blinkx Partners With Design2Share to Deliver Home Decorating Tips and Tricks
blinkx, the world´s largest video search engine, today announced a
partnership with Design2Share (www.design2share.com), providing users
with insight into all the dos and don´ts of interior design. Now
easily accessible through blinkx, Design2Share Q&A is a video podcast
series hosted by design expert Irwin Weiner and senior designer Nicola
Chernicoff that seeks to answer every home design question in the
book. Under the terms of the agreement, blinkx will leverage its AdHoc
platform to place contextually relevant advertising against the
footage, and will share resulting advertising revenue with
Design2Share.
Bringing years of experience to the screen, Weiner and Chernicoff
provide viewers with design tips, advice and personal pet peeves.
Having just completed its first season, Design2Share Q&A not only
clues viewers in on what works and how to create timeless interiors,
but trains them to appreciate beautiful design with a discerning eye.
"The enormous popularity of home improvement television has
dramatically expanded the scope of related programming on both the TV
and the Web," said Suranga Chandratillake, founder and CEO, blinkx.
"Through our partnership with Design2Share, viewers will now be able
to find the expertise they need at blinkx.com to complete their own
decorating projects."
"We really value the opportunity to share our passion for design
with an even larger audience," said Jay Johnson, co-founder and CEO,
Design2Share. "Partnering with blinkx enables us to expand our
ever-growing audience, and brings us closer to achieving our goal of
cultivating a community of design enthusiasts who are free to share
and learn from each another."
As the pioneer in video search technology, 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 Design2Share
D2S, an online home interior design community, offers decorating
and style tips and resources, including Q&A design videos, luxury home
tours, design diaries, ideas to help homeowners tackle their next
project, and much more. Founded in 2006 by noted New York interior
designer Irwin Weiner and publishing executive Jay Johnson, D2S offers
expert advice and an industry showcase for high-end designers and
residential resources.