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 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.

Are the short takers talking from their "back side"?

A lot of people on the BBs are discounting Edelman as just a blogger

"Ben holds a Ph.D. from the Department of Economics at Harvard University, a J.D. from the Harvard Law School, an A.M. in Statistics from the Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, and an A.B. in Economics from Harvard College (summa cum laude). He is a member of the Massachusetts Bar. "

Is a payed CON MAN pretty clear

"Benjamin G. Edelman"

Summary: “I’ve worked with Microsoft on these kinds of matters,” writes Ben Edelman, whose poison pen has one main target: Google

IT IS NOT just a theory that Microsoft hires AstroTurf professionals to attack Google. It is a well-confirmed truth and while more evidence remains to be found about the Edelman-connected Consumer Watchdog, we already know about LawMedia Group and Burson-Marsteller [1, 2, 3]. It has been proven many times before that Microsoft pays for people to smear Google and give the company antitrust trouble.

See the older post “Attempt to Involve Me in Anti-Google ‘Astroturf Lies’ PR Campaign”, it is not an isolated incident. So when Ben Edelman started attacking Google we wrote about it [EN | ES]; as we know from experience/history that companies or individuals attacking Microsoft rivals is often a sign that they are in Microsoft’s pocket.

http://techrights.org/2011/08/30/ben-edelman-works-for-monopolist/

Haystack

>>> Companies expanded fast by issuing paper.

any good company would take advantage of rising share price to make adquisitons with paper or placing to raise money.

that is common and that is the reason for any company wanted to be listed to take advantage of that opportunity.

Yeah, he does sound like Tabasco.

sound and sence alright

there is no Tabasco in my dispense

no niddle on the Haystack

Maybe it's tabby's slightly less crazy moronic twin?

Anyways - welcome aboard galatica. I'm sure you'll feel right at home on this thread.

from " sobeit " at iii ..... sensible posts today.

"The following is interesting from Wiki. You will note that Edelman is still only an "assistant" at Harvard. Hasn't done much in the promotion states since obviously. And obviously has a hive of bees buzzing around in his head over Zango.

180Solutions was a Zango product and this was Edelman's complaint back in 2004:

"In 2004 Benjamin Edelman, assistant professor at Harvard Business School and spyware researcher, analyzed the network behavior of 180solutions applications and claimed they redirected commissions to themselves that were properly due to affiliates, and additionally caused merchants to pay commissions when affected users clicked on merchant sites directly".

The problem with Zango was it produced ad generating revenue before the market was mature, and when it was attacked, it did not have the resources to defend itself. So, even if Blinkx was using the technology it bought with the IP from Zango, I would like to see Edelman prove that they are using it illegally because that was never de facto proven against Zango.

As he points out in his speil, Zango ceased anything "illegal" (without prejudice) in 2006 and paid a fine but it continued to exist until 2009 when it finally closed having been attacked by such as Paskersky, who treated Zango software as a "bug" and removed it.

Now, times have changed and I would like Blinkx to sue this nerd because you can be sure Blinkx, if it is using any of the Zango software, is not breaking any internet laws. That is clear from the statement Blinkx has put out today.

The fact it is using Zango software is totally irrelevant because it is like buying a gun. Just
because Zango used the gun to kill elephants does not mean the gun is bad just that Zango used it for the wrong reasons, if it did, which was never proven. Now that Blinkx has got the gun, if it has, it is quite entitled to shoot crows if its likes. It is not the gun that is at fault, it is the use of the gun.

So, perhaps this nerd would now like to take up another hobbyhorse as he has been riding the Zango one for more years than we would care to mention. Perhaps he would like to criticise Facebook or Google because I know for a fact that Google Chrome loads numerous add-ons, as does Firefox' Mozilla (funded by Google) which are far more dangerous than anything the Zango software does.

Ask yourself why did Google remove its Toolbar from Mozilla which it used to install without the user being aware? How is that any different from what Zango used to do? And what is Google doing with Chrome which seems to need a "Security update" every day of the week?

And Google's practice of promoting its paid up advertising partners over other search items and which has been the subject of an anti-trust quarrel with the European Commission. It is due to be settled in the next week or so. So, has the Blinkx attack been put up to create flack for the Google deal? Check out:
hxxp://alturl.com/jemwx


Perhaps he has not got the courage to look at them or is it nobody will pay him to do so? "

I shall be long tomorrow..

Let's stick with "MMs shaking the tree".

It's just as daft a conspiracy theory as the Edelman one, but it has the advantage of being far quicker to read.

On the other hand, the name 'Edelman' sounds a bit Jewish. Maybe it could be linked with some other 'true' conspiracies?