blinkx Signs Popular Comedy Partners to Bring Users Original Skits, Parodies and More
Wednesday April 9, 8:00 am ET
Let Loose at www.blinkx.com
SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--blinkx, the world’s largest video search engine, today announced new partnerships with some of the world’s funniest online comedy video sites, including DailyComedy.com, Comedy Time, Comedy.com and National Banana. Through these partnerships, viewers, comedy enthusiasts and joke-tellers alike will be able to browse and watch an extensive library 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.
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Anyone with a sense of humor is guaranteed to find something to laugh about at blinkx. Enjoy the hit comedy/variety show LateNet with Ray Ellin at DailyComedy.com, check out a “funnysode” of “Roscoe the Party Dog” at Comedy Time, take a look at what made Comedy.com’s “LOL List” and view one of their acclaimed 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 skits straight to the Internet, it shouldn’t come as a surprise that some of the funniest content lives online,” said Suranga Chandratillake, founder and CEO of blinkx. “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 do something to make our investors think that we are a legitimate Internet company,” said Patrick Panzarella, CEO of National Banana. “blinkx has assured us that their unique technology and vast network will enable us to get wider exposure than ever before. Fingers and toes crossed.”
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 220 partners and 18 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.
