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.

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.

Kimthink there was a tad of sarcasm thrown in there?anyway take it as a complimentlove you Cynicall statistics availabletells us your son is correct! Peter for you
Blinkx provides online video search tools, indexing 35m hours of content via 720 partnerships with media firms such as the BBC and Bloomberg. It sells advertising alongside the videos, using speech recognition and other tools to match the ads to the content. More than 31m searches are performed on the site every dayread on.

FT spot todayalways a help
http://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/blinkx-turns-its-first-profit-at-financial-times-ftimes-549a372d4990.html

Check the price Friday afternoon!

Statement of fact Tabby, the former part being obvious, the latter known only to you and your good lady! :o)

Toyatrading is a mugs gamebe a Bookmaker/investorlet the traders/punters give us the moneywe can sit back and watch the gamblers beat each other upthanks Gausie et al

And before someone points it out, how can I say it's a statement of fact if only you know the latter part..?..yeh, I know. Too early in the morning for me after last night's outing!

Kimyoure a Gentleman!

Re this trading game,I reckon it must be pretty hard on the nerves!
Life is bad enough,methinks without piling on more pressure.My philosophy is simple ,find a good one, then buy.

Added (83p)

bit late to short at that level i would have thought

Maybe he is good on the tightrope ,but your scope for mistakes are somewhat limited OOOOPS

Cyniche is desperate to prove a pointAM very own chicken feed trader notice this is the first time he has posted a price? we have all his price/post times
Just loaded up more above my max. on 82.75p yet to show
Check the price Friday afternoon!

Why is it too late to short from 83p? It seems to me to be a great level.

so short it then

I have done. Woof.

fingers x'ed for you though actually hope profit minimal or less!

Tabby - you averaging down again? Like you did with MDX?

Who said "if you always do what you always did then you'll always get what you always got"?

Gausiedoes it explain your trading shorts on this stock?btw 50k up on catching falling knivesand no bleeding hands so farunlike your shorts leaving you with no bleedin money

Lol - No bleeding hands on falling knives? Did Muncaster bind the wounds and kiss them better for you?

It's a little crass to 'boast' of gains or losses in currency rather than points - but I'm more than a bit surprised at how low the figure you quote is.

G

ps - Added.

Gausie50k is just trading the dipsswear swear! .my max. holding which has remained since 12p is.quite a few!