blinkx Partners With The Roland Collection to Bring Users an International Collection of Films on Art

blinkx, the world´s largest video search engine, today announced a
partnership with The Roland Collection (www.rolandcollection.com) to
bring users an impressive library of films on art. Now available at
www.blinkx.com, programs within The Roland Collection contain more
than 26 million cinematic images spanning a variety of art ranging
from prehistoric times to the architecture of the future, with
insights into the work of modern authors. 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 The Roland Collection.

Rediscovering and preserving content from around the world, the
Roland Collection´s comprehensive compilation of films and videos on
art offers viewers a unique look into vast worlds of content. From
ancient stone circles to the Bauhaus and beyond, the Roland Collection
has spent more than 40 years selecting titles of lasting importance
and securing content that educates, challenges and inspires.

"With the explosion of the Internet and the evolution of online
video and digital art mediums, it´s easy to overlook earlier forms of
art, many of which are still very relevant today," said Suranga
Chandratillake, founder and CEO, blinkx. "The Roland Collection
bridges these worlds, providing viewers with access to a number of art
periods, subjects and mediums. We´re excited to bring this collection
of videos to blinkx.com."

"We consider the art film to be a holistic medium for
communicating the interconnectedness of art and life," said Anthony
Roland, founder and curator, The Roland Collection. "By leveraging
blinkx´s unique video search technology, we´re able to share our
philosophy, along with our comprehensive collection of films on art,
with a global audience who might not have located these treasures
otherwise. In addition, our users have access to blinkx´s incredibly
intuitive and dynamic Video Walls, which they can embed into their own
art blogs and Web sites."

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 The Roland Collection

During a 45 year period, The Roland Collection has enjoyed a
unique position in both the art world and film world. The Collection
offers inexhaustible worlds of history, culture, philosophy, emotion,
human document, celebration, protest, moral challenge and imaginative
liberation - all embodied in the forms of art.

Representing the selected award winning productions of 230 film
makers from 25 countries, The Roland Collection distributes their work
to 4,000 institutions: museums, universities, schools and libraries in
82 countries.

To offer the widest access, in the 1980´s, a patented design of an
arena of 16 open air cinemas presented 100 films on art nightly with
summer seasons: at The National Mall, Washington, D.C., New York City
and Edinburgh. For the Millennium, a system of 100 magic sound zones
was installed throughout The English Gardens of Regent´s Park, London.

By pioneering the use of digital technology, The Roland Collection
wishes now to offer everyone the embedding of hundreds of film clips
and many Video Walls as a proactive introduction to the wonderful
world of films on art.