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.

Don't forget that the 185 target is from Blinkx's own broker, so you can ignore that one.

Visit Strawman @ www.clutchingatstraws.com....

The trend is your friend.

"MIKE LYNCH, the founder of tech company Autonomy, took advantage of a rally inblinkx shares to sell down part of his stake in the online video search group for £4.5m.

Mr Lynch, a non-executive director of the Aim-listed company, offloaded 3m shares in the group on Monday and Tuesday at an average price of approximately 150p, blinkx disclosed in a stock exchange filing.

Although blinkx fell 6 to 150p yesterday on news of the sale, the shares touched their highest level since October 2011 a day earlier after analysts at both Jefferies and Citigroup issued bullish research notes on the company. The shares changed hands for about 67p at the start of the year.

“It’s been going up beautifully,” Mr Lynch said, adding that he sold shares in blinkx on a regular basis so that no inferences are made from the disposals.

Blinkx demerged from Autonomy in 2007 and Mr Lynch held an 8.7pc stake at the time of its flotation. A series of share sales since then has seen his holding fall, with the latest disposal bringing his interest in the company down to 4.9pc, or about 17.9m shares.

Hewlett-Packard inherited a stake in blinkx when it bought Autonomy in 2011, a now controversial acquisition. HP sold out of blinkx in June at 120p a share.

“This is a stock that people want to own,” said Patrick Yau, an analyst at Peel Hunt. “It’s not the most liquid stock in the world so any time the market does get fed with stock by shareholders like Mike then that gets snapped up quite quickly.”

The details of the Jefferies note:
"Blinkx plays in the extravagant growth hot spot that is online video advertising. Having transformed its business in 2011, it seems in good shape. Calling the winners and losers in the online video frenzy is tough; instead we look for some key financial credentials – Blinkx has them, in spades. Thus we see Blinkx as a future winner. We initiate at Buy with a price target of 190p
Blinkx plays in the online video ad space – hotter than hot. Online advertising remains the premium growth segment in the advertising landscape; we estimate an 12/15E CAGR of +18.3% in the US. Within the online advertising piece, video advertising delivers a stunning +37.5% 12/15E CAGR as mobile form factor, pervasive broadband and changing customer behaviours catapult growth.
The company has transformed over the last two years. Two acquisitions in 2011, Burst and PVMG, changed the business model focus, step changed the scale and growth opportunity in the business and introduced new senior management. Blinkx evolved from video search engine into an online video advertising platform.
Online video advertising winners and losers – difficult to call. In a very competitive arena, with massive technology shifts coming thick and fast, customer behaviours far from established and many uncertainties, claims of technology leadership and competitive advantage are difficult to discern. Thus, look for those players delivering financially. Notwithstanding the assumed high-growth dynamic, we tend to identify future success rather by confirming early stage financial credentials, determining real operational and financial agility to empower opportunistic M&A and thus shape future winners that almost certainly will themselves become targets for the US leviathans.
Blinkx ticks the boxes. Strong revenue growth, good gross margin and cash conversion tick our financial boxes. A healthy balance sheet plus early stage success in consolidating acquisitions add appeal. Ultimately, we see Blinkx emerging as a take-out target."

10 September 2013

RNS REACH

blinkx Expands Partnership with Zazoom to Launch blinkx Buzz Channel

Original videos rounding up the biggest stories on the week, from the most memorable pop culture moments to the hottest online videos, are now available at www.blinkx.com

SAN FRANCISCO, CALIF.- September 10, 2013 - blinkx, the Internet Media platform powered by CORE video technology, today announced a partnership with Zazoom, the parent company of the popular video brand Buzz60, to create a co-branded channel of original video content entitled blinkx Buzz.

Zazoom, founded by highly respected broadcast journalists who have been awarded 32 Emmys among many other industry honors, creates smart, topical, short-form digital video for the way we live now. Each day the Z-team tells compelling stories under the Buzz60 brand with unparalleled speed and quality that entertain as well as inform. Zazoom and blinkx will draw from this distinctive style with the series blinkx Buzz, covering the hottest stories of the week and the most popular videos on blinkx.com. From the latest celebrity scandals and bizarre headline news to the greatest movie trailers and music videos sweeping the Web, if they're making noise, blinkx Buzz will make sure you don't miss a beat. Zazoom is currently producing four previously announced original content series for blinkx: Ella TV, MomIQ TV, Giant Realm TV and blinkx TV.

"We are thrilled to team with Zazoom, a recognized brand for high-quality, timely and entertaining videos amongst our audience, to expand our original video initiative and launch this co-branded channel," said Dan Slivjanovski, SVP, Chief Marketing Officer of blinkx. "By creating original videos focused on the biggest stories of the week, we are able to package what's trending on the Web into a single channel with a unique and entertaining voice that should be extremely appealing to viewers and advertisers alike."

Now at the same point of all time highs reached in Sep. 2011

Down 4 points, but the trades shown are almost all buys !!

Here we go again. Every trade is a buy. And a sell.

are you still short from +/-100?

No. Covered a while back. Now flat again. Still slightly up on BLNX overall, but way more losing trades than winners. I should really stop trading it, because its a difficult one for me to stay impartial on.......

.... But - the chart currently shows a series of lower highs, and a bearish RSI divergence ....

if you say so .... my simpleton's brain says chart looks that sp is chugging slowly north

Cynic...if you believe that imbecile elephant man.. try one of his seminars?....the guy has consistently done his bollocks on this stock...along with his buddy....Strawman....check their posts?

Called wrong a 1000 times.....but.......always claims a covered position....just like the car in his lean-to!... Cynic...trust your brain!

i do, whenever i can find it :-)

Cynic...I always find his short positions a leading indicator for a rocket-like take-off.....very helpful!...Strawman's oyez oyez 3p today....is also handy?

Chess...when Elephant man answers you with a, "Here we go again. Every trade is a buy. And a sell"....that is just trader talk.....here is a read that gives simple answers to how all markets are rigged....

Rolling Stone 15 May 2012

"It doesn’t happen often, but sometimes God smiles on us. Last week, he smiled on investigative reporters everywhere, when the lawyers for Goldman, Sachs slipped on one whopper of a legal banana peel, inadvertently delivering some of the bank’s darker secrets into the hands of the public.

The lawyers for Goldman and Bank of America/Merrill Lynch have been involved in a legal battle for some time – primarily with the retail giant Overstock.com, but also with Rolling Stone, the Economist, Bloomberg, and the New York Times. The banks have been fighting us to keep sealed certain documents that surfaced in the discovery process of an ultimately unsuccessful lawsuit filed by Overstock against the banks.

Last week, in response to an Overstock.com motion to unseal certain documents, the banks’ lawyers, apparently accidentally, filed an unredacted version of Overstock’s motion as an exhibit in their declaration of opposition to that motion. In doing so, they inadvertently entered into the public record a sort of greatest-hits selection of the very material they’ve been fighting for years to keep sealed.

I contacted Morgan Lewis, the firm that represents Goldman in this matter, earlier today, but they haven’t commented as of yet. I wonder if the poor lawyer who FUBARred this thing has already had his organs harvested; his panic is almost palpable in the air. It is both terrible and hilarious to contemplate. The bank has spent a fortune in legal fees trying to keep this material out of the public eye, and here one of their own lawyers goes and dumps it out on the street.

The lawsuit between Overstock and the banks concerned a phenomenon called naked short-selling, a kind of high-finance counterfeiting that, especially prior to the introduction of new regulations in 2008, short-sellers could use to artificially depress the value of the stocks they’ve bet against. The subject of naked short-selling is a) highly technical, and b) very controversial on Wall Street, with many pundits in the financial press for years treating the phenomenon as the stuff of myths and conspiracy theories.

Now, however, through the magic of this unredacted document, the public will be able to see for itself what the banks’ attitudes are not just toward the "mythical" practice of naked short selling (hint: they volubly confess to the activity, in writing), but toward regulations and laws in general.

"Fuck the compliance area – procedures, schmecedures," chirps Peter Melz, former president of Merrill Lynch Professional Clearing Corp. (a.k.a. Merrill Pro), when a subordinate worries about the company failing to comply with the rules governing short sales.

We also find out here how Wall Street professionals manipulated public opinion by buying off and/or intimidating experts in their respective fields. In one email made public in this document, a lobbyist for SIFMA, the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association, tells a Goldman executive how to engage an expert who otherwise would go work for “our more powerful enemies,” i.e. would work with Overstock on the company’s lawsuit.

"He should be someone we can work with, especially if he sees that cooperation results in resources, both data and funding," the lobbyist writes, "while resistance results in isolation."

There are even more troubling passages, some of which should raise a few eyebrows, in light of former Goldman executive Greg Smith's recent public resignation, in which he complained that the firm routinely screwed its own clients and denigrated them (by calling them "Muppets," among other things).

Here, the plaintiff’s motion refers to an "exhibit 96,” which refers to “an email from [Goldman executive] John Masterson that sends nonpublic data concerning customer short positions in Overstock and four other hard-to-borrow stocks to Maverick Capital, a large hedge fund that sells stocks short.”

Was Goldman really disclosing “nonpublic data concerning customer short positions” to its big hedge fund clients? That would be something its smaller, “Muppet” customers would probably want to hear about.

When I contacted Goldman and asked if it was true that Masterson had shared nonpublic customer information with a big hedge fund client, their spokesperson Michael Duvally offered this explanation:


Among other services it provides, Securities Lending at Goldman provides market color information to clients regarding various activity in the securities lending marketplace on a security specific or sector specific basis. In accordance with the group's guidelines concerning the provision of market color, Mr. Masterson provided a client with certain aggregate information regarding short balances in certain securities. The information did not contain reference to any particular clients' short positions.

You can draw your own conclusions from that answer, but it's safe to say we'd like to hear more about these practices.

Anyway, the document is full of other interesting disclosures. Among the more compelling is the specter of executives from numerous companies admitting openly to engaging in naked short selling, a practice that, again, was often dismissed as mythical or unimportant.
A quick primer on what naked short selling is. First of all, short selling, which is a completely legal and often beneficial activity, is when an investor bets that the value of a stock will decline. You do this by first borrowing and then selling the stock at its current price; then, after the price drops, you go out, buy the same number of shares at the reduced price, and return the shares to your original lender. You then earn a profit on the difference between the original price and the new, lower price.

What matters here is the technical issue of how you borrow the stock. Typically, if you’re a hedge fund and you want to short a company, you go to some big-shot investment bank like Goldman or Morgan Stanley and place the order. They then go out into the world, find the shares of the stock you want to short, borrow them for you, then physically settle the trade later.

But sometimes it’s not easy to find those shares to borrow. Sometimes the shares are controlled by investors who might have no interest in lending them out. Sometimes there’s such scarcity of borrowable shares that banks/brokers like Goldman have to pay a fee just to borrow the stock.

These hard-to-borrow stocks, stocks that cost money to borrow, are called negative rebate stocks. In some cases, these negative rebate stocks cost so much just to borrow that a short-seller would need to see a real price drop of 35 percent in the stock just to break even. So how do you short a stock when you can’t find shares to borrow? Well, one solution is, you don’t even bother to borrow them. And then, when the trade is done, you don’t bother to deliver them. You just do the trade anyway without physically locating the stock.

Thus in this document we have another former Merrill Pro president, Thomas Tranfaglia, saying in a 2005 email: “We are NOT borrowing negatives… I have made that clear from the beginning. Why would we want to borrow them? We want to fail them.”

Trafaglia, in other words, didn’t want to bother paying the high cost of borrowing “negative rebate” stocks. Instead, he preferred to just sell stock he didn’t actually possess. That is what is meant by, “We want to fail them.” Trafaglia was talking about creating “fails” or “failed trades,” which is what happens when you don’t actually locate and borrow the stock within the time the law allows for trades to be settled.

If this sounds complicated, just focus on this: naked short selling, in essence, is selling stock you do not have. If you don’t have to actually locate and borrow stock before you short it, you’re creating an artificial supply of stock shares.

In this case, that resulted in absurdities like the following disclosure in this document, in which a Goldman executive admits in a 2006 email that just a little bit too much trading in Overstock was going on: “Two months ago 107% of the floating was short!”

In other words, 107% of all Overstock shares available for trade were short – a physical impossibility, unless someone was somehow creating artificial supply in the stock.

Goldman clearly knew there was a discrepancy between what it was telling regulators, and what it was actually doing. “We have to be careful not to link locates to fails [because] we have told the regulators we can’t,” one executive is quoted as saying, in the document."

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Chess the story continues....but when we see this on Wall Street.....what are they capable of on the AIM....worst regulated market in the World?

Thanks for that Tabby. It sounds pretty tricky stuff. It's a pity that more can't be done to expose some of these shysters .

How are you keeping by the way ?

SAN FRANCISCO, CALIF. - 28 October 2013 - blinkx plc (LSE AIM: BLNX), the Internet Media platform powered by CORE video technology, today announces that its interim results for the six months ended 30 September 2013 will be published on Tuesday 5 November 2013

Looks well positioned for next move higher.

Hi Chess....so fireworks on fireworks....while we are waiting....nice little read.....

By Vincent Flood On October 28
With a market cap of over £540 million, Blinkx is one of the most valuable companies in online video, while at the same time being one of the most mysterious. While most people are aware of the video search engine, Blinkx has also been building out a diverse business that encompasses everything from content syndication right through to an SSP. Here, Suranga Chandratillake, founder and chief strategy officer at Blinkx, provides some insight into how the company is evolving.

Could you map out and explain the various components of the Blinkx business model?

Blinkx is a technology driven media company with unique and specific strengths in online video. We pioneered online video search, and connect people online with advertisers over professionally generated and relevantly placed content. We’ve partnered with thousands of Web publishers and video producers to aggregate audiences, deliver targeted opportunities and share monetisation. From a model standpoint, the whole of Blinkx is greater than the sum of its parts – we are a media platform. Partly created of video search engine, part publisher network, part publisher (through Blinkx.com and other owned-and-operated sites), part video distribution hub (through Blinkx VideoAdvantage) and part SSP.

How does a video search engine work? For example, do you have to have direct relationships with content providers, or can you index content in the same way Google does?

Our video search technology works in multiple ways. We work directly with the content partners to get their descriptive information as part of our video index. Then, utilising our CORE technology, which is the most advanced video search technology in the world, we analyse the video for additional metadata that can be extracted from audio streams, facial recognition, and other factors. We build these into our index, allowing us to draw unique insights into relevance and linking of different videos. This means that we can effectively place a video within the context of its environment, driving up monetisation opportunities.

You recently acquired Grab Media, a syndication company, and you recently launched VideoAdvantage, your own video syndication product. Could you explain what is attracting you to that side of the market?

Our strategy has grown to match the market opportunity, which has evolved from content search, to discovery and, finally, syndication. Initially, Blinkx leveraged its CORE technology to power video search on leading online properties, including AOL, Ask and Lycos – leveraging proprietary speech, text and image analysis to render highly relevant video search results in response to consumer queries. As the market opportunity shifted from search to discovery, Blinkx grew its business model to include a number of owned and operated websites, including Blinkx.com, to facilitate video discovery.

Currently, the company is focused on the enhanced opportunity afforded by video syndication, or the super distribution of video content across a virtually limitless universe of independent websites, scalable across all four screens – PC, smartphone, tablet and TV. Consumers are becoming more and more comfortable traversing between channels and devices and our recent launch of Blinkx VideoAdvantage and the Grab Media deal are evidence of responding to this change in behaviour with a seamless video solution.

How are you selling your inventory? Are you selling any programmatically?

We currently sell inventory direct and programmatically via exchanges. We have our own SSP that allows us to participate in the programmatic auction environment. Today, the volume sold by Blinkx programmatically outweighs direct sales.

Is there still a shortage of premium inventory in the market? How long do you think this will be the case?

The nature of content viewing is changing. As more and more people switch to watching video on laptops, mobile phones, and tablets — content providers will need to reach their audience and adjust the stranglehold that the MSOs currently have on premium content. At the same time, new categories of pure digital premium content are also emerging. Consumers are in control and demanding access to content across any device, and opportunities to interact and engage with what they are viewing in real time. It’s an exciting time.