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.

This is sitting on a major support level and about to fall to a 5 1/2 year low.

Nice to see this up 30% today. ... long may it continue. .

StockMarketWire.com
blinkx expects to reports adjusted losses before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation of $10m-$11m for the year ended 31 March on revenues of $165m-$170m.

The company said it generated over $75m in new revenue in the period, and achieved profitability in the third Quarter, followed by anticipated fourth quarter seasonality.

Simultaneously, the company accelerated its planned drawdown of non-core product lines, which now constitute approximately 30% of total revenues - compared with over 50% in FY2015.

Programmatic revenues grew 66%, with programmatic and video now constituting over 50% of total revenues, across desktop and mobile devices.

Chief executive S. Brian Mukherjee said, "FY2016 has been a transformational year for the Industry and the company. We believe that we now have the technology, talent and relationships in place to scale both organic and inorganic growth as the Industry continues to evolve and consolidate. Through strong cost discipline and a strategic focus on Core mobile, video and programmatic products we are now well aligned with broader structural market trends."

StockMarketWire.com
blinkx is changing its name to RhythmOne plc. This move follows a transformational year for blinkx, which undertook a broad restructuring to focus on its core capabilities of mobile, video and programmatic trading - in line with key industry trends.

blinkx launched the RhythmOne brand in FY2015 as the company's trade entity, encompassing the go-forward product strategy and commercial proposition for the company. Transitioning to the new name aligns the Company's overarching brand with dominant commercial and Industry growth drivers. Chief executive Brian Mukherjee said: "Our transition to the RhythmOne name comes at a pivotal and exciting time for the Company. It underscores the significant integration and transformation efforts we have undertaken and reflects our Core focus on mobile, video and programmatic trading - the fastest growing segments within online advertising.

"With a unique combination of technology, talent and relationships in place, RhythmOne is poised to scale both organic and inorganic growth as the Industry continues to evolve and consolidate. We are enthusiastic about the promise FY2017 holds, and the opportunity to make RhythmOne a stand-out leader in the digital advertising landscape." The company's name will change to RhythmOne plc upon registration at Companies House and trading in the company's ordinary shares under the new name is anticipated to commence with effect from tomorrow (17 June). The company's London Stock Exchange Tradable Instrument Display Mnemonic ("TIDM") will change to RTHM. The company's ISIN and SEDOL numbers for the ordinary shares will remain unchanged.

Something strange going on. Since the name change a few days back, the price is up over 20%
Still down of course by nearly 90% from its peak, but it would be good to know why it is now suddenly on the up!

The name change was announced on 16 June. The price has risen from 20 to 20.38. I make that 1.8%.

I don't know what stock you are looking at, but the price this morning is 26.

I think H is looking at the old chart at the top, which now doesn't update as the ticker has changed.

Now up a further 3 points.- making it 45% up.
I wonder if we could change the thread name without losing the history ?

I don't think that is possible. It will need a new thread with a new ticker. Have tried in the past, but without success.

RhythmOne - RTHM - New name

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re - I wonder if we could change the thread name without losing the history ?

You could ask " Becca " for a change of name and epic at the TOP thread
and add BLNX share prices into the new chart as now only has 6 days history

Yes. I was looking at the old chart. It is a mystery as the company doesn't warrant a rise at all no matter what its name. They were caught out before as crooks and it is unlikely that anything has changed. There is one advantage of such a big price rise and that is that it that it will make a good short.