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8 Nov 2007 07:03

Blinkx Plc08 November 2007 blinkx Partners with New York French Press for Premium Financial News Content blinkx Expands Native Language Video Index With Live Reports from the New York Stock Exchange in French and Spanish SAN FRANCISCO, CALIF. - November 8, 2007 - blinkx, the largest video searchengine on the Web, today announced a partnership with New York French Press(NYFP), a leading provider of premium financial video programs and one of thefew companies in the world to have access to the New York Stock Exchange videoinfrastructure. Under the terms of the agreement, blinkx will host, transcribeand index video content from NYFP at www.blinkx.com. Leveraging its uniqueAdHoc platform, blinkx will also place contextually relevant advertising againstthe footage, and will share resulting ad revenue with NYFP. NYFP produces broadcast-quality financial videos for television channels, Websites and mobile media, reporting live in French, Spanish, English and Arabic,and producing around eight to ten videos every day. "We're delighted to be adding NYFP's premium financial news content to our videoindex," said Suranga Chandratillake, founder and CEO of blinkx. "Thispartnership increases our lead as the Web's largest video search engine, andreinforces our commitment to enabling audiences in international markets tosearch for online video in their native language." "We're pleased to partner with blinkx and increase our exposure to newaudiences," said Pierre Alexandre, founder, New York French Press. "We have avideo library of several thousand titles that will now be easily searchable atwww.blinkx.com." 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 NYFP New York French Press LLC is a media company created in June 2005 by PierreAlexandre, former Wall Street correspondent for LCI, first French news TVnetwork. NYFP produces broadcast quality financial videos for televisionchannels, web sites and mobile media (Ipods, mobile phone). The Company has anexclusive partnership with the television network France 24 for daily "live"reports in French, English and Arabic from the New York Stock Exchange. And apartnership with Orange (Group France Telecom). The quality video streams appearon more than 130 partner sites, including www.tradingsat.com, www.capitol.fr,www.capital.fr, www.fortuneo.fr, www.lefigaro.fr, www.boursorama.fr,www.cambiste.fr, www.lexpansion.fr, www.boursedirect.fr. NYFP owns two web siteswww.Bourse24.tv in French and www.BusinessCenter.Tv in English Since august2007, NYFP has developed in partnership with TradingCentral(www.Tradingcentral.com) a new video offer for financial institutions. Moreinformation is available at www.nyfp.tv . Press Contacts: Rachel PetersenOutCast Communications415-392-8282Rachel@outcastpr.com This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock Exchange