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CLIPBLAST! UNVEILS VIDEOVIEW™ -- WEEKLY BENCHMARK OF ONLINE VIDEO SUPPLY AND DEMAND

           

LOS ANGELES (October 18, 2006) — Leveraging its position as the premier video search engine to span the Web in its entirety, ClipBlast! (www.clipblast.com) today unveiled ClipBlast! VideoView™, a weekly benchmark of video supply and demand online.

 

When it debuts on Nov. 6, ClipBlast! VideoView will serve as a snapshot of both what America is watching online and what content providers are making available, on the Web, for the country to watch.  Each weekly report will highlight the previous week’s top clip, as determined by ClipBlast!’s patent-pending technology.  Initially focused on the U.S. market, ClipBlast! VideoView will go global during 2007.

 

During the week of October 9, for example, Corey Lidle’s tragic death in New York became ClipBlast’s most-trafficked story, accounting for 27 percent of the world’s largest video search sources activity.  For a look at Cory Lidle search results on ClipBlast click here, with content from major networks CBS, CNN, MSN, NBC, Fox News, and 35 local news channels, including WCBS (NY), ClickOnDetroit.com, WPXI, WJZ (Baltimore), CBS4 (Boston), Local6, and sports channels ESPN and Fox Sports. 

 

“With video as Web’s new killer app, it’s fitting to understand what is being released, what people are viewing, and where the content is coming from,” said Gary Baker, ClipBlast! founder and CEO.  “ClipBlast! VideoView will be the de facto barometer of how much video is being released for the Web and what the rapidly-growing audience for Web video is searching for and watching.”

 

ClipBlast’s patent-pending technology gives users the ability to search for video clips from within a single site, video blog (vlog) or across the entire Web – a capability that even search-engine stalwarts like Google and MSN do not provide.  For site owners and marketers, ClipBlast! offers back-end video search technology that organizes video libraries, which enables content to be monetized.  Like Google and other traditional search engines, ClipBlast! helps provide video content owners and advertisers with significant revenue opportunities by delivering active, targeted and video-viewing audiences.

 

Now that 75 percent of U.S. households have broadband, video has emerged as the Web’s killer app.  As the top media brands rapidly release content on their websites, user-video sites like Google’s newly-acquired YouTube -- now the 10th most trafficked site on the Web -- and even once-static properties like blogs, newsletters and informational Websites, are adding video at an ever-increasing rate.  Whether individuals use the Web for entertainment, specific information, or both, ClipBlast video search delivers freedom to access the world of instant multimedia enjoyment.

 

ClipBlast! has spent the last two years quietly cementing its front-runner status in the emerging video search market by indexing millions of video clips from across the Web. The company’s patent-pending technology crawls the Web in search of video, then categorizes video files, Web pages and feeds so that the most relevant clips can be served up in real-time, on demand.

 

About ClipBlast!

Founded in 2004, ClipBlast! provides pioneering video search that uses patent-pending technology to continuously update the largest index of video content across the Internet.  ClipBlast!'s fast, easy interface gives users instant access to millions of quality, highly relevant, targeted clips from the world’s major media brands, independent producers and individuals -- clips that inform, enlighten, inspire and entertain.  The company is based in Agoura Hills, Calif.   To learn more, visit http://www.clipblast.com.