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Blinkx Partners With JumpTV To Make Entire Library Of Ethnic Television Content Available On The Blinkx Index
Clips from 270 International Television Channels from around the World Searchable on blinkx.com
TORONTO, CANADA and SAN FRANCISCO, CA – Feb. 14, 2007 – JumpTV Inc. (AIM: JTV) (TSX: JTV) (www.jumptv.com), the world's leading broadcaster of ethnic television over the Internet as measured by number of channels, has partnered with blinkx, the world’s largest video search engine, to make JumpTV’s television content fully indexed and searchable at www.blinkx.com.
JumpTV broadcasts over the internet thousands of popular television programs and sporting events from 270 channels from over 70 countries around the world. By partnering with blinkx, JumpTV will syndicate free preview content of its channels to blinkx users both at www.blinkx.com and blinkx’s syndication network. JumpTV expects to derive revenue through advertising alongside these previews and any of those users who then choose to subscribe.
Commenting on the philosophy behind JumpTV partnering with blinkx, Kaleil Isaza Tuzman, president and chief executive officer of JumpTV International stated, “JumpTV is committed to working with high quality partners to deliver our highly targeted, ethnic content to as many potential viewers as possible. By making clips of our programming available on the blinkx platform we will enable a large potential audience to find our full, live streams and video-on-demand library.”
Isaza Tuzman continued, “This partnership is a value-added service we are providing to our TV channel partners. Core to our relationship with these channels is our commitment to expand their international viewing audience. We believe that working with blinkx will represent a significant advance in the execution of our subscriber acquisition strategy.”
Through both automatic “spiders” that crawl the web for audio/video content and content partnerships with over 100 leading content and media companies, including Reuters and MTV, blinkx uses visual analysis and speech recognition to better understand rich media content.
“blinkx is focused on providing today's internet users with an easier way of finding multimedia online. With the proliferation of television and video online, rich media is the next step in the evolution of search from the desktop to the living room. By indexing and making JumpTV content searchable we are helping to bring JumpTV to people who may previously have not known it existed.” said Federico Grosso, vice president of Business Development, blinkx.
"JumpTV has a significant portion of the best international television available online," continued Federico Grosso. "Given the large amount of video content on the www.JumpTV.com site, this partnership gives www.blinkx.com significant international content for our audience."
PR / IR Contacts
North America:
Danielle Devoren / Marybeth Csaby
KCSA Worldwide
+1-212-896-1225 / +1-212-896-1236
ddevoren@kcsa.com / mcsaby@kcsa.com
UK:
Alex Mackey
Catullus Consulting
+44 20 7736 2938
alex.mackey@catullusconsulting.com
NOMAD:
Canaccord Adams
Chris Bowman
+44 (0) 20 7050 6500
Chris.Bowman@CanaccordAdams.com
About JumpTV
JumpTV (AIM, TSX: JTV) is the world's leading subscription-based broadcaster of ethnic television over the Internet , as measured by number of channels. With 270 channels from more than 70 countries, JumpTV delivers to its subscribers full-screen news, sports and entertainment content on a real-time basis from all corners of the globe. JumpTV has subscribers in over 90 countries who view channels on the JumpTV online network via high-speed Internet connections on their home computers, laptops, Internet-enabled televisions and mobile phones.
Forward looking statement
Certain statements herein may constitute forward-looking statements, including those identified by the expressions "may", "will", "should", "could", "anticipate", "believe", "plan", "estimate", "potential", "expect", "intent" and similar expressions to the extent they relate to JumpTV or its management. These statements reflect JumpTV's current expectations and are based on information currently available to management. These forward-looking statements are subject to a number of risks, uncertainties, assumptions and other factors that could cause actual results or events to differ materially from current expectations, including the matters discussed under "Risk Factors" contained in JumpTV's prospectus (admission document) dated August 1, 2006. These forward-looking statements are made as of the date hereof, and the Company assumes no obligation to update or revise them to reflect new events or circumstances.
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