contains millions of videos from an extensive network of top-tier content providers.

Baseball is a big deal in the U S,hence a significant tie up

Thanks Chesslooks kike another great partnership
"By partnering with blinkx, we're able to tap into a rich and varied library of mobile video to complement and enhance the real-time content streams in our apps," said Evri CEO Will Hunsinger. "Evri aggregates and sorts through thousands of sources to deliver the best, most relevant #information to our audience, and blinkx's premium video content rounds out our multimedia offering perfectly." As the pioneer in video search technology, blinkx has built a reputation as the smartest way to find rich media on the Web.

Will Hunsinger sounds like he should be performing in Die Zauberfle.