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.

ACQUISITION OF BURST MEDIA CORPORATION

The Boards of blinkx plc (AIM:BLNX), the world's largest video search engine ("blinkx" or the "Company") and Burst Media Corporation (AIM:BRST), the online advertising services and technology business ("Burst") are pleased to announce today that they have entered into a definitive agreement (the "Merger Agreement") pursuant to which blinkx will acquire the entire issued and to be issued shares of common stock of Burst for an aggregate consideration of US$30 million (18.5 million) to be satisfied by the issue of New Blinkx Shares and, for Non-Accredited Investors, in cash (the "Acquisition").

Yummy!!!!

I got free stock from Autonomy and have held them from 64 all the way down and all the way back up, this stock has a lot further to go I see 2 by 2012

Taken profits...perhaps too soon as usual, but this is now a great stock for the future, and a lot of very heavy expenses coming up right now.....and perhaps a fund raising exercise coming up....will come back later as usual....

Blinkx (LON:BLNX) expects to report full year revenue of over US$65 million, an increase of about 90 percent over the previous year, while operating profit is expected to top the current analyst consensus estimates of US$6.7 million. The company said that trading for the second half of the financial year has continued to be strong.

I thought your thumb was more interesting!

lol

Wow, just look at that finish today! I'm staying right in there...

hi mistress .... good to see you on here and glad you're making some dosh ...... meanwhile, back in dubai (among your co-lady penguins!) it's a glorious 35/40 degrees with low humidity, but must be damn hot inside that black burqua! .... and what a treat after golf to find that BLNX has rocketed at last - glad i topped up with a few more 2/3 days ago

gausie and others ...... not burnt at the stake i hope, as wouldn't wish that on you, though i can think of one or two with whom i would have no sympathy at all

What bothers me is the 11 million sells to 5 million buys.....not sure whether to buy back or stay out.....I'm a bit like a fish out of water if it's not oil or mines....

Cynic...BLNX has rocketed at last I think you have had too much sun!...take a look at a twelve month chart!

RF...I called this a Royal Flush at 12p...all the traders on here laughed at me and were calling 5p down to a 1p...suggest you become an investor and earn big money!!!

Would love to do that...yumeeeey....when do I start ?.....

cynic: glad to hear you're enjoying yourself out there in the desert, even without me for company ;) Very warm here - first BBQ of the year! And even better knowing that BLNX is doing so well - makes a change.... just wish I'd bought a whole lot more, of course!

you had your chance but turned me down for a w/e in london or somesuch

LOL cynic! I never thought it was a serious invitation... You can meet me in London tomorrow - but oh, I forgot: you'd extended your trip to Dubai to escape...

guess one penguin looks much like another!

Not to another penguin!

meanwhile, looks like some fairly heavy profit-taking here, but it's been a hell of a run over the last few days

Although very low volume (compared to recent activity).

Quantum Leap, which i find to be a pretty sensible and well researched tip sheet (or whatever) has long been a fan of BLNX and has written them up again in this month's offering

as he rightly comments, this is a share for optimists, but .....

"(CEO) expects sales to grow 60/70% annually for the next 2/3 years. If he delivers on that, profits will go through the roof taking the shares dramatically higher ..... all bets would be off if the growth rate were to sl;ow dramatically, but i don't think that is going to happen"