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.

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.

StockMarketWire.com
Technology company blinkx said trading in Q3 continued to be strong and it expects to be ahead of targets, with revenue for the full year in the range of $180m-$185m.

S. Brian Mukherjee, CEO of blinkx, commented, "As expected, the acquisitions have significantly expanded the scale and scope of the blinkx engine and the integrations are being implemented extremely effectively. In the second half, we continued to benefit from campaign spending in the US election cycle, which, in addition to the rapid customer adoption of our expanded offerings and strong secular trends within the industry, contributed to our growth. While our advertising revenues are transactional in nature, we remain confident in our outlook and prospects for the remainder of the year."

It's zooming on those results Chessplayer :))

Yes, about 20%.

what a nice little treat for a monday morning

I know need to say too much…I tend to be very lucky..

like with MDX perhaps? :-)

Small intraday short :-)

Cynic I lost money on mdx…true.. but not that much overall….I have made multiples of that on bvic and I wont begin to tell you about this stock…it’s all down to luck? Toodle pip.......Skinny that's a very silly mistake!

£40k i recollect ..... amazing how lucky some people appear to be after the event ..... of course, those who bought at around 140 within the last couple of years (not me i'm glad to say), will merely be nursing a smaller but still very large loss ..... do i sound cynical as to your alleged success? ..... i hope so, for the chances of MDX being your only disaster are longer than UKIP winning 50 seats at the next general election

Just closed my short for £134 - that will pay for plenty of lasagneigh!

Cynic - if you do a little search back around four years ago you will see for yourself…no need to be cynical…same can be said for bvic….my life has been changed....I'm so lucky!

You were spot on with the 40k mdx.. although I have had a little bit of fun/own back since…not that I am bitter of course…it is difficult when people are prepared to break the law to such extremes.

skinny...."Just closed my short for £134" a lucky escape!

Whatever.

tabby ..... and what about your other disasters apart from MDX? .... and yes, i know and fully accept you have been ramping (lol) BLNX for yonks :-)

Cynic…I don’t trade with 100’s of stocks….I invest in a few…which have in the main be reasonably successful…I don’t call a few thousand either way success or failure. Blnx, bvic, bgo have been very successful…..avn, avct, sar and fto have pretty much cancelled each other out….I wont tell you about ser….you will definitely not believe that story….anyway….good luck sir!… and a special good luck to Toya and Chess…

Thanks Tab. I'm holding on to mine...

Come on girls, you've been "friends" too long for these childish spats !

my comments to tabby have, in the main, been a tease, especially re his long-time ramping of blnx!

I am sure we all know this is going to crash again. The trick is to spot when