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.

Staying short for now, more bad news coming from USA, and Europe.

Unemployment up.

But plenty of good news coming from Blinkx, and many shrewd tipsters like it.
Also, don't overlook the takeover possibilities from the likes of Google.
The best approach at the moment is to avoid picking losers.
Sounds easy, doesn't it !

I don't think Google will be able to afford another takeover for a while but you never know. I never pick losers, they are all winners when I buy. It's after I have bought that it all goes downhill! ;o)

Who are these shrewed tipsters Chess

The ones with insider info.

here are a few to check out.
(BLNX) Blinkx : Discussion | Interactive Investor

If they were shrewed Im sure they sold at 1.40 ish

BLNX is of no interest to GOOG whatsoever

Agree Mr.C. Why on earth would Google want BLNX. Neither would Microsoft, just BLNX investors dreaming imho.

concur, though i dare say BLNX would add value to some other company's portfolio

Try checking out SHARES issue 4/8/11 for a discussion on Blinkx prospects. Now one of the top 10 visited website according to the article.

if they say so, but that doesn't mean it makes BLNX a target for GOOG et al

Depends how much money they make cynic! :o)

Seriously though I don't think Google will target them either.

In the top ten visited websites, i think not.


Not even in the top 50 let alone top 10

The web sites that keep a track of visits would indicate that Blinkx is a long way down the list of visited sites. I am not sure of their long term business model. I would expect this to fall long term as it looks very over valued at present with a P/E ratio of 65.

When I first took a look at the Blinx website a couple of years ago I thought it was sh*te; very difficult to navigate. It has improved greatly since but I think there is a lot of improvement to be made. Or it could be that my MacBook doesn't like it!

I hold BLNX by the way, mainly because they do appear to have momentum. Maybe not sp-wise but there is something there!

Haystack, you've been saying BLNX will fall since 20p or so, no doubt you will be proven correct eventually!

Lolyou have noticed Peter?

Never in the history of investing has so much crap been written so incomprehensibly about a Royal Flushstillit does give investors like myself that are never wrong the opportunity to do a little trading on the sidewhat a stock and thank you very much!

If you want to blame anybody for stock market failureall shares falling indiscriminately with the economic downturnsI would suggest you direct your attentions to behaviour of the banking industryask Mervyn!