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.

good new black rock stop shorts on blnx................

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/banksandfinance/10947330/BlackRock-restricts-share-lending-after-short-selling-attack-on-Blinkx.html

Will lead to Blind Shorting. A blight during the early 2000s.

BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager, has barred its City office from loaning shares following a short selling attack on Blinkx, a London-listed online video advertising company in which it is biggest shareholder, The Sunday Telegraph can disclose.
Blinkx lost a third of its value in a day in January after Ben Edelman, a Harvard University Business School professor, published a 3,500-word blog post expressing “grave doubts” over the company’s prospects and criticising the “opacity” of its statements to the stock market. The company rejected his claims but the damage was done.
Professor Edelman said he had been hired by third parties to investigate Blinkx on condition of anonymity. The admission prompted accusations of a ‘bear raid’, whereby short sellers, who effectively bet that a share price will fall, aim to force it lower with negative information about a company.
At the time, BlackRock was allowing its back office to loan a portion of its Blinkx stock to short sellers. It meant that when Professor Edelman published his blog, BlackRock was helping to drive the price lower. At the time BlackRock owned 11.6pc of Blinkx, meaning it lost nearly £30m in a day.
The episode has led to a change in policy at the asset manager, it is understood, amid concerns that bear raiders are on the lookout for more targets. BlackRock no longer loans out its shares, sources said.
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At the time of the raid, more than 15pc of Blinkx share were out on loan, according to data from Markit. Today the figure is only 3pc, although traders are still betting against the stock and it is the eleventh most shorted company on Aim. They enjoyed more rewards last week when Blinkx issued a profit warning and shares tumbled again.
Since Blinkx was apparently targeted, Quindell, a British company which provides technology and consultancy to the insurance industry, has also been targeted by criticism from the United States. BlackRock is not a major shareholder but holds the stock as part of its tracker funds.
Gotham City Research, the mysterious organisation that delivered a bonanza to Quindell short sellers in April, returned to the fray last week with an attack on Gowex, a Spanish wireless internet provider.
BlackRock declined to comment.

squeeze is taking affect-more blue to come
gla

Blinkx
Trading Update

Q1 trading update
Ongoing industry-wide concerns on efficiency and effectiveness, combined with the lingering effects of the blog resulted in Q1 revenues falling short of expectations. Reported revenues rose +5%, with +18% growth from the Rhythm and Lyfe acquisitions outweighing a -13% organic decline. This resulted in a -$5m shortfall in EBITDA in Q1. The group indicates that visibility is limited, though there is scope for revenues to recover as industry-wide initiatives to rebuild confidence in traffic quality come through. Further, the group has cost levers to protect profitability. We lower our FY15 revenue and EBITDA forecasts to $260m (was $288m) and $25m ($43m). We forecast Blinkx will finish the year with cash of $138m, equal to 19p per share, and after the recent fall the shares are trading on just 0.4x revenues and 4x EBITDA.

● Q1 trading update. Blinkx released a Q1 update which indicated that revenues rose +5%, with +18% from the acquisitions of Rhythm and Lyfe offsetting a -13% organic decline. The group indicated Q1 EBITDA was -$5m below expectations.

● Industry trends. The online video advertising industry has been impacted by concerns over audience quality, efficiency and measurement this year, with Blinkx specifically affected by the blog. As a result, advertisers have shifted to higher value inventory, in which they have greater confidence. This resulted in Blinkx delivering inventory at higher prices (fiscal 2H14 Premium CPM $7.9 vs 2H13 $4.8) but with lower volume (conversion 4.3% vs 6.3%) and this trend accelerated into the new fiscal year. Further, the online video advertising industry is shifting to mobile.

● Revenue forecasts. We have updated our forecasts predicated on lower volumes at higher prices and arrive at FY15 revenues of $260m. This comprises desktop falling to $203m (FY14 $220m), mobile growing to $50m ($20m) and Technology flat at $7m. The group indicates it has limited visibility on revenues due to the transactional nature of its business and the pace of industry transition.

● Profit forecast. Blinkx indicated that EBITDA was -$5m below forecast in Q1. Our previous FY15 forecast was $43m and we lower to $25m though clearly the outcome will depend on revenue trends experienced during the remainder of the year. The group has cost levers it can pull, so on our current revenue expectations we do not forecast that the -$5m shortfall experienced in Q1 will be fully replicated in the remaining three quarters of the year.

● Cash. The group stated on the call that net cash was c$115m/16p per share and we forecast this to rise to $138m/19p by the year end.

BlackRock holding goes below 5%

Numis Buy 34.38 34.75 - 68.00 Reiterates

City Diary: Hedge fund joins the dots between Blinkx and Gowex attacks
Valiant Capital, a San Francisco-based hedge fund, is a link between the two separate bear raids triggered by reports from Professor Ben Edelman and Gotham City.

Harriet Dennys By Harriet Dennys, City Diary Editor7:00AM BST 10 Jul 2014

Diary spots an interesting link between the short-selling attacks on Blinkx, sparked by a report by Harvard professor Ben Edelman, and Let’s Gowex, sparked by a report by Gotham City Research.
A unifying thread running through the two recent high-profile bear raids is Valiant Capital, a San Francisco-based hedge fund, which has profited from both companies’ dwindling fortunes.
Last December, Valiant Capital started building up its short position in Blinkx, the one-time video search darling, to a peak of 2.11pc by December 20, shortly before Professor Edelman’s Darker Side of Blinkx bombshell on January 30 wiped 40pc off the company’s share price.
In April this year, Valiant turned its attention to Let’s Gowex, the Spanish telecoms minnow, amassing – alongside unnamed others – a 2.8pc holding that resulted in an estimated $60m (£35m) windfall this week, after Gotham City’s La Charada Pescanova exposé helped put Gowex into liquidation.
It’s a small short-selling world.

I'm wondering when we'll see an offer on the table for this one... The SP must look very attractive to many.

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Why have they messed around with the old RNS [ are you a private invester ] click here.

Now showing a small profit on my long position

You gonna keep holding til it's a small loss?

Ah them were the days .... I said 80p and people laughed.


Don't worry about Shortie G cos he knows what he's doing unlike RSI and his alter ego's.


RSI reminds me of an England rugby fan .... loyal but deluded :)

.... and thick as sh*t :)

Yeah I'm still holding for now, have to say I've lost interest over past weesk with this though. Indices mainly the DAX and FTSE have had my attention and the EUR/GBP.

Share price on the way to break pass 40p , and nobody as posted since the 14th August

That's because I'm around break even... Nothing to shout about..

So am i now

MM's holding the price back for most of the day , any idea why ? to fill a sell/buy order