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.

Nothing wrong with publishing the blog.

Plenty wrong with trading UPSI - UK & USA

UPSI = what?
insider trading?
if so, this surely was effectively that, or at least sailing damn close to the wind?

btw, looks as though 120 may be challenged later today - i've been watching the action on L2

This Edelman business seems to have sent more than a few ripples through the online advertising sphere. I have a moneytised YouTube account and I received an email from YouTube with a warning to account holders that use software and tricks to generate clicks. Advertisers are going to need convincing that their exposure on online platforms is being reported correctly.

Is that another negative item from you know who >>>>>>> Hay

he's perfectly entitled to be negative, as are you to be bullish

UPSI = unpublished price sensitive information

The issue then becomes to do with the *publication* of the report. Nothing wrong with commissioning a report based on public domain information seeking conclusions for your private consumption and then trading based on those findings - so long as the conclusions are taken from information that is publicly available.

There's nothing wrong with trading on an unpublished report that contains no secrets or new information. We all do that when we form an opinion, place a trade and then post that opinion on a BB.

many thanks
i'll stick with sailing close to the wind then ......
while it is true the info was in the public domain, the commissioners commissioned the report, and no doubt guided its conclusions, so that their existing short positions would benefit immeasurably as soon as the report was published
very close to manipulating the market it seems to me

Share price behaving in a different way, than for the last couple days
On the afternoon and on opening of the US market share price moved lower, but today is moving higher
maybe closing from across the waters

Today's trend is for a closing around 125 / 126p

if you have L2, you'll find a curious situation there as i type

Cynic - that's the MAM removal algorithm playing up - The MKT buy order doesnt appear on other L2 feeds

and gala - there'll be no close above 120 today.

Edelman has "rocked the boat" all on line advertisers will be reviewing their costs.

had a successful little dabble on the way up today, and have just placed a similar "small dabble" short ..... very noticeable that IG's (on-line) short book is still closed

cynic what's your downside TP?

You can short on IG cynic as of now .

really?
i managed it by phoning, but on line it showed as "unavailable"

I think it's off and on but every time i see a post on here ,it's been available long and short on IG.

perhaps as s/b, but i work in CFDs

Will it bounce from 113p?

There is too much manipulation at the moment 118p could not be broken

The trend line on the upper was 125 / 126 and the lower line is for 113p at the moment, higher as time goes by