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15 Sep 2009 07:00
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VMS to Leverage blinkx Video Index for Comprehensive News Monitoring and Reporting Services
Worldwide leader in integrated media intelligenceΒ solutionsΒ tapsΒ blinkxΒ to enhanceΒ itsΒ extensiveΒ suite of productsΒ Β
SAN FRANCISCO,Β CALIF.Β -Β September 15, 2009Β -Β blinkx, the world's largest and most advanced video search engine, today announcedΒ a technology partnership withΒ VMS,Β provider ofΒ the industry's most comprehensive news monitoring andΒ measurement,Β and ad intelligence business solutions. VMS clients will now have organized access to blinkx's index of over 35 million hours of audio and videoΒ webΒ content.
Industry leaderΒ VMS provides public relationsΒ firms, advertising agencies, andΒ marketers worldwideΒ with fully integratedΒ news and advertising monitoring across all media,Β includingΒ television, radio,Β Internet,Β print,Β blogs, international, outdoor and cinema,Β in more markets than anyone else. Furthering its commitment to providingΒ clients with the most cutting-edge servicesΒ available,Β VMS has partnered with blinkx to enhance itsΒ media intelligence softwareΒ suite. Thousands ofΒ VMS clients will now haveΒ easyΒ access toΒ relevant video news coverage,Β drawingΒ from blinkx'sΒ massive index of over 35 million hours ofΒ InternetΒ content.
"blinkx's advancedΒ videoΒ technologyΒ indexes news feeds from a wide variety of sources across the Web,Β and makes sense of huge amountsΒ online videoΒ quickly and accurately," said Suranga Chandratillake,Β founder and CEO, blinkx. "We areΒ pleasedΒ toΒ provide VMS's clients with a comprehensive roundup of the most timely, relevant news coverage possible, and are confident clients will be pleased with the results."
"Across all media, in all markets, public relationsΒ practitionersΒ and marketing professionalsΒ relyΒ on usΒ to better understandΒ the pulse of theΒ editorialΒ and advertising world," saidΒ Peter Wengryn, CEO of VMS.Β "OurΒ newΒ partnership with blinkx willΒ enhanceΒ ourΒ client offerings and enable them to access a more holistic understanding of their business environment," added Wengryn.
As the pioneer in video search technology, blinkx has built a reputation as the smartest way to find rich media on the Web. The company has made more thanΒ 530Β partners and indexed over 35 million hours of video and audio content to date.
About blinkx
blinkx plc (LSE AIM: BLNX) is the world's largest and most advanced video search engine. Today, blinkx has indexed more than 35 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 inΒ San FranciscoΒ andΒ London. More information is available atΒ www.blinkx.com.
About VMS
VMS is the world leader in integrated media intelligence solutions that bring together news monitoring and advertising monitoring across all media - broadcast, radio, print, Internet and outdoor.
The firm just debuted the first-ever integrated platform, Vantage, which enables communicators to see the affects of PR on advertising and vice versa, for their organizations and competitors, complete with correlations to business outcomes.
VMS provides public relations firms, advertising agencies and marketers worldwide with the most comprehensive, cutting-edge editorial and ad retrieval, management and analysis solutions, including a broad spectrum of industry-leading advertising and public relations measurement and tracking tools. VMS recently acquired access to new software solutions enabling them to take advantage of state-of-the-art meaning-based computing to enhance their search capabilities.
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VMS provides access to the largest continually updated advertising database in the world with over five million ads and commercials through the market leadingΒ AdSightΒ platform. The competitive advertising intelligence VMS provides includesΒ U.S.Β and international creative content as well as domestic spending and occurrence data from Nielsen for the top 100Β U.S.Β television markets.
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For more information about VMS callΒ 1.800.VMS.2002 or visitΒ www.vmsinfo.com.
Press Contacts for blinkx:
Tim Turpin
Sparkpr
+1 (415) 321 1894
tim.turpin@sparkpr.com
Nicole Love
Marlin PR
+44 207 869 8328
Nicole.love@marlinpr.com
NOMAD for blinkx
Charles Lytle
Citi
Press Contacts forΒ VMS:
Steven Krisky
212.329.5222
skrisky@vmsinfo.com
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