blinkx, the world´s largest video search engine, today announced a
partnership with Five (www.five.tv). Visitors to blinkx.com will now
be able to view highlights from Five News (www.five.tv/news). 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 Five.
Five News is home to newscaster Natasha Kaplinsky, who joined the
station earlier this year to anchor the 5 p.m. and 7 p.m. news
bulletins. Users will have access to Kaplinsky´s news bulletins,
updated daily. A pioneer of news style and format, and a recipient of
numerous awards, Five News will also make daily news highlights
available to blinkx users throughout the day.
"Our partnership with Five and other news providers makes it even
easier for our users to have access to diverse coverage of world
events," said Suranga Chandratillake, founder and CEO, blinkx. "We´re
delighted to bring Five News´ perspective on current affairs to
blinkx.com."
"More viewers are turning to the Web for their news than ever
before," said Jonathan Lewis, head of Digital Media, Five. "We´re
pleased to leverage blinkx´s unique search technology to make our
content fully searchable and accessible, thereby increasing our
exposure to new audiences everywhere."
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 Five News
Five News is produced by Sky News. As well as a dedicated team of
60 reporters, producers and technicians, the agreement includes
unrestricted access to Sky´s existing 24-hour operation consisting of
eight regional and seven international bureau: Washington; Moscow,
Jerusalem, Delhi, Beijing, Johannesburg and Brussels.
