blinkx Partners with Getty Images to Offer Users the Best in Editorial Multimedia

SAN FRANCISCO--(Business Wire)--
blinkx, the world's largest and most advanced video search engine,
today announced a partnership with Getty Images (www.gettyimages.com),
the world's leading creator and distributor of visual content and
other digital media. From entertainment capsules to sporting recaps to
the upcoming Democratic and Republican Convention feeds in the United
States, Getty Images' content is now more easily accessible than ever
at www.blinkx.com. Under the terms of the agreement, blinkx will
leverage its AdHoc platform to place contextually relevant advertising
against Getty Images' multimedia, and will share resulting advertising
revenue with Getty Images.

"We're delighted to partner with Getty Images, a company that is
considered the gold standard in its industry," said Suranga
Chandratillake, founder and CEO, blinkx. "Our viewers will enjoy
Getty's diverse range of high quality content. In addition, with
Election Day approaching in the States, our American audiences will
particularly appreciate Getty's up-to-the-minute Democratic and
Republican National Convention feeds on blinkx.com."

"We believe our assets deserve wide exposure, and we're always
looking for innovative ways to make our digital content easily
accessible," said Josh Rucci, senior director of multimedia sales,
Getty Images. "We're pleased to partner with blinkx, whose technology
enables us to expand our reach further than ever before."

As the pioneer in video search technology, blinkx has built a
reputation as the smartest way to search new forms of online content
such as video. With more than 350 partners and 26 million hours of
indexed video and audio content, including favorite TV moments, news
clips, short documentaries, music videos, video blogs and more, blinkx
uses advanced speech-recognition technology to deliver results that
are more accurate and reliable than standard metadata-based keyword
searches.

About blinkx

blinkx plc (LSE AIM: BLNX) is the world's most comprehensive video
search engine. Today, blinkx has indexed more than 26 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 and user-generated content on the Web explode,
keyword-based search technologies only scratch the surface. blinkx's
patented search technologies listen to - and even see - the Web,
helping users enjoy a breadth and accuracy of search results not
available elsewhere. In addition, blinkx powers the video search for
many of the world's most frequented sites. blinkx is based in San
Francisco and London. More information is available at www.blinkx.com.

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or
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