blinkx Partners With NewsLook to Offer Professionally Curated News Content From Around The Globe
By Blinkx, PRNETuesday, July 19, 2011
SAN FRANCISCO, July 20, 2011 -
In-depth news and analysis from
the GlobalPost, Xinhua News Agency and UNTV and more are now
available on
blinkx, the world’s largest and most advanced video search
engine, today announced a partnership with NewsLook, the first and
only video news service that curates and contextualizes news from
global partners. Viewers everywhere can now watch over 1,500
informative NewsLook videos from prominent publishers such as the
GlobalPost, Xinhua News Agency and UNTV at
its unique AdHoc platform, blinkx will also place contextually
relevant advertising against the videos and share resulting
advertising revenue with NewsLook.
An Official Honoree of the Webby Awards, NewsLook presents its
audience with videos that have been hand-picked for their relevance
and value from a deep and diverse set of trusted outlets, including
CBC, ABCau and ForaTV. Unlike most aggregators, NewsLook uses
professional editors to put stories in context, offering
alternative perspectives, background and analysis side by side with
news itself, so users obtain a more complete and informed picture
of world events.
“We’re delighted to partner with NewsLook,” said Julia Blystone,
CMO of blinkx. “By adding NewsLook’s high quality and timely
current events coverage to our index, we’re furthering our
commitment to providing our users with a deep and diverse selection
of the best video on the Web.”
“NewsLook is committed to presenting the most factual and
verifiably accurate news content,” said Fred Silverman, founder and
CEO of NewsLook. “Through our partnership with blinkx, we’re
pleased to expand our premium video content offering to blinkx’s
extensive and news-hungry audience.”
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 - the growing amount of TV and
user-generated content on the Web means keyword-based search
technologies only scratch the surface. blinkx’s patented search
technologies listen to - and even see - video on 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
About NewsLook
NewsLook delivers a curated collection of news and short-form
documentaries from over 45 content creators around the world,
including top news organizations. Using an editorially driven
approach, NewsLook focuses on the quality of the content we
deliver, sorting through the overwhelming amount of video published
to the web to deliver only the highest quality and most relevant
content. NewsLook works with publishers to deliver video
through a premium syndication network in world news, business,
science and technology, health, arts and culture, entertainment and
lifestyle. Our editorial team supports publishers to enable
contextualized integration of video for enhanced revenue potential.
NewsLook’s videos are available through a consumer site at
will be available on most major IPTV providers and mobile devices
later this year.
Tim Turpin of Sparkpr, +1-415-321-1894, tim.turpin at sparkpr.com, for blinkx; or Nicole Love of Marlin PR, +44-207-869-8328, nicole.love at marlinpr.com; or NOMAD and Broker, Charles Lytle, or Christopher Wren both of Citigroup Global Markets Ltd, +44-207-986-4000, for blinkx plc
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