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blinkx Founder and CEO Named One of Digital Media Wire’s ’25 Executives to Watch in Digital Entertainment’

January 6, 2009
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SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 6 /PRNewswire/ — blinkx, the world’s largest and most
advanced video search engine, today announced that CEO and Founder Suranga
Chandratillake
has been selected as one of Digital Media Wire’s “25 Executives
to Watch in Digital Entertainment.” The annual list recognizes 25 of the most
innovative, creative and forward-thinking executives in the digital media and
entertainment industry.

Honorees are selected by the editorial and executive team at Digital Media
Wire and represent companies that are shaping the industry. A highly regarded
expert on the future of television, interactive TV and online advertising, Mr.
Chandratillake is well-qualified to receive the honor.

Recipients will be honored at a reception at the 2nd Annual Digital Media
Insider at CES 2009. In addition, all honorees will be featured in the January
9th
issue of Daily Variety and the January 12th issue of Variety’s Video
Business magazine. This year’s list of recipients also includes executives
from MySpace, MTV Networks, Facebook, Paypal, and Pandora.

“It’s a great honor to be recognized as one of Digital Media Wire’s ’25
Executives to Watch’,” said Suranga Chandratillake, founder and CEO, blinkx.
“blinkx has released a number of innovative products this year, including
blinkx Beat and blinkx BBTV, our Broadband television offering. We are
delighted to be recognized for our thought-leadership in the industry, and to
be included among the other visionaries in this group.”

As the pioneer in video search technology, blinkx has built a reputation
as the smartest way to search new forms of online content such as video. With
more than 420 partners and 32 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.

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.

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