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blinkx is the world’s largest and most advanced video search engine.
Founded in 2004 by Suranga Chandratillake, the company completed a tremendously successful IPO on the London Stock Exchange (AIM) in May, 2007 and currently has a market capitalization of US$350M*, with headquarters in San Francisco, CA and the UK.
Unlike other multimedia search engines that attempt to
re-purpose technology built for the Text Web, blinkx uses a unique
combination ...

blinkx Signs 13 Top Independent Content Providers

blinkx today announced that it has partnered with 13 new independent content providers including Calon TV, ChannelFlip.com, Channel X, Foothill Entertainment, Future Shorts, jeko.tv, Journeyman Pictures, Looking Glass International, MoMedia, Monster Distributes, Reelport, Wysiwyg Films and YoungCuts to bring users thousands of hours of cutting-edge ...

Pixsy Video Search Powers Maxim Digital Video

Video search platform Pixsy announced a deal with Maxim Digital, the family of Web sites targeting young men. Under the deal, Pixsy will power video and photo search for Maxim.com, Blender.com and Stuffmagazine.com. Pixsy is one of a handful of video search providers, including AOL's ...

Blinkx Partners With Real Estate TV for Online Real Estate Video

blinkx.com has entered into a partnership with Real Estate TV, a UK-based property channel, to give viewers access to real estate videos on the web.  The video search engine company said will it place contextually relevant advertising against the footage and will share the resulting ...

Online Video Future - Kills The Studios!

I wanted to share another great post titled, "Kill the Studios!" from Kevin Maney at Portfolio.com. To sum it up real quick, this post covers in good detail why major studios and TV networks have much to fear with the real threat of online video ...

blinkx Video Search Expands Supported Languages

San Francisco, California - (Website Hosting Directory) - December 17, 2007 - Video search engine, blinkx, has expanded its video search service into Western Europe, offering search capabilities in French, German and Spanish, to make it easier for international audiences to search for online video ...

Blinkx Video Search Index - 18 Million Hours

Blinkx sure does do a great job with their PR. Seems like every day there is a new post or press release with their founder and CEO praising them as the largest video search engine. Just an observation. I found a very interesting post and ...

Blinkx - Fastest Growing Video Spot On Web - Record Growth Reported

blinkx tops 4.5 million daily searches, record growth reported by comScore Media Metrix, Hitwise, Quantcast and Compete.com blinkx, the largest video search engine on the Web, today announced new metrics from third party reporting agencies, comScore, Hitwise and Quantcast, which confirm explosive growth in search ...

Sproose - Social Video Search Engine and Voting

Sproose, delivers a "human popularity voting" model where each user may influence the ranking of the index creating improved search results. The more users that vote a site the further up in the ranking it moves. The same voting technology is now being applied to ...

Where To Submit Videos and Video RSS/MRSS Feeds

mrss-feeds

I am not sure why but it is a pain in the ass to find the URLs for the various video search and video sharing websites where you can upload your video and/or submit your video RSS and/or MRSS feeds. So, I spent some time ...

How To Submit Videos To Blinkx Video Search

The easiest way for video content producers to make certain that their videos appear within Blinkx.com video search engine, is to add your video RSS or Media RSS (MRSS) feeds to the URL below. Blinkx will then automatically monitor your feed at least once per ...

$60 Plus CPM for Video Overlay Ads - Blinkx

According to Suranga, Blinkx is offering overlay video ads and is, at times, charging "north of $60 dollars" per thousand views (CPM). This is very interesting news and comes just after a report from Forrester showing that online video advertising will reach $7.1 Billion in ...

Truveo Video Search - Detailed Overview and History

Truveo was founded in 2004. In the latter half of the year 2005, Truveo launched its commercial video search service, which was immediately recognized for significantly improving the quality of video searches as compared to the traditional search engines. It is based on a unique ...

blinkx -18 Billion Hours Indexed, 280% More Searches

I just came across a press release from blinkx today titled, "blinkx Advances Lead in Video Search, Surpasses New Milestone With Over 18 Million Hours of Content and More Than 220 Media Partnerships." It appears at least that this could have been released just prior ...

Video Industry Weekly Recap - 10/26/2007

Youtube announces improved Features Although they do not disclose all that is coming, they do show a sneak preview of Youtube's new video browsing page.  Searchles Search Engine, Develops Video Search Library Platform The new video search indexes videos from multiple sources including YouTube, Google, ...

Video Interview - Video Search Must Be "Universal"

As you may have heard the popular site podzinger.com was renamed to everyzing.com several months ago. Similar to Blinkx.com, this company is a speech-to-text search technology company (known to be heavily funded with national security $$). The company has had experience in indexing podcasts and ...

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