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.

I'd really want to see it around 160 before buying in - that's my target price.

Looks to me like its just falling back to trade in its old range. Would have to break to around 150 before I'd consider buying in and even then I would consider this to be an expensive purchase.

Interesting 'trend line' skinny. I see it joins two lows (April and yesterday)

Not tempted to draw it through the July, August and the two October lows? Or don't they count cos they demonstrate that the trend is broken? If yesterday's low had been 100, would you have joined yesterday's low with April to still show an uptrend?

Bullish Harami today suggests the price will creep up over the next few days, but then RSI divergence and basic support & resistance each indicate a swing trader's short target of 140.

I'll be building up my short position over the rest of this week.

i'll believe you've made money on this one for a change when I see it :-)
are you still holding your original short positions from<100?
merely asking :-)

Cynic

Best check with Tabby - I believe he keeps my accounts :-)

Ignore him cynic ... 4'6" midget wannabee who has bet his ar*e on England beating Wales at rugby last ten years and chucked his phone in the bin 30 seconds after last years match finished :-)

Oi Gausie I'm running a pub for 8 days from tonight (Weds) ... would send you , M and Bullie an invite but I've already banned all 3 of you :-)

Lol . it's a straight pub :-)

Gausie - obviously my 'art work' isn't satisfactory!

Feel free to draw and display your own :-)

I see there has been the usual fun on here as always the moment BLNX takes a breather....the work and time that goes into keeping a negative spin going...Strawman...you earn your money..but?....Is it not time you and Elephant Man got a proper job!...

Nice to see Cynic understand the Elephant Man's Bullshit...no accounts needed....just read his posts....He has a long trunk for being less than honest, and a small dick to balance it out....

For the sensible and honest...BLNX beat the top analyst last attack when they decided not to understand the business model...Goldman downgraded and played every trick in the book...SP dropped from 160p to 34p...no selling took place and the holdings register remained almost exact... I kept buying...it kinda changed my life...This time Goldman are on board and they will certainly castrate some pissed-up Jefferies apprentice trying to make a name for himself...btw...he has stolen the Goldman line...that will not go down well...this however does..

By John Harrington
January 21 2014, 11:54am



Recent weakness in the share price of video search engine specialist Blinkx (LON:BLNX) presents an attractive buying opportunity, according to heavyweight broker Goldman Sachs.

The broker is a long-time fan of the company and argues that the valuation and risk reward at current levels is compelling.

“We believe that the stock’s underperformance in line with the adtech sector (Tremor Video, YuMe, Criteo, Velti) is unjustified, given that Blinkx has a broader and differentiated product offering (video search, search/discovery syndication, video discovery, mobile) and is a profitable company vs adtech peers (programmatic buying mostly and not profitable),” Goldman’s crystal ball-gazers assert.

Shares shot up 8% to 185.75p on the Goldman note, but are still well below the US firm’s 340p price target. At its current price the company is valued at £741mln, four times the value placed on it at the time of its May 2007 flotation.

The company essentially makes money from hooking up views with content publishers and distributors, and could loosely be described as a competitor to YouTube.

Following the recent dip in the shares, the stock trades on 16.4 times Goldman’s projected earnings for 2015 (calendar year).
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For those of you that don't want to read a ramp or the reverse....I would suggest you listen to Goldfinger...imo an honest guy... all the best to all other BLNX investors.

Question, why would I upload a video to Blinkx when I can just as easily do it to YouTube and receive a much wider audience?? Infact looking at some of the videos they are identical to those on YouTube... Blinkx claim to have the worlds most powerful search engine, does this really matter as long as the results are what you were looking for. Also if I add a video to Facebook, YouTube or Myspace will Blinkx go grab it also and try and monitise it for its own purposes

Shortie...I would sell or shortie if I was you...or perhaps read the Goldman note?....or perhaps look at their fundamentals.. or perhaps ask your line manager if you can now go to lunch?....let us complete this conversation on the 17th May. lol

I am not that impressed with Blinkx as a search engine. It does find videos on Youtube but not many. I tried searching for videos where I put in the exact name and they were not found.

Try this

http://www.blinkx.com/

I entered the phrase

so far away

The result was

"Results for so far away
No media found."

Even if it didn't find any one of the hundreds of videos of the Carole King song or covers then it should have come back with something using the three words. A mark of about 2 out of 10 as it didn't actually crash.

You've put me off buying it.....and the chart looks dangerous...

RF....that is his job...and he does it on all BB's.

BLNX is an Internet media platform that connects digital consumers with advertisers through professionally generated content. blinkx pioneered Internet video search using its patented COncept Recognition Engine (CORE) technology that leverages speech, text and image analysis to deeply understand the content and context of videos.

Tabasco - I've read the Goldman note as well as a raft of others and looked at their fundamentals.... If this company really does have so much going for it then I'm surprised you didn't just give me a couple of bullett points highlighting whats so great about Blinkx and why there worth every penny and more...

Goldman seam to be trying to make a buzz out of this site (own agenda no doubt, M&A target, really....340p price target, whos really out to lunch with your investment) but all I actully see is dull and boring attempt to copy a sucessful YouTube.

I would at least understand if it catered for a certain area of the market as Myspace is about music however this isn't the case. As for the stories about Yahoo being interested why would they want to downgrade what they already offer?

Yes a quiet year?...

Year on Year Revenues up 36% to $112m, Adjusted* EBITDA up 76% to $18m

Six months to Six months to
30 September 30 September Year-on-Year
2013 2012 variance
(unaudited) (unaudited) H1-14 vs. H1-13
$000 $000 Variance %

Revenues 111,551 81,971 36%
Profit before taxation 10,783 2,481 335%
Profit before taxation - adjusted* 15,170 7,865 93%
Adjusted* EBITDA 18,185 10,361 76%
Cash 69,403 41,627 67%

Earnings per share Cents Cents
Basic - adjusted* 3.33 2.24
Basic 2.13 0.75
Diluted - adjusted* 3.29 2.20
Diluted 2.11 0.74

•Sectoral growth of the online advertising industry was robust, marked by traditional summer seasonality
•blinkx growth comfortably exceeded that of the industry, even without the one time benefits of the previous year
•Continued delivery against key operating metrics and profitable revenue growth, driving operational gearing
•Strong cash conversion rate of 119%, benefiting from strict financial discipline and controls
•Expanding universe of organic and acquisition growth opportunities, particularly in the mobile sector
•Secured content syndication partnerships, including Scripps, BET, HitFix, Ustream, Tech Media Network
•Added notable new and repeat advertisers, including Kellogg's, Old Navy, Target, Nestle, Nike and State Farm
•Expanded Technology, Product and Sales teams to better align with and accelerate growth opportunities
•Released proprietary video syndication platform, blinkx Video Advantage (bVA) to accelerate video discovery
•Launched blinkx original content initiative to streamline discovery of video content and prolong engagement
•Updated and mobile-enabled specific product lines, to grow organic mobile efforts
•Acquired Grab Media, a leading online video content syndication and advertising platform in the US

And it finds plenty of amateur videos on YouTube. It is inconsistent.

RF - we can all read the homepage of Blinkx website to understand what they do. As for trying to put anyone off investing thats not true. You invest where you think best, I'm simply asking those who follow the stock and have invested to share with me why its a good buy. Lets be clear, I currently dont have a position in Blinkx, but am looking at it with a open mind.