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.

a most relevant excerpt from hays' link ..... seems more damning of edelman than the stocks he targets .....

Edelman, a 33-year-old associate professor, mixes scholarship, lucrative consulting ....... Edelman embarks on paid crusades that raise questions about whether he can remain objective in his academic roles as scholar and teacher.

Blinkx responded to Edelman’s broadside with a statement saying the company “strongly refutes” his assertions and conclusions. Harvard pressed Edelman to say more about his clients, prompting him to disclose that they included two U.S. investors. Their names still aren’t known.

While taking on some giants, such as Google Inc. and Facebook Inc., Edelman has worked for others, including Microsoft Corp. Google has said that he’s biased and hasn’t been forthright enough in disclosing that he’s a paid consultant to Microsoft.

gf
If you read that piece, you will see that he signed a non disclosure agreement. Very convenient I know.

Edelman seems to be on the way to being the Ralph Nader of the internet (if you are old enough to remember him from the 60s and 70s). It will be difficult for Blinkx to rebuff him. He has an impressive track record and powerful connections. He is not some pesky annoyance. It was him that effectively made Zango pay a $3m fine and then caused them to fold.

hays - you believe what you want old son ..... we all know you never put money with mouth, at least with regards to shorting, so it's frightfully easy to be a smartarse in such circumstances .....

you'll note that this chap has also gunned for Google while wearing his expensive Microsoft hat, and look what's happened to that stock ..... i think even Facebook is now performing well

still, i'm sure his bank account is well stuffed with loot, so why should he care

He has succeeded in bringing to light problems with Google's search rankings. So much so that last week they announced changes to avoid a huge EU fine.

keep going old son .... meanwhile, try to argue against Google's ever-growing sp and probably Facebook's too

you really are very silly indeed at times, and it shows on other threads too

I am not arguing against their rise. I also think the same will probably be true of Blinkx in the long term. At some stage there will be a shakeout regarding digital media advertising. It will affect all of the players including Google, facebook etc.

maybe or maybe not ..... the only reason that edelman is making such a song and dance is because he's being paid to ...... if he was remotely morally driven, he would be investigating gov't corruption and similar

That is an argument often put to criticise paid crusaders. There is no discrepancy in being paid to do something moral. Being paid for something doesn't make the task less worthwhile. We really have little evidence of Edelman's motivations. There is a huge amount of criticism being laid against him and you would have to expect that from vested interests ranging from disgruntled shareholders to financial institutions who have recommended these shares, including a large placement in December. The reality is that we don't know how accurate his claims are. I have yet to see a detailed counter argument. Edelman hasn't withdrawn any comments. If anything, he has made comments confirming his analysis.

excuse me! ....
if you are paid by company X to investigate rival company Y, then you will assuredly expect (and be expected) to slant the findings as much as possible towards the results that your employer would like ... unless of course you are happy to forego any repeat business

in this instance, it suited his employers to the tune of several $00,000 to have BLNX slurred, not necessarily by proof but by inference, and of course to have those findings published

edelman starts from a position about as unbiased and even-handed as pius xll

First of all, we don't know how much Edelman was paid. It seems to me that a reasonable scenario is that a couple of large investors (hedge funds or other financial institutions) wanted to know Edelman's view of Blinkx. This view may have been positive or negative. Their motives were probably to inform their current positions on the company. That seems a very reasonable attitude and course of action.

It is clear from looks ng at Edelman's bio page at Harvard that he publishes all his work there (you can see the list going back more than 10 years). He states that he asked if he could publish part of his report on his page, which acts as a blog. I know an Economics professor at London Universitu that does the same things with his papers. there is no suggestion that the clients asked him to publish. Interestingly, he did not publish the whole research paper. I wonder what was not published.

There is no evidence that Edelman has done anything untoward ethically. When someone like him publishes research, he should not worry how big the company is (in Blinkx's case £1bn market cap). He hasn't been worried about that previously when publishing negative research on Google, which it turned out to be true. The difference is that he maybe unintentionally caused a major slump in the sp. If he had caused a major drop in Google's sp then there would have been a fuss earlier.

I can't see any evidence that he behaved badly or even carelessly. I have been looking at this from a technical point of view and I have found a few strange things. I am not going to publish them in any as I might easily be wrong.

hays - i really can't be arsed to continue discussing with you ... in many ways you're as intractable and dull as fossy whom i also now avoid 99% of the time

It will be interesting to see which of us is right about this, if the truth ever comes out. I can see many investors are annoyed with him, but it doesn't mean there was a conspiracy.

professionally organised swindle but without prosecution may be nearer the mark

Sorry chaps, can't resist sense of humour and all that, but where's tabby the lucky one? I love his posts and he's gone missing. Personally not invested in this one, but I would put up a months wages that he will have the last laugh, let's see what the results produce. Go tabby go :O)

lol tabby is a bellwether .... louder he gets more likely its a pile of shite :-)


He's waiting til it gets back to 220p+ then he'll make a comeback saying he's been on holiday.



gf ... Soros got it wrong more often than not and he didn't try to manipulate bb's like EK does.

cynic ... take a step back and then ask yourself would you buy in at this point if you had never bought before.

Said days ago I'm not shorting but these look a basket case and 80p is more likely than 180p from a current mid point of 120p.

Good luck if your long.

Oi gf isn't EK an accountant ????

Dodgy feckers ... come the revolution they gonna be the first to be hung :-)

it's probably worth a small bet in either direction ...... i have such long

Glad I halved my holding before fall, pure chance, but was expecting a quicker bounce all the same. All feels overdone to me...