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.

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.

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.

A new all time high 161 . Tres interresant, or if you prefer it in Swahili Very interesting !!

Gausie - try to tell us now that you're still ahead of the game on this one :-)

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."

i rashly topped up this morning, but that position is also currently and comfortably in the money

amazingly high volumes today at about 15m = about 6.5x norm

what a good performance as well!

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?

Numis Buy 198.38 - 221.00 Resumes

Wonder if Hays is still short.!!!!!!! Sling him that rope.

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.

But now you admit you got it all wrong......yeah?.

Citigroup raises price target to 220p from 185p; rating buy

gf
No. I still view it as an over hyped company that will crash at some point.

Citigroup are Blinkx's house broker. It is a somewhat biased view. When did a house broker ever say sell?

ostrich and sand come to mind ..... of course it's never onwards and upwards all the time, but certainly BLNX has now clearly cleared the hurdle of becoming properly profitable

There are some people who have a totally different view , unintelligible to most. That attitude stated simply is " don't confuse me with the facts, my mind is made up !! "