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BLINX and you've missed it, the next google multi bagger!!! (BLNX)
Still Waiting - 25 Jul 2008 23:22
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.
tabasco - 17 Oct 2013 09:07 - 4681 of 6187
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?
tabasco - 17 Oct 2013 09:35 - 4682 of 6187
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?
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?
chessplayer - 17 Oct 2013 14:38 - 4683 of 6187
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 ?
How are you keeping by the way ?
chessplayer - 28 Oct 2013 14:05 - 4684 of 6187
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
Greyhound - 29 Oct 2013 07:44 - 4685 of 6187
Looks well positioned for next move higher.
tabasco - 29 Oct 2013 08:01 - 4686 of 6187
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.
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.
tabasco - 29 Oct 2013 10:48 - 4687 of 6187
Every little helps.....
TIDMBLNX
Blinkx Plc
29 October 2013
RNS REACH
blinkx Partners with EpicTV.com for Extreme Sports Content
From mountain-shredding snowboarders to daredevil BASE jumpers, videos of the world's most extreme athletes are now available at www.blinkx.com
SAN FRANCISCO, CALIF. - October 29, 2013 - blinkx, the Internet Media platform powered by CORE video technology, today announced a partnership with EpicTV.com, a leading online extreme sports channel, to offer blinkx users a first-person view of the world's most adventurous athletes. Leveraging its unique AdHoc platform, blinkx will place contextually relevant advertising against these videos and share resulting revenue with EpicTV.com.
Featuring the world's top extreme sports athletes, and beautifully shot by talented independent filmmakers, EpicTV.com produces original, action-packed web series for the extreme sports enthusiast. Whether jumping out of planes or cycling through deadly mountain terrain, EpicTV.com will be there to offer blinkx viewers professional, high quality videos of skiing, snowboarding, surfing, climbing, mountain biking, kayaking, BASE jumping, wingsuit flying and more.
"Sports clips are consistently one of the most popular types of short form video content online, and extreme sports videos of freeskiing stunts, wingsuit dives and more are some of the most shared on social media," said Dan Slivjanovski, SVP, Chief Marketing Officer of blinkx. "This partnership with EpicTV.com, a well-known and respected brand in the extreme sports world, is an exciting way to bring the athletics-loving audience on blinkx dynamic new sports content that takes place off the field."
"We are extremely pleased to partner with blinkx to bring our professionally produced extreme sports content to a brand new crowd of video viewers," said Panu Lehti, head of EpicTV.com. "blinkx, with its advanced search technology, is a perfect match for our diverse content, ensuring that fans of everything from skiing to surfing are able to find the high-quality videos they're looking for."
As the pioneer in video search technology, blinkx has built a reputation as the smartest way to find highly targeted, relevant rich media on the Web. The company has signed more than 900 partners and indexed over 35 million hours of video and audio content to date.
TIDMBLNX
Blinkx Plc
29 October 2013
RNS REACH
blinkx Partners with EpicTV.com for Extreme Sports Content
From mountain-shredding snowboarders to daredevil BASE jumpers, videos of the world's most extreme athletes are now available at www.blinkx.com
SAN FRANCISCO, CALIF. - October 29, 2013 - blinkx, the Internet Media platform powered by CORE video technology, today announced a partnership with EpicTV.com, a leading online extreme sports channel, to offer blinkx users a first-person view of the world's most adventurous athletes. Leveraging its unique AdHoc platform, blinkx will place contextually relevant advertising against these videos and share resulting revenue with EpicTV.com.
Featuring the world's top extreme sports athletes, and beautifully shot by talented independent filmmakers, EpicTV.com produces original, action-packed web series for the extreme sports enthusiast. Whether jumping out of planes or cycling through deadly mountain terrain, EpicTV.com will be there to offer blinkx viewers professional, high quality videos of skiing, snowboarding, surfing, climbing, mountain biking, kayaking, BASE jumping, wingsuit flying and more.
"Sports clips are consistently one of the most popular types of short form video content online, and extreme sports videos of freeskiing stunts, wingsuit dives and more are some of the most shared on social media," said Dan Slivjanovski, SVP, Chief Marketing Officer of blinkx. "This partnership with EpicTV.com, a well-known and respected brand in the extreme sports world, is an exciting way to bring the athletics-loving audience on blinkx dynamic new sports content that takes place off the field."
"We are extremely pleased to partner with blinkx to bring our professionally produced extreme sports content to a brand new crowd of video viewers," said Panu Lehti, head of EpicTV.com. "blinkx, with its advanced search technology, is a perfect match for our diverse content, ensuring that fans of everything from skiing to surfing are able to find the high-quality videos they're looking for."
As the pioneer in video search technology, blinkx has built a reputation as the smartest way to find highly targeted, relevant rich media on the Web. The company has signed more than 900 partners and indexed over 35 million hours of video and audio content to date.
chessplayer - 30 Oct 2013 12:38 - 4688 of 6187
A new all time high 161 . Tres interresant, or if you prefer it in Swahili Very interesting !!
cynic
- 05 Nov 2013 08:38
- 4689 of 6187
Gausie - try to tell us now that you're still ahead of the game on this one :-)
chessplayer - 05 Nov 2013 10:30 - 4690 of 6187
blinkx pre-tax profits soar
StockMarketWire.com
Internet media platform blinkx posts pre-tax profits of $10.8m for the six months to the end of September - 335% up on last time.
Revenues rose by 36% to $111.5m and adjusted earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation increased by 76% to $18.2m. Adjusted pre-tax profits were 93% up at $15.2m.
Chief executive S. Brian Mukherjee said: "This has been an exciting first half for blinkx and we are delighted to report another strong performance. The business continues to demonstrate robust underlying growth and stability.
"The success of our strategic initiatives, realignment of internal resources, acquisition of the Grab Media platform and the launch of several product lines, including bVA, our video syndication platform for publishers and advertisers, enhanced our performance.
"These initiatives enabled us to serve a greater number of advertisements to a wider audience at better monetization rates, helping to drive our growth.
"Importantly, our year on year performance was achieved against a sector backdrop that did not include benefits of increased marketing spends from one time events that we experienced last year.
"The online advertising industry continues to experience robust growth, within which video advertising remains the fastest growing segment. Several structural tailwinds are fueling these trends, including widespread broadband adoption, proliferation of connected devices and the escalating migration and consumption of video online. Our growth underscores not only the vitality of the sector but also that of our business model.
"The opportunity for blinkx lies in expanding demand, content and audiences. We expect to achieve this through sales, product innovation, and the capture of new and emerging revenue streams that augment our scope and scale as an enterprise.
"We are also fortunate to have an expanding universe of organic and inorganic opportunities. Based on positive sector trends within the broader macro economic environment and the unique capabilities of our technology and team, we remain confident in our underlying growth prospects."
StockMarketWire.com
Internet media platform blinkx posts pre-tax profits of $10.8m for the six months to the end of September - 335% up on last time.
Revenues rose by 36% to $111.5m and adjusted earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation increased by 76% to $18.2m. Adjusted pre-tax profits were 93% up at $15.2m.
Chief executive S. Brian Mukherjee said: "This has been an exciting first half for blinkx and we are delighted to report another strong performance. The business continues to demonstrate robust underlying growth and stability.
"The success of our strategic initiatives, realignment of internal resources, acquisition of the Grab Media platform and the launch of several product lines, including bVA, our video syndication platform for publishers and advertisers, enhanced our performance.
"These initiatives enabled us to serve a greater number of advertisements to a wider audience at better monetization rates, helping to drive our growth.
"Importantly, our year on year performance was achieved against a sector backdrop that did not include benefits of increased marketing spends from one time events that we experienced last year.
"The online advertising industry continues to experience robust growth, within which video advertising remains the fastest growing segment. Several structural tailwinds are fueling these trends, including widespread broadband adoption, proliferation of connected devices and the escalating migration and consumption of video online. Our growth underscores not only the vitality of the sector but also that of our business model.
"The opportunity for blinkx lies in expanding demand, content and audiences. We expect to achieve this through sales, product innovation, and the capture of new and emerging revenue streams that augment our scope and scale as an enterprise.
"We are also fortunate to have an expanding universe of organic and inorganic opportunities. Based on positive sector trends within the broader macro economic environment and the unique capabilities of our technology and team, we remain confident in our underlying growth prospects."
cynic
- 05 Nov 2013 10:42
- 4691 of 6187
i rashly topped up this morning, but that position is also currently and comfortably in the money
cynic
- 05 Nov 2013 14:49
- 4692 of 6187
amazingly high volumes today at about 15m = about 6.5x norm
chessplayer - 05 Nov 2013 14:58 - 4693 of 6187
what a good performance as well!
cynic
- 05 Nov 2013 16:11
- 4694 of 6187
all very curious
the order book still looks strong and volumes are now plain silly (19m) but not obviously from other than PIs piling in ..... i guess it's now a matter of seeing what happens over the next few days
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Gausie - you're a guru for this stock, so what's your interpretation?
the order book still looks strong and volumes are now plain silly (19m) but not obviously from other than PIs piling in ..... i guess it's now a matter of seeing what happens over the next few days
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Gausie - you're a guru for this stock, so what's your interpretation?
skinny
- 05 Nov 2013 16:21
- 4695 of 6187
Numis Buy 198.38 - 221.00 Resumes
goldfinger
- 05 Nov 2013 16:45
- 4696 of 6187
Wonder if Hays is still short.!!!!!!! Sling him that rope.
Haystack
- 05 Nov 2013 19:02
- 4697 of 6187
I never have shorted any stock. In fact I haven't traded any stocks for a couple of years. I still don't like Blinks though.
goldfinger
- 05 Nov 2013 19:23
- 4698 of 6187
But now you admit you got it all wrong......yeah?.
cynic
- 06 Nov 2013 07:32
- 4699 of 6187
Citigroup raises price target to 220p from 185p; rating buy
Haystack
- 06 Nov 2013 09:53
- 4700 of 6187
gf
No. I still view it as an over hyped company that will crash at some point.
No. I still view it as an over hyped company that will crash at some point.
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