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.

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

you just may be wrong ..... i think the reason the stock crashed previously was because people forgot that turnover was not profit ...... however, as far as i can determine, the company is now making genuine profits which should increase almost exponentially as the overheads should increase by only a small %

Chess…Cynic is a gentleman…gentlemen occasionally draw pistols?…I’m sure we would both intentionally miss….I’m also sure we would both take extra aim at Haystack!

gentlemen draw pistols in the urinals and do not peek next door!

Like I said Skinny….you were very lucky!

I thought that was you! :-)

Sorry to be so predictable Skinny…you are also a gentleman in this game of chess we play.