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 - I've had a few short positions and a few long positions in BLNX. I'm currently short again. It's no secret.

I'm sorry that you don't like to hear any negatives about the company you've fallen in love with. Do you think that this thread should only be posted on by people who want to share the love?

You old hippy, you!

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Gausie yep Ill give clem a nod.

Hes on twitter now we both follow each other.

Are you not a member? as hes online late most nights.

Just sign up and use a PC its all free. No mod cons needed. Big stock market community up their and get juicy gossip before its hits the B/Boards.

cp
Gausie does have an interest and I don't. I post negative things about some stocks and it is not necessary to own the stock.

I expect BLNX to take a huge fall someway down the line. It is just a personal view. It is just the opposite view of this thread title.

I am sorry for you, if you just expect to read positive views about the object of your adoration.
Just squelch me.

i confess there's a number of stocks that i openly dislike and rarely have a position in same .... in that respect it's a board for open discussion, though it helps if the posters have some sort of logic for their views

I do have a logical view, which I have explained.

i wasn't actually thinking of you when i posted the above ..... remember hyleo?

Yep but your logic is pure twaddle Hays, magnified with your alcohol levels.

it matters not ..... i am derided for my view of ASC, which is a stock and product i really do not like and think is hopelessly over-hyped - but the market thinks otherwise, at least for now

gf
Not sure where you get the alcohol thing, but if you knew me you would know that I rarely drink any alcohol. I can only suppose that you are projecting your own problems on to other people.

What you really mean is that other people's logic does not coincide with yours. This, of course, is no great surprise.

cynic
I do agree about ASC. Just an over hyped stock and similar to BLNX in that regard. I am expecting bad things from both of them.

Hays when youve made as much money as I have out of stocks you will be entittled to a silly opinion like that above.

Until that day comes and believe me it wont,you should stick to slagging off political points up above on the Talk To Yourself thread or at least give some sort of anylisis here as to why or what your reasoning is for these being over hyped.

don't be a pompous ass sticky
i often have silly opinions which are voiced, but you being pompous does not make you right either

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i happen to think your (alleged) decision to buy some property or other in rhodes was preposterous and you so-called logic hopelessly flawed ..... you disagree; well that's fine too

yawn, yawn. fantasy time again

Hey Cyners its gone through. Bought just the 1 though.

Brokers Recos.........



Date

Company Name

Broker

Rec.

Price

Old target price

New target price

Notes




14 May 13

Blinkx PLC

Citigroup

Buy

123.25

115.00

130.00

Retains



13 May 13

Blinkx PLC

Canaccord Genuity

Buy

123.25

125.00

135.00

Reiterates



13 May 13

Blinkx PLC

Numis

Buy

123.25

108.00

136.00

Retains

Well Citigroup are BLNX's own brokers. You are surely not so gullible as to rely on their predictions.

I don't recall a house broker ever saying SELL!

Reading brokers just makes you happier that you have made the right choice. There have been large numbers of companies, especially in the tech area, that have had unanimous praise from brokers before they went belly up. In the tech area brokers seem to be blindsided with the technology and don't see the business.

Absolute tosh Hays.

A analyst stands by his decisions knowing quite well more than his fair share of bad calls will end with his company asking for his resignation not only that but also the cheif analysts resignation aswel or pressure put upon his superior.

A house broker wont place sell on one of its clients stock you are right about that but what they will do is place a neutral rating or pending rating on the stock.

Have you ever been employed by a broker Hays?.

i've employed a bankruptcy practitioner ...... isn't that pretty much the same thing?

After more than forty years of investing, I never trust any broker forecasts. I doubt that any analysts were fired when the tech bubble burst. Perhaps some remember companies such as Dialog (dial a dog) which was still being heavily recommended the day before it went bust.

I once wrote an analysis of Torex (now long gone) on ADVFN that was cut, pasted and published the next day by a big city firm as a brokers note. That episode amply illustrated the depth of research you can expect from some of the published brokers notes.