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.

One of the problems with online advertising is that the platforms are increasing at a fantastic rate, but the audience is not. There is mounting downwards pressure on advertising revenue per platform. At some stage the bubble will burst and there will be a shakeout. There is no guarantee as to which ones will survive.

Facebook and similar have members that have profiles and behaviour. YouTube is partly public and partly logged on members who have Google accounts. Ads are targeted via their demographics and are better paid. Straight click type ads are very low grade without that user detail. Advertising revenue is shifting towards the more intelligent targetted type.

I see ASOS still going up - now that one mstifies me - massive valuation for pathetic turnover / profits

Especially when there was a story over the last few weeks about ASOS selling belts with metalwork that came from scrap that is radioactive with Cobalt-60. It looks like the brass originated in India and was made up from metal from all sorts of places.

LOL

ASOS goes from £25 to £40 since January and NO divi? Very strange.

Blnx revenue last 5yrs 13m, 33m, 66m, 114m, 198m
now profitable 16.72m$ ebita
P/E 19 very low for this type of company in this sector.
EPS gth 94%
All Brokers Strong Buy
Ripe for takeover imo

compare to ASOS with Rev £238m, pretax 30m and a p/e astronomically high 136 A difference of broker opinion with strong buys/buy a few hold/sell and 1 strong sell

Asos like Next - womens fashion and we now what they're like - Next nearly went under some sev yrs ago and sp hit 4p, why is it the internet shops where anyone can replicate it are booming and the technology firms are undervalued

IMO sell ASOS buy BLnx - of course DYOR.

BLNX is reliant on online advertising. As I said above advertisers are looking for online platforms that give them added value in the way of demographics, personal behaviour etc. BLNX is used for very low grade online advertising with no added value. That type of revenue is decreasing and advertisers expect to pay less for it. Straight click through revenue is at the bottom of the heap.

Blnx is increasing its advertising revenue enormously through new technology and mobile media - the future
Its video technolgy is superior to most and something the likes of Google would love to have
Tumblr is being taken over for huge sum a reported 1.1bn$ by yahoo
I prefer Blnx who partner others and have multiple rev streams

Haystack - you reply very quickly to my posts as if lurking - i've heard of paid trolls who get paid by the rsponse to try to reduce the sp when a big player wants in big so maybe i'm making you money?

Very funny. I have no financial interest in BLNX. You shouldn't believe the urban myths about paid posters. There are not enough posters here to influence anyway. BLNX is attracting low grade online activity and that area is a dead end.

Hay is rob the pot or the kettle?

Both

Well they seem to be doing all right out of it, low end or not.

That was a lovely ride up. Have now reversed back to short.

G

Morning all….nice to be back....

All sold in less than an hour for 120p…and guess what?...Goldman done the deed…lol…
LONDON (Reuters) - Software company Autonomy, owned by U.S. computer maker Hewlett-Packard Co., said on Tuesday it sold its remaining stake in video search engine group Blinkx Plc.
Autonomy said it sold 45.7 million Blinkx shares at a price of 120 pence per share, in a deal valued at 54.84 million pounds ($84.48 million)….

The sale, which was at a 5 percent discount to Blinx's closing price on Tuesday, was carried out via an accelerated offering to institutional investors, run by Goldman Sachs. ($1 = 0.6492 British pounds)

Notice the big rise yesterday…notice the last post on this thread? He’s always swinging the wrong way …ouchhhhhh!….

That twat Elephant Man and his sidekick Strawman never get anything right…lol..listen to Tabasco and learn…£AM …when are you also going to listen…those two are a liability…comply or die!!!

Rob....spot on!

Goldfinger....always spot on!

don't be such an arrogant prick!

Morning Cynic...That’s my job…

I will never dislike you…so you can say what you like…love you..

no, it's most definitely not your job to constantly deride

a more interesting observation might have been as to % 45.7m shares represents and whether or not this holding was perhaps being warehoused for a single potential other entity

Cyners…I run my show….I wouldn’t dream of trying to run your show…those other two are the baddies…I like shooting baddies…lol

The drop to under 120p is a classic move by the mm’s to remove money from the baddies and give it to me…that’s life? ….end of today = 126p