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blinkx Expands Native Language Video Index With EuroNews Partnership
Wednesday April 9, 8:00 am ET
Top News, Weather and Sports in 7 European Languages Fully Searchable at blinkx.com

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--blinkx, the world’s largest video search engine, today announced a partnership with EuroNews (www.euronews.net), the first multilingual pan-European news channel. Broadcast all over the world in several languages, EuroNews’ international coverage is now more easily accessible than ever before at www.blinkx.com. Under the terms of the agreement, blinkx will leverage its AdHoc platform to place contextually relevant advertising against the footage, and will share resulting advertising revenue with EuroNews.

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EuroNews produces and broadcasts news programs simultaneously in several languages on issues that are relevant to both the European Union and the world. EuroWeb is available 24 hours a day in seven languages including English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese and Russian, with Arabic set to be added later this year. EuroNews offers viewers a complete news bulletin on the half hour, followed by unique, in-depth feature programs covering a diverse collection of topics ranging from science and technology to cinema and fashion.

“Current affairs-oriented searches are among the most popular at blinkx.com,” said Suranga Chandratillake, founder and CEO, blinkx. “EuroNews’ up-to-the-minute coverage brings the European perspective to our users around the world. Our partnership gives viewers access to one of the leading news channels in Europe.”

“We're pleased to be working with blinkx to make EuroNews’ content available to the global audience,” said Philippe Cayla, Chairman and CEO of EuroNews. “blinkx's technology enables users to search video much more easily, delivering the most tailored, accurate results on the Web.”

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.