blinkx Brings The Poker Channel?s Premium Programming to the Table
blinkx, the world´s largest video search
engine, today announced a partnership with The Poker Channel (www.pokerchanneleurope.com)
the world´s first television channel dedicated
to poker and gaming entertainment. Hundreds of clips from Europe´s
largest library of poker programming are now easily accessible at www.blinkx.com.
Leveraging its unique AdHoc platform, blinkx will also place
contextually relevant advertising against the footage and share the
resulting revenue with The Poker Channel.
Launched in the U.K. in 2005, The Poker Channel provides seasoned
enthusiasts and casual players alike original poker programming from
around the world that seeks to embody the culture, lifestyle and
attitude of poker fans. The Poker Channel is home to diverse, quality
gambling entertainment, offering tournaments, educational videos and "Pokumentaries" on demand. From footage of top pros, including Chris "Jesus" Ferguson and Howard Lederer, to videos on how to play aggressive
winning poker, users will now find it all on www.blinkx.com.
"Poker´s online
and TV presence has grown exponentially in the past few years, with The
Poker Channel as an early pioneer," said
Suranga Chandratillake, founder and CEO, blinkx. "We´re
thrilled to partner with The Poker Channel to bring the best poker
footage to our users."
"We´re delighted
to partner with blinkx to make our world-class programming available to
international audiences everywhere," said
Chris White, commercial director, Poker Channel Europe. "blinkx´s
unique search technology ensures users can easily access our extensive
mix of tournaments, high stakes cash games, news and instructional shows."
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 Poker Channel
The Poker Channel is now broadcast to over 15 million cable and
satellite homes in 12 markets. On 1 April 2008 continued its
multi-platform expansion, launching as the first and only dedicated
poker channel in the Netherlands on the UPC Digital platform and also on
KPN.
In the UK on Sky Channel 167 from 9pm to 7am
In France on Noos, Numericable and Free (Channels 48, 95 and 145
respectively)
In Germany on Kabel Deutschland, KBW, Unity Media, NetCologne
NetMartens, Zattoo
In Belgium on BeTV and Coditel
In Netherlands on UPC Digital (Channel 127) and KPN (Channel 316)
In Finland, on Welho (Channel 212) and Canal Digital (Channel 94)
In Norway, Sweden and Denmark on Canal Digital (Channel 94)
In Iceland on Skjarinn
In Spain on Imagenio (Channel 98) and Zattoo
In Malta on MelitaCable (Channel 209)
Pan-Europe: at 1° West with set top box
tuned to 11.229 GHZ Horizontal
Millions of viewers around the world can also view the Channel´s
programming at dedicated online Poker Channel destinations including
YouTube, Vuze, Joost and www.pokerchanneleurope.com.