blinkx Brings Voyagers and Vacationers the Best in Travel Video From Popular Guides

SAN FRANCISCO - www.blinkx.com puts you on the map

blinkx, the world’s largest and most advanced video search engine, today
announced new partnerships with some of the world’s leading travel video
sites, including LonelyPlanet.tv, Compulsive Traveler, and Overlander.tv.
Through these partnerships, travel enthusiasts now have immediate access to
the world’s most beautiful travel destinations and best travel tips.
Leveraging its unique AdHoc platform, blinkx will also place contextually
relevant advertising against these videos, and share resulting advertising
revenue with the partners.

Seasoned globetrotters and armchair travelers alike can satisfy their
wanderlust at www.blinkx.com. From Sydney’s Opera House down under, to the
dunes of Huacachina, Peru, blinkx has video footage of just about every
location on the map. Users can now find thousands of travel videos on blinkx,
including traveler tales and tips from Lonely Planet, the world’s most
successful independent travel information company, and stories from
passionate trekkers from the Compulsive Traveler, which started as a series
on CBS Television in 2002 and is now a video travel portal that showcases and
distributes “videos for travelers, by travelers.” Also readily available are
clips from Overlander.tv, a one-man crew that films all over the world and
offers insight into incredible, never-before-seen destinations.

“Travel videos have always been hugely popular on blinkx. People now have
the opportunity to tour a destination virtually before committing to an
expensive plane ticket or a lengthy train ride,” said Suranga Chandratillake,
founder and CEO of blinkx. “We expect to inspire all types of travelers by
making these high quality travel videos available on blinkx.com, and look
forward to more touring and trekking to come!”

“Travel is all about expanding horizons and sharing cultural
experiences,” said Lainey Franks, director of client solutions, Lonely Planet
Americas. “Our partnership with blinkx further enables us to fulfill this
mission by extending our viewership across the globe. We are thrilled to
bring our compelling footage to travelers everywhere so that they can share
and learn from one another.”

As the pioneer in video search technology, blinkx has built a reputation
as the smartest way to find rich media on the Web. The company has made more
than 450 partners and indexed over 35 million hours of video and audio
content to date.

About blinkx

blinkx plc (LSE AIM: BLNX) is the world’s largest and most advanced video
search engine. Today, blinkx has indexed more than 35 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.

About Lonely Planet

Established in 1973, Lonely Planet is one of the world’s leading travel
media companies. With operations in Melbourne, London and Oakland, the
company employs over 400 staff worldwide. Lonely Planet travel information is
available across all media platforms, including travel guides, TV
programming, wireless products and an award-winning website. In October 2007,
BBC Worldwide acquired a 75% share in Lonely Planet. BBC Worldwide is the
primary commercial arm and a wholly owned subsidiary of the British
Broadcasting Corporation (BBC). For more information about Lonely Planet,
visit our website at www.lonelyplanet.com.

About Compulsive Traveler

The CompulsiveTraveler.tv has been a video filmmaker for 15 years with a
film library of 2500 hours on 65 countries. It launched its travel video
website in 2007: www.compulsivetraveler.tv. The site showcases its own as
well as video travel stories from invited filmmakers. CompulsiveTraveler.tv
produced a highly rated travel series on CBS Television for several years,
recently aired a special on the Travel Channel and works with destinations
around the world to create and stream videos for their destination websites.
In addition, CompulsiveTraveler.tv has developed proprietary technology for
widely distributing its own and others’ travel videos on the World Wide Web.

About Overlander.tv

Overlander.tv features the travel videos of Australian filmmaker Mark
Shea. Mark represents the new breed of ‘backpack filmmaker’ who can do it
all, film, edit and tell a story. Mark’s ‘Meet a Local’ concept whereby he
interviews a local person at each location he visits, has proved to be a
popular online series amongst the viewers of Overlander.tv.

Source: blinkx

Tim Turpin of Sparkpr, +1-415-321-1894, tturpin at sparkpr.com; or Nicole Love of Marlin PR, +44-207-869-8328, Nicole.love at marlinpr.com; or NOMAD, Charles Lytle of Citi; or Frank Ruiz of Lonely Planet, +1-510-250-6427, frankr at lonelyplanet.com; or Roberto Mitrotti of Compulsive Traveler, +1-718-729-0460, Roberto at compulsivetraveler.tv; or Mark Shea of Overlander.tv, +61-(0)-414-25-1970, info at overlander.tv, all for blinkx