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10 Apr 2008 07:02

Blinkx Plc10 April 2008 blinkx Partners with The Roland Collection to Bring Users an International Collection of Films on Art Visit www.blinkx.com for Michelangelo, Monet, Mondrian and more SAN FRANCISCO, CALIF. - April 10, 2008 - blinkx, the world's largest videosearch engine, today announced a partnership with The Roland Collection(www.rolandcollection.com) to bring users an impressive library of films on art.Now available at www.blinkx.com, programs within The Roland Collection containmore than 26 million cinematic images spanning a variety of art ranging fromprehistoric times to the architecture of the future, with insights into the workof modern authors. Under the terms of the agreement, blinkx will leverage itsAdHoc platform to place contextually relevant advertising against the footage,and will share resulting advertising revenue with The Roland Collection. Rediscovering and preserving content from around the world, the RolandCollection's comprehensive compilation of films and videos on art offers viewersa unique look into vast worlds of content. From ancient stone circles to theBauhaus and beyond, the Roland Collection has spent more than 40 years selectingtitles of lasting importance and securing content that educates, challenges andinspires. "With the explosion of the Internet and the evolution of online video anddigital art mediums, it's easy to overlook earlier forms of art, many of whichare still very relevant today," said Suranga Chandratillake, founder and CEO,blinkx. "The Roland Collection bridges these worlds, providing viewers withaccess to a number of art periods, subjects and mediums. We're excited to bringthis collection of videos to blinkx.com." "We consider the art film to be a holistic medium for communicating theinterconnectedness of art and life," said Anthony Roland, founder and curator,The Roland Collection. "By leveraging blinkx's unique video search technology,we're able to share our philosophy, along with our comprehensive collection offilms on art, with a global audience who might not have located these treasuresotherwise. In addition, our users have access to blinkx's incredibly intuitiveand dynamic Video Walls, which they can embed into their own art blogs and Websites." 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 The Roland Collection During a 45 year period, The Roland Collection has enjoyed a unique position inboth the art world and film world. The Collection offers inexhaustible worlds ofhistory, culture, philosophy, emotion, human document, celebration, protest,moral challenge and imaginative liberation - all embodied in the forms of art. Representing the selected award winning productions of 230 film makers from 25countries, The Roland Collection distributes their work to 4,000 institutions:museums, universities, schools and libraries in 82 countries. To offer the widest access, in the 1980's, a patented design of an arena of 16open air cinemas presented 100 films on art nightly with summer seasons: at TheNational Mall, Washington, D.C., New York City and Edinburgh. For theMillennium, a system of 100 magic sound zones was installed throughout TheEnglish Gardens of Regent's Park, London. By pioneering the use of digital technology, The Roland Collection wishes now tooffer everyone the embedding of hundreds of film clips and many Video Walls as aproactive introduction to the wonderful world of films on art. Press Contacts:Tim TurpinSparkpr+1 (415) 321 1894tim.turpin@sparkpr.com Clare GaynerBite Communications+44 (0)20 8834 3454Clare.Gayner@bitepr.com Steve CraneImarsys+44 (0) 1444480608stevencrane@imarsys.com This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock Exchange