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.

Closed on the high of the dayperfect end to a perfect weekKAUTO STAR and BINOCULAR to watch tomorrow.a couple of bad things to laya couple of good things to trade.and news of blnx over the weekendhave a good one allall bar one

Which one of the two ?...not an expert on horses but Kauto Star is a beautiful gigi....

price of 97.75 is new high for the closing. It sets the stage for a push over 100 next week.

How exposed is it to this joint programm of BT ITV and BBC developing a new freeview/payview etc, etc. have analysts pencilled in revenues for 2011 2012 and 2013. Please anyone?.

Re to SP rise yesterday.


According to today's Times, Blinkx talked up its prospects at a Singer Capital Markets conference held on Thursday.
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Goldfingernothing has been pencilled in revenue wise!and no confirmation of a dealthe hint of a link-up by Suranga has come within the last four monthswith no sp spike or movement upwardsa consistent 80-90p trading range but?with Dr Mike Lynch a non-executive director of the BBC.and Suranga talking as if it is a done deal.I think you can safely say this is nailed on..
The other point I think is worth a mentionblnx and the doctor have been noted for keeping very good news quite catching the city out many times.last May being a great example.
The Doctor and Suranga are no big friends of the shysters!!!.with this talk up rumour [I have yet to see it confirmed] I would say it must be exceptional newsnext week will make it clearer imo.


- Video search-engine operator Blinkx is in talks with the developers behind the British Internet TV project YouView and hopes it will be available on the platform when it launches next year.
Full articlehttp://www.reuters.com/article/idUKTRE6B065L20101201

What a funny thread.

Anyway everyone is happy.

Hilary and Gausie have made bundles shorting it.

My 200,000 bought at an average of 13.75 looks quite good to.

tabasco cheers for that. Much appreciated.

sniffer - i really don't think so! .... anyway, it'll be interesting to see if sp can hold onto this sort of level over say the next week or two

It was tongue in cheek!!

Sniffergood luck to youand I happen to agree.this is a funny threadit has to be that way to counter the few cranks that perpetrate itbtw havent seen Haystack since his 6p predictionand Gausie since his recent short a few days ago

Goldfingernice to have you on boarda good endorsement on this thread

Cheers Tabasco. I do trade very short time though these days at most probably 2 weeks. So I wouldnt want to give a false impression. Ive changed from about 2 year to 2 week since I retired. I need to have activity every day.

Cyners is ok hes a good lad really give him as much jip as he gives u I say. Ive always got on with the pineapple Head.

By the way going to try and change chart attack thread into a more daily trading thread with charts still at the core but a bit more speel if you get the drift, Everyone welcome. regards GF.

stop being a latter-day TA or P you sticky fingered goy oik!

LOL. Cyners your alive.

how do you know it's me?

Goldfinger.Cynic and I always abusive each other in the most pleasant of waysnever a dull momentand I like to think we love each other?

An interesting post from an enthusiastic guy on another threadworth at least a consideration >

BouncyDeadCat post:

back-of-the-fag-packet-calculation.

At the recent CES expo, Ian Valentine stated that Woomi would be pre-loaded onto 1 million units this year and 11 million units next year. For those living in a cave - Blinkx powers search for the company Miniweb (who in turn own Woomi).

A few days ago I posted a calculation of what would happen to search volume if 2.5 million units were sold based on a conservative estimate of 5 searches a day (on a personal note, i currently conduct an average of 40-50 web searches per day, so I don't think 5 searches per day on a family TV is in any way an excessive figure - rather I think the opposite).

Anyway, if we calculate the number of searches based on the number of units sold (11 Million based on Ian Valentines estimate). Next year we could be looking at an additional 1,672,916,667 searches going through Blinkx per month. OK, maybe not every single search will monetized (maybe/maybe not), but if we put an exampled monetary value of 1p on each search conducted through Blinkx, then based on 5 searches per day per unit, the company would generate nearly 17 Million ($25 Million) per month through Woomi alone. Or $300 Million annually. If only half this volume of searches were monetized (again, at 1p per search generated through ad revenue), then you'd be looking at $150 Million per annum in revenue. Still rather impressive.

These are just my back-of-the-fag-packet-calculations and are of course no indication of what will happen, but if IPTV is going to be anything like what people think, promise and expect it to become (Ian Valentine in particular), then these are the kind of numbers we are going to get...

TRADER CHIMPS/CHUMPS - definition: 'Trader-Chimps' are the monkeys that hop on to a stock that's moving They have two bananas and an old tyre to their name geared up 10 fold with CFD's and they'll jump on any stock lying their arse off to get it to rise Then with consummate ease they swing to the opposite position and are happy to lie their bald arses off and deramp the same stock with opposing lies many having two handles to swing to-and-fro These chimps stick together in gangs losing every argumentdoing their bananasand scratching their tits in disbelief? They are after Whipsnadebut end up with a whipped arse!
!0% swing this morning in a few minutes for the chimpstrumping out many that had gone for their bananas and newspaperscost me nothing!Slowly Slowly Catchy Monkey!anyone seen Gausie or Haystack?

Looks a corker of a chart in every way. Could see some material advance here over next few week.

see my post 3550 ..... now how did i come to the conclusion 3/4 days ago that sp needs to break 100 with impetus for "onwards and upwards"? ..... don't forget, i'm a complete dork who does no research, doesn't really understand charts, and in the eyes of some or even many, is a complete moron - with which i do not necessarily disagree

Thanks for the chart explanation Goldfingerbeen out most of the daythe close was a nice surprise

Cynicdont steal my thunderIm the biggest thicko on hereand obviously the luckiest the moron bit is ok!