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.

It's one thing to own Lycra shorts. It is as another thing entirely to be photographed in them.

better in them that out of them :-)

I'll vouch for that!!

you'll get tongues wagging and some may even want a slice too!

WAY -HEY!

Closing solidly over a quid with results next week.

blinkx profits surge
StockMarketWire.com
International media platform blinkx said revenue increased by 73% to $198m in the year to end-March, up from $114.4m in the previous year.

· Adjusted EBITDA increased by 111% to $30.2 million, from $14.3 million in FY2012

· Adjusted profit before tax of $24.6 million, an increase from $10.7 million in FY2012

· Basic earnings per share of 4.8 cents, a 336% increase from 1.1 cents in FY2012

· Net cash at year-end was $55.9 million, an increase from $38.4 million in FY2012

· Secured content and syndication partnerships, including Daily Motion, Kiplinger, Fox Sports, Sony and Popbox

· Added marquee brand advertisers, including Clorox, Kellogg, Nike, Disney, Gap, Siemens and Mattel

· Launched next generation of flagship video search and discovery engine, blinkx.com, optimized for mobile environments and integrated with social media platforms

· Achieved the front end integration of FY2012 acquisitions well ahead of schedule

· Completed the successful transition of the CEO and CFO roles

· Expanded the leadership team with key Marketing, Product and Technology executives

S Brian Mukherjee, CEO,, said: 'This has been an exciting year for blinkx and we are delighted to report a record performance. The business demonstrated strong underlying growth, stability and efficiency, which was accelerated by the ahead-of-schedule integration of the acquisitions that we made last year. The scale, scope and reach of these acquisitions enabled us to serve a greater number of advertisements to a wider audience at robust monetization rates, which helped drive our growth.

'Several structural trends are fueling the growth of the online advertising industry in general, and the video advertising sector in particular. These include widespread broadband adoption, the proliferation of connected devices and the rapid migration and consumption of video content online - all of which are prompting advertisers to follow audiences online. This year, the industry also benefited from the increase in advertising spend attributed to two high-profile events - the summer Olympics and the US political campaigns in a Presidential election cycle. We believe the market momentum underscores the vitality of the sector and of our business model. The opportunity for blinkx lies in maximizing yield through product innovation, expansion of its distribution channels and the capture of new and emerging revenue streams. Based on our capabilities and the fundamentals of the industry, we remain confident in our prospects and opportunities

More growth to come,can see no reasonfor profits not to be up 2014 overhaul pick up
in U/K ect blnx cash rich no need to ask for money no dilution ords s/p targets 136 ends

to steal sticky's comment on another thread, i still don't really know what blnx does and certainly do not understand it, nor how it makes its money ..... however, the company is now clearly on the up in today's important digital media sector

it follows that i am very happy indeed to have an adequate slab of these, especially as it is now well in the money ...... my guess is that, market disasters excepted, this share will be a lot higher in 12 months time as their o'head increases little even as the biz expands

Cynic. The word is advertising. The internet growth rate is enormous.

Online Ad Spending Up 15% To $37 Billion In 2012
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Internet ad spending in the U.S. grew 15% last year to $36.6 billion. That growth rate marks a slowdown from the 22% gain in 2011 and is more in line with the 14.5% rise in 2010.

For the fourth quarter of 2012, online ad spending reached $10.3 billion -- up 14.9% from $9 billion a year ago, and 11.6% from $9.2 million in the third quarter, according to annual data released by the Interactive Advertising Bureau and PricewaterhouseCoopers on Tuesday.

For the second straight year, mobile advertising was the fastest-growing ad category, up 111% to $3.4 billion. Its share of digital ad dollars also increased to 9.2% from 5% a year ago, making it a larger segment than more established categories like classifieds, lead generation and online video ads.

While still a small portion, video at 6.4% also saw strong gains, rising 29% (the same rate as last year) to $2.3 billion. That, however, could not offset a decline in the overall growth rate for online display advertising in 2012 to 9% from 15% a year ago. The display total of $12 billion accounted for a third of digital ad spending, down from about 35% in 2011.

Search advertising accounted for $16.9 billion, or 46% of total spending, That total represents a gain of 14.5% from $14.8 billion in 2011, but a growth rate well below the prior year’s 27% spike in search ad dollars. Classifieds, lead generation and email continued to see their share of ad budgets contract, at 6.6%, 4.6%, and 0.4% each.

The split between performance-based and CPM-based advertising was roughly on par with last year, with the former taking two-thirds of spending, or $24 billion, compared to a 32%, or $11.7 billion, for the latter. The share allocated to hybrid ads shrank from 4.2% to 2.1%, or $768 million, with that model clearly losing favor in 2012.

Among industry categories, retail remained largest category for online ad spending, accounting for 20% in 2012, followed by financial services (13%), auto (12%), telecom (11%), and computing products (9%). Each of the top ad verticals was within a percentage point or two of their share in 2011.

The $36.6 billion in total digital ad spending vaults the Internet ahead of cable TV ($32.5 billion), closing in on broadcast TV ($39.6 billion) as the top ad-supported medium overall, according to IAB estimates. eMarketer has projected U.S. digital ad spending will reach $42.5 billion this year



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I don't know what's going on today ! I can understand the price falling on a sell off, but this does not appear to be the case .

why should it not be profit-taking on a general sell-off?

Maybe just a bit of realism that this grossly overpriced.

buying opportunity - Haystack this company has enormous growth potential and the rate of growth with current earnings putting it on p/e/ of around 23 makes this very attractive, brokers will cosistently upgrade their targets too

Not convinced. Currently on P/E of 89. I don't see a bright future for this. I see a major collapse at some point.

Directors' Dealings

Dont know where Hays gets his P/E from? Probably made it up like is tory statistics.....

Blinkx PLC

FORECASTS
2014 2015

Date Rec Pre-tax (£) EPS (p) DPS (p) Pre-tax (£) EPS (p) DPS (p)

Numis Securities Ltd
06-06-13 BUY 19.61 2.55
Peel Hunt LLP
06-06-13 BUY 18.89 4.05 28.19 5.92
Canaccord Genuity Ltd
13-05-13 BUY 18.39 3.76 23.44 4.79

2014 2015
Pre-tax (£) EPS (p) DPS (p) Pre-tax (£) EPS (p) DPS (p)

Consensus 18.89 3.91 0.00 25.91 5.38 0.00
1 Month Change 0.00 0.02 -1.79 0.13
3 Month Change 1.55 0.33 0.40 0.52


GROWTH
2013 (A) 2014 (E) 2015 (E)

Norm. EPS 145.48% 6.14% 37.61%
DPS % % %

INVESTMENT RATIOS
2013 (A) 2014 (E) 2015 (E)

EBITDA £m £22.65m £30.03m
EBIT £m £18.20m £23.18m
Dividend Yield 0.00% % %
Dividend Cover x x x
PER 30.82x 29.04x 21.10x
PEG 0.21f 4.73f 0.56f
Net Asset Value PS p p p

P/E ratio here 88.92

http://www.moneyam.com/shareprice/BLNX

Concerning Blinkx EPS. Based upon the latest figures of $0.07 per share, you get approx. £0.045 per share. at aprice of £1.17 per share you have a P.E. of 26. It isn't rocket science !