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.

Anyway, what do you make of this Convo Cast deal?

would be more interested to have some comment on MIVA's numbers, ..... or was my comment actually correct, by some fluke?

Dunno, thought it was a pretty fair summary Richard :-)

Have listened to the conference call & CEO just says that 'the Blinkx offer undervalues the company & is not in the best interests of shareholders'.
It seems that the U.S. operation is reasonably successful, but that the EU operation is generally loss making & thus they are closing their Italian operation, with further consolidation likely. Not much else of interest as far as I can see.

The interesting thing about the Com Cast deal,may be the audio part The radio is a big thing in the U.S.,with millions listening over the airwaves.

on the move this morning,and in the right direction too!!

From U.K. Analyst.com:
"Blinkx (BLNX), the worlds largest video search engine, announced its technology partnership with ConvoCast a voice-enabled audio community firm. As part of the agreement, Blinkx will supply its patented speech recognition technology to the partner in order to provide transcription, discovery and intelligent tagging of audience-generated content for ConvoCasts various business activities. "The Web has evolved from a text-based universe to one filled with multimedia. People are using the Internet to communicate using video and audio, in addition to the written word. Blinkxs unique technology makes it simple for ConvoCast to index, search, and discover any rich media content that audiences are passionate about," explained Suranga Chandratillake, CEO of Blinkx. Shares in the company finished flat at 30.25p."

sp really struggling to break through this 32p resistance ...... see below, though it does not show that sp has hit that level several times on intra-day .....

If the price is not going up,it certainly isn,t through lack of good news.Maybe half time results ,due in October,will be needed for a big breakthrough - in the absence of anything else in the meantime.

The lead article on p 13 of today,s Daily Telegraph -Television Revolution Sees 1 in 9 View Online
According to Ofcom,the number logging in has almost doubled over the last year from 1.57M to 2.96 M.The BBC alone claims 700,000 daily are doenloading programmes,while ITV and Channel 4 say that recently launched services are also proving popular.The number of homes with broadband has increased over the past year from52% to 58%

I think BLNX will move back to 15p.

hlyeo, you are a wag! :o)

hlyeo98,i will be more than happy if it does,

Todays, trades 179,000 buys -7,000 sells.net result no change.Had it been the other way round,you can bet it would be well and truly down

just getting ready for the next push up, a lot of the sellers from the 15p level will have finished now and with more news expected it should get interesting again next week.

moving back up the traffic rankings according to quantcast.

A couple of interesting big buys gone inblue shortly!

large surge in traffic rankings over past few days (us bbtv starting to attract users!!), now up to 290 ranking according to quantcast.

should bounce tomorrow.

The question has to be asked as to whether the MMs are holding on to stock for another big buyer.
Consider these facts 1) The news flow has been great.
2)Buys have generally been well ahead of sells,but the price has gone down rather than up
3) If Blinkx results are good in October,the MMs will make a lot of money

many peeps will have made good money over the last few weeks and with the lack of hard news and general market malaise it is not too surprising to see sp drifting ..... however, it will prob need very good results linked to generally improved sentiment for sp to get up a new head of steam