blinkx expands News content by partnering with FRANCE 24
By Andrew Redfern @ 23rd January 2008 9:21 am
blinkx today partnered with FRANCE 24, the first French international news channel to broadcast on a 24/7 basis, to give blinkx viewers direct access to FRANCE 24′s multilingual collection of politically and culturally diverse programming.
Leveraging its unique AdHoc platform, blinkx will also place contextually relevant advertising against the footage, and will share resulting advertising revenue with FRANCE 24. Currently, blinkx offers native news and other video search in four different languages (English, French, German and Spanish) at www.blinkx.com.
“This agreement with blinkx fits into our strategy of syndicating FRANCE 24 video programs throughout the world. The number and the nature of the websites affiliated with this company allows us to reinforce the notoriety of FRANCE 24 and the visibility of our programs and reports, especially in the US market”, said Stanislas Leridon, FRANCE 24 New Media and Internet Director.
“When you only have access to your local television station, it can often be challenging to find different perspectives on current events – especially on the international news front,” said Suranga Chandratillake, founder and CEO of blinkx.
“With FRANCE 24 and blinkx’s other global news providers, we’re making it even easier for our users to have access to diverse coverage of world events, in many different languages.”
As the pioneer in video search technology, blinkx serves more than 50 million unique visitors every month. blinkx has built a reputation as the smartest way to search new forms of online content such as video.
With more than 220 partners and 18 million hours of indexed video and audio content, including favorite TV moments, news clips, short documentaries, music videos, video blogs and more, blinkx uses advanced speech recognition technology to deliver results that are more accurate and reliable than standard metadata-based keyword searches.
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