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.

What will bring it higher

The Indicators centainly rising, Macd needs to reach 0 and divergence
or maybe tomorrow's GS presentation

Back on squelch you and your ulter-egos go. I don't need to talk P&L those that have read my posts over time already have an understanding of that. I doubt anyone will take any notice of your charting skills though! Funny you mentioned PE, considering this stocks, where it was and where it fell to. And no I would never try and educate someone like you, pizza delivery isn't something I cover.

I will tell you later .......

That was the lie
How could you read my post if I was Squelch

Shortie 03 Feb 2014
Think I'll add to my Squelch list, he brings nothing to the table and is argumentative at the best of times.

Sooner or later they fall into the trap ( but there is no trap )

I am getting tired of new assumptions now Tabby from Gausie
The only pineapples i know are the ones that Carmen Miranda was wearing at her Tutty Fruity hat.
                                 
                

Ah Tomasz you certainly are entertaining if nothing else... This is why I unsquelched you. Funny Tomasz loses his pennies and you appear as his replacement.... coincidence I think not. When I'm hard at work I prefer the clowns turned off, when at home then you are good for a laugh, just like TV. Maybe Squelch should be renamed 'standby' as that pretty much sums you up and how I like to view your posts. When you lose your pennies next time may I suggest you post under the new name of 'plank' that way we'll never figure out it's really you! :-)

oh do shut up galatica or tomasz or whatever other stupid name you want to call yourself
all you do is clutter up the thread with your incessant rantings and slurs .... and its DULL DULL DULL

Sorry boss and fellow serious readers... I'm actually enjoying this (the dull life I lead). Back to business tomorrow I promise but num-nuts can't talk shop so this is the only way to interact.

lol "plank" I like that ... move over Joey Essex we got Joey Plank and he's thicker than you.

back in town

from the Telegraph today

BlackRock backs Blinkx by raising stake to 13pc

Global investment firm buys another 5m shares of embattled internet video company
Blackrock backs Blinkx by raising stake to 13pc
Shares in internet video company Blinkx fell 40pc after critical blog by a Harvard professor

Blackrock has thrown its weight behind Blinkx by raising its stake in the under-seige internet video company to 13pc.
The global investment house, which is Blinkx’s biggest investor, announced that it has bought another five million shares, adding to its 11.6pc stake.
Shares in Blinkx, which have plunged more than 40pc in the wake of a critical blog by a Harvard professor, jumped more than 5pc in early trading. But the stock is still languishing far below the level before Prof Ben Edelman published The Darker Side of Blinkx last week.

Prof Edelman alleged that Blinkx was using “adware”, or advertising software, to boost online views of its video and so inflate revenues. He said he was “struck by Blinkx’s apparent outsized success”. He said: “Reviewing Blinkx’s statements to investors, I was struck by the opacity. How exactly does Blinkx make money?”
In conclusion, he wrote: “I submit that Blinkx is carefully withholding this information because the company has much to hide. If I traded in the companies I write about (I don’t!), I’d be short Blinkx.”

Prof Edelman, who initially said a “portion” of the article had been prepared for an anonymous client, was then told by Harvard to disclose the client was in fact two US investors. Following a build up of short positions worth 14.5pc of the company, Blinkx and its investors feared Prof Edelman was under the influence of those betting against the company.
Blinkx, which was spun out of Mike Lynch’s Autonomy and is listed on London’s AIM market, has strongly denied Prof Edelman’s allegations. The San Francisco-based company has told the Financial Conduct Authority that it could be a victim of market manipulation.

But the weekend, Prof Edelman accused Blinkx of trying to make him into a scapegoat rather than admit that he has uncovered real problems in its business. “Blinkx seeks to make this a story about me rather than about their adware and their schemes against both advertisers and consumers,” he told The Telegraph. “Blinkx’s refusal to respond in substance, and their instinct to attack my character rather than discuss the actual practice, is telling.”

Blackrock is understood to have held a stake in Blinkx since it was spun out of
Autonomy.

For the future - edited

Here we have - Golfinger - trouble maker every were, and yet is trying to blame the others.

Haystack - 12 Feb 2014 09:19 - 5523 of 5603
Don't be more obtuse than you normally are. We are talking about individual stocks that will end up at their real value.

goldfinger - 12 Feb 2014 09:27 - 5524 of 5603
Ohhhhhh stop talking nonsense. You said the MARKET always wins.

Your talking bollox as per usual.

And if individual stocks ended up at their real value wed be looking at NAV and a FTSE 100 at 3400.

You do talk some tripe at time Hays make no wonder Master RSI is running rings around you here and hes a total numpty for gods sake.

Bullshare - 12 Feb 2014 09:33 - 5525 of 5603
Shall we cut out the personal stuff Goldfinger and Haystack and get back on the subject of Blinkx, the company and its share price or lack of it.

cynic - 12 Feb 2014 09:37 - 5526 of 5603
one final and succinct if i may ....
individual shares can easily out or underperform the market as a whole

goldfinger - 12 Feb 2014 09:40 - 5527 of 5603
Will do Bullshare apologies but please have a look at poster galatica aka panto, hes the poster MasterRSI who you have banned under 2 names in the last 2 months and as brought the thread into disruption.

Haystack - 12 Feb 2014 09:53 - 5528 of 5603
"I have always thought goldfinger was a wonderful person and so pleasant, intelligent, probably good looking, friendly and an all round good egg". This medication does strange things to you.

goldfinger - 12 Feb 2014 09:57 - 5529 of 5603
Bullshare for your attention......... I know when Ive been warned.

Haystack - 12 Feb 2014 09:53 - 5528 of 5528
"I have always thought goldfinger was a wonderful person and so pleasant, intelligent, probably good looking, friendly and an all round good egg". This medication does strange things to you.

A good post from - sobeit -

Edelman shot in the foot

There is an old adage "keep your mouth shut, and you will be considered a wise man".

Bit by bit, Edelman is being flushed out into the open where he is being exposed as a "mouth" without a brain.

Edelman has now come "clean". He admits he is talking about "adware" which is used by every company who gives "free" information in place of advertisements. He is making a broad statement that all "adware" is illegitimate even though he was using Zango as his example which was banned because it was classed as "malware".

But if that is the case, what is Facebook doing, what is Google doing,what is Youtube doing, What is Spotify doing? Will I go on? There are thousands of internet sites and they are all using "adware" presenting us with useless ads which we ignore. So, should we now constitute all of those as "malware" companies?

Take Spotify for example. If you use it, it interplays an advertisement between songs you are listening to unless you pay for the "ad free" version which costs about £10 a month. Is Spotify using illegitimate tactics?

And if you listen to Spotify, it presents ads that have absolutely no relevance to myself, which I close my ears to and so what use are they? Recently, I logged in to a BT email account and got a plethora of advertisements for Littlewoods showing women's underwear. Now, I realised at my age it was a bit too late to turn into a transvestite so what use were they?

So, what is Edelman talking about? Does he think he is St. John the Baptist trying to preach because he is certainly "A voice crying in the wilderness?"

So, Edelman has gone back then years to the Zango situation and he is making the assertion that Blinkx bought 100% of Zango based on a disgruntled, fired member of Zango's previous staff even though Blinkx has categorically denied it bought 100% of Zango. They have claimed they bought some hardware and some IP. Edelman says the whole lot; Blinkx says a small percentage. Why would you believe Edelman?

The fact that Blinkx took over a number of clever staff onto the Blinkx books from Zango is neither here or there. Who would not take the "best brains" if they could find them. Zango was a very clever product. It only made two mistakes; it did not allow users to remove it via Add/Remove and it was ahead of its time. What it was doing is now being done by hundreds perhaps thousands of companies, "legally" on the basis "if you want to use our software and our products you have to put up with a few ads".

How many sites have you been on where that does not happen? Do we care? No, because we get something for "free" and as the old adage says "there ain't no such thing as a free lunch". After all, the likes of academics like Edelman are themselves parasites living off the tax payer and donor money given to Harvard so he too thinks he is on a "free lunch".

The Chinese and the Russians must be laughing up there sleeves at the Edelman attack on Blinkx. Do you think they sit there mulling over "adware" and whether it is legitimate or not?

There is an old sales adage which says, if you send out 100 flyers or phone calls and you get responses from 10% which leads to 5% pretty hot contacts you have success. So, what about the other 90% useless ones? They have cost you money but have produced no reward. So, should you stop doing that? That, in its own way is "adware" and it has been used for years. Just look at the junk mail that comes through your letterbox probably every day which you never look at but just put straight out into the bin. Is all of that wasted?

So, Edelman in his ivory tower can we totally "moral" as he sees it stating "all adware is immoral" but who is going to listen and act upon it? Look at the EU. Last week it backed off from fining Google even though we all know Google has been favouring its own ads but the EU was powerless and gutless even though it claimed too it was "moral".

reposted garbage

The rampers are desperate to discredit Edelman any way they can. It may well turn out that he is right.

If I held as much stock as Blackrock you got two choices ... buy some and look as though you have faith in them (plenty of stock around) or sell it as fast as you can and watch the bottom fall out of it.

Keep praying widow twanky this is going to 80p.

Regards

the market will tell the truth and that is all that matters

Well thats a stupid comment Cyners, I expected more from you.

The markets more often wrong than right.

Just think about it logicaly if the market was always right you me and soft mick would never make a penny.

not as dumb as you think ..... the members here buy and sell shares; ergo, the market tells the truth and with remarkable accuracy as history shows, albeit not necessarily on a day/day basis

BUNKUM.

maybe, but it's certainly a truism in market trading about not trying to piss against the wind - which we all regularly forget

It is true, the market always wins.

I had a good laugh early on the morning, on last night post from " sobeit"

"I logged in to a BT email account and got a plethora of advertisements for Littlewoods showing women's underwear.
Now, I realised at my age it was a bit too late to turn into a transvestite so what use were they?

new one to add for Eldeman >>>>>>>>.. parasite