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29 Apr 2008 07:01

Blinkx Plc29 April 2008 blinkx Brings The Poker Channel's Premium Programming to the Table Ante up at www.blinkx.com SAN FRANCISCO, CALIF. - April 29, 2008 - blinkx, the world's largest videosearch engine, today announced a partnership with The Poker Channel(www.pokerchanneleurope.com), the world's first television channel dedicated topoker and gaming entertainment. Hundreds of clips from Europe's largest libraryof poker programming are now easily accessible at www.blinkx.com. Leveraging itsunique AdHoc platform, blinkx will also place contextually relevant advertisingagainst the footage and share the resulting revenue with The Poker Channel. Launched in the U.K. in 2005, The Poker Channel provides seasoned enthusiastsand casual players alike original poker programming from around the world thatseeks to embody the culture, lifestyle and attitude of poker fans. The PokerChannel is home to diverse, quality gambling entertainment, offeringtournaments, educational videos and "Pokumentaries" on demand. From footage oftop pros, including Chris "Jesus" Ferguson and Howard Lederer, to videos on howto play aggressive, winning poker, users will now find it all on www.blinkx.com. "Poker's online and TV presence has grown exponentially in the past few years,with The Poker Channel as an early pioneer," said Suranga Chandratillake,founder and CEO, blinkx. "We're thrilled to partner with The Poker Channel tobring the best poker footage to our users." "We're delighted to partner with blinkx to make our world-class programmingavailable to international audiences everywhere," said Chris White, commercialdirector, Poker Channel Europe. "blinkx's unique search technology ensures userscan easily access our extensive mix of tournaments, high stakes cash games, newsand instructional shows." 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 blinkx blinkx 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 The Poker Channel The Poker Channel is now broadcast to over 15 million cable and satellite homesin 12 markets. On 1 April 2008 continued its multi-platform expansion, launchingas the first and only dedicated poker channel in the Netherlands on the UPCDigital platform and also on KPN. • In the UK on Sky Channel 167 from 9pm to 7am • In France on Noos, Numericable and Free (Channels 48, 95 and 145 respectively) • In Germany on Kabel Deutschland, KBW, Unity Media, NetCologne, NetMartens, Zattoo • In Belgium on BeTV and Coditel • In Netherlands on UPC Digital (Channel 127) and KPN (Channel 316) • In Finland, on Welho (Channel 212) and Canal Digital (Channel 94) • In Norway, Sweden and Denmark on Canal Digital (Channel 94) • In Iceland on Skjarinn • In Spain on Imagenio (Channel 98) and Zattoo • In Malta on MelitaCable (Channel 209) • Pan-Europe: at 1degrees West with set top box tuned to 11.229 GHZ Horizontal Millions of viewers around the world can also view the Channel's programming atdedicated online Poker Channel destinations including Youtube, Vuze, Joost andwww.pokerchanneleurope.com. Press Contacts for blinkx: Tim TurpinSparkpr+1 (415) 321 1894tim.turpin@sparkpr.com Clare GaynerBite Communications+44 (0)20 8834 3454Clare.Gayner@bitepr.com Press Contact for The Poker Channel: Christopher WhiteThe Poker Channel+44 208 834 1744Chris.white@pokerchanneleurope.com This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock Exchange