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.

So did the horsemeat scandel Halifax, didn't stop me buying beef though! If the product is good sales will bounce back, they always do..

http://www.cityam.com/article/1392008333/professor-calls-full-denial-over-blinkx-note

City AM today

HARVARD Business School professor Ben Edelman has called on Blinkx, the online video search engine that he claims has engaged in “deceptive tactics”, to face up to his claims and issue a categorical denial.

“Blinkx has been making ambiguous and, I believe, deceptive statements about acquisitions for some time,” Edelman told City AM.

“Blinkx should make a categorical denial – no adware, by any name, directly or through any subsidiary.”

In a blog posting on 28 January Edelman outlined alleged business tactics including “adware... sneaking onto users’ computers and still defrauding advertisers… leading users through a maze of low-content pages, while charging advertisers for video ads systematically not visible to users.”

agree but in the short term the "debate" between Edelman and BLNX is likely to continue until one or the other is proved right or wrong.

What debate? Eldeman has made accusations and Blinkx has rejected them. Blinkx haven't even entered into a debate with him. Sure plenty of programmers etc, etc have jumped on the band-wagon but it remains one sided Eldeman calling on deaf ears and selling his story to whoever wants to publish it... He's making a name for himself just like Edwina Currie did with eggs..

Also worth a thought, the Adware that supposedly gets installed on computers to force ads to run is old tech.... So how would this get through modern firewalls, antivirus etc. etc. That most of us run nowadays..

All that matters though when it said and done are the earnings, if you think Blinkx will smash its forecasted earnings then theres reason to buy, if you think earnings will fall way short then theres reason to sell... If your undecided and have had a good run to date then take a profit and move on..

and the downside risk is if Edelman is found to be right.

The problem gets fixed, maybe a few lawsuits and some compensation paid. It won't change the market Blinkx is in, its market position or the fact that the online advertising world is growing...

Haystack

for not being short, your post are too negative all the time.

we will call it VENDETTA
Was as bad as that?

Vendetta - A blood feud in which the family of a murdered person seeks vengeance on the murderer or the murderer's family.

that may well be the case but BLNX has established a position of "superiority" in attracting advertisers which is to some extent being tarnished at present.

Galactica
I am negative about Blinkx and have been for several years, so you can expect negative comments.

My post above is just the link inking to an article from today.

I could say that your posts are too positive., but I wouldn't as I don't really care what you post. You seem upset because people are being nasty to the object of your adoration. Get used to it as I suspect that there is more and worse coming.

How many advertisers have pulled out of Blinkx, made a statement otherwise or sought any clarity or taken a position to seek compensation from Blinkx? This is one man's moment of fame, don't blow it out of proportion until we know otherwise.

It is very difficult to tell what the fallout is going to be. Advertisers wouldn't say much at this point. If Blinkx have been faking video views then all hell will break loose as other companies will be doing it as well. The business models of some high profile companies will be called into question.

This long gap before a robust reply does give any guilty parties to cover their tracks.

Haystack
re - I am negative about Blinkx and have been for several years

Is pretty clear by the share performance and profits for the last few years, you were wrong all along and now ( will see ).

I only bought recently due to the share price drop, as I take the view the ass. professor is a con man and being used as he is to filled his pocket.

Made money last week and currently in profits also.

If you have no position on the stock, I see it as a waste of time to be around all along

Well then that would depend on the exact advertising model used. Sure pay per click could have a fallout, if however a company has paid to run an ad infront of a video for say a month only (maybe a film or product trailer prior to launch) then what fallout could there be, there ad was run for the month at x cost...

does anybody know how BLNX attracts advertisers?

shortie
Edelman is saying that the the number of times the video has been run is false and therefore the customer is overpaying.

hays - stop blithering and repeating .... and for that matter i won't clutter up the thread by repeating what i and others have already told you in that respect

I don't, but to assume that they didn't offer any other advertising campaigns other than pay per click would severly hinder any potential revenue model and be madness when the likes of facebook offer time based ads to select criteria...

Haystack, the customer could only possibly overpay if they pay per click..... What if the customer paid a fee for a weekly campaign and it was done accross x amounts of channels or videos.. Lets not assume that Blinkx offer only pay per click which would be revenue limiting.. If your contracts for a week regardless of the amount of clicks and you paid for and received a week what claim would there be if some clicks were false??

Numis analyst Paul Richards said last week:

Blinkx ‘buying opportunity’
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shortie - you're talking to a pit pony i'm afraid ..... unless and until there is any proof of deliberate and fraudulent over-reporting by BLNX, then most assuredly Edelman's is hypothesis at best