Blinkx Plc Director/PDMR Shareholding (4610S)

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RNS Number : 4610S

Blinkx Plc

24 September 2014

Directors' Dealings

London, England and San Francisco, CA - 24 Sept 2014 - blinkx plc ("blinkx" or the "Company") announces that on 19(th) September 2014, the following ordinary shares vested as part of the grant of restricted stock units under the US Share Plan for Senior Executives announced by the Company on 17(th) September 2013:

   --     50,000 in the name of Subhransu Mukherjee; and 
   --     16,667 in the name of Suranga Chandratillake. 

Each Director exercised his option to fund the tax obligation that arose from the vesting of the shares and now owns the shares indicated above.

Following this vesting:

-- Mr. Mukherjee has 400,000 restricted stock units, 2,080,000 unexercised share options and 450,000 ordinary shares, together representing 0.73% of the Total Voting Rights of the Company.

-- Mr. Chandratillake has 133,332 restricted stock units, 2,487,179 unexercised share option and 59,768 ordinary shares in the Company, together representing 0.67% of the Total Voting Rights of the Company.

For further information please contact:

 
 Analyst and Investor Contact      Financial Media Contacts 
  Dan Slivjanovski                  Edward Bridges/Charles Palmer 
  blinkx plc                        FTI Consulting 
                                    (UK) 020 3727 1000 
 NOMAD for blinkx plc              Joint Broker for blinkx plc 
  Charles Lytle/Christopher Wren    Lorna Tilbian/Mark Lander/Nick 
  Citigroup Global Markets Ltd      Westlake 
  (UK) 020 7986 9756                Numis Securities Limited 
                                    (UK) 020 7260 1000 
 

About blinkx

blinkx (LSE AIM: BLNX) is an Internet media company that connects consumers and brands through premium content online. Founded in the UK in 2004, blinkx pioneered Internet Video Search using its patented COncept Recognition Engine (CORE). This technology leverages speech recognition, text and image analysis to deeply understand the meaning and context of video content to generate improved search relevancy for consumers and a brand safe environment for advertisers. Today, blinkx is a broad digital media technology, distribution and monetization platform that connects consumers, advertisers and content across four screens. Through its partnerships with hundreds of media companies, including NBC, Conde Nast, Reuters and Bloomberg, blinkx has indexed and search enabled millions of hours of video content. blinkx powers video search, discovery or monetization on thousands of online properties including Lycos, Discovery Networks, Hallmark and Fox Sports. blinkx is headquartered in San Francisco, California with 15 offices worldwide. For more information please visit www.blinkx.com.

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