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.

article in the Times today saying blnx is the UK -youtube and has overtaken Google video search in uk. Mark Opzoomer is a director of Miva and Blnx don't know if non exec. but he surely must have been in on the discussions. If the miva results are dire on Mon and they have rejected the bid their sp will fall---maybe blnx will go straight to the shareholders. on the other hand the rejection says the bid cannot be acceptable as constituted--leaving the door open??

MIVA share price is down from about $5. a year ago,so the rejection of the offer should not be too much of a surprise.Obviously,todays' results are the key factor here.

Quite a lot of buying first thing this morning,when you might have expected the opposite.

well they knocked it back a bit,how far back down will they try.i think a bit more action late afternoon. bwdik

Good question.Normally,when buys outdo sells by 60-40 you would not expect a fall in price of about 8%.Still ,the outlook for Blinkx remains great,so some retreat is no disaster.

Any idea when results are out for MIVA?
Having had a quick look at the company, sp has gone from $5 to $1 since Oct '07, having hugely underperformed the sector in the U.S.
Sp has been in decline since '05, except for a blip up in July '07.
Offer from Blinkx is $1.20 (Total of $41.1m), which would seem to be generous given the long decline in Miva, but latest figures should be interesting.
It would seem that all Blinkx is intereted in is their customer base, not their assets or technology, although with offices in the U.S., London, Hamburg, Munich, Milan, Treviso & Paris, the customer base should be fairly extensive. Lets hope Blinkx are not sucked in to something which turns out to be a whte elephant!

EDIT: 'FORT MYERS, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--MIVA, Inc. (NASDAQ: MIVA), today announced it will release its second quarter 2008 financial results on Monday, August 11, 2008, after the market close.

Management will participate in a conference call to discuss the full results on Monday, August 11, 2008, at approximately 4:30 p.m. ET (GMT -5.00). The conference call will be simulcast on the Internet at http://ir.miva.com/medialist.cfm.

A replay of the conference call will be available on the investor relations area of MIVAs website at http://ir.miva.com/medialist.cfm. Interested parties may email questions in advance to Alex Vlasto of MIVA, Inc. at alex.vlasto@miva.com.

i'm a total dickhead and cannot read accounts, but what i saw in MIVA's figures did not look like much of a defense against BLNX's approach ... in fact, i think MIVA's shareholders should count their blessings.

anyone disagree?

It's MIVA's advertising network that's of particular value here - their pay-per-click (PPC) advertising base. This, coupled with Blinkx's technology will allow them to make rapid and profitable advances in online advertising.

good heavens ....... a little female voice from the ether .... whatever next?

I've been sucked into some other activities Cynic - so enjoy my pearls of wisdom on the rare occasions that I have any to offer!

pearls before swine i'm afraid

Cynicyou was unfair on yourself using the word total!

Anyway, what do you make of this Convo Cast deal?

would be more interested to have some comment on MIVA's numbers, ..... or was my comment actually correct, by some fluke?

Dunno, thought it was a pretty fair summary Richard :-)

Have listened to the conference call & CEO just says that 'the Blinkx offer undervalues the company & is not in the best interests of shareholders'.
It seems that the U.S. operation is reasonably successful, but that the EU operation is generally loss making & thus they are closing their Italian operation, with further consolidation likely. Not much else of interest as far as I can see.

The interesting thing about the Com Cast deal,may be the audio part The radio is a big thing in the U.S.,with millions listening over the airwaves.

on the move this morning,and in the right direction too!!

From U.K. Analyst.com:
"Blinkx (BLNX), the worlds largest video search engine, announced its technology partnership with ConvoCast a voice-enabled audio community firm. As part of the agreement, Blinkx will supply its patented speech recognition technology to the partner in order to provide transcription, discovery and intelligent tagging of audience-generated content for ConvoCasts various business activities. "The Web has evolved from a text-based universe to one filled with multimedia. People are using the Internet to communicate using video and audio, in addition to the written word. Blinkxs unique technology makes it simple for ConvoCast to index, search, and discover any rich media content that audiences are passionate about," explained Suranga Chandratillake, CEO of Blinkx. Shares in the company finished flat at 30.25p."

sp really struggling to break through this 32p resistance ...... see below, though it does not show that sp has hit that level several times on intra-day .....