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.

i only have about 50% stake here (at cost), but cannot persuade myself to buy more

Never go against gut feeling...it becomes less painful...but i believe your gut needs treating to a pastis...

it's watching the golf in the office!
it's not gut feeling that prevents me from buying, but rather a lack of any idea where sp might be headed or what is currently a fair or reasonable level for this

I am also watching Golf.you must learn to multi-taskat least thats what the little angel says
Going to be in the good books tonightand bring on CHEAP any day now

rumours of a deal with ericcson to follow samsung deal--others in the pipeline.
Citigroup has raised its target on blinkx to 100p from 55p----nice! but nowhere near the price it will be one day--tra la!

Heard that about Ericcson too Moneyall to the good.

Have you heard the one that this will be 350--under 2 years circa google. Oh my I can hardly concentrate on the screen!

also tipped in the mail today I think.

dil's just wet his pants!

lol.

Skinny.some large sales just gone in [72.5p]what odds an 80p close?

I'd of thought a bit of profit taking before the weekend? Over 800k on plus as well today.

CHEAP+ could be announced first thing Mondaywho knows? who can take a chance?

Sorry Tabby shorted BLNX 73.25

And I suppose you will be closing that position later on this afternoon with a couple of pencelol

confess i have banked my very profitable trade too, though using CFDs, one's logic and discipline (if applied!) are slightly different

i would not be at all surprised if i find myself buying back in next week, but shall see ...... have also now banked all my very tasty profit in MATD for same reason

Don't know until 16.25 not big position but gives me a couple of hundred quid per point loss. 600 in the pot now, if it goes to a grand will close, beer money & hoe hire for tonight.

you mean you have to hire gardening tools?
if a hoe is that much, goodness knows what a rotovator would cost

Perhaps he hasn't mispelled it....the quirky things people get up to....

It's boys night out we get drunk and hire ladies of the night usually a couple each, for fun games. It is normal in LOS