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9 Apr 2008 07:01

Blinkx Plc09 April 2008 blinkx Expands Native Language Video Index with EuroNews Partnership Top News, Weather and Sports in 7 European Languages Fully Searchable at blinkx.com SAN FRANCISCO, CALIF. - April 09, 2008 - blinkx, the world's largest videosearch engine, today announced a partnership with EuroNews (www.euronews.net),the first multilingual pan-European news channel. Broadcast all over the worldin several languages, EuroNews' international coverage is now more easilyaccessible than ever before at www.blinkx.com. Under the terms of the agreement,blinkx will leverage its AdHoc platform to place contextually relevantadvertising against the footage, and will share resulting advertising revenuewith EuroNews. EuroNews produces and broadcasts news programs simultaneously in severallanguages on issues that are relevant to both the European Union and the world.EuroWeb is available 24 hours a day in seven languages including English,French, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese and Russian, with Arabic set to beadded later this year. EuroNews offers viewers a complete news bulletin on thehalf hour, followed by unique, in-depth feature programs covering a diversecollection of topics ranging from science and technology to cinema and fashion. "Current affairs-oriented searches are among the most popular at blinkx.com,"said Suranga Chandratillake, founder and CEO, blinkx. "EuroNews'up-to-the-minute coverage brings the European perspective to our users aroundthe world. Our partnership gives viewers access to one of the leading newschannels in Europe," "We're pleased to be working with blinkx to make EuroNews' content available tothe global audience." said Philippe Cayla, Chairman and CEO of EuroNews,EuroNews. "blinkx's technology enables users to search video much more easily,delivering the most tailored, accurate results on the Web." As the pioneer in video search technology, blinkx has built a reputation as thesmartest way to search new forms of online content such as video. With more than220 partners and 18 million hours of indexed video and audio content, includingfavorite TV moments, news clips, short documentaries, music videos, video blogsand more, blinkx uses advanced speech-recognition technology to deliver resultsthat are more accurate and reliable than standard metadata-based keywordsearches. About blinkx blinkx plc (LSE AIM: BLNX) is the world's most comprehensive video searchengine. 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 anduser-generated content on the Web explode, keyword-based search technologiesonly scratch the surface. blinkx's patented search technologies listen to - andeven see - the Web, helping users enjoy a breadth and accuracy of search resultsnot available elsewhere. In addition, blinkx powers the video search for many ofthe world's most frequented sites. blinkx is based in San Francisco and London.More information is available at www.blinkx.com. About EuroNews Launched in January 1993 EuroNews covers world affairs from a Europeanperspective. EuroNews is the most-watched international news channel in Europe:every day, 3.2 million Europeans watch EuroNews on cable and satellite, whileanother 3.1 million watch on terrestrial channels (Source: EuroNews/TelmarPeaktime(c), evaluation system based on viewer ratings, 3rd quarter 2007). EuroNews is broadcast all over the world, reaching 200 million households in 130countries by cable, digital satellite and terrestrial distribution. The channelis also available on mobile phones, ADSL, PDA, live on the internet and live onboard the aircraft of international airlines. EuroNews is broadcast 24 hours aday, simultaneously in seven languages: English, French, German, Italian,Spanish, Portuguese and Russian. Arabic will become EuroNews' eighthfully-fledged language, and the service will be launched by the channel'snewsroom in 2008. Press Contacts: Tim TurpinSparkpr+1 (415) 321 1894tim.turpin@sparkpr.com Clare GaynerBite Communications+44 (0)20 8834 3454Clare.Gayner@bitepr.com Lydie BonvalletEuroNews+33 4 72 18 80 56bonvallet@euronews.net This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock Exchange