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.

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?

You can do whatever you want, Cyners.

Hilarywe all get turned over on the occasional stockyou and Gausie seem to be unluckier than mostnever mind...soon be Xmas...

it is you who keeps telling us (10 times a week) that BLNX is worth diddlysquat, and now that its sp will be just 50p in just a few weeks
i have now merely asked if end february was your concept of "a few weeks" for your prediction to be borne out

as for me, i have some in my portfolio and expect to keep them there - for more than few weeks

It seems to me that most of these shorters have such wishy wasy views,that it is an achievement to make any sense at all of their utterances.In other words ,I'm not sure that they know themselves whether they are coming or going!

Or whether they have ever been?

as i have posted several times myself, BLNX's sp etc is very much built on sentiment and gut feel ..... thus, whether BLNX has a great or no future is a great unknown

Cynic

What does buffet say about voting machines vs weighing machines?

i've no idea and nor do i much care

Then you doom yourself to the fate he tries to warn you against.

Cynicyou are getting to sound more like me by the dayand I dont know if thats a good thing for you?
Gausieespecially for you.MELVITA Essentials Face Carevery reasonable!