blinkx

If you haven’t heard of “Prom Queen,” know that the show was - in terms of “scripted Internet dramas,” anyway - a big sensation.  And now Blinkx, the video search engine, has won the rights to host and distribute the sequel.

I like Blinkx - the video search engine stays busy, thereby giving us something to write about.  And today, the video search engine gave evidence that it has been very busy - Blinkx announced 28 new media partnerships.

Google probably hires around 40 people on a daily basis; it almost certainly achieves that every week.  Not every company’s worth $160 billion, however, and so it’s significant that Blinkx, which has a much smaller budget, has added a few employees and raised its overall headcount to 40.

For you Tour de France fans - you fans whose favorite cyclists haven’t been booted for lying or doping, that is - there’s good news: Cycling.tv just made distribution deals with Blinkx and Joost.  But the arrangement is really intended to draw in those of you who aren’t fans.

We last wrote about Blinkx seven days ago, and at that time, the company claimed its index contained a whopping 12 million hours’ worth of content.  Blinkx has now issued a release announcing its arrival at the 14 million-hour mark.

Blinkx keeps getting bigger, and the video search engine has just won a new partner - Vibe Solutions Group - that continues the trend.  Vibe will add Pyro.TV to Blinkx’s searchable index.

Sesam.se launched in November of 2006, and “is now Sweden’s leading search engine.”  That’s pretty impressive, and thanks to a partnership with Blinkx, Sesam.se is set to take another leap: it will gain access to 12 million hours of video.

It was only a matter of time, because it’s seemed obvious to many that a good video advertising solution would be for an automated system to match video content to commercial style video ads. blinkx has announced their solution called AdHoc (honestly, must every advertising solution be “Ad-something”?) that does this.