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.

Maybe I'm missing something - it reads 28,096,907 before 27,321,907 after, net change -775,000 ?

Think you are right Skinny, i never even looked at the Rns today, just took it
for granted that Tabasco was right, i got similarly confused a while back with
Spmg and Lloyds have indirect and direct holdings, why cant they go back to
the old days and just say what they have done instead of all of us having to
read this pile of jargon they now call holdings rns's !

Skinnythats twice you caught me on that.bookmakers mark up!...hands up?

Interesting post on the iii BB.

Could someone please point me at some definitive information on this, other than the press release.

I have searched the Samsung mobile website and Galaxy S applications site and can find no mention of Blinkx. I have talked to some people who seemed fairly clued up at the local Vodafone shop and they had never heard of Blinkx and could not find any reference to it on their Galaxy S phones and were unable to find any downloads despite 30minutes of trying. This is a pity because they thought it sounded "cool".

I am starting to wonder whether it is actually being shipped yet.

Another interesting post on the iii BB. >

Stack,

You say;

"I suspect it was that they couldn't find many who wanted to be be in just Samsung's Apps and not in the much larger Android Apps. It looks more like a list of also rans, which describes Blinkx pretty well. "



Ahhh, now I see where you are getting confused. Apologies for not seeing that in your last post, but I believe that SamsungApps is the elite selection of apps , not the Android App shop. However, I will just double check that and get back to you if I find any different.

At least we seem to be accepting that there should not be a problem re "blink Beat" being available in SamsungApps in China following todays news that the Galaxy S is about to be launced there. We already know there will be no problem in India when the Samsung Tab is launched there next month - so we are all happy. I love it when everyone is happy

You seem rather desperate on ADVFN Haystack?still you have no financial interest in the stocklol

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All that work and up again yesterday.....keep it up today Haystack!!!

Blinkx cannot operate in china, so it would be unlikely that their Blinkx Beat app could acces the necessary ip addresses. Looks like a non-event.

(_o_)

Keep it going Haystack.you are doing magnifique89p

This share is now performing brilliantly--why do some people have to continue to rubbish it! Well done I say and thank you very much!

To put it in its' most simplistic form,there are alas a good few people out there who simply do not possess the sense they were born with!

HaystackBLNX are now trading at 92pipso factowhatever might be said on these BBsif you are short call the Fire Brigade or you will end up crematedsame as Gausie with his 68p short!lol

Reasonable volume this afternoon.

Skinnysomebody posted on another BBFTSE review announced BLNX is going into the AIM top 50 index??

Yes it looks like it -

FTSE AIM Index Series Quarterly Review September 2010

8 September 2010


FTSE announces the quarterly changes to the FTSE AIM UK 50, FTSE AIM 100 and FTSE AIM All-Share Indices. The changes will be applied after the close of business on Friday, 17 September 2010 and will be effective on Monday, 20 September 2010:

Constituent changes can be accessed via www.ftse.com/tech_notices/2010/Q3/FTSE_AIM_Review.xls.

http://www.ftse.com/tech_notices/2010/Q3/FTSE_AIM_Review.xls

Thanks Skinny...

arguably i took my profit too early - if one can do such a thing - but i'm damned if i can see what is keeping this sp so strong ..... lemmings? ..... if so, prepare for big sell-off after the AGM or whatever it is that's imminent

Cynicwe have a midas touch genius and his adopted son in chargewe had on the
8 September 2010 Daniel Stewart & Company saying 110pwe have Cheap to come any daywe have continued takeover rumoursboth wit AU. and Blnxwe have around 800 revenue sharing partnershipsVideo is red hot according to all dataand we are the leadersAGM next week and BLNX s going into the AIM top 50 index and coincides with thisthen we have the very good news with Samsung >>>

Sept. 8 (Bloomberg) -- Samsung Electronics Co., the worlds second-largest maker of mobile phones, will sell its Galaxy S smartphone in China through the countrys three largest mobile- phone carriers.

The phone will be offered by China Telecom Corp., China Mobile Ltd. and China Unicom (Hong Kong) Ltd., Samsung said in a statement today. It did not specify when sales would begin.

The three mobile-phone operators collectively had 785.5 million subscribers on June 30, according to the companies. Samsung is pushing the Galaxy S smartphone to challenge Apple Inc.
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And with Haystacks view on Blinkx in China argued >>>

Sobeit
Autonomy gave the rights to IDOL in China to a Chinese company so they could use it for indexing. This precludes Blinkx from putting servers etc into China running IDOL to do indexing but it does not stop Blinkx using IDOL in the US or the UK and the results ending up in China on the Samsung Galaxy.

IDOL is used by Blinkx as a "backroom" product to do the indexing. Once the index is created, IDOL does not need to be used to access the index data. So, when you look for something on Blinkx Beat you are looking at the output from IDOL and not at IDOL itself.

That is why, if you read Blinkx description they say "We have indexed 35m hours of video." That means it has already been through IDOL. It is a bit like IDOL being the cow and the index data being milk. You cannot put the cow in China but you can "sell" them the milk.

Therefore, there is no license conflict with selling Samsung Galaxy in China with Blinkx Beat loaded on it as you are not using IDOL."

Cynic I know you will be bored by nowbut I dont see many negative pointswe have traded at over 40p three years agoBLNX are in another Cosmos now but not many multiples above that valuationthat is my takeyou made a bad move selling this Royal Flush imo.but not as bad as Gausie and Haystack shorting it... this will play out to big bucks!!!

i read you tabby, but i confess that i do not really understand how they make money (they don't of course!) ..... i could be convinced to buy back in, and thus send the price plummeting, if i could but see what might be deemed a fair price and some sort of logic therefor

as an analogy of sorts, i can determine some sort of fair price for RKH as there is fairly solid(???) evidence of a very significant pool of oil within their licence ..... but BLNX - no idea at all

Cynic...i would not want to convince you...have a read of this a few times... remember the progress since...and what is to come... then make your own mind up>>>

Suranga Chandratillake, founder and CEO of
blinkx, said: "We're delighted to report another strong performance this year.
While the full year financial results are excellent, our second half was nothing
short of transformational as the business moved into EBITDA positive territory,
ahead of expectations. Since our ipo, the blinkx team has built strong
foundations for the business; a portfolio of consumer products, the AdHoc
advertising platform, and our network of over 720 content partners and top-tier
distribution partners. While we remain mindful of the macroeconomic
environment, blinkx is now well positioned in one of the fastest growing
segments of the media sector. Having reached profitability on an EBITDA basis
and after making infrastructure investments early in the year, the business is
now positioned to capitalise on this market momentum and drive increased
profitability from growing revenue.

Mr. Chandratillake added: "During a time when advertising has faced significant
revenue and pricing pressure, blinkx has consistently demonstrated robust
growth, defying macro industry trends. We increased revenue by more than 140%,
and gross profit by 123%, despite the challenging economic environment.
Furthermore, revenue and gross profit in the second half grew almost 60% over
the first half, while operating expenses dropped in the second half as compared
to the first. As a result, operating margin improved, net losses narrowed and
the company was profitable on an EBITDA basis in the second half. Despite the
downturn, we achieved these milestones ahead of schedule and analyst
expectations. This exceptional performance was driven by the success of our
unique advertising platform, which delivers targeted, ROI-guaranteed, brand
advertising in online video, and has enjoyed widespread adoption by over 800
global brands."

Mr. Chandratillake continued: "In the past 12 months, blinkx's traffic has
surged 204% in the UK, making us the second fastest growing video site after
Facebook, according to comScore. Moreover, the number of videos viewed over the
Internet in the UK has shot up 37% over the same time period. This powerful
groundswell towards online video underscores the strength and vitality of our
business model.

blinkx's aggressive audience growth, breaking into both comScore and Nielsen's
Top 10 Video Sites, combined with our top-tier content partnerships, has enabled
our business to flourish over the period, and we achieved a 112% increase in the
number of brands advertising with us. We have continued to attract leading brand
advertisers, including Coca Cola, Virgin and Toyota, while maintaining
consistently high CPMs (Cost Per Mille), through the effectiveness of our unique
Contextual Advertising platform, blinkx AdHoc. Online video is the fastest
growing sector in advertising, and we expect to further accelerate the growth of
our business based on this momentum.

In addition, blinkx has made significant progress on the product and business
development fronts over the last year. The strength of our technology has
enabled us to forge new distribution deals with many of our top partners,
including providing video search for Ask.com, powering advertising for the ITN
Premium News Network, and building a broadband TV offering for Brazilian media
giant ELO. We also recently partnered with Mobica to bring blinkx video
channels to mobile devices."