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.

chess - you post like a man who's long from 150p and stubborn.

Me - I'm short from various prices between 130p and 75p, mainly around 120p-110p.

Do we both have our money where our mouths are?

Now sitting on tentative support at 65 from a few days ago. A fall below this should trigger bigger falls now.

Any chance of a bid for Blinkx at these prices ?

i think it's unlikely, or more to the point, it would not fit google for sure .... in truth, the company either has an excellent future on its own or it does not ..... as this board shows, opinion is sharply divided

would love to buy a few more at this price to reverse at over 70 again - but I darent reduce my short - which is where I believe the next big money will be made - it looks like the next big down leg may be imminent.

I've watched this off and on for a while, and I'm still trying to work out what it gives me that, in the end, Google doesn't.

With an alleged 111 patents (what on earth are they all for?) they may have a promising future as a patent troll, finally being bought just to make them go away.

Derek

What does it give you that google doesn't?

An excellent short.

G

Made a big mistake thinking that this would rebound from 100p....could kick myself.....

60 might be the turning point.
However, the market is the big problem! Not too many in buying mood.

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chess

What are your reasons for suggesting that 60p might be the turning point? What particular significance do you attribute towards that figure in this situation? Is it technical? charts? fundies? or a random stab in the dark? Or something along the lines of 'It cant possibly go any lower'?

G

(added on edit: In the interest of balance, my 30p target comes from an expected projection of a repetition of the 60% fall that we saw from 150ish to 60ish (you often see a DCB at about halfway in a major fall) - which when applied to the 75p high from the last few days would take us to a 30p low before the next major move starts)

That's the mistake I made....made a guess....the wrong one.....

Skinny - was just about to post similar:-


Only key difference is a log scale - which is slightly better at dealing with changes in order of magnitude.

Thanks...guys...cheered me up no end....

rf - sorry mate. At least the log scale makes the recent fall seem smaller than it must have felt ......

Simply market conditions and nothing else.

Just about all stocks are either stationary or going down and those that have been pumped-up above their true value ie BLNX; CHAR; BAO; XEL to name just 4 are being shorted by the same people and this time they will be over-sold before the jump-up ie MATD. Guessing when that will happen is impossible but until economic and market conditions improve it will continue to happen.

Shares on loan.

Skinny

Interesting and counter-intuitive - looks like a 12 month low, which destroys any argument that this fall is down to opportunistic shorting.

Yes - its not what I would have expected to see either.