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.

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"

Shares' suggests buy at 118. in todays issue.

Chess...I have a hunch BLNX are going to truck on this afternoon...if it's tomorrow afternoon I apologise?...anyway my best guess is a 128p close this Friday.

1,546,051 traded so far...all square at the minute from a couple of pence rise...looks to be ready for a drop...I dont think so..............

markets are looking very pissy, so can't see why blnx should buck the trend at this time

Cynic...Todays trades totalled 535... 293 of those trades were in the last 2 hours after my post ...prior to 2-30 there were only 242 trades......
At 2-30 the volume was buy 1,011,628 vs. 796,035 sell...in the last 2 hours the volume was buy 2,349,367 vs. 280,434.....
Impressive buying in the last few hours...but I still end up looking an arse! Someone got my hunch wrong?

A lot of buying, later on suggests an up day tomorrow.

Guess who was responsible for this quote !
Question
What is the difference between a pessimist and an optimist
Answer
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty

Answers on a postcard

Hence: the optimist invented the aeroplane, and the pessimist the parachute. Or, to quote Oscar Wilde: "Between the optimist and the pessimist, the difference is droll. The optimist sees the doughnut; the pessimist the hole!"

Cynic, answer is: because it's not a 'pissy' share

The answer to the above question , by the way ,is Winston Churchill.

I feel sure that Cynic must be saying that holes have their uses. That is of course to imply the " Sinking of Shafts!"

Check out SHFT

... and Winston rightly chose to be an optimist: "It does not seem too much use being anything else".

I did rather wonder which side cynic might choose to be on, when faced with a choice between the hole and the doughnut...!

Toya,
You mentioned Oscar Wilde a few posts back. He said something like this about a cynic A cynic is someone who knows the cost of everything, but the value of nothing !

i don't really do doughnutting - lacks emotional involvement!

3741 - certainly applied to my late unlamented father-in-law