Saturday 28 August 2010

blinkx Partners with AccuWeather.com to Offer Users Weather Coverage from Around the World

Blinkx Plc
24 August 2010

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blinkx Partners with AccuWeather.com to Offer Users Weather Coverage from Around
the World

Precise, up-to-the-minute weather information now available at www.blinkx.com

SAN FRANCISCO, CALIF.-August 24, 2010-blinkx, the world's largest and most
advanced video search engine, today announced a partnership with
AccuWeather.com, the world's leading weather authority. Under the terms of the
agreement, AccuWeather.com's local and international weather information and
videos will be available at www.blinkx.com. Leveraging its unique AdHoc
platform, blinkx will place advertising against these videos, and share
resulting revenue with AccuWeather.com.

AccuWeather.com provides weather-related information for locations throughout
the United States and for more than two million locations worldwide. Through its
Web site, AccuWeather.com presents a wide range of information, including over
600 unique weather videos every day, to millions of users each month.

"blinkx is continuously exploring new ways to offer users a wide range of video
content," said Suranga Chandratillake, founder and CEO, blinkx. "With
AccuWeather.com's library of forecast, weather news and lifestyle videos, we can
now help our users better plan for daily activities and travel."

"AccuWeather.com users want timely, local forecast and weather news information
wherever they are and on any platform they use," said Jim Candor, senior vice
president of digital media, AccuWeather.com. "By working with innovators like
blinkx, we can help make our weather videos even more easily accessible and
continue to grow the value we offer our 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 - 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 AccuWeather, Inc. and AccuWeather.com
AccuWeather, Empowering You to Be the Best(TM), presents accurate, localized,
branded forecasts and severe weather bulletins to over 125 million Americans
each day via the Internet,
mobile devices and IPTV, through the airwaves, and in
print. The 113 meteorologists at AccuWeather deliver a portfolio of customized
products and services to media,
business, government, and institutions, and
inform millions of visitors worldwide through the free AccuWeather.com website.
AccuWeather also provides content onto more than 50,000 third-party Internet
sites, the ABC-Owned Television Station Group, and washingtonpost.com. Visit
www.accuweather.com for more information.

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