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9 Apr 2008 07:01

Blinkx Plc09 April 2008 blinkx Signs Popular Comedy Partners to Bring Users Original Skits, Parodies and More Let loose at www.blinkx.com SAN FRANCISCO, CALIF. - April 09, 2008 - blinkx, the world's largest videosearch engine, today announced new partnerships with some of the world'sfunniest online comedy video sites, including DailyComedy.com, Comedy Time,Comedy.com and National Banana. Through these partnerships, viewers, comedyenthusiasts and joke-tellers alike will be able to browse and watch an extensivelibrary of stand-up, skits and parodies. Leveraging its unique AdHoc platform,blinkx will also place contextually relevant advertising against these videos,and share resulting advertising revenue with partners. Anyone with a sense of humor is guaranteed to find something to laugh about atblinkx. Enjoy the hit comedy/variety show LateNet with Ray Ellin atDailyComedy.com, check out a "funnysode" of "Roscoe the Party Dog" at ComedyTime, take a look at what made Comedy.com's "LOL List" and view one of theiracclaimed original series, or watch National Banana's "Web Site Story" musical,all available at www.blinkx.com. "With both professional and aspiring comedians taking their stand-up and skitsstraight to the Internet, it shouldn't come as a surprise that some of thefunniest content lives online", said Suranga Chandratillake, founder and CEO ofblinkx. "We're thrilled to make this home-grown humor available on blinkx.com,and look forward to the laughs to come." "It's crucial to National Banana, as a producer of comedic content, that we dosomething to make our investors think that we are a legitimate Internet company," said Patrick Panzarella, CEO of National Banana. "blinkx has assured us thattheir unique technology and vast network will enable us to get wider exposurethan ever before. Fingers and toes crossed." 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 DailyComedy.com DailyComedy.com is the first and only comedy-specific social networking websitethat provides people with fresh and topical material from A-list professionalcomedians in both text and video on a daily basis. The site allows aspiringcomedians the chance to feature their work for an opportunity to get discovered.Comedy enthusiasts can create their own comedy pages, post their own contentand their own videos. DailyComedy.com is tailor-made for the interactive spaceand includes several series of recurring "Bitcoms" (bite-size sitcoms speciallymade for the internet), including The Single Bachelor and Streettalk as well asthe hit comedy/variety show LateNet with Ray Ellin, a late-night format that haswelcomed guests such as Chevy Chase, Hank Azaria, Richard Belzer, Fran Drescher,and many more. About Comedy Time The Comedy Time Network launched in July, 2004 as one of the firstmade-for-mobile networks and has become the global market leader in theproduction, distribution and licensing of original comedy content created formobile and broadband. In the U.S. alone it is distributed to over 3,500,000subscribers is one of the most popular mobile channels in the United States. Inthe U.S. it is available on Sprint, VCAST, Cingular, MobiTV, Altel, and U.S.wireless. Internationally Comedy Time is distributed in the United Kingdom,Denmark, Sweden, Canada, Mexico, South America, South Africa, the Philippines,Eastern Europe, and Singapore and is rapidly growing its international presence.Comedy Time is also available on broadband as a channel on AOL Video, GoogleVideo, Yahoo!, Real Networks Superpass, ROO and others. About Comedy.com Comedy.com is the premiere destination for funny content on the internet. Thecompany features original content updated daily, hundreds of stand-up clips, andthe best content from across the web handpicked by the Comedy.com staff. Thecompany also syndicates original content through leading video portals andsocial networks as well as mobile and emerging technology platforms. Launchedin 2007, Comedy.com is quickly becoming the most trusted name in comedy on theinternet. About National Banana National Banana.com is a newly-established New Media company that is creatingcomedic content for the web, wireless, e-commerce, and traditional mediaoutlets. Press Contacts: Tim TurpinSparkpr+1 (415) 321 1894tim.turpin@sparkpr.com Clare GaynerBite Communications+44 (0)20 8834 3454Clare.Gayner@bitepr.com Michael GoldmanComedy Time+1 (310) 287-1617Michael.goldman@comedy-time.com Judy Twersky (for DailyComedy.com)Judy Twersky Public Relations+1 (718) 263-6633judtwersky@aol.com This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock Exchange