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.

pretty low volume (1.8m vs 3.4m norm), but whole market was quiet ..... hilary and gausie may yet be proven right, but glad they are short and not me

Cynic me old mucker.there is more chance of your hair growing back like Russell Brandthan Hilary and Gausie ever being right about this stock

Strange how this thread seems so much quieter on the down days.

Counting my money on FTO Hilaryanother nice one for you to short!

I've had a good few days all roundlol

Tabby

If you're counting your cash, don't spend it all here - it's not what you think.

G

Gausienice picture at the partylike warm strawberry jelly on a pumpkin?

Which party are you referring to? And which picture? I didnt know you read OK and Hello magazines.

Have you sold FTO then Tabby. Until you do you aint earned a bean.

No...skint mate....

All these abbreviations are the bane of my life What in hell's name is FTO??

FTO is a squitty little company called Fortune Oil

Chesssorry mateCynicI dont get involved with squitty little companieswhat is the % of their cash to SP?.lol


In addition to around 85 million pounds ($133 million) of cash on its balance sheet, Fortune Oil has an agreement with state-owned China Volant Industry Company to provide up to $1 billion of financing and Chinese equipment to help develop the assets in which Fortune Oil acquires stakes.

I see that FTO is up by over 25% today.Not bad going,by anybodys' standard.

If you don't get involved in squitty companies, Tabster, why are you invested in this piece of over-hyped trash?

Hilarybecause blnx assists in my wealthnot a tough one to work out by anyones imagination?

children, children!!
so BLNX moves up or down by a penny ..... wtf cares? ..... it's irrelevant; perhaps hilary and gausie are right or perhaps they are wrong ..... on balance, i think that in say a year's time BLNX could indeed prove to be a cracker - but that is predominantly gut feel and i too could easily be wrong

It could be a great share...but timing the entry seems difficult...not in and unsure whether I should do so....

..double post..sorry..

I'd wait a few weeks, RF. You should be able to pick these up for around 10 bob each then.

let's review hilary's comment say end february - reasonable timescale hilary?