blinkx Signs Content Partnerships With VideoDetective.com and SingingFool.com

blinkx Signs Content Partnerships With VideoDetective.com and SingingFool.com

New Deals Add More Entertainment Video to Extensive Array of Content Available at www.blinkx.tv

SAN FRANCISCO, July 5 /PRNewswire/ -- blinkx, the smartest thing on your computer and the Web, today announced partnerships with Videodetective.com and Singingfool.com. Under these agreements, blinkx will make content from both VideoDetective.com and SingingFool.com fully searchable. VideoDetective.com's 2.8 million users preview over 4 million movie clips and trailers each month, while SingingFool.com delivers nearly 3 million music videos to its 2.1 million users every month.

VideoDetective.com and Singingfool.com have archived thousands of hours of video footage. Featuring the largest collection of movie previews, VideoDetective.com offers a wide range of content, from blockbuster features such as 'Batman Begins', to classic television series like Bewitched. SingingFool.com features a similarly extensive array of music videos, from the latest Gwen Stefani hit, to Trisha Yearwood's Georgia Rain, and classic Miles Davis footage. blinkx will automatically transcribe and index VideoDetective and SingingFool's content, making it even easier to find your favorite song, movie or performer at www.blinkx.tv.

"Our mission is to empower users by giving them the ability to find the entertainment content they want, whenever they need it. blinkx is the only search engine optimized for rich media, and its unique automatic transcription technology helps us achieve this goal," said Jed Horovitz, Managing Member of both SingingFool LLC and Video Detective LLC. "We are thrilled to be working closely with blinkx."

"We are extremely pleased to be partnering with VideoDetective and SingingFool. We all place emphasis on providing users with the high quality video and, with the unique combination of our technology and their extensive archives, we can cater to our user base's ever-growing interest in pop culture," said Jon Gregg, VP of Business Development, blinkx.

blinkx.TV and advanced audio/video analysis

blinkx TV combines advanced speech recognition and transcription techniques with intelligent Context Clustering Technology (CCT) and a patented context prediction and synchronization technology to analyze and understand the actual content (spoken words) of an audio/video file, delivering unparalleled automation, accuracy and access to multimedia content from the web. The output of these analytical sub-processes are stored as further metadata tracks, alongside the digitally encoded content itself; not only does blinkx know what was said, blinkx knows exactly when it was said.

About SingingFool:

Online since 1999, Singingfool.com provides access to 7,000 digitized music videos from most major and independent labels. Over 2.1 million people view nearly 3 million videos each month. All videos on the site are sent directly to the company by the labels for promotional play.

About VideoDetective:

Online since 1996, VideoDetective.com provides access to 15,000 digitized movie previews from most major and independent studios. 2.8 million visitors view over 4 million previews each month. All videos on the site are sent directly to the company by the movie studios for promotional purposes. It's syndicated via online music retailers, public libraries, news portals and search engines.

About blinkx:

blinkx, the smartest thing on your computer and on the Web, is changing the way that people think about search. Only blinkx can harness the desktop, Web and TV -- unifying content with a one stop search tool. Available to users on the Web at www.blinkx.com and www.blinkx.tv, as well as free to download, blinkx automatically and intelligently links to content anywhere and in any format, on the Web, on the desktop and even on TV. blinkx's conceptual toolbar means users are no longer limited to keyword search; instead, blinkx assesses all the information that the user is actively viewing, and automatically recommends and retrieves relevant content, from local, Web and TV searches, based on context. In addition, www.blinkx.tv makes thousands of hours of TV content fully searchable and available on demand for the first time. blinkx is a privately-held company based in San Francisco and London. More information is available at www.blinkx.com.

Source: blinkx

CONTACT: Julia Blystone of OutCast Communications, +1-415-392-8282, or julia@outcastpr.com, for blinkx; or Rhodes Mason of SingingFool, rhodesm@singingfool.com; or Anne Green of VideoDetective, anneg@singingfool.com

Web site: http://www.singingfool.com/

Web site: http://www.videodetective.com/

Web site: http://www.blinkx.com/

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