blinkx Partners With Evri to Power Video for New iPhone and Android Applications
By Blinkx, PRNETuesday, September 28, 2010
Evri's New Suite of Content Discovery Apps Tap blinkx's Mobile Video Index for Content from Premium Sources
SAN FRANCISCO, September 29, 2010 - blinkx, the world's largest and most advanced video search engine, today
announced a partnership with Evri, the real-time content discovery engine.
Under the terms of the agreement, Evri's exciting new multimedia apps,
including EvriThing Tech, EvriThing Gossip and EvriThing Baseball, will be
enhanced by video from blinkx's Mobile Video Index, which contains millions
of videos from an extensive network of top-tier content providers.
As the universe of digital content available to consumers continues to
expand exponentially, the need for intelligent technology that helps us
search, filter and present this content in a meaningful way becomes ever more
important. Evri solves this challenge by applying its unique semantic
capabilities to analyze thousands of Web sources, categorize them and then
deliver the most compelling, relevant content to consumers through a suite of
topic-based apps. The "EvriThing" apps, which include gossip, sports and
music-oriented options, deliver a compelling multimedia experience-articles,
blog posts, photos and videos from blinkx-to mobile devices.
"Video streaming is the fastest-growing mobile activity, and there's a
tremendous consumer demand for rich media apps," said Suranga Chandratillake,
founder and CEO, blinkx. "Evri's unique technology enables them to deliver a
highly compelling multimedia experience to mobile audiences, and we're
delighted to be powering the video component of their new suite of apps."
"By partnering with blinkx, we're able to tap into a rich and varied
library of mobile video to complement and enhance the real-time content
streams in our apps," said Evri CEO Will Hunsinger.
"Evri aggregates and sorts through thousands of sources to deliver the
best, most relevant information to our audience, and blinkx's premium video
content rounds out our multimedia offering perfectly."
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 720 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 Evri
Evri (www.evri.com) automates how content is understood, filtered and
shared, allowing consumers to discover the content that matter most to them.
With millions of real-time topical streams across thousands of categories,
Evri is rapidly improving consumers' access to information. Evri is based in
Seattle, WA, and San Francisco, CA and is funded by Paul Allen's Vulcan
Capital. More information is available at www.evri.com.
Nicole Love of Marlin PR, +44-207-869-8328, nicole.love at marlinpr.com; or Tim Turpin of Sparkpr, +1-415-321-1894, tim.turpin at sparkpr.com; both for blinkx; or NOMAD, Charles Lytle or Christopher Wren, both of Citigroup Global Markets Ltd, Broker for blinkx plc, +44-207-986-9756; or Mallory Thompson of Hill & Knowlton, +1-206-441-7213, mallory.thompson at hillandknowlton.com, for Evri
Tags: blinkx, california, San francisco, September 29, United Kingdom