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.

Final Results.

Highlights:
· Revenues increased by 73% to $114.4m, from $66.1 in FY2011
· Adjusted* profit from operations increased by 28% to $10.5m compared with $8.2m for FY2011
· Adjusted* profit for the year of $12.7m, compared with $9.8m for FY2011
· Profit for the year of $3.9m, compared with $7.6m for FY2012
· Cash balance was $38.4m compared to $52.8m at 31 March 2011, following acquisitions
· Announced premium content partnerships during the half with PERFORM, Future Publishing, the Bleacher Report, Cinesport, Rooftop Comedy and FashionTV
· Established new distribution agreements with Sony, Roku, Orb Networks and Aurasma increase blinkx's footprint in both the Mobile and Connected TV spaces
· Closed a video search syndication agreement with AOL to extend blinkx's audience reach, and enhance the blinkx index with AOL's premium video assets
· Added new brand advertising clients including Disney, IBM, JP Morgan and Lucozade
· Increased the blinkx audience reach substantially through acquisitions of Burst Media and Prime Visibility Media Group
· Launched five Burst-branded publisher channels, MomIQ, Ella, Stadium, Giant Realm and Ignition, to expand distribution for blinkx video
· Integrated blinkx's Internet Video Engine with PVMG's audience acquisition platform to further increase blinkx's reach
· Expanded the blinkx executive management team with appointments of S. Brian Mukherjee as Chief Operating Officer, and Frank Pao as General Counsel and Executive Vice President of Business Affairs

personally out just under a quid here but his wont be a google imo

It is incredible that Blinkx keep announcing all these deals and the price just keeps falling. It either suggests that the deals won't produce much revenue or the market has this wrong. Is there something fundamentally wrong with its business model long term?

The fall seems relentless. Where can this stop?

When/if they start paying a dividend maybe?

Still waiting for 29p

and then what? ..... you'll close your long-held short or buy? ...... funnily enough, i think this share suffers from an excess of news, for as there seems to be little impact on their next results, PIs have become disillusioned or confused or both

Cynic - I'll take my profit. Plan the trade, then trade the plan.

I disagree with your analysis - I prefer Haystack's take: The only reason the price was so high was because the share had become a muppet share - the darling of novice investors everywhere, piling more and more dough into it, and singing its praises on every BB. The blatant rampingis now long gone, and people are quietly slipping away, recovering what they can from their overpriced tulipmania purchases.

BLNX is now rapidly approaching fair value. My guess is fair value is around 15-20p - but to hold for that price would be a gamble IMHO.

G

Quantum Leap is usually pretty good on its analysis, and it gave BLNX a strong review some time back - but it looks as though it may well have been a wrong call ..... that said, at least the company is now running profitably, and if the prognosis is correct, then the profit becomes exponential as there would be little or no increase in o'head ...... and no, i do have not held these for several months

This is now sitting on a support level that is a 2 years low. Below this level there is no real support down to a penny share.

BLNX is blinking today - could it be awakening?? I'd gone to sleep over this - still holding some of the shares I bought years ago!

Never owned this one as I think sp is "toppy" without any Div support, it's all hope. So what dividend will support current sp?
How about 1p (No! that's way too much), so maybe 0.1p then? that's a cost of £362k prob about the same as they pay Execs (DYOR), but that is only 0.2% roughly, and no-one will get excited by that.
The notion that Google will come to the rescue is unlikely IMHO - whilst Blinx have contracts with many customers, they've yet to pull Google (DYOR), or the sp would go ballistic - not because it's worth it, but because many punters are mad.
I suspect if Google wanted to search Video, they'd write their own programs. Does the US have any taste for British Companies?
Do you feel Lucky?

GOOG is not remotely interested - trust me!

glad i didn't follow your tip here cyners........ not scoffing..... ;)

which one was that? .... keep buying? :-)
i think i made money on this one originally but then gave back rather more ..... haven't been a holder now for quite some time

I sold half my shares at a profit that even Cynic would have enjoyed :) Having bought at 19.5p a long time ago, I don't mind keeping the balance for now.

It would be interesting to know what is tickling BLNX currently. The Google rumour died a long time ago, but they still have some useful technology and contracts in their own right - just my naive view...

i would find it enjoyable to enjoy you Mistress, with or without profit :-)

one of the problems with BLNX is that it issues a plethora of updates, which would be highly commendable if any profit at all accrued from them ..... as far as i can see, BLNX limps along but looks to be going nowhere interesting ...... i suppose it may wake up one day, but possibly after i'm long dead

Agree cynic, - - - but the same can be said of almost any AIM company . . . there to serve the wealth-expectation of mediocre Execs (who IMHO would find it difficult keeping down a "regular" working job.) - even if they got to the Interview.

Indeed if you will cast your mind to AIM in general - can you find one that is a sure-fire regular generator of an income for investors?

Most are only "hope" (which replaced Hype back 2005, maybe), and it is only wealthy Punters that are keeping them going, maybe hoping there is something worthwhile to salvage if the Co is wound-up (the sp being at all-time lows as average Joes pull out).

Indeed now that their nakedness is showing, there are v.few Main-list Co's that are regular yielders and which have steered a L-T steady course; such that you could invest a small nest-egg for Grandchildren, to collect in 18-yrs time (or maybe "when they are into their 2nd year in the same employ after their 18th B'day").

FWIW I guess BP might qualify, being an "essential resource" and maybe I like AVIVA for similar reasons (looking L-T.). However, I read that some are cautious of BP in case it's taken over by some US Multi.
I fear UK Banks are on a bad footing until new Regulators come forward (the ones we have being exceptionall Dull).
Oh deary.

On an 18-year view LLOY and RBS, and the other banks, are a screaming buy.

more like 18 months!

it seems like 18 yr .,.