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.

Blinkx Plc

07 March 2012

BLINKX TEAMS UP WITH VIDEO PRODUCER ZAZOOM

New Entertaining, Edgy and Enlightening Programming Now Available on www.blinkx.com

SAN FRANCISCO, CALIF. - March 7, 2012 - blinkx, the world's largest and most advanced video search engine, today announced a partnership with Zazoom, the parent company of the popular video brand Buzz60. Through this partnership blinkx will offer its users a broad array of Buzz60's short-form video programming on subjects ranging from politics to entertainment and breaking news stories, sports to pop culture and technology. Leveraging its unique AdHoc platform, blinkx will place contextually relevant advertising against videos and share resulting revenue with Zazoom.

Zazoom, founded by highly respected broadcast journalists whose core team has been awarded 40 Emmys among many other industry honors, develops and produces video for multiple digital platforms including the Internet, tablets and smartphones, taxis and television. The company's first branded network, Buzz60, sets the style for short-form video content with 60-second reports that are smart, edgy, demand-informed and entertaining across a broad range of subjects. Buzz60 channels include Buzz Politics hosted by Cronkite award winner Jay DeDapper and Buzz Sports, featuring Len Berman's Sports Time Out hosted by the legendary sports anchor.

"Zazoom, and specifically its channel Buzz60, are creating digital video for the way we live now - on the go," said Suranga Chandratillake, founder and CEO, blinkx. "We are committed to adding video content that meets the needs of our users and are therefore are delighted to offer this informative and growing library of video content."

"Our business continues to expand and therefore we are focused on adding exciting new distribution paths to further reach viewers with reports that inform, entertain and most importantly, engage," said Tim Minton, CEO, Zazoom. "Through our partnership with blinkx we're now able to reach an ever-larger audience of users across the globe."

As the pioneer in video search technology, blinkx has built a reputation as the smartest way to find rich media on the Web. The company has more than 720 partners and indexed over 35 million hours of video and audio content to date.

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Blinkx Plc

14 March 2012

BLINKX SIGNS CONTENT PARTNERSHIP WITH NOISE11

Music Reviews, Band Interviews and Live Concert Footage Now Available on www.blinkx.com

SAN FRANCISCO, CALIF.- March 14, 2012- blinkx, the world's largest and most advanced video search engine, today announced a partnership with Noise11 (www.Noise11.com), a leading digital new media company producing music news and interview content for multiple digital platforms. This partnership will give blinkx users access to breaking music news, artist interviews, live concert footage and more. Leveraging its unique AdHoc platform, blinkx will place contextually relevant advertising against these videos and share resulting revenue with Noise11.

Noise11 produces daily video news and music feeds with content ranging from music reviews and photo galleries to artist interview features and music chart compilations. Noise11's video content is available for all digital devices including smartphones and portable music players as well as web based streaming.

"We're delighted to partner with Noise11 to offer our users the most up-to-date music news, reviews and features, " said Julia Blystone, CMO, blinkx. "Noise11 is a pioneering digital music media company and this agreement enhances our index with video for music fans everywhere."

"As a hub for all things music, fans come to Noise11 to consume quality content from their favorite artists, such as catching their favorite band's latest rehearsals to getting a closer look at artists through in-depth interviews," said Paul Cashmere, CEO and founder, Noise11. "We're excited that our partnership with blinkx allows us to significantly expand the reach of our offering to music lovers around the world."

As the pioneer in video search technology, blinkx has built a reputation as the smartest way to find rich media on the Web. The company has signed more than 720 partners and indexed over 35 million hours of video and audio content to date.

the trouble with BLNX is that the company makes lots and lots of noise signifying nothing - or at least bugger all ..... this obfuscates (this week's word for Balerboy!) the fact that, from memory, the company has turned profitable as shown in the last results ..... i don't recollect when the next set is due, but one would hope that these make enjoyable reading with some instant gratification from sp

i don't currently hold, but may dip my toe in once again, though i note that sp is trading within the very tight 25/50 dma band and has been for a little while with just short-lived blips above and below

Obfuscate. A very good word !. I had to check the dictionary for that one .

i used to run "word of the week" for Balerboy's benefit .... poor old soul comes from a penurious, deprived and under-educated family near WsM :-)

RNS Number : 0100A
Blinkx Plc
26 March 2012



BLINKX SURPASSES 100 MILLION GLOBAL MONTHLY UNIQUE VISITORS



Over 58 Million U.S. Visitors Consume blinkx Video Content Each Month



SAN FRANCISCO, CALIF.-March 26, 2012- blinkx, the world's largest and most advanced video search engine, today announced that it has reached a new audience milestone, surpassing 100 million monthly unique visitors in January 2012, according to comScore data.



In January 2012, 181 million consumers in the U.S. watched nearly 40 billion online videos, with over 58 million U.S. users tuning in to blinkx for its extensive array of video content, ranging from hot Hollywood headlines and sports scoops, to cooking tips and breaking political news. blinkx offers a massive library of engaging and entertaining video from more than 720 diverse sources - a breadth of content that continues to grow with the addition of new partners such as Perform Media Group, Zazoom and Rooftop Comedy.



This thriving audience is attracting an increasing share of advertising dollars - eMarketer calls online video advertising the fastest growing segment of the market and has forecast that it will reach $3.12 billion in 2012.



"We're proud to have reached this important milestone," said Suranga Chandratillake, founder and CEO, blinkx. "We are committed to offering consumers the largest index and the most effective video search technology on the Web, through any device - whether it's on their laptops, phones or Connected TVs."



As the pioneer in video search technology, blinkx has built a reputation as the smartest way to find rich media on the Web. The company has signed more than 720 partners and indexed over 35 million hours of video and audio content to date.

the blnx board is no doubt technically correct to make all these unfascinating announcements ..... they might have some value if the value to which blnx alludes was translated into potential profit - who cares about t/o? ..... of course a forecast of actual profit would be of true value, assuming that profit is indeed realised rather than just being alluded to ..... if this was indeed the case, then the value of these frequent and uninteresting announcements could be properly evaluated instead of just taking up air space and contributing little verging on the less than nothing


....... rather like the intentional drivel i have composed above

The potential here has not gone away., a fact to which the above figures atest, despite the sp being in the doldrums . looks like time to get back in.

Going down. 12 month low 49.50.

Any reason for the sell-off today?

.

This from iii and LSE BBs

Price: 54.25
NoteToday 12:34

We lower our estimates and price target for Blinkx and downgrade it to

Neutral from Buy. We believe the company is facing significant challenges

in ramping up the business model in the near term following the

acquisition of Burst and PVMG, bringing with it an increased level of

execution risk. We continue to view it as a strategic asset however, given

its IDOL-based video search technology platform. Since being added to the

Buy List on September 23, 2011, Blinkx shares are down 55% vs. FTSE

World Europe up 15.7%; over 12 months, the shares are down 39% vs.

FTSE World Europe -11%.

We lower our revenue and PF EPS estimates for Blinkx by 4%-10% and

29%-39%, respectively over 2012-15E; our revenue and PF EPS estimates

are now 0%-5% and 12%-41% below Bloomberg consensus over 2012-15

as a result. With the acquisition of Burst and PVMG, Blinkx now has a

greater exposure to a slower-growing display ad segment which we

believe will slow down revenue growth unless synergies are extracted and

the company is able to convert some proportion of the ad revenue to video

ads. However, we believe this is likely to take time as the company digests

the two acquisitions over FY12-13. Blinkx is due to report FY12 results in

mid-May. We estimate total revenues of $120 mn and adjusted EPS of

US$ 1.41 cents.

Our new 6-month (from 12-month due to greater uncertainty) blended

price target is 74p (from 135p), assigning a 70% weighting to our core P/Ebased

valuation of 46p/share (1x revenue CAGR 2012-15E) and 30% to our

M&A valuation of 141p/ share, on 5x CY12E EV/sales (from 8x EV/sales due

to business model evolving into a video + display ad model which has

lower CPM rates).

Key risks: (1) potential changes to the IDOL license contract; (2) an

economic downturn; (3) integration and execution of Burst & PVMG; (4)

management turnover; (5) competitive pressure; and (6) FX.

Oi tabby I got a problem with this :

"BLINKX SURPASSES 100 MILLION GLOBAL MONTHLY UNIQUE VISITORS" ..... errr bet they didn't !

You got two Pc's and hit the website from each one I bet they include it as two "UNIQE VISITORS" !

Please correct me if I'm wrong.

Pile of shite imo.

Trading Update
RNS
RNS Number : 0011B
Blinkx Plc
10 April 2012



BLINKX EXPECTS FULL YEAR REVENUE OF APPROXIMATELY $114M (FY11: 66.1M), AN INCREASE OF APPROXIMATELY 72%

SAN FRANCISCO, CALIF.- April 10, 2012- blinkx, the world's largest and most advanced video search engine, today announces a trading update for the year ended 31 March 2012. The Company expects to report revenues for the full year of approximately $114m, representing a year-on-year increase of approximately 72% and behind analyst consensus of $121.5m. The company expects to report an operating profit, before one-time costs and amortization of purchased intangibles, slightly ahead of analyst consensus of $10.3m. Gross Margin for the year was approximately 53%. The company's cash balance at year end was $38.4m.



Operating cash flow for the period, both before one-time costs and also on an absolute basis, is expected to exceed analyst consensus. One-time costs for FY 2012 are expected to be approximately $5m and amortization of purchased intangibles is expected to be approximately $4m. The company expects to report an IFRS operating profit, after one-time costs and amortization of purchased intangibles, above analyst consensus of $1.3m for the period.



Commenting on the preliminary results Suranga Chandratillake, founder and CEO of blinkx, said: "blinkx's revenues are up 72% this year, surpassing the $100 million mark. We believe this is a significant achievement. Growth across the business has been strong, and whilst it is disappointing to deliver revenues a little below expectations it is worth noting that in a challenging economic climate, blinkx outperformed the aggressive growth of the online video advertising industry by over 80%. We are confident in our position in the market and the progress we have made this year, and are excited about the opportunities that lie before us."



The company expects to announce its results for the full year on 18 May 2012.



The above represent preliminary summary results based on blinkx's expectations at the time of publication of this announcement. These results may be subject to revision as part of the analysis process and, at this stage, should be taken as indicative estimates only. Preliminary summary results are provided as an aid to investors based on information available at the time of publication. Full results, including income statement, balance sheet, statement of changes in equity, cash flow statement and related notes and other segmental information will be published in due course, which is expected to be on 18 May 2012. All results, including those set forth above, are subject to quarterly financial review by blinkx's independent auditors, and are considered preliminary and subject to change until publication of any such review or audit.


Enquiries


blinkx plc +44 (0)1223 488500

Suranga Chandratillake, Founder and CEO +1 (415) 655 1450
Frances Smith, Company Secretary



Citigroup Global Markets Ltd +44 (0)207 986 4000
(NOMAD and Broker for blinkx plc)

Charles Lytle
Christopher Wren


FTI Consulting +44 (0)20 7831 3113

Edward Bridges

operating profit comment means the company is still running at a loss! .... however, given the amount that sp has already fallen away over recent months, there may be little reaction

glad i didn't follow your lead a little while ago cyners.,.

opportunity

falling knife

i think a little more bounce yet bb - but as a strategy long term blnx definitely isnt what it was - see that $1b techno deal with google and that imaging co that is used a lot on twitter - although not direct compo to blnx it will have an effect plus with new money injected i would expect expansion and serious further compo v blnx imo

Next stop 29p