blinkx CEO Suranga Chandratillake to Speak at Goldman Sachs Media Forum
December 03 2008 - 8:00AM
PR Newswire (US)
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 3 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- blinkx, the world's
largest and most advanced video search engine, today announced that
Founder and CEO Suranga Chandratillake will be speaking at the
Goldman Sachs Media Conference in London on Thursday, December 4th.
Mr. Chandratillake will be presenting on a panel addressing new
ways of targeting media audiences at 2:30 p.m. GMT at Goldman Sachs
UK headquarters, to be moderated by Goldman Sachs CFA Laurie
Davison. Hosted by Goldman Sachs's media sector research team, the
Goldman Sachs Media Conference will be examining the different
themes and sub-sectors in media. A highly respected expert on the
convergence of Web and TV, Chandratillake is well-qualified to
provide important insight into the world of online video. As the
world's leader in video search, blinkx has signed more than 420
media partners and indexed over 32 million hours of video content
on the Web. AdHoc, blinkx's contextual video advertising platform,
guarantees that brands advertising against blinkx's indexed video
will receive the most relevant, targeted placement possible,
engaging audiences across all demographics. About blinkx blinkx plc
(LSE AIM: BLNX) is the world's largest and most advanced video
search engine. Today, blinkx has indexed more than 32 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 http://www.blinkx.com/. DATASOURCE: blinkx plc
CONTACT: Tim Turpin of Sparkpr, +1-415-321-1894, ; or Adrie Wessels
of Bite Communications, +44 (0)20 8834 3474, ; or NOMAD, Charles
Lytle of Citi, all for blinkx plc Web site: http://www.blinkx.com/
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