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8 Apr 2008 07:01

Blinkx Plc08 April 2008 blinkx Partners with Five to Deliver Ground-breaking News to Viewers Daily news highlights at www.blinkx.com SAN FRANCISCO, CALIF. - April 8, 2008 - blinkx, the world's largest video searchengine, today announced a partnership with Five (www.five.tv). Visitors toblinkx.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 AdHocplatform to place contextually relevant advertising against the footage, andwill share resulting advertising revenue with Five. Five News is home to newscaster Natasha Kaplinsky, who joined the stationearlier this year to anchor the 5 p.m. and 7 p.m. news bulletins. Users willhave access to Kaplinsky's news bulletins, updated daily. A pioneer of newsstyle and format, and a recipient of numerous awards, Five News will also makedaily news highlights available to blinkx users throughout the day. "Our partnership with Five and other news providers makes it even easier for ourusers to have access to diverse coverage of world events," said SurangaChandratillake, 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," saidJonathan Lewis, head of Digital Media, Five. "We're pleased to leverage blinkx'sunique 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 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 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'sexisting 24-hour operation consisting of eight regional and seven internationalbureau: Washington; Moscow, Jerusalem, Delhi, Beijing, Johannesburg andBrussels. Press Contacts for blinkx:Tim TurpinSparkpr+1 (415) 321 1894tim.turpin@sparkpr.com Clare GaynerBite Communications+44 (0)20 8834 3454Clare.Gayner@bitepr.com For Five News corporate information, presenter information and visuals contact:Kay Breeze - Head of Factual and Features PublicityTel: 020 7550 5659Email: kay.breeze@five.tv Tristan Hopkins - Deputy Picture EditorTel: 020 7550 5583Email: tristan.hopkins@five.tv For Five News editorial information, screen grabs, play down the lines,exclusives and specific programming details contact:Stella Tooth - Head of Sky News PublicityTel: + 44 (0) 20 7800 4289 - 07802 754877Email: stella.tooth@bskyb.com Charlotte Reed - Sky News Assistant PublicistTel: 020 7705 3417 - 07920 027829Email: charlotte.reed@bskyb.com Philippa Stephens - Sky News Publicity AssistantTel: 0207 705 3417Email: philippa.stephens@bskyb.co.uk This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock Exchange