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blinkx Delivers Premium Content to Roku With New App
Watch Video From blinkx's Premium Content Partners on Your TV
SAN FRANCISCO, May 26, 2011/PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- blinkx, the world's largest and most advanced video search engine, today
announced that a blinkx app is now available on Roku (http://www.roku.com),
the leading Internet TV platform. The app can be found in Roku's Channel
Store and allows customers to seamlessly search, discover and watch high
quality videos from blinkx's extensive index of professionally produced
content.
Introduced in 2008, the award-winning Roku streaming players provide an
easy, affordable and reliable way for customers to access a variety of
entertainment choices instantly on their TV. In 2009, Roku added the Roku
Channel Store, the first true app store and open development environment for
long- and short-form streaming entertainment to the TV. With more than 225
entertainment channels-now including blinkx-Roku players deliver the best
collection of streaming entertainment available for the TV.
"Roku recently hit more than 15 million channel downloads, in part due to
our expanding selection of entertainment in the Roku Channel Store," said Jim
Funk, vice president of business development at Roku. "With the addition of
this new app to our growing content library, our customers will be able enjoy
the rich online video content that blinkx has to offer, directly from their
TVs."
The blinkx app for Roku gives customers the ability to search through
blinkx's index of premium content and immediate access to four distinct and
engaging video channels:
- Sports - an action-packed channel showcasing the latest highlights,
interviews and game updates from the world of sports
- News - a breaking news channel featuring top stories from around the
world, culled from the "Inform Me" channel on blinkx.com
- Popular - an editorialized roundup of the most popular videos from
across the Web, including the latest shocking news from Hollywood and
jaw-dropping human feats
- Fun - a riveting playlist of hilarious bloopers, amazing stunts,
ridiculous pranks and cute animals, drawn from blinkx Beat
"Roku's streaming players are renowned for bringing the best in
entertainment to TVs," said Suranga Chandratillake, founder and CEO at
blinkx. "We're thrilled to offer the blinkx app, which combines our robust
video search technology with our massive index of professionally produced
video, to Roku customers everywhere."
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. blinkx has also opened its TV API to provide partners in the
fast-growing Connected TV ecosystem-from box makers and TV manufacturers, to
app developers and game consoles-access to blinkx's video index.
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 http://www.blinkx.com.
Press Contacts for blinkx
Tim Turpin
Sparkpr
+1(415)321-1894
tim.turpin@sparkpr.com
Nicole Love
Marlin PR
+44-207-869-8328
nicole.love@marlinpr.com
Charles Lytle
Christopher Wren
Citigroup Global Markets Ltd
NOMAD and Broker for blinkx plc
+44-207-986-4000
Press Contact for Roku
Ha Thai
Roku, Inc.
+1(408)849-4117
hthai@roku.com
Source: blinkx plc
.
blinkx Delivers Premium Content to Roku With New App
Watch Video From blinkx's Premium Content Partners on Your TV
SAN FRANCISCO, May 26, 2011/PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- blinkx, the world's largest and most advanced video search engine, today
announced that a blinkx app is now available on Roku (http://www.roku.com),
the leading Internet TV platform. The app can be found in Roku's Channel
Store and allows customers to seamlessly search, discover and watch high
quality videos from blinkx's extensive index of professionally produced
content.
Introduced in 2008, the award-winning Roku streaming players provide an
easy, affordable and reliable way for customers to access a variety of
entertainment choices instantly on their TV. In 2009, Roku added the Roku
Channel Store, the first true app store and open development environment for
long- and short-form streaming entertainment to the TV. With more than 225
entertainment channels-now including blinkx-Roku players deliver the best
collection of streaming entertainment available for the TV.
"Roku recently hit more than 15 million channel downloads, in part due to
our expanding selection of entertainment in the Roku Channel Store," said Jim
Funk, vice president of business development at Roku. "With the addition of
this new app to our growing content library, our customers will be able enjoy
the rich online video content that blinkx has to offer, directly from their
TVs."
The blinkx app for Roku gives customers the ability to search through
blinkx's index of premium content and immediate access to four distinct and
engaging video channels:
- Sports - an action-packed channel showcasing the latest highlights,
interviews and game updates from the world of sports
- News - a breaking news channel featuring top stories from around the
world, culled from the "Inform Me" channel on blinkx.com
- Popular - an editorialized roundup of the most popular videos from
across the Web, including the latest shocking news from Hollywood and
jaw-dropping human feats
- Fun - a riveting playlist of hilarious bloopers, amazing stunts,
ridiculous pranks and cute animals, drawn from blinkx Beat
"Roku's streaming players are renowned for bringing the best in
entertainment to TVs," said Suranga Chandratillake, founder and CEO at
blinkx. "We're thrilled to offer the blinkx app, which combines our robust
video search technology with our massive index of professionally produced
video, to Roku customers everywhere."
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. blinkx has also opened its TV API to provide partners in the
fast-growing Connected TV ecosystem-from box makers and TV manufacturers, to
app developers and game consoles-access to blinkx's video index.
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 http://www.blinkx.com.
Press Contacts for blinkx
Tim Turpin
Sparkpr
+1(415)321-1894
tim.turpin@sparkpr.com
Nicole Love
Marlin PR
+44-207-869-8328
nicole.love@marlinpr.com
Charles Lytle
Christopher Wren
Citigroup Global Markets Ltd
NOMAD and Broker for blinkx plc
+44-207-986-4000
Press Contact for Roku
Ha Thai
Roku, Inc.
+1(408)849-4117
hthai@roku.com
Source: blinkx plc
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