blinkx Signs Premiere Fitness Partners to Help Users Find the Perfect Health Regimen and Routine


SAN FRANCISCO, January 20 /PRNewswire/ --

- Get fitter faster at www.blinkx.com

blinkx, the world's largest and most advanced video search engine, today
announced new partnerships with Studio 4 Fitness, Diet.com, BodyArchitect.tv,
and Everyday Dish TV. More fitness and health video is available than ever
before on http://www.blinkx.com. Leveraging its unique AdHoc platform, blinkx
will also place contextually relevant advertising against these videos, and
share resulting advertising revenue with the partners.

blinkx recently added hundreds of health videos to its index, just in
time to help users keep their fitness-related New Year's resolutions.
Visitors to http://www.blinkx.com can now find workout programs including
Yoga, Pilates, and martial arts taught by top trainers from Studio 4 Fitness,
and check out the Diet.com channel to browse diet tips, a variety of
workouts, nutritional advice, and product reviews. Users can also browse the
best in gym, health, and lifestyle tips with BodyArchitect.tv clips, and top
all their workouts off with a nutritious, gluten-free vegan meal, courtesy or
recipes from Everyday Dish TV, the one-stop-shop for healthy and creative
vegan cooking.

"With so many people vowing to improve their health and get in shape for
the New Year, we're pleased to add so many fitness-related clips to our
index," said Suranga Chandratillake, founder and CEO of blinkx. "This type of
video content is extremely useful to our users, not to mention a great
substitute for an expensive personal trainer!"

"We're dedicated to helping our viewers build better bodies, and thrive
on providing people with the resources they need to achieve their goals,"
said Ed Stansfield, CEO of Studio 4 Fitness. "blinkx's innovative technology
allows us to share the best health and fitness tips with people everywhere,
immediately and easily. We're thrilled to be given the opportunity to train
fitness lovers across the globe!"

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.

About Studio 4 Fitness

Taught by today's leading fitness professionals, Studio 4 Fitness offers
complete workout programs for beginners and advanced alike with specific
routines at each skill level. Whether losing weight, improving endurance, or
building muscle, Studio 4 Fitness has the best and most popular fitness
programming available.

About Diet.com

Diet.com is the next generation platform for consumer weight loss and
healthy living. Diet.com leverages popular channels such as online video to
educate and motivate users to live healthier lives. Health-conscious
consumers find vital information and support via Diet.com's interactive
online community. With registered dietitians and weight loss experts to give
personal advice to its members, Diet.com is dedicated to understanding users'
specific lifestyle and personality needs, and giving them the structure they
need to develop a long-term healthy lifestyle.

About BodyArchitect.tv

BodyArchitect.tv is a proud member of the NetworkGlobal.tv family of
online media channels. NetworkGlobal is one of the leading ".tv" networks on
the web. With a developed portfolio spanning fitness, entertainment and
travel the mission behind NetworkGlobal is to create the global standard for
information rich video media on the Internet. NetworkGlobal affiliates
operate in New York USA, Bucharest Romania, and Surfer's Paradise Australia.

About Everyday Dish TV

Everyday Dish TV is like having a personal chef at your disposal. All of
our recipes are based on a plant based prepared foods. We make cooking fun,
simple and inspiring. We catered our site to help vegetarians, vegans the
veg-curious. These are food alternatives for those with milk allergies,
lactose intolerance, gluten-free or healthy living diets with an emphasis on
information and useful tools. Vegan and vegetarian cooking at its finest.

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