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.

Looks like a flat tone to me, I'll stay in for now though as I suspect the MM's have grounded the sp.

fair comment rf

what will tomorrow morning bring one wonders

skinny - like the 'ground effect' comment lol!

ground? More like crushed I'd say .....

The lion does not sleep tonight I see.

adjust your glasses to cope with bright blue bounce he tomorrow

Prof Ben Edelman has confirmed his blog was sponsored by investors who will profit form a blnx slump

gla

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/mediatechnologyandtelecoms/digital-media/10623072/Professors-Blinkx-research-that-caused-share-slump-was-paid-for-by-investors.html

skip that old article!
still blnx should reissue their response to it:

'In a statement Blinkx the San Francisco-based company claimed it had been “able to confirm and verify that the blog contains materially misleading information, uses selective data, makes erroneous assumptions about current and past practices, and reflects either a fundamental misunderstanding of the online advertising ecosystem and economics or is a deliberate attempt to use partial, incorrect and misleading information to arrive at subjective and malformed conclusions.”

Blinkx, which published a point-by-point answer to Prof Edelman’s arguments, also returned fire on the academic. The company said it “questions the motivations and transparency of both the blogger and the sponsors of his research, who may have made significant financial gains as a result of the adverse impact on blinkx’s share price”.

The company claimed it reached its conclusion after commissioning an audit of its technology and processes, led by Kroll’s head of Cyber Investigations, who was a former FBI agent. Blinkx also hired DLA Piper, the law firm, to review its “practices and commercial obligations as related to the FTC’s (Federal Trade Commission) enforcement actions”.

I wish I had shorted ASOS and BLNX......(not that I wish bad things to great companies)...but there are times when I kick myself for not being brave enough...

Whatever has caused this bad trading update has been pretty sudden.. Three months ago they stated trading as expected. A month and a half ago they said 30% increase in pre tax profits. Now it has all changed. The market knows very well that one profit warning is often followed by another. This one is three months into their next reporting period. Such a fast reverse looks like customers fleeing or not spending.

RF - allow me.

lol

hey !... that hurt....

must be a contortionist! :-) seem to be bouncing a bit now here...............

bots have switched to accumulating mode - would expect a reasonably strong blue finish today - lunchtime bargain crew here soon one feels and those who stopped loss yesterday buying back before the correction

Well RF I made a lot of money shorting ASC, might lose some here but worth the risk I think. Time the board got a kick and learnt how to communicate with investors, also time for an update on what there doing about Edelman. Wheres theres money there will usually be fire and the fact there isn't make me wonder if a response will be timed with fund managers positions..

turned blue - expect that to strengthen north as the day progresses - bots have switched - stop loss victims will come back before too high, lunchtime crew et al e cetera

add to that blnx is very cheap right now and has over $100m net cash in the bank onwards and upwards
gla

long auction :-))))))

Just had a small dabble @32.33 (day trade).

LOL

:-)

That was my reaction to your 'small dabble'... only because I went 'large' yesterday...