blinkx, the world´s largest video search engine, today announced
partnerships with Cheflive, Kitchen Caravan and Savory Cities to offer
viewers a wide range of food-related programming that is sure to
please every palate. 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 advertising revenue with the
partners.
All three partnerships serve up satisfyingly useful and
entertaining content. Las Vegas-based Cheflive provides viewers with
exclusive cooking tips and tricks from Sin City´s talented chefs.
Kitchen Caravan produces weekly episodes that focus on healthy meals
made with fresh, quality ingredients, and online restaurant guide,
Savory Cities, features an extensive collection of video profiles of
top chefs and chef recommendations for numerous restaurants across
America.
"We´re delighted to make this wealth of professionally-produced
content available to our viewers," said Suranga Chandratillake,
founder and CEO, blinkx. "Everyone from gourmands to casual chefs can
now easily find and watch these highly informative and appealing
videos on blinkx.com."
"Cheflive features world-class chefs teaching viewers how to
prepare gourmet dishes and become pros in the kitchen," said John
Guinivere, CEO, Cheflive. "blinkx is the perfect vehicle for our
content because it allows users to easily access and engage with our
instructional cooking videos."
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 Cheflive
Cheflive is a broadcast show and online social network about food.
Cheflive will be on their second road trip this year, traveling around
the country in an RV with a film crew, stopping in on chefs in B&B´s,
the top restaurants and many unique food and cooking venues. They will
also be shooting Pantry Raid, a show where their traveling chef knocks
on the door of college fraternities and sororities and prepares a meal
from whatever is found in their fridge and cupboard. Cheflive is also
teaming up with HD production companies to create additional content
for their multiple distribution channels. If interested you are
encouraged to contact John Guinivere via e-mail john@cheflive.com.
About Kitchen Caravan
Kitchen Caravan is an online cooking show that travels the world
through food. Through weekly episodes, we teach viewers how to prepare
healthy food using fresh, seasonal ingredients. Our recipes blend
journeys to far off lands with local ingredients and the pleasure of
good company. With the kitchen as your caravan, let your imagination
whisk you away!
About Savory Cities
Savory Cities is the leading video restaurant guide featuring over
200 editorial video profiles of top restaurants in New York City, San
Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago and Seattle. Each video features the
chef or restaurateur talking about the concept, atmosphere and food at
their restaurant. Featured chefs include Thomas Keller of The French
Laundry, Daniel Boulud of Restaurant Daniel and Joel Robuchon of
L´Atelier de Joel Robuchon. Founded in 2005, Savory Cities is
privately held and based in New York City. Visit
http://newyork.savorycities.com for more information.