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.

You've all done very well! :-)

roflmao balerboy ... I usually have that effect too.

Plenty of people bullish on other BBs. Predicting 170p tomorrow and 220p next week. Many claiming to be buying, but I doubt it. More like they didn't sell and are hoping...

the question is why would you want to buy BLNX now?

An interesting morning - to watch!

pile into QPP instead.,.

One of your better posts halifax I think - and I know nothing about this share, apart from what I've read here today!


"halifax - 30 Jan 2014 17:39 - 4994 of 4996

the question is why would you want to buy BLNX now?"

There is the usual talk on other BBs of it being a takeover target. I would have thought today's nonsense might be more likely to put off a buyer.

One of the things that I dislike about this type of tech company is the technique of buying revenue. Money is raised and this is then used to buy a company with revenue and sometimes the company is bought with paper by issuing more shares. As it does this, its revenues rise and so does its P/E ratio. The company get big very fast and the brokers and punters keep seeing better revenues. Of course this is not infinitely sustainable. Many companies make the transition into profit at a more reasonable P/E. Some just carry on like an inflating balloon. You have to wonder at what point would they pay dividends.

This is a risky one so I say buy QPP or COMS but even these could be going for a consolidation. DYOR!!!

As it happens back in May 10, 2005 - ben edelman - was posting the same old bull

Http://www.benedelman.org/spyware/installations/ezone-180/

Plenty want BLNX to find out from Ben Edelman the identity and motivation of his 'client' be revealed.

It all sound like what "Evil" does, short large and then spread bad rumours

It was a good opportunity for me to get in at this low price,
but it would be better if they were put up againts the wall and you know the rest.

naturally for the benefit of shareholders not CROOKS

He is likely to as he teaches an MBA course 'the online economy' and conducts a search into adware and online advertising systems. It would seem that the rest search is needed as so little is accurately known about the whole area. I suspect it is all a van of worms. If the lid was lifted on the practices and value of online as systems the I think a few companies would go to the wall. It could be a good shorting opportunity if you could identify flakey online ad companies.

Nutcase alert.

Is galatica you tabby?

The other worrying thing that Edelman mentioned is that when Blinkx buys a company they use it to drive traffic through Blinkx to generate ad clicks. That is very odd. If Blinkx did it directly then the ad traffic would somewhat false. Somehow it is fine to buy a company and get it to generate traffic for Blink's partners.

Here is an example of what I mentioned above from last month. Of nearly £40m paid for the company, £22m was paid for in new shares issued and some from a fund raising placing and some from cash. Blinkx keeps doing this. It dilutes the shareholdings to buy more revenue. The punters just see increasing revenue and admittedly some increase profit, but the P/E just goes up.

This was the pattern in the tech .com boom. Companies expanded fast by issuing paper.

BLINKX PLC ACQUIRES RHYTHM NEWMEDIA INC.

Leading Premium Mobile Video Advertising and Technology Platform Enables blinkx

to Expand into and Accelerate the Growth of its Mobile Business

London, England and San Francisco, CA - 3 December 2013 - blinkx plc ("blinkx" or the "Company"), the Internet Media platform that connects audiences with brands through professionally generated content, announces that it has today entered into an agreement (the "Acquisition Agreement") to acquire Rhythm NewMedia Inc. ("Rhythm"), a leading premium mobile video advertising technology platform focused exclusively on smartphones and tablets, for a total consideration of US$65.0 million (GBP39.7 million) (the "Acquisition"). The cash component of the Acquisition consideration of c.US$29.5 million (GBP18.0 million) will be funded through the Company's cash balances and proceeds from the placing (the "Placing") announced separately today, with the remainder through the issue of new ordinary shares of the Company.

Haystack : if you look in the oil sector, it is very much the same....the thing is for a company is : to have a goal and a purpose...but the fact remains that fund raising for acquisitions cannot effectively go on forever !, that does not mean that Blinkx is a bad company and to me the stock is at a very reasonable price now...in fact the share has halved in a matter of a month.....it is generating now a heck of an income and I presume that the company purchases will slow now...it makes sense : to do takeovers in a bad market, not a good one and the american markets are poised for some serious recovery so to me the drop is overdone and a rebound back to what I call more normal levels is perhaps in the pipeline....over the next few weeks or so...

Oil, gold diamond, minerals are similar its true. They constantly raise capital for exploration with success or not. This moves into the production phase where revenues should dwarf investment. This company is just forever in the exploration phase as a business. When is the payback?

Edelman has a strong record of exposing dodgy behaviour in the online arena. His targets have been major tech companies such as EBay and Google. Take a look at these. He has previously been proved right.

He has a long record of exposing fraud in the online advertising arena for 15 years.

If the price tanked due to Edelman's comments then it may be due to his proven track record.

http://www.benedelman.org/media/

The fact one blogger derailed this company and caused the sp to halve tells me that there is little confidence in the business model and earnings potential anyway. Nothing short of a detailed forecast to prove earnings will send this back to previous levels. The damage has been done and Blinkx appear on the ropes unable to counter. This isn't good for sentiment, I have no reason to buy but every reason to pick off short trades now.