Blinkx stock fails to meet high expectations for online video ads
The online video sector is growing fast, and advertising forecasts point to a boom. So why is one of the leading companies’ share price sliding in the other direction?
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Blinkx will miss video ad sales predictions
As the online video opportunity booms, video index and advertising firm Blinkx is growing fast – but not quite as fast as had been expected, as revenue for the last 12 months fell slightly behind analysts’ expectations..
Blinkx Buys Burst Media for $30M
Online video search and ads company Blinkx announced Friday that it has acquired ad network Burst Media in a deal worth $30 million in cash and stock. The acquisition will nearly double Blinkx’s revenues by driving higher-CPM video advertising through Burst Media’s network of publisher sites.
Blinkx Buys Burst Media To Chase Higher Video Ad Rates
Video index and ads firm Blinkx is buying up UK ad tech vendor and network Burst Media for $30 million (£18.5 million).
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Blinkx Aims For Over-The-Top Through The Back Door
Video index Blinkx may come to the connected TV market more as a feature of other services than by bringing its own services to the devices.…
Blinkx Expects To Beat Expectations With Big Revenue Jump
Online video search index and advertising firm Blinkx says it expects to blow away analysts’ expectations by posting a much stronger half-ye…
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Blinkx’s Growing Income Tethered By Ongoing Expenses
Video search-and-ads firm Blinkx nearly doubled its income last year – but ongoing product costs left it with another significant loss.
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Vid-Biz: Jaroo, Blinkx, Southern Comfort
Cookie Jar Entertainment Launching Hulu for Kids Site; Jaroo.com will kick off with 50 TV series digitize a library of 6,000 episodes.…
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Blinkx Makes Another Bid for MIVA
If at first you don’t succeed… After a failed first attempt, video search company Blinkx announced today that is once again making an offer to buy pay-per-click ad company MIVA (S MIVA).
Blinkx Reboots Bid For Ad Net MIVA, New All-Cash Offer
Blinkx isn’t taking no for an answer. Despite dropping its pursuit of pay-per-click ad network MIVA last month after being rebuffed, it’s no…
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Earnings: Blinkx Slims Its Losses, Ad Forecast ‘Conservative’
Video site Blinkx lost $3.26 million (£2.07 million) between April and September – fairly hefty, but far less than the $12.8 million (£8.1…
Blinkx Drops Bid For Search Marketing Firm Miva
Online video search firm Blinkx, which is publicly traded on the AIM market, has dropped its public bid to acquire pay-per-click ad network…
blinkx Also Going Download-Free for Its Joost-like Product
blinkx, which was clearly following Joost when it launched a desktop client for Internet TV five months ago, is now in step…
Blinkx Drops BBTV App Like A Stone, Folds In To Website
Just like iPlayer, *BSkyB* and Joost before it, video search index Blinkx has decided to sideline the rather clunky standalone application f…
Industry Moves: Brownlee Leaving AOP, Blinkx Finds CFO
— AOP: Association of Online Publishers director Ruth Brownlee will leave to concentrate on caring for her children, just nine months after…
Invision.TV Launches Web Program Guide
With nearly half-a-dozen competitors, the company has a tough climb. McLean, Va.-based Invision is led by former cable industry execs, and built its own crawler, personalization, and social tools. It has 10 employees, and is self-funded.
Blinkx Offers to Buy MIVA
Video search company blinkx has offered to acquire pay-per-click ad company MIVA for $1.20 a share
Updated: Blinkx Bids $41 Million For Miva; Ad Net Rejects Proposal
Updated: The Miva board has rejected this bid, “following careful review and consideration”, the company said in a statement. The board said…
Broadband Content Bits: Blinkx TV Guide, VOD Regulation, Sky On iTunes
— Blinkx: Yet another product launch from the video search index – today it debuted a TV listings guide. Blinkx Remote merely links to prog…
Business Model for Video Search: No Results
Video search company Blinkx announced tonight a “red-label” search product — which basically sounds like it’s making a self-service version of its…
Earnings: Blinkx Losses Down, Revenue Down; Hits Expectations
Video search index Blinkx slimmed its losses to $4.5 million in the six months to March 31, from $18.2 million in the same period last year.…
Blinkx Rises And Falls On Mystical Google/News Corp Market Chatter
Market speculation from an Investec analyst (via Bloomberg) that Google (NSDQ: GOOG) or News Corp (NYSE: NWS) may buy voice recognition-base…
Blinkx Rises And Falls On Mystical Google-News Corp Acquisition Chatter
Market speculation from an Investec analyst (via Bloomberg) that Google (NSDQ: GOOG) or News Corp (NYSE: NWS) may buy voice recognition-base…
Blinkx Benefits from Rumors, Says It’s Not Being Bought
Shares of Blinkx rose as much as 53 percent today on the London Stock Exchange following speculation it might be bought by…
Blinkx Scoops Up More TV; Needs To Put It Together
Voice recognition-powered video search index Blinkx is announcing even more content deals this week than it usually does. Amongst the eight…
Blinkx Launches Twitter-Style Moblog Service NowThen
Blinkx is today going public with an adjunct that bears little apparent connection to its core speech recognition-based web video search ser…
