Blinkx AdHoc Contextual Advertising for Web Videos

Google Adsense for Video program will soon have competition from Blinkx, the best video search engine that converts speech to text while indexing millions of video clips.

Through Blinkx (BLNX), you can search for spoken content from most media companies including Forbes, Reuters, BBC, ABC News, CBS, MSNBC, USA Today and so on. You can even search user-generated content available on video sharing sites like Blip.TV, Metacafe, etc.

The new Blinkx Video Advertising engine will allow advertising to embed targeted ads in Web videos based on the specific words spoken in the videos: 

Just like Google’s AdSense matches search ads with the words on any given publisher’s Web page, blinkx will bring a similar form of contextual mapping to video.  An advertiser can buy keywords, and the ads will be triggered when those words are spoken in a video or they appear in a title, description or a tag attached to the video.  Link

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