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.

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.

Price, volume and RSI all on viagra today.

@90 seems to be S/R, so a break and close above would be positive.

Canaccord note today:
"blinkx has been one of our top picks for the year based on our conviction that the company is likely to be a major beneficiary of the increased expenditure on online video advertising as a result of the continued proliferation in wireless devices and connected TVs. We are therefore pleased to see these trends come through in blinkx’s numbers and remain confident that the company’s strong performance will continue. Our FY13 revenue forecasts increase by 11% to $183.5m and our FY13 EBITDA estimates by 15% as a result of the strong operational leverage. We leave our FY14 forecasts broadly unchanged at this stage but would expect them to move up in due course once we have better visibility. Our target price moves up from 110p to 125p and we reiterate our Buy recommendation.

At just over 1.5x revenues, blinkx remains at a material discount to its closest comparators. Following today’s statement, we would expect to see that discount narrow."

I remenber such bullish broker forecasts in the few days before it crashed last time.

Haystack….you cant remember where you live.

H/S - i genuinely don't know the answer, but can you do us all a fave and look back to the time when blnx crashed (end 2011) and check on the trading figures and whatever at that time compared with now

or perhaps tabby can enlighten us more easily

About a month before Blinkx fell of a cliff down from 153 to 65 in a couple of days and then down to 35

"tabasco - 26 Sep 2011 08:36 - 3900 of 4316
I know who I would trust!

Sept 26 (Reuters) - Blinkx PLC:

* Goldman Sachs starts Blinkx Plc with buy; price target
250P For a summary of rating actions and price target changes on European companies:"

Blinkx slumped by 12.7 per cent to 53¼p after Goldman Sachs downgraded the video search engine on worries it would struggle to integrate its recent purchases of advertising companies.

And now…Today, blinkx is pleased to report that trading in the third quarter continued to be strong. Therefore, the company expects to be ahead of targets, with revenue for the full year in the range of $180M to $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.

Here are the revenue figures from 1 year ago. This years' figures will be up by about 60% on those .In other words, up nearly 200% !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! on the 2011 figures.


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

Monday 26th September 2011, 11:32pm

“BLINKX
Goldman Sachs has initiated coverage on the video search engine with a “buy” rating and a 250p target price. The firm’s strong technology and intellectual property gives it strategic appeal, the broker says, plus it gives exposure to the structural growth in the online video advertising market. Despite the execution risk in the firm’s lack of scale, Goldman expects Blinkx to generate compound annual earnings growth of 60 per cent plus over three years.”

And they will…so do Goldman Sachs stand by the 250p?

Here is an interesting point here concerning these revenue figures. A glance at the chart from 2 years back show the SP at about the 90 level. It then shot up to 150 plus.
The current expectations of between £180 - 185 million is nearly 200% more than the 2010-2011 revenue of £66.1 million. Yet the price is still LOWER than 2 years ago.