Still Waiting
- 25 Jul 2008 23:22
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.
tabasco
- 14 Dec 2012 08:33
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At 2 o’clock in the morning Dil….I think we all know who is talking shite!
The very reason I swerved you!
cynic
- 14 Dec 2012 13:19
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tabby - i was posting about market perception, and what i wrote is exactly as i see it
tabasco
- 18 Dec 2012 07:59
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Big news....35M to 50M+
By Anna Heim on 17 Dec '12 Comments
Dailymotion closes partnership with blinkx as it looks back at 2012 and prepares 2013
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The video search engine blinkx is joining Dailymotion Publisher Network (DPN), French video portal Dailymotion announced today while unveiling interesting figures about its viewership.
As you may remember, Dailymotion launched its content syndication platform in early 2012. Since then, more than 1,500 publishers have joined DPN, including Orange, MSN and Yahoo (see our previous story).
In practical terms, DPN lets publishers use Dailymotion’s 30-million video library and easily monetize them by receiving a share of Dailymotion’s ad revenues. This concept naturally appealed to blinkx, its CEO S. Brian Mukherjee explains: “The Dailymotion Publisher Network gives us a huge library of content to tap in to, with built-in monetization opportunities and functionality.”
According to Dailymotion’s SVP for International Development, Luc Dumont, it brings benefits for both parties:
“Our Publisher Network offers a tangible incentive for Publishers like blinkx to give incremental visibility to the Dailymotion player across their digital network: it means more content, more time spent and now more monetization for them.”
Dailymotion’s growth in numbers
When we first reported on DPN last July, it only boasted 500 publishing partners, a number that has now tripled over the last few months. In addition, its employee count in the US has doubled this year – it currently has over 120 employees in France and 40 on the other side of the pond.
Overall, Dailymotion currently boasts 116 million unique monthly visitors worldwide, which makes it the Internet’s 31st largest site according to Comscore. Dailymotion summarized some of this data in an infographic which you can see in full here.
While Dailymotion is the second largest video portal after YouTube, it hopes to differentiate from Google’s offering by focusing on quality, and points out that it now has over 10,000 premium content partners, including HBO, Showtime, Netflix, Hulu, FOX Sports and NBC. Since YouTube has also developed premium channels, its competitor also insists on its own original content program, Motionmakers, which has around 50,000 members.
From online to offline: Dailymotion Studios
To keep on boosting unique programming, Dailymotion has announced original plans for 2013: the opening of Dailymotion Studios in Paris and New York. ‘Studios’ isn’t a metaphor, and what the company is planning to open are real-life facilities “available to any amateur or professional videographer to access equipment, production space and editing technology to create and premiere original content on the site.”
According to Giuseppe Demartino, SVP Corporate Communications for Dailymotion HQ, this project represents a new step for the company:
“Our partners – advertisers and content owners – will now have access to the best of technology and video tools to create and give shape to their very own projects. Our goal is to help them individually and provide them with advice from video platform professionals; a new way to differentiate ourselves from our competitors.”
While there is still a long way to go for Dailymotion to become its market’s leader, it is interesting to see how it decided to challenge YouTube by focusing on quality, while bringing benefits to its partners.
tabasco
- 19 Dec 2012 08:30
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Yahoo! Finance
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Mean Recommendation (this week): 1.7
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Change: 0.0
* (Strong Buy) 1.0 - 5.0 (Sell)
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Mean Target: 1.84
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tabasco
- 19 Dec 2012 08:33
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Allen Total Media Partners With Blinkx For Video Wall Technology
Wednesday, December 19, 2012
Allen Total Media has partnered with Blinkx, a US Based company that sells on the UK exchange, and has had record earnings as a result of great video wall search technology.
You will notice we have added a VIDEO channel button on the top of our navigation bar, it takes you to a list of offerings that deliver up to the minute news, sports, music and viral video that is newly added to the Internet, and as you move the cursor around, boxes expand and inform you what the video is.
Nothing like it exists on any other local news outlet’s web page or web search. Allen Total Media has once again left the competition in the dust with this advanced video wall technology.
chessplayer
- 22 Jan 2013 08:21
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BLINKX'S NEXT GENERATION VIDEO SEARCH AND DISCOVERY SITE GOES GLOBAL WITH FULL AVAILABILITY
New Design and Cross Device Functionality Increase Dwell Time and Mobile Usage by 400%
SAN FRANCISCO, CALIF. - January 22, 2013- blinkx (LSE AIM: BLNX), the Internet Media platform powered by CORE, the world's most advanced video engine, officially launched the next generation of its flagship product, blinkx.com, today. The new site was designed to enhance the video discovery and viewing experience, with strong recommendation and personalization, as well as integration across users' social graph. In open beta testing over the past four months, blinkx.com's focus on delivering personalized, curated content resulted in a significant increase in dwell time, with users spending four times as much time on the new site as on previous versions. In addition, mobile usage was up 400%, as a result of the site's responsive design and its simple, elegant interface that is touch-optimized for effortless navigation on smartphone and tablet devices.
"We've been delighted with audience response to the new blinkx.com," said Matt Scheybeler, CTO, blinkx. "In transforming the site, we prioritized discovery and personalization because social networks and mobile devices have profoundly changed the way we consume content online. We're deeply engaged with Facebook pages and Twitter feeds - a unique content universe created for us by our friends and the people we follow, so we designed the new blinkx.com to support this behavior: optimized for sharing, discovery and mobile access."
Features of the next-generation blinkx.com include:
My Stream: a constantly updated stream of video, customized based on your social graph, topics you've chosen to follow and your viewing preferences. It's your personal TV channel.
Multi-platform:optimized for mobile users, when accessed through tablets and smartphones, the site is touch-optimized for easy navigation and browsing on the go.
Pause and Pick-Up:users can start watching video on one device, hit pause and pick it up again at the same point on a different device.
blinkx.com is built on a powerful, patented technology platform that takes a holistic approach to video search and discovery, using text, visual and audio analysis to build a deep, comprehensive understanding of video content on the Web. blinkx is able to deliver the most accurate search results and compelling recommendations to its audience, drawn from an index of over 35 million hours of online video and more than 800 content partners. The new site is fully integrated with blinkx's advertising platform, AdHoc, the first contextual advertising platform for online video.
"The proliferation of connected devices and near ubiquity of broadband networks have established the foundation for the irreversible and accelerating growth of online video," said S. Brian Mukherjee, CEO, blinkx. "eMarketer forecasts that by 2016 there will be 1.3 billion online video viewers and blinkx is committed to delivering a world-class experience to this audience across all platforms. Capitalizing on our industry- leading technology, we have transformed our flagship consumer product to deliver an elegant, personalized experience that enables users to discover and watch video from any device with a consistent look and functionality."
blinkx's next-generation video search and discovery site is available at www.blinkx.com.
cynic
- 22 Jan 2013 08:29
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i wonder, with this almost continual blizzard of news, if it will all one day translate into serious and genuine bottom line profit and the share price suddenly react sharply accordingly ...... i have bought back in (64.5) on the probability that it will, though i know there is a cadre who have (had?) entirely the opposite view
tabasco
- 22 Jan 2013 08:37
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Chess...thanks for posting…the new Blinkx site is a revelation and what has been expected by many of us for some time….we are way ahead of the field in video search technology…
there has been many idiots on £AM that have that have tried to put the lid on this company…no need to mention any names… you will now see a proper and reflective share price.
Well done to all the lucky blnx investors…Take a look at AVCT and BVIC two investments I mentioned some time back….Tabasco is very lucky!… nice
tabasco
- 22 Jan 2013 08:40
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Cynic…try something very simple…put your BLNX shares to one side and don’t look at the SP for two years…you will be surprised how easy it is to make money….lol
cynic
- 22 Jan 2013 08:43
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look how easy it would have been to lose it too! ...... no one has a crystal ball and there are plenty of companies that fold, and not just minnows either
tabasco
- 22 Jan 2013 08:46
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Cynic…at 12p when I first told you…come on?…this stock could now be £10 in two years…no problem…take a close look…do a bit of real research!
cynic
- 22 Jan 2013 08:49
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could be or might be £10 or 1p ...... now tell us about all the duds you have backed .... if you say none, no one on this earth will believe you
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and since you brought up a timescale of 2 years, here's the chart over the last 2 years ..... not exactly pretty is it
tabasco
- 22 Jan 2013 08:52
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MDX...end of!
Cynic…take a look at the 14 November 2012 interims…a bit of a clue for you is the "RECORD RESULTS"….
BLINKX PLC ANNOUNCES RESULTS FOR THE SIX MONTHS ENDED
30 SEPTEMBER 2012
Reports record results for first half, revenues up 84% to $82.0m, with adjusted* profits before taxation of $8.4m
cynic
- 22 Jan 2013 08:55
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and has sp set the world on fire since then? ..... very clearly NOT!
just for the record, i see i bought 19/12/12
tabasco
- 22 Jan 2013 09:09
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Cynic…follow the story…you can now trace short positions very easy…Goldman Sachs initiated at a ridiculous 250p… mug punters piled in and within a few months of the Goldman and friends pump….bingo..there was never a big sell-off and none registered…just churning…or failed trades
It has been well documented the antics on aim minnows….this is no longer a minnow…and the NASDAQ is just round the corner….
Cynic….this recent Goldman case in the USA might give you a clue?
In this case, that resulted in absurdities like the following disclosure in this document, in which a Goldman executive admits in a 2006 email that just a little bit too much trading in Overstock was going on: “Two months ago 107% of the floating was short!”
In other words, 107% of all Overstock shares available for trade were short – a physical impossibility, unless someone was somehow creating artificial supply in the stock.
Goldman clearly knew there was a discrepancy between what it was telling regulators, and what it was actually doing. “We have to be careful not to link locates to fails [because] we have told the regulators we can’t,” one executive is quoted as saying, in the document.
One of the companies Goldman used to facilitate these trades was called SBA Trading, whose chief, Scott Arenstein, was fined $3.6 million in 2007 by the former American Stock Exchange for naked short selling.
The process of how banks circumvented federal clearing regulations is highly technical and incredibly difficult to follow. These companies were using obscure loopholes in regulations that allowed them to short companies by trading in shadows, or echoes, of real shares in their stock. They manipulated rules to avoid having to disclose these “failed” trades to regulators.
The import of this is that it made it cheaper and easier to bet down the value of a stock, while simultaneously devaluing the same stock by adding fake supply. This makes it easier to make money by destroying value, and is another example of how the over-financialization of the economy makes real, job-creating growth more difficult.
In any case, this document all by itself shows numerous executives from companies like Goldman Sachs Execution and Clearing (GSEC) and Merrill Pro talking about a conscious strategy of “failing” trades – in other words, not bothering to locate, borrow, and deliver stock within the time alotted for legal settlement. For instance, in one email, GSEC tells a client, Wolverine Trading, “We will let you fail.”
Have you seen enough....I could go on...lol
cynic
- 22 Jan 2013 09:50
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i was merely making the point of what can happen in 2 years ..... as already posted, am modestly back in (i made or lost money in the past, though i cannot remember which) because i thought the stock looked reasonably priced and with the probability of further strength in the short/medium term
Balerboy
- 22 Jan 2013 10:11
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quite right cynic...... glad i didn't follow your lead a while back ;)
cynic
- 22 Jan 2013 11:13
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what ho Emu .... how goes it in freezing WsM? ..... donkeys can't be enjoying it much
Balerboy
- 22 Jan 2013 14:30
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you have wsm on the brain....... try north bristol.,. might be freezing outside, found something warm and cosy inside ;)
tabasco
- 23 Jan 2013 09:27
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Technology
blinkx CORE is the world’s most advanced video engine.
Based on technology that was developed over 12 years at Cambridge University and is protected by more than 110 patents, blinkx CORE solves the challenges inherent in processing, managing and monetizing rich media.
The CORE engine automates traditionally expensive and time-consuming manual tasks including processing, analysis and tagging, and exposes the full potential of audio and video content.
From locating and processing online and offline content, and indexing it, to its presentation, monetization and delivery, it unlocks the true value of rich media and creates new opportunities for monetization.
To achieve this, blinkx CORE first distills video into its basic building blocks and then processes each component in the method most effective to the medium: audio is processed with speech recognition technology; images are understood using visual analysis technology; and metatags are indexed and extracted by distributed visual spiders.
Once it has collected the most comprehensive, minutely accurate data possible on the video, the CORE engine transforms the raw data into useful information by recognizing ideas and themes within the video.
Using a unique combination of Shannon's Information Theory and Bayesian Inference, blinkx CORE applies a probabilistic pattern matching process to the problem of concept matching. This enables computers to infer meaning within pieces of video and audio content, and reason upon the nature of that meaning in an unstructured way, performing the kinds of organizational, sorting and discovery tasks that today are the domain of manual, human processes.
This deep, granular understanding of rich media enables blinkx to process, present, monetize and deliver video and audio content in unique ways, and to capitalize on the true potential of today’s Four Screen world.