Eurosport Signs Deal With blinkx.TV

Eurosport Signs Deal With blinkx.TV

blinkx Users Worldwide Can Now Enjoy Premier Sports Clips Available From Eurosport

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 31 /PRNewswire/ -- blinkx, the smartest thing on your computer, today announced a partnership agreement with Europe's leading sports channel, Eurosport, www.eurosport.com, giving users access to more sports media than ever before. Eurosport's following spans over 18 countries and broadcasts coverage of the most famous National and International sports in the world. By automatically indexing Eurosport's video content, blinkx will make it easy for users worldwide to search for and enjoy the massive amounts of European sporting content at www.blinkx.tv.

Users have traditionally been dependent on watching sports highlights. As sports are all about action, the limitations imposed on this kind of viewing have left something more to be wished for. blinkx.TV's agreement with Eurosport adds hundreds of sports clips to blinkx's vast collection of video, allowing users to easily find and actually watch the action unfold in games, tournaments, and events throughout the international sporting community. Eurosport's breadth of content ranges from football to motocross to sailing, tennis and just about any sport you can think of. Together with Eurosport's excellent sporting video and blinkx's one of a kind search technology, users worldwide can not only catch their favorite sports event, but they can experience it directly from their laptop.

"Eurosport is very excited about this new partnership with Blinkx. It will enable more Internet users throughout the world to access the Eurosport rich video database," said Anna Cohen, Head of Mobility, Eurosport.

"As sports is a rich and fulfilling aspect in European culture, Eurosport and blinkx's partnership will add to the cultural richness in blinkx user's lives by allowing them to enjoy premium sports entertainment at home, work or virtually anywhere directly from their desktop. We are elated to be partnering with the leaders of sports in Europe, Eurosport," said Federico Grosso, VP business solutions, blinkx.

About blinkx

blinkx, the smartest thing on your computer and on the Web, is changing the way that people think about search. Only blinkx can harness the desktop, Web and TV -- unifying content with a one stop search tool. Available to users on the Web at www.blinkx.com and www.blinkx.tv, as well as free to download, blinkx automatically and intelligently links to content anywhere and in any format, on the Web, on the desktop and even on TV. blinkx's conceptual toolbar means users are no longer limited to keyword search; instead, blinkx assesses all the information that the user is actively viewing, and automatically recommends and retrieves relevant content, from local, Web and TV searches, based on context. In addition, www.blinkx.tv makes thousands of hours of TV content fully searchable and available on demand for the first time. blinkx is a privately-held company based in San Francisco and London. More information is available at www.blinkx.com.

Source: blinkx

CONTACT: Julia Blystone of OutCast Communications, +1-415-392-8282, or
julia@outcastpr.com, for blinkx

Web site: http://www.eurosport.com/

Web site: http://www.blinkx.tv/

Web site: http://www.blinkx.com/

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