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.

Super - a few away at 55 - looking for 56 for the rest.

wall street didn't, but nevertheless i did! ...... whether i just bank a quick profit or let it run a bit is still undecided

Cynic - we're opposite sides again - I got the rest of mine away at 56.

bully for you m8 :-) ...... as i said, i'm undecided whether to hold or trade pronto

lol - so much for "plan the trade then trade the plan".

I have a target close to 30p and a stop loss (that will lock in profit) close to 65p.

If you close your long for profit do you plan to just close out or might you consider reversing?

no, i just closed out the long for a very small profit just in case things start to go pear-shaped again during the evening

Gausie, how much did you lose shorting on the way up to 160p?

pt - Too many times! It was six or seven entry positions each with fairly tight stop losses - I don't think I even got to pyramid any of them significantly. For the sake of balance, I also lost a little bit long on BLINX, again with a tight stoploss - I think I posted it at the time. I was flat for each of the major moves up.

Netted out, I lost about 70 points on a stake that was about 15% of the size I B&B'd for 3 points yesterday.

You?

looks as though the market may finish the week strongly, so just possibly a punt/trade here could pay divis if bears are forced to clse

cynic - people playing with the spread at the moment (note 5791 both sides) - the implication is they're expecting drifting volatility rather than a move.

methinks that you are asking a man who would rather shoot himself rather than disclose such information.

who and about what? ...... a non seq

Yep!

chess - surely not!

Why would anybody ask a personal question on here that he would not be prepared to answer himself?

Gausie - only ever shorted BLNX the once, at 1 for a reasonable profit. Unfortunately they then fell off my radar, probably because Tabasco stopped ramping and you stopped winding him up. Therefore in conclusion I blame you for me not paying attention!

The one I really missed was PDX, SP of 7.50 with a turnover of 100k and losses of 10m? Now that was a no brainer, with a bit of hindsight of course :)

Dear Santa

Please bring me 30p for xmas.

Love and kisses

Gausie

if you're that hard up, give me an address and i'll send you same!

In auction +11.9%

And again +22.8%

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