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6 Feb 2008 07:01

Blinkx Plc06 February 2008 blinkx Partners with Young Hollywood to Bring Users Closer to the Red Carpet Find close-up and candid videos of all your favorite stars from Angelina Jolie to Johnny Depp at www.blinkx.com SAN FRANCISCO, CALIF. - February 6, 2008 - blinkx, the world's largest videosearch engine, today announced a partnership with Young Hollywood(www.younghollywood.com) to offer users a backstage pass to the site's exclusivecelebrity programming. Young Hollywood, a leading destination for onlineentertainment, provides users with original and professionally-produced contentfrom celebrity interviews and news to behind the scenes coverage of the hottestHollywood events. Under the terms of the agreement, blinkx will leverage itsAdHoc platform to place contextually relevant advertising against the footage,and will share resulting advertising revenue with Young Hollywood. Providing the ultimate insider's perspective on celebrity lifestyle, travel,nightlife, music, fashion and more, Young Hollywood's high-quality entertainmentcontent allows users to get closer to their favorite celebrities than even themost aggressive paparazzi. Young Hollywood gives users the ultimateentertainment experience through compelling video interviews with topcelebrities and rising talent, and timely and relevant entertainment news thatthey know they can trust. "Entertainment news and celebrity video footage is becoming increasingly popularon the Web," said Suranga Chandratillake, founder and CEO, blinkx. "We arethrilled to bring Young Hollywood's high-quality entertainment news content toour viewers - and just in time for awards season!" "Our agreement with blinkx gives users around the world even more ways to accessYoung Hollywood's content," said RJ Williams, CEO, Young Hollywood. "Leveragingblinkx's unique technology and vast network brings Young Hollywood even closerto our long-term goal of becoming a multi-platform entertainment experience." 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 Young Hollywood Young Hollywood provides up to date entertainment and celebrity news, musicvideos, and photo galleries that reveal the inside story of celebrity life, astold by the best source - celebrities themselves. Young Hollywood started out asan independent entertainment production company, and has become one of thelargest producers of original celebrity online programming in Hollywood. As alongtime actor himself, CEO RJ Willliams founded Young Hollywood because hewanted to create a site for unique, quality celebrity programming that wouldprovide an authentic take on Hollywood culture. YoungHollywood.com regularlyranks among the top five sites in the celebrity news category, and in less thana year, the site has built an audience of over 1 million unique visitors permonth.* YoungHollywood.com launched in April, 2007 and is based in Los Angeles. *According to comScore Press Contacts:Tim TurpinSparkpr+1 (415) 321 1894tim.turpin@sparkpr.com Clare GaynerBite Communications+44 (0)20 8834 3454Clare.Gayner@bitepr.com Sara Campbell42West for YoungHollywood.com+1 (646) 254-6038Sara.campbell@42west.net This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock Exchange