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.

Been quite impressed with its resilience to go down further this week.

There's not a great deal to suggest there will be any further downside. End of the month they host capital markets day to investors so the bigger players will no doubt hold out for this. I expect the industry as a whole will mount a professional offensive. Its also worth noting IMO that we haven't seen any kick up from the wider digital advertising market surrounding Edelman's report. This pretty much implies that its unfounded as it would have been a perfect opportunity to steal market share. Instead the industry has pretty much presented a united front.

I take the opposite view. The fact that no other digital advertising company has spoken up suggests to me that the allegations are true. It may be more like keeping slow profile as they are all up to the same things.

"End of the month they host capital markets day to investors so the bigger players will no doubt hold out for this."

Anyone remember Graham Sadd's presentation to the market when he was in charge at infobank? On the thames riverboat?

He couldn't satisfactorily answer investors questions about certain aspects of the business that people thought might be questionable - the result was that holders sold, and traders shorted. And that was the end of Infobank.

BLINX had better have some credible and watertight answers to the questions that have been raised - else it could be goodnight.

G

I fully agree Gausie, for now I'm sat patiently on the fence...

Infobank/Izodia - ouch!

He said "on" not astride lol

Shame theres not a digital advertising ticker or something which captures the entire market. Come Capital Markets Day the entire industry could well have the carpet pulled from under it..

Panto,

Cynic used to work as a waiter at tables of his betters.

Hence the name Manuel who he reminded me of.

8-)

PS. I think he lost the job.

PS (2)

I think he now has a job hiring out rowing boats on the Thames.

he was fired as he was too weedy and not up to the job :-)

Blackrock holding dropped below 11%..

http://www.moneyam.com/action/news/showArticle?id=4767549

selling 105

Gausie , I got an easier way to make money .... chuck the mortgage on Wales (2.48 at Betfair) to win Sunday.

No need to thank me the pleasures all mine.

Bahhhaaaah humbug!

You know u wanna Balerboy so just do it and thank me 5pm Sunday.

2.56 now. Will cover at 10 :-)

Covering's for wimps just let the baby ride :-)

I occasionally 'bump into' Courtney Lawes when exercising our dog at Upton, Northampton. Actually, 'bumping into' is the wrong way of telling it. He is 6ft 7ins and about 17 st and I do very quickly get out of his way! He is usually on a training run and accompanied by and trailing along behind his pet bulldog. The dog looks like this and always leads the way on the run - and at a fair old pace too! It must be fitter than he is. I didn't know this type of dog could run like that.

England 29 Wales 18

Courtney Lawes hits anything in red and the ref too and gets 'Man of the match.'