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.

This was good advice from Haystack in 2010 Haystack aka zipless....lol

Blinkx - Just hype and ramping - soon to crash (BLNX)



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Zipless
16 Jul'10

Haystack....a dangerous shit!

Hays - Well so far Cynic is the only person who's said he hasn't a clue how the company makes its money, everyone else except yourself and Tabasco has gone quiet. Tabasco has offered very little except a date in May, alot of copy and paste plus the assumption that I intend on shorting the stock. Clearly he's in the boat of 'doesn't know either' or won't share any of his research which is surprising as why bother to exist on a BB if thats the case.. For so many investors to appear to be Blinkx bullish I'm amazed no-one appears to have done any research on this company. I thought this one was going to be a quick review, was I wrong!!

I must say that you are a great source of amusement. Keep up the good work. You must remember that these BBs are largely for entertainment. It is good to see that you are entering into the spirit of things,

Shortie...it has taken me a lot of work to get this clever.... I personally have no interest in your position...there are good investors on this thread that know BLNX...they also know the other two clowns. It is for you to find out...

Strawman.....have a count up on how many times you have had a try at this stock....and I mean flooding all BB's....start with your prediction of 3p....notice the outcome?....keep trying..you are one funny guy!

I am not exactly sure why you mind what I post. I certainly don't mind what you posy. If you don't like my posts then filter me or use some will power and don't read my posts or reply to them. You will be a lot happier.

hays - i don't care at all where else you post as i do not inhabit other sites, but i'm afarid the evidence is that you have been calling this stock badly wrong for a very long time - as has Gausie

Your are such an obvious cheat...and known by everyone...whereas my "posy" is honest!...

Cheat? You seem to be getting a bit geriatric. I am just posting my views. I have no position on Blinks and never have. I follow it out of interest due to the hollow technology.

I can't speak for Gausie, but I don't recollect many comments about Blinkx. He seems to take advantage of weakness, usually from a technical standpoint. That is what most shorters do. You cannot really look too hard at a company' prospects when short term trading.

I don't short and never have. However, I am in favour of it as it increases volatility and liquidity of shares at times. There is no moral association with shorting. It is just the other half of the bet.

Britain has lost a legal challenge to European Union powers to ban short-selling in key test case that has major implication for the City of London's financial services.


The Government challenged the new powers, granted to the EU's Paris based regulator in 2012, to overrule national financial authorities in order to police financial markets as "unlawful" and an "institutional revolution".


In a binding ruling that will have implications for all new financial regulations form Brussels and that is significant setback for George Osborne, the Chancellor, the European Court of Justice has thrown out Britain's objection that the new powers go beyond the EU's treaties.


"The power of the European Securities and Markets Authority (Esma) to adopt emergency measures on the financial markets of the Member States in order to regulate or prohibit short selling is compatible with EU law," ECJ judges ruled on Wednesday.


"As all the pleas in law relied on by the United Kingdom have been rejected, the court dismisses the action in its entirety."




The ruling overturns legal advice given to the ECJ in September that rejected the new Esma powers to override national financial supervisors to regulate or prohibit short-selling.

A spokesman said the Government would "consider the judgment in detail and respond, in full, at a later date".

"We are disappointed that the ECJ has chosen not to uphold the UK's challenge on this case and, in doing so, has rejected the opinion of its own advocate general," said the spokesman.

"We've consistently said we want tough financial regulation that works but any powers conferred on EU agencies must be consistent with the EU treaties and ensure legal certainty."

Alexandria Carr, regulatory lawyer at Mayer Brown, said the ruling was "influenced as much by political as legal factors" amid growing concerns in European capitals beyond London that the EU was taking too many powers over financial services.

"The decision of the court has wider significance," she said.

"It is likely to cause concern in the UK and some other member states, including Germany, which are already uneasy with the way in which the EU's legal framework is being stretched as the EU seeks to confer wide new powers on EU bodies whilst avoiding the thorny question of whether this actually necessitates treaty change."

Esma was given the unprecedented powers to ban short-selling after Britain lost a political battle to stop the measure and the Chancellor was outvoted in a council of EU finance ministers.

Rejecting Britain's legal case that "extensive discretion given to Esma is contrary to the institutional balance laid down in the treaties", ECJ judges ruled that the EU regulator's power to ban short-selling did not go beyond its original brief.

"Circumscribed by various conditions and criteria which limit that authority's discretion, the exercise of that power does not undermine the rules governing the delegation of powers laid down by the EU treaty," said the ECJ.

"Esma can adopt measures under the provision in question only if such measures address a threat to the financial markets or the stability of the EU's financial system and there are cross- border implications. Moreover, all Esma measures are subject to the condition that no competent national authority has taken measures to address the threat or one or more of those authorities have taken measures which have proven not to address the threat adequately."

The ECJ also noted that Esma is also "required to consult the European Systemic Risk Board", based in Frankfurt and to "if necessary" to involve "other relevant bodies".

"Furthermore, Esma must notify the competent national authorities concerned of the measure it proposes to take. Esma is also under a duty to review the measures at appropriate intervals (at least every three months), so that such measures may only be temporary," said the ECJ judgement.

"In those circumstances, the court finds that the powers available to Esma are precisely delineated and amenable to judicial review in the light of the objectives established by the authority which delegated those powers to it. The court concludes that those powers are compatible with the EU treaty."

Short-sellers seek to profit on declining financial markets by selling borrowed shares or bonds on the basis that the security's price will decline, enabling it to be bought back at a lower price to make a profit.

Esma, which began work in 2011, was given updated "article 28" powers as an attempt by the EU to control or ban forms of speculation that had been blamed for driving up national borrowing costs and threatening financial stability at the height of the eurozone crisis.

"This would be a fundamental change. It cannot be right that it crept in under the radar," argued Government lawyers during an ECJ hearing last June. lol

It hasn't had any effect so far and I doubt that it will.

Looks like BLNX as found support at the early November GAP at 170p. lower indicators look positive.

Went long this afternoon and already in profit.

230p my first target.

It could drop some more......I still think it might....

Sold a few in the last hour of trading.

BLNX

Technicaly a very Bullish Set Up. See Chart........

Almost all of the increased volume was in the fall.

lol - and much of the volume on the rise was late reported trades from the fall. Upside from here looks like 195. An initial 140 looks more likely.

Date Company Name Broker Rec. Price Old target price New target price Notes

21 Jan 14 Blinkx PLC Goldman Sachs Conviction Buy 185.00 340.00 340.00 Reiterates
14 Jan 14 Blinkx PLC Jefferies International Hold 185.00 190.00 190.00 Downgrades
13 Jan 14 Blinkx PLC Numis Buy 185.00 - 255.00 Retains
05 Dec 13 Blinkx PLC Citigroup Buy 185.00 220.00 245.00 Retains

You can pretty much ignore Citigroup as they are Blinkx's own broker. Whenever did a house broker rate their client a sell.