blinkx Continues Distribution Deals With The Raindance Film Festival

This morning, video search engine, blinkx is announcing a new partnership with Raindance, founder of the Raindance Film Festival and the British Independent Film Awards. Under the terms of the agreement, blinkx will host, transcribe and index top independent shorts, features and documentaries from the Raindance Film Festival. blinkx will also place contextually relevant advertising against the footage, and will share resulting advertising revenue with Raindance.

This comes after blinkx's deals with PodShow and Kiplinger personal finance videos. With these new distribution and hosting deals, blinkx appears to not only want to be the video search leader but also become a strong player in the content syndication business as well. They currently have more than 220 partners and 18 million hours of indexed video and audio content.