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.

Looks excellent to me small placingperhaps for cherry pickingand the shrewd purchase of Zango could account for the comment "As a result of these investments and their positive impact on revenues, we expect a significant reduction in our use of cash in operating activities over the next twelve months."Zango obviously the $1.4m of non-recurring costs relating to infrastructure investments
dont like guessing spsany predictions?

Placing of shares.

Almost a hour inand not one trade over 6000 on a big company day.interesting?...A teleconference call to discuss these results will be hosted at 9.30am

Tabby
I was merely following your usual condescending example. I see you've added another claim to your not so colourfull past. How long did it take you fo find the MM stuff on Google?
FWIW, I don't believe a single thing you post, but you can be amusing at times.

PS. You may have squelched me at some point but we both know you keep looking at my posts, you can't resist not knowing what another poster is saying about you!

blinkx interim losses up at $6.9m
Business Financial Newswire
First half revenues at video search engine blinkx more than doubled to $13.1m.

Gross profits jumped to $8.5m from $4.5m but losses also increased to $6.9m from $3.3m but included $1.4m of non-recurring costs relating to infrastructure investments.

The firm had cash balances of $10.7m at the end of September - cown from $32.4m a year ago.

Founder and chief executive Suranga Chandratillake said: "The six months ending September 30 2009 clearly demonstrate the strength and vitality of blinkx's business model.

"Despite universally challenging macroeconomic conditions, blinkx has continued its robust growth, with revenue more than doubling compared to the same period a year ago.

"Our decision to make and deploy significant infrastructure investments early in the period has already proven successful, delivering substantial revenue and gross profit improvements that are reflected in these results.

"blinkx's consumer sites continue to draw an ever larger global audience-during the period our video streams increased by 170% and we broke into the Top 10 Video Sites as measured by both comScore and Nielsen."

Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES

LONDON (Dow Jones)--Online video search engine Blinkx PLC (BLNX.LN) Tuesday said it plans to use proceeds from its proposed GBP5 million share placing on acquisitions.

The firm, which earlier Tuesday announced it would raise a gross GBP5 million through a placing, said it didn't yet have any specific acquisition targets in mind.

However, Chief Executive Suranga Chandratillake told Dow Jones Newswires: "We think there's going to be a number of interesting opportunities that arise as some companies haven't done as well as us during the downturn."

Blinkx earlier Tuesday posted a doubling of first-half revenue, although its pretax loss for the period widened following heavier spending on research, development, sales and marketing.

Chandratillake said Blinkx would consider strategic partnerships, acquisitions and new distribution networks.

"We've not got a time frame for any deals but the downturn tends to sort the wheat from the chaff and the chaff is definitely all around us," he added.

For anyone interested (although it's easy with hindsight) the recent high at 24p was a fairly obvious shorting opportunity.

Note the divergence on the MACD histogram from the previous high, by which I mean the SP made a higher high (24p) however the Histo made a low. This gave a hint a correction was due. In addition the MAs on the MACD made a nice double top to strengthen the argument for a short trade.

There we are, nicely settled on the placing price of 18p so that we can all join in.

Mind you, if and when it hits 12p again, perhaps they'll wish they hadn't bothered ...

Can now buy at 17.5p which is below the placing price.

Tis strange that all the rampers of this stock seem to have disappeared...

Who are those rampers dealerplease inform usfor such an illuminated stock I thought this thread was quiet
You also might note that volumes have been low for such an sp declineand with 28ml shares taken up at 18p today tells me somethingall the mms have is a small impatient bunch of small time day traders throwing in the towelusual suspects beating each other up with only a half a dozen or so sells over 6000 when the might and knowledge of autonomy are increasing to approximately 26% pre-empting a take-over

I should open your eyes if I was you. A number of tiddlers are falling down to and below their placing price. Even a stock such as BDEV will be struggling to stay above it's rights price of 100p if the market falls. Similarly GFRD. Just because Autonomy is underwriting it is no guarantee that the sp won't slip below as history will show you over the last couple of years.

I've no idea where these are going, I can't look into the future I'm afraid but I know a struggling crap market when I see one and that is exactly what has happened over the past 3 weeks which is why the AIM market has buy and large stopped moving.

My eyes are always open my friendsome say I am also nocturnaland I take your point as I also called the market downbut my question wasWho are those rampers dealer

Try looking in a mirror and then go back to posts 482 -492.

Ok dealeryour post should have readTis strange that ellio and tabasco the rampers of this stock seem to have disappeared
First point elliohardly call that a ramp.two hopings and a nothing guaranteed in the post wouldnt persuade anyone to get their pie and mash out.as for my postit was against the mms not stock specificin any case I havent exactly disappeared at least not that I am aware of

More's the pity ..

;-)

I take that as an acceptance of the crap you wrote in post 506no hard feelings

Ah insults, wondered when you'd you'd stoop to them as your tiny intellect ran out.

Try opening your mind a bit. You may learn something from people on these boards which would help you gain a bit of experience ..

you mean peeps like marni and kate barnes i assume!

Of course.

marni has taught me the values of respect, leadership and high intellectual thought with a little dollop of humility ..

her acolyte KB has similarly virtues