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.

Added ,Subtracted,Divided and Multiplied.Gausie,you cannot be accused of being the last of the great conversationalists.My that was a long word.
Why not use smoke signals to convey message!
Not that anybody will see them.
Perhaps a crystal ball

Chesshe is short BLNXGausies lifetime ambition is to call this rightI can see it being unfulfilledlol

A bit like betting on a horse at 10 to one and it comes in at quarter past 4

FFS Tabasco I was banking on this royal flush to pay for Christmas. Damp squibb so far.

Yes,but early days yet.
Rome,alas was not built in a day

Not that early only three hours left today :) Still stuck in 80's when meant to have blasted through 90's already.

I refer my honourable friend to the answer I gave Cynic in post 3141...so Isaacs trust meIm a lucky thicko

Added a few more.

I'm not a happy bunny either, Tabster. I bought some on Friday on your say-so and ended up dumping them this morning.

They haven't been able to hold their bid all morning.

Hilary I never give adviceIm too expensive but if I was to make you an exception.become an investor!.

You definitely said this was a Royal Flush, Tabster. It's looking more like a toilet flush right now!

What is the matter with you lot!!
Patience seems to be in rather short supply among some of you.Try and keep an even keel.We have one of the best performers in the entire market.Certainly people are going to take profits from time to time.
It would be crazy to expect anything else.
What matters ,is the prospects look great.
Hang in there.

Hilary Im not disputing I said this is a Royal Flushbecause it is!I just did not personally advise you to buy some
I would however.. personally advise you to become an investorthere you gofree advice from a very expensive guy!

Become an investor? Sorry, I don't do love, Tabster.

Hilary you should try sometimeits better than a traders deceitand you might get to like it? I can confirm the financial rewards
All this advice...and for free?

INVE5TORS CHRONICLE
Blinkx in the black
Created:
9 November 2010
Written by:
Steven Frazer
The world's most popular video search engine, Blinkx, broke into profit in the six months to 30 September - as we anticipated in our summer tip - and beat analyst expectations. Phrases such as "game changing" get over used, but it is difficult to argue with positive cash flow of $1.8m (1.1m), a doubling of revenues and a swing from a $7.4m loss to a $2m operating profit year on year.
Blinkx's distribution model remains very strong, with a new partnership with set-top-box manufacturer Amino announced alongside these results, adding to the 720 channel partners that include the BBC, ITN and Bloomberg. The company's bank of over 35m hours of video and audio content generated an average 31.6m daily searches during the six-month period, which probably peaks at over 40m based on broker Daniel Stewart best estimate, making that traffic a targeted goldmine for advertisers. And if chief executive Suranga Chandratillake is right about 500 per cent growth in online advertising over the next four years, it will mean a potential target market worth $11.3bn (6.99bn) by 2014.
Broker Daniel Stewart is expecting full-year pre-tax profits of $7.6m and EPS of 1.6, rising to $22m and 4.7, respectively, in 2011-12.

Thought the SP action today was pretty much as could be expected. Nothing earth shattering in the results that hadn't already been announced. I suppose the ramping comments along the lines of 'buckle your seat belts' etc wouldn't have helped the uninformed very much - an aspect of financial BBs I'm becoming increasing fed up with.

I don't pretend for an instant to understand BLNX's commercial model, except in simple terms revenue from advertising, but who spends all their time researching videos? I have no idea, nor do I know for how long those that do, spend time looking at adverts, probably not much.

it's certainly a field i do not remote understand .... my younger son is in "digital advertising", and though i cannot work out for life of me what he actually does, he tells me that there is no question that it is ad medium of the future and growing massively

IMO BLNX's present sp is high in relation to income but low in relation to potential, when the two marry it will match Tabby's marriage made in heaven! :o)

BLNX is certainly linked to 'the technology of the future', I'm sure of that. And for that reason I continue to hold, though trying to 'trade' the stock successfully could be tricky.