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.

Cynic…follow the story…you can now trace short positions very easy…Goldman Sachs initiated at a ridiculous 250p… mug punters piled in and within a few months of the Goldman and friends pump….bingo..there was never a big sell-off and none registered…just churning…or failed trades

It has been well documented the antics on aim minnows….this is no longer a minnow…and the NASDAQ is just round the corner….

Cynic….this recent Goldman case in the USA might give you a clue?


In this case, that resulted in absurdities like the following disclosure in this document, in which a Goldman executive admits in a 2006 email that just a little bit too much trading in Overstock was going on: “Two months ago 107% of the floating was short!”
In other words, 107% of all Overstock shares available for trade were short – a physical impossibility, unless someone was somehow creating artificial supply in the stock.
Goldman clearly knew there was a discrepancy between what it was telling regulators, and what it was actually doing. “We have to be careful not to link locates to fails [because] we have told the regulators we can’t,” one executive is quoted as saying, in the document.
One of the companies Goldman used to facilitate these trades was called SBA Trading, whose chief, Scott Arenstein, was fined $3.6 million in 2007 by the former American Stock Exchange for naked short selling.
The process of how banks circumvented federal clearing regulations is highly technical and incredibly difficult to follow. These companies were using obscure loopholes in regulations that allowed them to short companies by trading in shadows, or echoes, of real shares in their stock. They manipulated rules to avoid having to disclose these “failed” trades to regulators.
The import of this is that it made it cheaper and easier to bet down the value of a stock, while simultaneously devaluing the same stock by adding fake supply. This makes it easier to make money by destroying value, and is another example of how the over-financialization of the economy makes real, job-creating growth more difficult.
In any case, this document all by itself shows numerous executives from companies like Goldman Sachs Execution and Clearing (GSEC) and Merrill Pro talking about a conscious strategy of “failing” trades – in other words, not bothering to locate, borrow, and deliver stock within the time alotted for legal settlement. For instance, in one email, GSEC tells a client, Wolverine Trading, “We will let you fail.”

Have you seen enough....I could go on...lol

i was merely making the point of what can happen in 2 years ..... as already posted, am modestly back in (i made or lost money in the past, though i cannot remember which) because i thought the stock looked reasonably priced and with the probability of further strength in the short/medium term

quite right cynic...... glad i didn't follow your lead a while back ;)

what ho Emu .... how goes it in freezing WsM? ..... donkeys can't be enjoying it much

you have wsm on the brain....... try north bristol.,. might be freezing outside, found something warm and cosy inside ;)

Technology

blinkx CORE is the world’s most advanced video engine.

Based on technology that was developed over 12 years at Cambridge University and is protected by more than 110 patents, blinkx CORE solves the challenges inherent in processing, managing and monetizing rich media.

The CORE engine automates traditionally expensive and time-consuming manual tasks including processing, analysis and tagging, and exposes the full potential of audio and video content.

From locating and processing online and offline content, and indexing it, to its presentation, monetization and delivery, it unlocks the true value of rich media and creates new opportunities for monetization.

To achieve this, blinkx CORE first distills video into its basic building blocks and then processes each component in the method most effective to the medium: audio is processed with speech recognition technology; images are understood using visual analysis technology; and metatags are indexed and extracted by distributed visual spiders.

Once it has collected the most comprehensive, minutely accurate data possible on the video, the CORE engine transforms the raw data into useful information by recognizing ideas and themes within the video.

Using a unique combination of Shannon's Information Theory and Bayesian Inference, blinkx CORE applies a probabilistic pattern matching process to the problem of concept matching. This enables computers to infer meaning within pieces of video and audio content, and reason upon the nature of that meaning in an unstructured way, performing the kinds of organizational, sorting and discovery tasks that today are the domain of manual, human processes.

This deep, granular understanding of rich media enables blinkx to process, present, monetize and deliver video and audio content in unique ways, and to capitalize on the true potential of today’s Four Screen world.

StockMarketWire.com
Technology company blinkx said trading in Q3 continued to be strong and it expects to be ahead of targets, with revenue for the full year in the range of $180m-$185m.

S. Brian Mukherjee, CEO of blinkx, commented, "As expected, the acquisitions have significantly expanded the scale and scope of the blinkx engine and the integrations are being implemented extremely effectively. In the second half, we continued to benefit from campaign spending in the US election cycle, which, in addition to the rapid customer adoption of our expanded offerings and strong secular trends within the industry, contributed to our growth. While our advertising revenues are transactional in nature, we remain confident in our outlook and prospects for the remainder of the year."

It's zooming on those results Chessplayer :))

Yes, about 20%.

what a nice little treat for a monday morning

I know need to say too much…I tend to be very lucky..

like with MDX perhaps? :-)

Small intraday short :-)

Cynic I lost money on mdx…true.. but not that much overall….I have made multiples of that on bvic and I wont begin to tell you about this stock…it’s all down to luck? Toodle pip.......Skinny that's a very silly mistake!

£40k i recollect ..... amazing how lucky some people appear to be after the event ..... of course, those who bought at around 140 within the last couple of years (not me i'm glad to say), will merely be nursing a smaller but still very large loss ..... do i sound cynical as to your alleged success? ..... i hope so, for the chances of MDX being your only disaster are longer than UKIP winning 50 seats at the next general election

Just closed my short for £134 - that will pay for plenty of lasagneigh!

Cynic - if you do a little search back around four years ago you will see for yourself…no need to be cynical…same can be said for bvic….my life has been changed....I'm so lucky!

You were spot on with the 40k mdx.. although I have had a little bit of fun/own back since…not that I am bitter of course…it is difficult when people are prepared to break the law to such extremes.

skinny...."Just closed my short for £134" a lucky escape!

Whatever.

tabby ..... and what about your other disasters apart from MDX? .... and yes, i know and fully accept you have been ramping (lol) BLNX for yonks :-)