Posts Tagged ‘ blinkx ’

Veoh Also Moving To The Browser

Sep 19th, 2008 | By James Lewin | Category: Internet TV, Video

Yesterday, we noted that it looked like proprietary video viewers are dead, because Joost and blinkx were focusing on delivering video to your Web browser. 
It looks like Veoh is moving in the same direction. 
NewTeeVee reports that Veoh plans to release a browser plug-in that’s “significantly lighter than the VeohTV app.”
“We continue to offer VeohTV,” [...]



Proprietary Web Video Viewers Dead

Sep 18th, 2008 | By James Lewin | Category: Internet TV, Video

It looks like proprietary web video viewers are dead.
Today, both blinkx and Joost announced that they were following the lead of YouTube, Hulu and others and focusing on delivering Internet content straight to your Web browser:

blinkx announced that blinkx BBTV will now be available without download, straight from your browser. BBTV simultaneously delivers a high-quality [...]



blinkx Fastest Growing Video Site

Sep 16th, 2008 | By James Lewin | Category: Internet TV, Video

blinkx announced today that it is the fastest growing video site in the U.S., and also one of the fastest growing online sites in the U.K.
According to findings by Compete.com, blinkx is the fastest growing video site among the top 20 video competitors in the U.S. Its traffic grew by 1,036% between July 2007 and July [...]



Blinkx Offers Its Take On Internet Television

Apr 2nd, 2008 | By James Lewin | Category: Streaming Video

Video search company blinkx today announced the availability of blinkx BBTV, a new online television service that leverages blinkx’s speech and visual recognition technology to deliver Internet television with contextually linked information.
blinkx BBTV enables users to instantly browse or interact with online sources related to what they are watching, whether it’s Google, Wikipedia, IMDB or [...]



Blinkx Launches Adhoc Contextual Video Advertising Platform

Jun 25th, 2007 | By James Lewin | Category: General, Internet TV, Making Money with Podcasts, Podcasting Services, Streaming Video, Video, Video Podcasts, Vlogs

blinkx today unveiled AdHoc, a contextually relevant video advertising platform, aka AdSense for Video, the latest in a stream of recent announcements from the company.
According to blinkx,¬†”Just as Google‚Äôs AdSense transformed advertising on the Text Web, blinkx‚Äôs AdHoc platform will revolutionize video advertising by matching compelling, customized, TV-style ads to your audience on the Video Web.”
AdHoc leverages [...]



Blinkx Intros Embeddable Wall of Video

Oct 11th, 2006 | By James Lewin | Category: Digital Video Downloads, Streaming Video, Video, Video Podcasts, Vlogs

blinkx, a leading video search engine, today unveiled an updated site featuring “video walls”, a new interface for Internet video that combines the ’sit back and watch’ element of traditional television with the interactive experience of searching and watching video online.
Users will also be able to embed topical video walls in to Web pages and [...]