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.

thanks m8 .... silly bastards should not have rejected first time around!

Further evidence that the internet is not being much affected by the downturn.

Web ad sales rise slightly from prior quarter
Thursday November 20, 11:38 am ET
By Rachel Metz, AP Technology Writer
Internet advertising sales rose slightly from the prior quarter


NEW YORK (AP) -- Despite the bad economy, U.S. Internet advertising revenue rose in the third quarter, according to an analysis released Thursday.
The report from the Interactive Advertising Bureau and PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP said that online advertising revenue totaled almost $5.9 billion in the third quarter, up 11 percent from the same period last year. It marked a 2 percent rise from the second quarter.

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Companies that depend on Internet advertising, including Google Inc., have seen their shares plummet recently on fears that the economy will inhibit growth in what remains a relatively small market.

Because of that climate, David Silverman, a partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers, said the third-quarter growth is "nice to see."

"I think given the economic environment, seeing any increase in any economic activity -- let alone advertising -- would be a bit of surprise, but speaks maybe to the strength of interactive advertising," he said.

Silverman thinks advertisers will keep spending on online ads, especially in an economic downturn, because they are often paying for ads based on performance -- such as when a consumer clicks on an ad to visit an e-commerce site.

"They actually see they're getting a result for their dollars spent," he said.

For the first nine months of the year, online advertising revenue totaled $17.3 billion. This compares with $15.2 billion in the same period last year

my younger son works in digital advertising in uk, and he says they are actually recruiting whereas (he reckons) traditional adverting - e.g. the WPPs of this world - is heading south sharply

Hello Cynic.
It makes sense .If a great many people are now out of work,people must be spending more time online.Dell announced better than expected results yesterday.
Too many people seem to be of the opinion that the world is coming to an end!
Not just yet I hope

Re MIVA offer.The current Miva price (that is as of 26 nov.) is .27cents

Blinkx made the previous offer on Fri August 8th and it was swiftly rejected on Mon August 11th.

The latest offer was made on Wed November 19th and still no reply to date (25th Nov).

Can we assume Miva are under pressure from shareholders to give serious consideration this time.

If they agree (possibly at a slightly higher price) what do we think the market reaction will be, given the negative response last week.

He are a few comments re MIVA bid

First comment I have seen anywhere from MIVA referring to the latest bid was from the CFO saying "the board will evaluate the proposal". They seem to be taking it very seriously, bearing in mind its nearly two weeks now. I would like to think there are negotiations going on between the two although MIVA's share price suggestes not.

The general mood on the US Yahoo MIVA discussion board is to accept the bid as the company will soon run out of cash. Even MIVA qualified their ability to access the $10m loan at the end of the conf call transcript.

Remember the 25m loan available to blinkx from Autonomy is available if the need it

more to the point, what does MIVA do for Blinx?

and another bit of scuttle .... apparently "3" the telphone people have scrapped all their traditional advertising in favour of digital ...... that sort of move, which cannot be isolated, sure won't help the likes of WPP

adds a chunk to their customer base, moves them forward in their development plans---size I assume adds more to the bottom line rapido! also gives them a nasdaq quote considered valuable---miva is due to lose this mid january so this deal may resolve quite quickly and if successful we may---hopefully ---see the sp rerated UP!! I've waited long enough.

What in laymans' terms is a price monitoring exercise ?

blinkx now seem to be recruiting ex miva employees so perhaps won't need go ahead with the t/over now after all.

simply employ the disgruntled staff and take on the sales leads, job done.

Still Waiting
What is your source on this info?

postings on the advfn bb show miva staff jumping ship.

Oh, so must be right then??? ;o)

SP 10P I thought I would wait until it reached this but now I have a bad feeling it will much lower.

linkedin shows various other staff leaving over the last month or so as well.

at this rate of descent we'll be cheaper than miva ourselves before santa comes.

:-(

Starting to go up today(12.5%) ,for no apparent reason.
However,I could not see why it should fall so far in the first place!
But what do I know?
I expect somebody somewhere has decided that enough is enough

it is called a re-trace in a downtrend, it is not a big mystery

whispers of a bid from Rupert Murdoch's News corp are doing the rounds again so maybe the shorts are closing!!

lol, dream on

Somebody knows something sudden jump up 27% today

Cant be RM he still thinks newspapers are not dying