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.

http://www.moneyam.com/action/news/showArticle?id=4782268


London, England and San Francisco, CA - 31March 2014 - blinkx plc ("blinkx" or the "Company"), today provides a trading update for the financial year ending 31 March 2014 (FY2014). The Company expects to report revenues in the range of $245 to $247 million and Adjusted EBITDA in the range of $37 to $39 million, in line with market consensus. The company plans to release the results for Financial Year 2014 on6 May 2014.

Final Results

Business Highlights

· Revenue increased by 25% to $247.2 million, from $198.0 million in FY2013
· Adjusted* EBITDA increased by 31% to $39.6 million, from $30.2 million in FY2013
· Adjusted* profit before tax of $31.9 million, an increase from $24.6 million in FY2013
· Net cash at year-end was $126.9 million, an increase from $55.9 million in FY2013 benefiting from strong cash conversion ratio* of 162% and issuance of shares.
· Secured new content and syndication partnerships, including ABC, GameSpot, NHL, IGN, Discovery Networks, Condé Nast and E! Entertainment
· Added marquee brand advertisers, including Warner Brothers, Toyota, Reebok, Gap, Clorox, Microsoft and L'Oreal
· Acquired trade and certain assets of Grab Media, the leading digital video syndication platform
· Acquired Rhythm NewMedia, the ultra-premium mobile video technology platform
· Expanded Board of Directors with respected US and UK business and technology leaders
· Expanded the leadership team in critical areas of Product, Business and Technology with new executives
· Hosted inaugural Capital Markets Day for institutional investors, featuring representatives from across the digital advertising ecosystem including Yahoo, Nielsen and comScore

BLINKX ACQUIRES LYFE MOBILE

Numis (house) broker note out yesterday:
Blinkx has reported finals for the year to March which are slightly ahead of NSe and guidance, with revenues of $247m (NSe $246m, guidance $245-7m) and EBITDA of $39.6m (NSe $38m, guidance $37-39m). The group indicates that the blog impacted revenues by $10-15m in the year as clients paused spend, but that following the Capital Markets Day and detailed rebuttal in April, client spend has started to return to normal from May and we are holding our EBITDA forecast on an underlying basis. The group has announced the acquisition of Lyfe Mobile, a demand side platform in mobile, for an undisclosed amount. We expect Lyfe to lose -$1m in 2015 and Blinkx will invest a further -$1m to build upon the Lfye business to develop its position in video, mobile and programmatic. Accordingly, we trim our EBITDA estimate to $43m (was $45m) and our EPS(c) forecast to 6.6c (was 6.9c). We have moved our FX assumption to $1.65 which gives EPSp of 4.0p (was 4.3p). We are encouraged to see client spend returning to pre-blog levels and are supportive of the continued development of mobile.
2014 results. Normalised PBT/EPS of $31.8m/6.9c was ahead of NSe $31.5m/6.3c.
Revenues. Group revenues rose +25% to $247m, with H1 +36% but H2 curtailed to +17% by the blog, which impacted Q4 revenues by $10-15m. Rhythm generated revenues of $10m in Q4 and has performed ahead of expectations; it is reported within Premium. Revenues in Premium rose +22% to $189m, with CPT rising sharply and conversion lower as advertisers focus on high quality content. Conventional increased +44% to $52m with pricing down but volumes up strongly, both due to mobile.
EBITDA. Group EBITDA rose +31% to £39.6m, ahead of NSe $38.0m, and would have been $3-5m higher but for the revenues lost following the blog.
Balance sheet. Net cash finished the period at $127m, with conversion very strong in the year. We forecast an increase to $155m by the year end, equal to 23p per share. Mobile. The Rhythm acquisition completed in December has performed ahead of expectations, with revenues $10m and EBITDA close to breakeven (NSe $6m, -$1m loss). The group has this morning announced the acquisition of Lyfe Mobile, a demand side platform in mobile, for an undisclosed sum. We forecast Lyfe will incur a -$1m loss in 2015 and Blinkx is accelerating investment by $1m to build upon the Lyfe Mobile business in video, mobile and programmatic.

Sp taking a knock again......

knock??????
more like henry cooper in his prime!

What's it all about this time? Presumably something in the results !

"Alfie"

Pretty much all of the declared short interests have closed....from 10% down to about 1% now.

but does that necessarily make it a buy?

Where can you get short figures these days. ?

All those sites that gave the figures seem to have closed down.

Short Tracker

Yep skinny got that one was really meaning PIs who were short, ie the full figure with funds included.

That's the only one I have these days.

Are any PI's going to have opened a large enough position to have to declare it?

Yep Evil K for a kick off and plenty of others eg, Alpesh Patel.

Anyway on one site all PIs were bundled together and thats the figure Im looking for.

IG these days give some idea on THEIR stats but they are just one player in the market.

goldfinger

Haven't taken much interest in this one , are you saying EK & Patel have short postions . is it time to go long now ?

EK I hear as a short position alders, not sure about AP at the moment.

What Im looking for is the overall position of stock on loan not just what the funds have borrowed.

The more stock on loan and the bigger the gain if the company releases good news.

Just think of all the shorters having to buy back.

Cynic makes a good point though above.

Trying to catch the bounce is a mugs game imo gf but good luck ... hope you time it better than that idiot panto !

panto is no idiot, though it's a pity he can never own up to when he gets a wrong call - as do we all