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.

If it was doing any good Autonomy would take it back.

why would Autonomy wish to get back in advertising? .... surely it is far removed from their core biz

not really that exciting, though sp does continue to tick up ..... however, it is interesting or even worth noting that sp has now broken through 200 dma

expecting more significant news next week.

has another 2 top ups on Friday..

continued rumours of a deal with apple i phone soon I hope so the sp has languished at these levels far too long I think this is a future multi bagger though so I'm happy to hold---can't afford any more though!

cynic advertising is only a tiny part of the blnx technology.

yep ppv will be when the 's really start to roll in.

Is ppv coming anytime soon?

MoneyAM
"Video search engine blinkx has agreed new partnerships with Automotive Rhythms, Live Car Shows, CarDataVideo, and Bumper2Bumpertv.

Hundreds of new car and auto-related videos have been made available via blinkx.

blinkx will also place contextually relevant advertising against these videos, and share resulting advertising revenue with the partners. "

snowball has started rolling at last!

downhill...

seriously, these RNS's are a waste of time and money, blnx need to roll out some contracts that take us into new areas that can generate transparent earnings.

not long till the results where they will need to spell out exactly how they are doing, the co. are far too quiet for my liking at the moment and I just hope they're working on a biggie that will shut the doubters up....

I agree and hope you're right on the 2nd point. The new apple iphone is launched in June and that is where the blinkx fans are doing their digging for nuggets. The strange thing is that every time they find a link and post it on the other side--it gets pulled and disappears! you should check. blnx seems determined to keep everything under wraps but throw us the odd bone with the occasional rns. not long to results though so keep the faith.

volume building nicely upto what??

MoneyAM
"Video search engine specialist blinkx has agreed new partnerships with Entertainment Tonight, HipHollywood, and TheCinemaSource.

The deals mean hundreds of new entertainment and celebrity videos are now available at www.blinkx.com.

blinkx founder and chief executive Suranga Chandratillake said: "Celebrity news and video footage is extremely popular on our site, and we're proud to partner with some of the best and most established entertainment companies. "

sp really struggling to break 200 dma resistance

Results out next month I believe .Let,s hope they are as good as all the deals suggest they could be!

Very strong rumour this weekend that Blinkx have just done a takeover of Zango

would much rather BLNX was taken out itself

not long too wait until the RNS is out then.

sp up or down tomorrow?

cynic Let them build the business first then we can get a better price on a takeover should it happen.