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blinkx Signs Top Indie Media Partners to Bring Users Thousands of Hours of Cutting-Edge Film, Television and Music Programming



    blinkx, the world´s largest video search engine, 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
    film, television and music programming. Through the partnerships,
    content will be fully searchable and playable at www.blinkx.com.
    Leveraging its unique AdHoc platform, blinkx will also place
    contextually relevant advertising against the video and share
    resulting revenue with partners.

    As barriers to online content distribution fall and search
    continues to improve, many independent filmmakers are able to realize
    the true potential of online television and video. Traditionally,
    showcasing and distributing work to large audiences has been a
    struggle. However, as levels of quality and consumption evolve,
    independent producers are well-positioned to leverage and monetize
    their work online via partnerships with companies like blinkx.

    "The Internet has enabled a generation of young filmmakers to
    express creativity and make it available for millions of viewers
    around the world in a way never before possible," said Louise Kierans,
    president of YoungCuts Film Festival, an event showcasing the best
    independent films by undiscovered talents.

    "Forget the movie theater, Sundance, or even your television -
    many of the most talented and innovative writers, producers and
    directors are bringing content directly to the Internet," said Suranga
    Chandratillake, founder and CEO of blinkx. "blinkx is thrilled to
    serve as a vehicle for making this original, avant-garde entertainment
    easily searchable and available to viewers everywhere."

    "We create original programming and channels designed specifically
    for digital platforms," said Mark Benmore, chief operating officer of
    MoMedia International, a leading producer and distributor of digital
    video for IPTV, mobile, broadband and narrowcasting platforms. "There
    is an insatiable appetite for digital entertainment and it´s growing
    all the time. With blinkx, we easily deliver our content, making it
    available to a limitless audience."

    As the pioneer in video search technology, blinkx serves more than
    50 million unique visitors every month. blinkx has built a reputation
    as the smartest way to search new forms of online content such as
    video. With more than 220 partners and 18 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.

    About blinkx

    blinkx plc (LSE AIM: BLNX) is the world´s most comprehensive video
    search engine. Today, blinkx has indexed more than 18 million hours of
    audio, video, viral and TV content, and made it fully searchable and
    available on demand. blinkx´s founders set out to solve a significant
    challenge - as TV and user-generated content on the Web explode,
    keyword-based search technologies only scratch the surface. blinkx´s
    patented search technologies listen to - and even see - the Web,
    helping users enjoy a breadth and accuracy of search results not
    available elsewhere. In addition, blinkx powers the video search for
    many of the world´s most frequented sites. blinkx is based in San
    Francisco and London. More information is available at www.blinkx.com.

    About Calon TV

    Calon TV is a new company formed by the former management of
    Siriol Productions. Siriol were the producers of the BAFTA-winning
    SuperTed, Hilltop Hospital and the animated Under Milk Wood.
    www.calon.tv/keepfit.html

    About ChannelFlip.com

    ChannelFlip.com is an end-to-end video production company based in
    Oxford, England, that makes TV programs, sells advertising on them and
    distributes them over the internet to viewers. www.channelflip.com

    About Channel X

    Channel X is one of the U.K.´s leading comedy and entertainment
    specialists with a 20 year history of producing cutting-edge
    award-winning programs for all the major U.K. broadcasters. The
    company specializes in scripted broken and narrative comedy,
    comedy-entertainment formats and game shows and has worked with all
    the leading comedy talent in the U.K. for the last two decades.
    www.channelx.co.uk

    About Foothill Entertainment

    Foothill Entertainment is a family-owned production company based
    in Santa Barbara, California. Formed September 2000 by Gregory Payne
    and Jo Kavanagh-Payne, Foothill specializes in the co-development and
    distribution of family and children´s entertainment programming.
    Foothill also acts as executive producer of projects in all media,
    using years of media expertise to help fund and distribute advances
    and pre-sales of family-friendly entertainment across the globe.
    www.foothillentertainment.com

    About Future Shorts

    Future Shorts is the largest and most innovative short-film label
    in the world. Operating in 25 countries with 15,000 attending monthly,
    the festival has redefined the short-film medium in international
    screen culture. Future Shorts Distribution acts as a unique deliverer
    of the very best short format entertainment to multiple platforms
    worldwide. www.futureshorts.com

    About jeko.tv

    jeko.tv was created to broadcast high-quality documentaries, short
    films, music videos, reports and video art. www.jeko.tv

    About Journeyman Pictures

    Journeyman Pictures is London´s leading independent distributor of
    topical news features, documentaries and footage. We´re like a video
    encyclopedia of the world. Use this Web site to preview our latest
    films, as advertised in ´The Journeyman Weekly´, or to search our
    archive of over 4,000 films. http://journeyman.tv

    About Looking Glass International

    LGI is an Australia-based independent production and distribution
    company specializing in factual programming to the international
    market. Our catalogue includes award-winning documentaries as well as
    programmes covering the genres of history, science, natural history,
    travel/lifestyle and people & places. Whether you are looking for
    compelling stories about the world or an irreverent but passionate
    look at the world from another point of view, LGI will bring you some
    of the best stories out there! www.lookingglassint.com

    About MoMedia International

    MoMedia International is a leading digital producer and
    distributor of entertainment programmes for mobile networks, broadband
    internet, IPTV and emerging digital platforms. Backed by Endemol and
    with offices in London and Hong Kong, MoMedia manages the digital
    rights to thousands of hours of content from 60+ production companies,
    distributing content globally to over 35 countries. The company also
    creates original programming and channels that are designed
    specifically for digital platforms. MoMedia was founded in 2004 by
    Lucas Bertrand and Mark Benmore. www.momediatv.com

    About Monster Distributes

    Monster Distributes is an international distribution company. Its
    flagship projects include the 130 episode music series, Planet Rock
    Profiles, which has sold to 162 countries and 61 airlines, the 2005
    Oscar nominated best Short Animation, The Mysterious Geographic
    Explorations of Jasper Morello, the 2004 Oscar winning Short Animated
    Film, Harvie Krumpet, and more. www.monsterdistributes.com

    About Reelport GmbH

    Reelport.com is the only platform world-wide that enables a
    complete digital submission process for buyers and sellers, film
    festivals and film archives. Thousands of users distribute more than
    10,000 short and feature films via the online b2b platform
    reelport.com. Renowned international festivals and satellite TV, VoD
    and Web-TV services view and acquire films in Reelport´s online film
    catalogue. www.reelport.com

    About Wysiwyg Films

    Wysiwyg acquires independent content and distributes it through
    all reputable digital outlets. If you have bought a set-top-box,
    downloaded a DVD or streamed a show from any reputable service then
    the chances are that you already have access to Wysiwyg´s quality
    content. This ranges from the Mike Leigh endorsed urban drama, ´The
    Plague´, to the immensely popular Caribbean TV serial, ´Westwood
    Park´. www.wysiwygfilms.com

    About YoungCuts

    The YoungCuts Film Festival is the premiere showcase for great
    short films by the best young filmmakers. In addition to promoting
    great undiscovered talent, YoungCuts works with young filmmakers to
    produce and virally distribute branded entertainment.
    www.youngcuts.com