blinkx Continues to Climb the Nielsen Company's List of Top Online Video Brands

Users turn to www.blinkx.com as online video usage continues to rise

SAN FRANCISCO, January 19 - blinkx, the world's largest and most advanced video search engine, today
announced that it has been ranked a top online brand by the Nielsen Company.
blinkx joins the ranks of YouTube, Hulu, and Yahoo as a top online video site
in a recent report based on video streams for December 2009.

In addition to its ranking of top online brands, Nielsen reports that
overall online video usage is on the rise. In the past year, the total number
of video streams has gone up 11.8%, while the amount of time logged watching
online video per viewer has increased 13.2%.

"blinkx is thrilled to be named a top online video brand by a company
with the credibility and commitment to excellence of Nielsen," said Suranga
Chandratillake, founder and CEO, blinkx. "We're excited to remain at the
forefront of this burgeoning industry and plan to continue expanding the
breadth of our index and quality of our partnerships."

As a pioneer in video search technology, blinkx has built a reputation as
the most effective way to search new forms of online content such as video.
With more than 650 partners and 35 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 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.

Nicole Love of Marlin PR, +44-207-869-8328, Nicole.love at marlinpr.com, or Tim Turpin of Sparkpr, +1-415-321-1894, tturpin at sparkpr.com, or NOMAD, Charles Lytle of Citi, all for blinkx