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.

What has happened to Kayak?

He was always the representative of the spelling and grammar police.

i've got bored correcting the plethora of grammatical and spelling errors

I agree with you, except I used to be punished at school for the use of 'got' and 'get'.

And sometimes its just far easier not to post at all...

re - get, got

but that was a correct action, if you went to school to get better education for youR future

for youR future!

lol..

re - you/your

typping too fast and not looking back

what about share price performance back to 111p

more haste less speed and you then won't type typping will you?

I wasn't punished because get and got are ungrammatical or incorrect, but because there are better words to use. Get and got are too imprecise.

nicely put - and you'ld have been reprimanded for using that one too :-)

I have never seen 'you'ld'. I have only ever seen you'd.

Manuel,

Do you mean "tipping"?

no .... try engaging your brain before rushing into print :-)

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hays - you'd = you had (better watch out) ...... you'ld = you would (be well advised to watch out)

Haystack

Kayak moved to Kent and requalified in law. He now makes his living policing grammar ....

G

First time I have seen a stock thread descend into ' grammar wars', clearly there are some senile old farts on here ;-0)

LOL, oh dear you lot been rumbled.,.

Talking of senile old farts........

Did somebody call?

Please don't disturb me from trying to rid myself of my cognitive biases.

A good reason to go positive on the share price, MACD has for the last couple days crossed over 0 a bullish sign