blinkx SVP Federico Grosso to Speak at Digital Age 2.0

SAN FRANCISCO, August 16, 2010 - blinkx, the world's largest and most advanced video search engine, today
announced that Senior Vice President of Business Development Federico Grosso
will be presenting at Digital Age 2.0 at 5:45 p.m. BRST on August 18 at the
Sheraton WTC Hotel in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

For four years, this international conference about marketing and
communication in the digital era has brought together CEOs, CMOs,
journalists, and advertising and communication professionals to review the
future of their industries. Speakers lined up for the event include Andrea
Harrison, vice president of Razorfish, and Guy Kawasaki, director of Garage
Technology Ventures. Mr. Grosso will participate in a 45-minute panel titled,
"Online Video - The Rules of TV Don't Apply Here," to share his expertise on
how to integrate the rapidly growing landscape of online video-where all day
is prime time-into existing business models.

A well-respected expert with more than a decade of international
experience in both online advertising and digital media, Mr. Grosso has
spoken at prominent industry events around the world including MIPTV, Cannes
Lions International Advertising Festival and Digital Hollywood. Since joining
blinkx in 2004, Mr. Grosso has led his team to create more than 720 media and
advertising partnerships with some of the world's most popular consumer
brands including Reuters, MTV Networks, RealNetworks, Nokia, Microsoft and
Shell.

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.

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; or Charles Lytle or Christopher Wren of Citigroup Global Markets Ltd, NOMAD and Broker +44(0)207-986-9756, all for blinkx