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.

SAN FRANCISCO, August 18, 2010 /PRNewswire/ --
- blinkx get chins wagging with the launch of a celebrity gossip hub
blinkx, the world's largest and most advanced video search engine, today announced the launch of a brand new video gossip hub for those seeking access to real-time celebrity scoops and fashion news. Whether you want to hear the latest on Robert Pattinson's love life, or ensure that you're bang on trend by watching couture designers discuss forthcoming ranges at London fashion week, blinkx's gossip hub lets you access the hottest celebrity video news wherever you are.
You don't have to be part of Hollywood's elite to be well connected. With more than 720 video content partners, you'll never miss a scoop with blinkx. Available on http://www.blinkx.com and direct from your mobile device, blinkx's new gossip hub is a one-stop shop for all breaking entertainment news across the Web, from top content partners such as ITN Entertainment, CelebTV, SNTV and Young Hollywood.
As the pioneer in video search technology, blinkx has built a reputation as the smartest way to find rich media on the Web. The company has made more than 720 partners and indexed over 35 million hours of video and audio content to date.
PR Newswire Europe Ltd

"the world's largest and most advanced video search engine"

Yes, of course it is.

LOL

68 seems to be a key point.Just nudged over at 68.25

This post has gone on most BBsand the Author claims to know The DoctorI believe it is worth posting up as a bit of a ramp and to compensate for haystack antics ?..

My target price for Blinkx is 300p (circa 1bn mkt cap ) and I'd like to explain why.

1. Knowing Dr Lynch, and I do, I don't think he is going to let Blinkx sell out too soon or too cheap to the first few offers from Google or Microsoft. I think he has a pet hate of British tech companies selling too early to US buyers and he isn't building Blinkx just to let it go for a song at this, the very start of the Internet video game.

2. The Blinkx patent portfolio is extremely diverse and robust. The company has only just begun to commercialise some of the applications of its technologies. Google and Microsoft are desperate to equip their present and future properties with deep video search but it is likely that neither of them can even get started without infringing the Blinkx/Autonomy patents. They are up against an insurmountable IP barrier and, to make matters even trickier, the Blinkx-Autonomy licence arrangement is a triumph of barrier engineering science.

3. Video advertising on desktop and mobile screens is going to be so much more important than any other kind of online advertising. Web users went banner blind ages ago and only the very smartest contextual/behavioural ad serving systems have any relevance in today's game. Tomorrow's game is video ads, and Blinkx is perfectly positioned to become the Double-Click of online and mobile video ads, pre-rolls, mid-rolls...and eyeball intrusion methods we haven't even contemplated yet.

4. Google has eaten everyone's lunch in the textual search and keyword advertising space, and in the meta-data-based image search game. When the web began in 94/95, none of us foresaw just how important and how lucrative textual search was to become in the longer term. Time and again we have overestimated the short term value in dot com tech and grossly underestimated the long term implications. Why not take that serially repetitious error on board and really try to fathom Dr Lynch's long term vision for Blinkx?

5. Once it settles down generating stable profits, Blinkx will easily be a PE ratio 30(ish) company. It is quite conceivable that Blinkx could, in the not too distant future, achieve profit levels around the 30m mark and, by using more and more cloud services as well as the infrastructure it's already built, could do this without needing to raise very large capital sums through any heavily dilutionary share issues.

I've held BLNX patiently from when it hit bottom and have been reading this discussion board ever since. There have been many posts whose authors have been hitting all the right nails on the head, and others who have not been so fortunate or insightful in their analyses. How lucky we are to have such freedom to debate while the management of the companies under debate just get their heads down and get on with the execution.

Auction!

Skinny been adding to BLNX this am after a luck escape from PVCS just before the major drop.

GausieI have worked it out.you have been trumped!.

Gausie... Best of 40?

Mega - yes PVCS a bit of a disappointment - I got out @64 - not a large holding as I was looking to add on results! ho hum.

Yep - stopped out (and reversed).

Last time this happened the FT. reported a liquidity squeeze.these shares are very tightly held!

Haystackhows the double top looking?.or have you checked out.lol

Tabby,don't lose sight of the fact that a lot of these people have their heads buried in the sand (or in some cases hay).
I wonder what the price of a
bale of hay is? Any idea how many bales in a Haystack??

good to see you guys have backed a whizzer today .... was there any proper news, as have been on a flight, or was it just end of day "freak"?

Chess...lol

HaystackGausieHilaryTrigand not forgetting JKD. I think I can speak for all investors in this stock thank you all for from the heart of our bottomit has been expensive for all of you to discover BLNX is a Royal Flushalthough all stock has to go down some day.it has been expensive for you all to find that day? hope you all have deep pocketsor rich parents.love from the lucky thicko. Xxx

And Peter.

ptholden- 15 Aug 2010 10:37 - 2243

I don't accept for one moment you have ever 'helped' fellow investors with your posts.

Some of the traders who do post here are nothing short of brilliant in their ability to make money.

Peteralong with all investors Ill bear that in mind?

FTSE 86 down DOW 150 down BLNX 10.3% up

I cannot for the life of me understand why so many have been so negative on Blinkx.I guess its just ones' philosophy. Then again ,there are some who cannot tell their ass from a hole in the ground!

Cynic...just an end of day "freak"

thanks tabby .... it'll be interesting to see what happens on the morrow then ..... i don't think volume was that big today either

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3.5m against daily norm of 4.0m

tabasco
Not expensive for me. I have had no position on Blinkx.

I do still think it is a rubbish company and that is the way it will pan out.

Tabasco

I think rather than trying to score points off my opinion of traders, you might have made reference to this post:

ptholden - 10 Aug 2010 21:58 - 2076 of 2299
Err, and your point exactly?

I've spent a little while this evening trying a bit of unscientific TA; the results of which would indicate a rise up to 100p, assuming the SP isn't forming a double top (I still don't think it is). Interestingly this chimes with Hilary's educated guess and the broker note.

If it should reach that far, I believe it may well then become a profitable short for the following reasons:

1. Company valuation far in excess of reality
2. 7 bagged in a very short time scale = unsustainable rise
3. MACD will have formed a double top

Well, something along those lines. The above will probably turn out to be a right load of rubbish, but we'll see :-)

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I can't really work out why you have such a low opinion of traders (although I have a good idea) you forget most if not all are also investors. Gausie had an opposing view to my own, but set a stop and has reversed his position, never an easy thing to do. I think if you compare his trading / investing style with your own, say, using MDX as an example you will be able to work out where you went so badly wrong. But this thread is about BLNX not personalities, although you constantly strive to make it so.