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RhythmOne

June 21, 2023

RhythmOne plc, previously known as Blinkx,[2][3][4] and also known as RhythmOne Group, is an American digital advertising technology company that owns and operates the web properties AllMusic, AllMovie, and SideReel.

RhythmOne plc
TypePublic
IndustryInternet services
FoundedJuly 2004
DefunctApril 2019
FateAcquired by Taptica International
Headquarters
San Francisco, California
,
U.S.
Number of employees
525 (June 2017)[1]
Websiterhythmone.com

Blinkx was founded in 2004, went public on the AIM market of the London Stock Exchange in 2007, and began trading as RhythmOne in 2017.[4] The company is headquartered in San Francisco, California, and London, England. RhythmOne acquired All Media Network and its portfolio of web properties in April 2015. In April 2019, RhythmOne merged with Taptica International (renamed Tremor International in June 2019), an advertising technology company headquartered in Israel.[5]

History

Blinkx was named after blinkx.com, an Internet Media platform that connects online video viewers with publishers and distributors, using advertising to monetize those interactions. Blinkx has an index of over 35 million hours of video and 800 media partnerships, as well as 111 patents related to the site's search engine technology, which is known as CORE.[6]

In 2004, Suranga Chandratillake, former US chief technology officer of Autonomy Corporation, founded Blinkx as a toolbar for web search, specializing in video.[7] In December 2004, Blinkx launched an audio and video search engine.[8] In July 2005, Blinkx launched SmartFeed, an RSS web feed for video links.[9]

In October 2006, Microsoft Corp. agreed to use Blinkx technology to power the video search on some parts of its MSN service and Live.com.[10]

In June 2007, Blinkx launched a contextual video advertising platform named AdHoc.[11]

In March 2008, Blinkx released the Blinkx Beat video screensaver[12] and in April of that same year, the company launched its broadband TV application.[13] In May 2008, Blinkx introduced the Advanced Media Platform (AMP), a proprietary video content management solution[14] and in August 2008 launched Blinkx Remote, a directory of full-length TV shows online for the US and UK.[15] In December 2008, Blinkx introduced the Un-roll Unit, a new ad unit for online video.[16]

In April 2009, Blinkx acquired some of the assets of the bankrupt Zango company under its Pinball Corporation subsidiary.[17]

In April 2010, the company launched behavioral targeting through Blinkx AdHoc.[18] In May 2010, Blinkx launched a mobile video search site.[19] In July, Blinkx announced the launch of a new mobile API (Application Programming Interface).[20] In October 2010, Blinkx launched Blinkx Beat for Google TV[21] and Cheep, a social shopping service.[22] In November 2010, Blinkx achieved profitability and positive operating cash flow, doubling revenue year on year.[23] In February 2011, Blinkx introduced TV API (Application Programming Interface).[24]

In February 2011, Blinkx announced a partnership with woomi, the connected TV destination from Miniweb Interactive, the cloud-based video distribution platform.[25]

In April 2011, Blinkx announced the acquisition of Burst Media, an online media and technology company headquartered in Burlington, Massachusetts. This acquisition brought 35 million hours of online video and TV to Burst Media's audience of over 130 million unique users.[26] In May 2011, Blinkx announced the Blinkx app would be available on Roku.[27] In November 2011, Blinkx announced a partnership with Orb Networks to bring 35 million hours of TV, video, and audio to Orb TV and Orb BR Users.[28] In November 2011, Blinkx acquired Prime Visibility Media Group (PVMG).[29]

In January 2012, Blinkx received a U.S. Patent for Moving Thumbnails technology.[30] In September 2012, an open beta of the next-generation Blinkx site launched.[31] In January 2013, Blinkx's next-generation video search and discovery site went live.[32] In Dec 2013, Blinkx acquired Rhythm NewMedia Inc., a Mobile Video Advertising Platform.[33]

In April 2015, Blinkx acquired All Media Network for an undisclosed amount, including website properties Sidereel.com, Allmusic.com, and Allmovie.com,[34] and unified its brands under the name RhythmOne.[35] In June 2016, Blinkx plc changed its name to RhythmOne plc and began trading as RhythmOne plc on the London Stock Exchange.[3][4] In December 2016, RhythmOne acquired Austin, Texas-based mobile rewards company Perk.com.[36] In June 2017, RhythmOne acquired assets and 200 employees from RadiumOne.[1] In September 2017, RhythmOne acquired YuMe Inc. for $185 million.[37] In April 2019, RhythmOne was acquired by Taptica International.[5][38]

All Media Network

All Media Network
 
All Media Network, LLC
TypePrivate
IndustryEntertainment
PredecessorAll Media Guide, AllRovi
FoundedJune 26, 1990; 32 years ago (1990-06-26)[39]
Big Rapids, Michigan, U.S.
FounderMichael Erlewine
Headquarters
San Francisco, California
,
U.S.
ProductsAllMusic, AllMovie, AllGame, SideReel, Celebified
Number of employees
11-50
Websitewww.AllMediaNetwork.com
Footnotes / references
[40][41]

All Media Network (AMN), formerly known as All Media Guide (AMG) and AllRovi, was an American company that owned and maintained AllMusic, AllMovie, AllGame (until its closure in 2014), SideReel and Celebified.

The company was founded in 1990 by popular-culture archivist Michael Erlewine. All Media Network offices were located in San Francisco, Ann Arbor, and other locations in the United States.[42]

All Media Network was founded in Big Rapids, Michigan in 1990 by Michael Erlewine. With the All Music Guide the aim was to "[compile] discographic information on every artist who's made a record since Enrico Caruso gave the industry its first big boost", which launched in 1991.[43]

All Music Guide (now AllMusic) was launched in 1991. In 1994, the All Movie Guide (now AllMovie) was launched and in 1998 the All Game Guide (later AllGame—defunct in 2014).[44]

They expanded with the All Movie Guide (now AllMovie) in 1994, and then the All Game Guide (now AllGame) in 1998. They moved to Ann Arbor, Michigan in 1999 to take advantage of the "rich talent pool".[44] AMG was a business unit within Alliance Entertainment from 1996 until early 2005.[45][46] In 2006, AEC One Stop Group, Inc., was its parent company.[47]

Alliance was acquired in 1999 by Yucaipa Companies, a multibillion-dollar fund based in California.

Macrovision (now TiVo) announced on November 6, 2007 that it had agreed to purchase All Media Guide for a reported $102 million; $72 million in cash was paid up front, and $30 million in contingent payments were made one year later.[48][49] For a time, all of the guides were controlled by Rovi's nameservers and combined access to the All Music and All Movie Guides was provided via AllRovi.com from 2011 until 2013. In 2013, Rovi sold consumer access of the content to the newly established All Media Network, LLC, but retained control of licensing the content to other businesses. The overall website is allmedianetwork.com (previously allmediaguide.com and allrovi.com).

Rovi sold the consumer access to them to newly established All Media Network, LLC in 2013, while retaining ownership and maintenance of the content itself.[50][51]

The AllGame section of the site was shut down on December 12, 2014.[52]

On April 16, 2015 Blinkx Plc acquired All Media Network and rebranded the website under the new unified RhythmOne Group banner.[53][54]

Properties

AllMusic

Main article: AllMusic
 
AllMusic logo

AllMusic is an online database which provides access to information about songs, albums, musicians, bands, and musical styles alongside staff-authored news, reviews, biographies, ratings and recommendations. Initially published in book form in 1991 as the All Music Guide, the content is now freely available to the public for online reference and information as well as available via licensing for point-of-sale systems, media players, and online music stores.[44][55][56]

Guide series

RhythmOne also produces the AllMusic guide series that includes the All Music Guide to Jazz and the All Music Guide to the Blues. Vladimir Bogdanov is the president of the series.

AllMovie

Main article: AllMovie
 
AllMovie logo

AllMovie, launched in 1994 as the All Movie Guide, provides access to information about actors, films, and filmmakers with staff-authored news, reviews, ratings, and recommendations. It offers limited information about Television productions, focused mainly on those released on DVD. Like AllMusic, this content is also available via licensing to point-of-sale systems, media players, and online stores.[44][57][58]

AllGame

 
AllGame logo

AllGame, active between 1998 and 2014 as the All Game Guide, offered information and reviews about many console, handheld, arcade, and PC games released in the US.[41][44][59] The site started in February 1998 with the goal of becoming the most comprehensive game database available.[60] In a farewell message on their site, the staff noted that they "didn't all know exactly what we were doing in those early days but it was an exciting time to be helping build an online game database before the Internet exploded with numerous websites dedicated to video games."[60]

SideReel

Main article: SideReel
 
SideReel logo

SideReel,[61] launched in 2007, is a TV community site which provides information about TV shows and episodes.[41]

Celebified

Celebified offers celebrity news and interviews and started in 2012.[41]

Operations

Business model

The AllMusic database is also used by several generations of Windows Media Player and Musicmatch Jukebox to identify and organize music collections. Windows Media Player 11 and the integrated MTV Urge music store have expanded the use of AllMusic data to include related artists, biographies, reviews, playlists and other data.[44]

All Media Network licenses large databases of metadata about movies, video games, audio books, and music releases from Rovi Corporation and publishes them online for consumer use. This includes credits, and staff-written biographies, reviews, ratings, and recommendations as well as categories such as theme or mood.[51] Rovi also makes this content available for point of sale systems in stores globally, for CD and DVD recognition in software media players such as Windows Media Player and Musicmatch Jukebox, and for providing content for a variety of websites including iTunes, Pandora, and Spotify.[62][63]

Formerly, All Media Guide sold print compilations of its information.[43]

RhythmOne's database was initially set up by Vladimir Bogdanov.[44]

Information in the database is licensed and used in point-of-sale systems by some music retailers, includes the following:

  • Basic data: names, genres, credits, copyright information, product numbers.
  • Descriptive content: styles, tones, moods, themes, nationalities.
  • Relational content: similar artists and albums, influences.
  • Editorial content: biographies, reviews, rankings.

Adware controversy

A lengthy criticism of Blinkx by Harvard Business School Associate Professor[64] Ben Edelman, published in January 2014,[65] sought to prove that Blinkx continued the adware operations of two companies it acquired, Prime Visibility Media Group[66] and Zango,[67] and was defrauding advertisers. Blinkx responded point-by-point in March 2014, stating that it did not install adware without user consent and that they did not wholly acquire Zango or its assets.[68] An earlier, 2009 blog post by Ken Smith, Zango co-founder and former CTO, supported Edelman's assertion that Blinkx acquired all of Zango's assets.[69]

Forbes contributor Peter Cohan claimed that Edelman's post caused a massive drop in Blinkx's stock price,[70] and further noted that Blinkx's initial, now-deleted corporate response on 30 January 2014[71] was largely an attack on Edelman's methods, rather than on the content of his analysis. However, New York Times blogger Mark Scott theorized that Edelman's undisclosed client(s), who funded his research on Blinkx, may have been hedge funds who profited from shorting the drop in Blinkx's stock price.[72]

Edelman published further research in April 2014, claiming that Blinkx offered users deceptive software installers and used deceptive pop-up advertisements.[73] He continued to defend his claim that Blinkx purchased all of Zango's assets, including its physical headquarters, and argued that a Federal Trade Commission order against Zango in 2007[74] may still apply to Blinkx. A section of the post co-authored with digital fraud investigation consultant Wesley Brandi also defended and furthered his initial claims that Blinkx was defrauding its advertising affiliates.[75]

Executives

  • Mark Bonney – Chief Executive Officer[76]
  • Suranga Chandratillake – President and Chief Strategy Officer
  • Richard O'Connor – Chief Financial Officer[76]
  • Frank Pao – Chief Business Officer[76]
  • Dan Slivjanovski – Chief Marketing Officer[76]
  • Richard Nunn – Chief Revenue Officer[76]
  • Bhaskar Ballapragada – Senior Vice President, Product[76]

See also

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External links

  • Official website  

June 21, 2023
rhythmone, previously, known, blinkx, also, known, group, american, digital, advertising, technology, company, that, owns, operates, properties, allmusic, allmovie, sidereel, plctypepublicindustryinternet, servicesfoundedjuly, 2004, francisco, california, camb. RhythmOne plc previously known as Blinkx 2 3 4 and also known as RhythmOne Group is an American digital advertising technology company that owns and operates the web properties AllMusic AllMovie and SideReel RhythmOne plcTypePublicIndustryInternet servicesFoundedJuly 2004 San Francisco California U S Cambridge EnglandDefunctApril 2019FateAcquired by Taptica InternationalHeadquartersSan Francisco California U S Number of employees525 June 2017 1 Websiterhythmone comBlinkx was founded in 2004 went public on the AIM market of the London Stock Exchange in 2007 and began trading as RhythmOne in 2017 4 The company is headquartered in San Francisco California and London England RhythmOne acquired All Media Network and its portfolio of web properties in April 2015 In April 2019 RhythmOne merged with Taptica International renamed Tremor International in June 2019 an advertising technology company headquartered in Israel 5 Contents 1 History 1 1 All Media Network 2 Properties 2 1 AllMusic 2 1 1 Guide series 2 2 AllMovie 2 3 AllGame 2 4 SideReel 2 5 Celebified 3 Operations 3 1 Business model 4 Adware controversy 5 Executives 6 See also 7 References 8 External linksHistory EditBlinkx was named after blinkx com an Internet Media platform that connects online video viewers with publishers and distributors using advertising to monetize those interactions Blinkx has an index of over 35 million hours of video and 800 media partnerships as well as 111 patents related to the site s search engine technology which is known as CORE 6 In 2004 Suranga Chandratillake former US chief technology officer of Autonomy Corporation founded Blinkx as a toolbar for web search specializing in video 7 In December 2004 Blinkx launched an audio and video search engine 8 In July 2005 Blinkx launched SmartFeed an RSS web feed for video links 9 In October 2006 Microsoft Corp agreed to use Blinkx technology to power the video search on some parts of its MSN service and Live com 10 In June 2007 Blinkx launched a contextual video advertising platform named AdHoc 11 In March 2008 Blinkx released the Blinkx Beat video screensaver 12 and in April of that same year the company launched its broadband TV application 13 In May 2008 Blinkx introduced the Advanced Media Platform AMP a proprietary video content management solution 14 and in August 2008 launched Blinkx Remote a directory of full length TV shows online for the US and UK 15 In December 2008 Blinkx introduced the Un roll Unit a new ad unit for online video 16 In April 2009 Blinkx acquired some of the assets of the bankrupt Zango company under its Pinball Corporation subsidiary 17 In April 2010 the company launched behavioral targeting through Blinkx AdHoc 18 In May 2010 Blinkx launched a mobile video search site 19 In July Blinkx announced the launch of a new mobile API Application Programming Interface 20 In October 2010 Blinkx launched Blinkx Beat for Google TV 21 and Cheep a social shopping service 22 In November 2010 Blinkx achieved profitability and positive operating cash flow doubling revenue year on year 23 In February 2011 Blinkx introduced TV API Application Programming Interface 24 In February 2011 Blinkx announced a partnership with woomi the connected TV destination from Miniweb Interactive the cloud based video distribution platform 25 In April 2011 Blinkx announced the acquisition of Burst Media an online media and technology company headquartered in Burlington Massachusetts This acquisition brought 35 million hours of online video and TV to Burst Media s audience of over 130 million unique users 26 In May 2011 Blinkx announced the Blinkx app would be available on Roku 27 In November 2011 Blinkx announced a partnership with Orb Networks to bring 35 million hours of TV video and audio to Orb TV and Orb BR Users 28 In November 2011 Blinkx acquired Prime Visibility Media Group PVMG 29 In January 2012 Blinkx received a U S Patent for Moving Thumbnails technology 30 In September 2012 an open beta of the next generation Blinkx site launched 31 In January 2013 Blinkx s next generation video search and discovery site went live 32 In Dec 2013 Blinkx acquired Rhythm NewMedia Inc a Mobile Video Advertising Platform 33 In April 2015 Blinkx acquired All Media Network for an undisclosed amount including website properties Sidereel com Allmusic com and Allmovie com 34 and unified its brands under the name RhythmOne 35 In June 2016 Blinkx plc changed its name to RhythmOne plc and began trading as RhythmOne plc on the London Stock Exchange 3 4 In December 2016 RhythmOne acquired Austin Texas based mobile rewards company Perk com 36 In June 2017 RhythmOne acquired assets and 200 employees from RadiumOne 1 In September 2017 RhythmOne acquired YuMe Inc for 185 million 37 In April 2019 RhythmOne was acquired by Taptica International 5 38 All Media Network Edit All Media Network Trade nameAll Media Network LLCTypePrivateIndustryEntertainmentPredecessorAll Media Guide AllRoviFoundedJune 26 1990 32 years ago 1990 06 26 39 Big Rapids Michigan U S FounderMichael ErlewineHeadquartersSan Francisco California U S ProductsAllMusic AllMovie AllGame SideReel CelebifiedNumber of employees11 50Websitewww AllMediaNetwork comFootnotes references 40 41 All Media Network AMN formerly known as All Media Guide AMG and AllRovi was an American company that owned and maintained AllMusic AllMovie AllGame until its closure in 2014 SideReel and Celebified The company was founded in 1990 by popular culture archivist Michael Erlewine All Media Network offices were located in San Francisco Ann Arbor and other locations in the United States 42 All Media Network was founded in Big Rapids Michigan in 1990 by Michael Erlewine With the All Music Guide the aim was to compile discographic information on every artist who s made a record since Enrico Caruso gave the industry its first big boost which launched in 1991 43 All Music Guide now AllMusic was launched in 1991 In 1994 the All Movie Guide now AllMovie was launched and in 1998 the All Game Guide later AllGame defunct in 2014 44 They expanded with the All Movie Guide now AllMovie in 1994 and then the All Game Guide now AllGame in 1998 They moved to Ann Arbor Michigan in 1999 to take advantage of the rich talent pool 44 AMG was a business unit within Alliance Entertainment from 1996 until early 2005 45 46 In 2006 AEC One Stop Group Inc was its parent company 47 Alliance was acquired in 1999 by Yucaipa Companies a multibillion dollar fund based in California Macrovision now TiVo announced on November 6 2007 that it had agreed to purchase All Media Guide for a reported 102 million 72 million in cash was paid up front and 30 million in contingent payments were made one year later 48 49 For a time all of the guides were controlled by Rovi s nameservers and combined access to the All Music and All Movie Guides was provided via AllRovi com from 2011 until 2013 In 2013 Rovi sold consumer access of the content to the newly established All Media Network LLC but retained control of licensing the content to other businesses The overall website is allmedianetwork com previously allmediaguide com and allrovi com Rovi sold the consumer access to them to newly established All Media Network LLC in 2013 while retaining ownership and maintenance of the content itself 50 51 The AllGame section of the site was shut down on December 12 2014 52 On April 16 2015 Blinkx Plc acquired All Media Network and rebranded the website under the new unified RhythmOne Group banner 53 54 Properties EditAllMusic Edit Main article AllMusic AllMusic logo AllMusic is an online database which provides access to information about songs albums musicians bands and musical styles alongside staff authored news reviews biographies ratings and recommendations Initially published in book form in 1991 as the All Music Guide the content is now freely available to the public for online reference and information as well as available via licensing for point of sale systems media players and online music stores 44 55 56 Guide series Edit RhythmOne also produces the AllMusic guide series that includes the All Music Guide to Jazz and the All Music Guide to the Blues Vladimir Bogdanov is the president of the series AllMovie Edit Main article AllMovie AllMovie logo AllMovie launched in 1994 as the All Movie Guide provides access to information about actors films and filmmakers with staff authored news reviews ratings and recommendations It offers limited information about Television productions focused mainly on those released on DVD Like AllMusic this content is also available via licensing to point of sale systems media players and online stores 44 57 58 AllGame Edit AllGame logo AllGame active between 1998 and 2014 as the All Game Guide offered information and reviews about many console handheld arcade and PC games released in the US 41 44 59 The site started in February 1998 with the goal of becoming the most comprehensive game database available 60 In a farewell message on their site the staff noted that they didn t all know exactly what we were doing in those early days but it was an exciting time to be helping build an online game database before the Internet exploded with numerous websites dedicated to video games 60 SideReel Edit Main article SideReel SideReel logo SideReel 61 launched in 2007 is a TV community site which provides information about TV shows and episodes 41 Celebified Edit Celebified offers celebrity news and interviews and started in 2012 41 Operations EditBusiness model Edit The AllMusic database is also used by several generations of Windows Media Player and Musicmatch Jukebox to identify and organize music collections Windows Media Player 11 and the integrated MTV Urge music store have expanded the use of AllMusic data to include related artists biographies reviews playlists and other data 44 All Media Network licenses large databases of metadata about movies video games audio books and music releases from Rovi Corporation and publishes them online for consumer use This includes credits and staff written biographies reviews ratings and recommendations as well as categories such as theme or mood 51 Rovi also makes this content available for point of sale systems in stores globally for CD and DVD recognition in software media players such as Windows Media Player and Musicmatch Jukebox and for providing content for a variety of websites including iTunes Pandora and Spotify 62 63 Formerly All Media Guide sold print compilations of its information 43 RhythmOne s database was initially set up by Vladimir Bogdanov 44 Information in the database is licensed and used in point of sale systems by some music retailers includes the following Basic data names genres credits copyright information product numbers Descriptive content styles tones moods themes nationalities Relational content similar artists and albums influences Editorial content biographies reviews rankings Adware controversy EditA lengthy criticism of Blinkx by Harvard Business School Associate Professor 64 Ben Edelman published in January 2014 65 sought to prove that Blinkx continued the adware operations of two companies it acquired Prime Visibility Media Group 66 and Zango 67 and was defrauding advertisers Blinkx responded point by point in March 2014 stating that it did not install adware without user consent and that they did not wholly acquire Zango or its assets 68 An earlier 2009 blog post by Ken Smith Zango co founder and former CTO supported Edelman s assertion that Blinkx acquired all of Zango s assets 69 Forbes contributor Peter Cohan claimed that Edelman s post caused a massive drop in Blinkx s stock price 70 and further noted that Blinkx s initial now deleted corporate response on 30 January 2014 71 was largely an attack on Edelman s methods rather than on the content of his analysis However New York Times blogger Mark Scott theorized that Edelman s undisclosed client s who funded his research on Blinkx may have been hedge funds who profited from shorting the drop in Blinkx s stock price 72 Edelman published further research in April 2014 claiming that Blinkx offered users deceptive software installers and used deceptive pop up advertisements 73 He continued to defend his claim that Blinkx purchased all of Zango s assets including its physical headquarters and argued that a Federal Trade Commission order against Zango in 2007 74 may still apply to Blinkx A section of the post co authored with digital fraud investigation consultant Wesley Brandi also defended and furthered his initial claims that Blinkx was defrauding its advertising affiliates 75 Executives EditMark Bonney Chief Executive Officer 76 Suranga Chandratillake President and Chief Strategy Officer Richard O Connor Chief Financial Officer 76 Frank Pao Chief Business Officer 76 Dan Slivjanovski Chief Marketing Officer 76 Richard Nunn Chief Revenue Officer 76 Bhaskar Ballapragada Senior Vice President Product 76 See also EditBabelgum Hulu Internet television IPTV Joost List of online music databases Miro software Slingbox Stephen Thomas Erlewine senior editor of AllMusic VeohReferences Edit a b Williams Azadeh June 28 2017 Adtech company RhythmOne acquires RadiumOne for US 22m Retrieved July 10 2017 The company stylized the name and logo in all lowercase as blinkx a b Blinkx Changes Name To RhythmOne To Align Brand With MorningstarUK June 16 2016 Retrieved July 10 2017 a b c Moore Steven RhythmOne as blinkx changes its name shareholders not as enthusiastic as the management guff ShareProphets Retrieved July 10 2017 a b Appointment of CEO RhythmOne Trading Update and Commencement of Share Buyback Programme PDF Taptica International April 2 2019 Retrieved July 19 2019 About Blinkx Archived from the original on May 21 2013 Retrieved February 13 2013 Blinkx original web page May 14 2005 Archived from the original on May 14 2005 Retrieved July 12 2007 Blinkx Unveils Search Engine for TV Lost Remote 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Retrieved May 6 2011 Blinkx Provides Content to Roku With New App tmcnet com May 30 2011 Retrieved June 7 2011 blinkx Announces Partnership With Orb Networks to Bring 35 Million Hours of TV Video and Audio to Orb TV and Orb BR Users Betanews com November 1 2011 Archived from the original on January 19 2014 Blinkx Buys PVMG For Engine And Agency MediaPost November 9 2011 Blinkx Receives U S Patent Grant for Moving Thumbnails Technology PR Newswire January 26 2012 Blinkx Opens up Beta of Next gen Video Search and Discovery Site ConnectedWorld tv September 18 2012 Archived from the original on May 15 2013 Blinkx s Next Generation Video Search and Discovery Site Goes Global With Full Availability PR Newswire January 22 2013 Blinkx Closes Acquisition of Rhythm NewMedia Inc PR Newswire December 12 2013 Blinkx Acquires Website Owner All Media Network For Undisclosed Amount London South East April 16 2015 Blinkx unifies brands as RhythmOne Digital TV Europe www digitaltveurope net Retrieved 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