blinkx Partners With WWF to Bring Users Live Footage From the Copenhagen Climate Summit
By Blinkx, PRNESunday, December 6, 2009
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SAN FRANCISCO, December 7 - blinkx, the world's largest and most advanced video search engine, today
announced a new partnership with the WWF's Inside COP15. Between December 7th
and 19th, up-to-the-minute footage from the Copenhagen Climate Summit will be
available at www.blinkx.com. Leveraging its unique AdHoc platform, blinkx
will also place contextually relevant advertising against these videos, and
share resulting advertising revenue with Inside COP15.
Inside COP15 was created by WWF to deliver live, on-demand video news
coverage of the Copenhagen Climate Summit in Copenhagen, Denmark. The
conference will bring together world leaders, civil society, negotiators, and
concerned citizens to agree on a new global climate deal. Inside COP15 will
produce more than an hour of video news, interviews, and debates each day to
keep the global community updated on all conference affairs. Visitors to
www.blinkx.com will have easy access to all the latest-breaking Copenhagen
Climate Summit news.
"In building up the most comprehensive video search engine available
today, blinkx has had the pleasure of adding some of the world's most
interesting and diverse video footage to our index," said Suranga
Chandratillake, founder and CEO, blinkx. "Inside COP15's clips serve as a
perfect example. Our partnership with the WWF gives users unable to make it
to Copenhagen a window into a fortnight of important debate aimed at
protecting the future of our planet."
"Inside COP15 is a major step forward for WWF to engage new audiences and
I'm delighted to be partnering with blinkx to reach as many people as
possible," said Martin Atkin, WWF's Executive Producer. "Our online video
blog - live and on-demand - will enable people all over the world to feel
part of these crucial climate talks in Copenhagen."
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 650 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 WWF:
WWF's mission is to stop the degradation of the earth's natural
environment and to build a future in which humans live in harmony with
nature.
Tim Turpin, Sparkpr, +1-415-321-1894, tturpin at sparkpr.com; or Nicole Love, Marlin PR, +44-207-869-8328, Nicole.love at marlinpr.com, or NOMAD, Charles Lytle of Citi, all for blinkx; or Martin Atkin, WWF International, +41-79698-2985, matkin at wwf.panda.org
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