blinkx SVP Federico Grosso to Speak at Media Summit New York

SAN FRANCISCO - blinkx, the world’s largest and most advanced video search engine, today
announced that its senior vice president of Business Development, Federico
Grosso, will be speaking at the 2009 Media Summit Conference at the
McGraw-Hill Building in New York City at 2:15 p.m. E.T. on March 18th. Grosso
will be presenting on a panel titled, “Video Advertising: How New Consumer
Habits are Driving the Advertising Community to Innovate, and the Challenges
with Scale.”

Produced by Digital Hollywood, Media Summit is the premiere international
conference on media, advertising, television, and more. Grosso’s panel will
focus on new television delivery methods and the ways these innovative paths
provide new revenue and business opportunities for publishers and
advertisers. A digital media veteran with over a decade of international
experience, Grosso is frequently invited to speak at leading industry events
to provide insight into the changing face of online video and advertising.
Joining him on the panel will be Tricia Wilber, executive vice president of
Media Advertising Sales and Marketing at Disney; Rebecca J. Paoletti, senior
director of Video Strategy at Yahoo! Inc.; Beth Uyenco Shatto, global
research director at Microsoft; and others.

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 450 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.

Source: blinkx plc

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