SAN FRANCISCO, January 6 /PRNewswire/ --

- Digital Media Wire Recognizes blinkx CEO Suranga Chandratillake as 
Executive to Watch in the Digital Media and Entertainment Industry

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.