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11 Dec 2007 07:01

Blinkx Plc11 December 2007 blinkx Partners with Raindance to Offer Online Audiences the Best in Independent Filmmaking Independent shorts, features and documentaries from the Raindance Film Festival are now available at www.blinkx.com SAN FRANCISCO, CALIF. - December 11, 2007 - blinkx, the largest video searchengine on the Web, today announced a partnership with Raindance, founder of theRaindance Film Festival and the British Independent Film Awards. Under theterms of the agreement, blinkx will host, transcribe and index top independentshorts, features and documentaries from the Raindance Film Festival, making iteasy for film enthusiasts to find and watch them at www.blinkx.com. Leveragingits unique AdHoc platform, blinkx will also place contextually relevantadvertising against the footage, and will share resulting advertising revenuewith Raindance. Raindance offers the best in independent filmmaking. Founded by filmmakers forfilmmakers, Raindance supports the independent filmmaking community byorganizing screenings, seminars and workshops in North America and Europe. Inaddition, the Raindance Film Festival - Britain's largest independent filmfestival - has established itself as a launching pad for some of the world'smost talented independent filmmakers. "The Raindance Film Festival is a well-respected and highly successful venue forup and coming filmmakers," said Suranga Chandratillake, founder and CEO, blinkx."We are thrilled to add their video content to our index, giving filmenthusiasts everywhere access to high quality independent films, on demand andin easy-to-consume formats." "We are delighted to make our films available on blinkx.com - it's a powerfuland innovative platform," said Elliot Grove, founder and CEO, Raindance FilmFestival. "The partnership with blinkx will enable Raindance.tv to broaden itsreach enormously, and make our bold, fresh and original content available to awide global audience." As the pioneer in video search technology, blinkx has built a reputation as thesmartest way to search new forms of online content such as video. With more than220 partners and 18 million hours of indexed video and audio content, includingfavorite TV moments, news clips, short documentaries, music videos, video blogsand more, blinkx uses advanced speech recognition technology to deliver resultsthat are more accurate and reliable than standard metadata-based keywordsearches. About blinkxblinkx plc (LSE AIM: BLNX) is the world's most comprehensive video searchengine. Today, blinkx has indexed more than 18 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 anduser-generated content on the Web explode, keyword-based search technologiesonly scratch the surface. blinkx's patented search technologies listen to - andeven see - the Web, helping users enjoy a breadth and accuracy of search resultsnot available elsewhere. In addition, blinkx powers the video search for many ofthe world's most frequented sites. blinkx is based in San Francisco and London.More information is available at www.blinkx.com. About Raindance Raindance TV is unique amongst film distribution channels in that we supplyquality independent shorts, features and documentaries across a wide range ofplatforms across fixed line, and mobile networks, both here in the UK and aroundthe world. Raindance (www.raindance.co.uk) spans the full spectrum of the art, craft andbusiness of independent movies - from guerilla style low or no budgetproductions to big budget indie blockbusters. Raindance's innovative approach to filmmaking and programming continued with its15th anniversary festival in 2007 featuring over 300 shorts, features andspecial events. Raindance created the British Independent Film Awards (www.bifa.org.uk) tenyears ago, now considered by the British film industry to be the most importantfilm event in the UK. Raindance office is in London, UK. tel +(44) 207 287 3833 info@raindance.co.ukwww.raindance.co.uk Press Contact: Clare GaynerBite Communications+44 (0)20 8834 3454Clare.Gayner@bitepr.com This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock Exchange