Ft Fbt Discussion Threads

[bonio10000] 18/1/2019 08:41

For hyperbole you only had to look at the brokers note around the time of Eva and Captevate.

100% wrong and 100% based upon management input you would think.

And bigged up by certain people on here.

Is the consumer version still open for sale? Apparently it was getting thousands of downloads a week?

Would love to know if they were given a cease and desist as a result of the name being similar to a competitor.

[paulcon1] 18/1/2019 08:33

Mr Streater and this technology deserve better than having to jump through Microsoft hoops to gain business.

NickB

I, personally, am not a skeptic, I do believe though in Fact-based-reality not Hyperbole-based-fantasy with regards money/investment

IMHO

[chriscallen] 18/1/2019 06:55

IM seems to have applied the simple truth that the easiest and most cost effective customer to sell to is an existing happy customer because he has visited quite a number of them on this visit. Add that to the other potential customers and I am seeing the potential sales for 2019 expanding more rapidly than I thought even a month ago.

[nickb] 18/1/2019 02:02

Stay skeptic guys

[mcsean2164] 18/1/2019 00:40

Google azure blackbird. The only one promoting the connection is fbt.

Im in the US, show us the sales. I met the CTO of a major telecoms firm in December, doesn't mean I sold anything to them. IM is spending shareholder money in the US, he is going around shaking hands directly not via the cloud. That costs a lot of money.

Show us the money im!

[geheimnis2] 17/1/2019 23:33

No mention of cowboy boot Friday.

Says it all.

[nickb] 17/1/2019 22:58

Unique Technology
Recognised by Microsoft and increasingly getting noticed in the industry.

Atlas digital one of the biggest editing providers in Hollywood now on board.

[nickb] 17/1/2019 22:51

Thanks for posting that Cabi.

So many non-believers here!


IM working hard for sure.

[cabi1] 17/1/2019 22:36

IM LinkedIn.

After a 12 days of jet lag, removing my shoes at airports and packing/repacking my suitcase and some brilliant meetings I’m finally heading home.

Thanks America for making it such a fruitful and exciting trip. More and more frequently people are telling us that content creation workflows NEED to move to the cloud. Conversations are all the more productive for it and word is getting out that Blackbird is the fastest, the most precise and the most flexible and cost effective solution.

Will be back in February!

[cabi1] 17/1/2019 22:36

IM LinkedIn.

Rounding off my long US trip with Alex Drosin Chief Commercial Officer at Massive Interactive now part of Deltatre. Building our individual and complementary tech into end to end solutions for A-list customers is a fun and exciting proposition.

[bonio10000] 17/1/2019 22:34

Defo odd we can't sell given the hyper growth out there. Still, we have a law training firm.

[paulcon1] 17/1/2019 20:42

McSean

Very useful graphic..

The 'stamp of approval' from Microsoft is positive, without a doubt, but I'm disappointed that this is where FBT are.

Where is the FBT sales team? They are employed to sell directly to FBT clients. I thought we were further down (or up maybe) the line than this?

GLM

[mcsean2164] 17/1/2019 20:30

Agree with you Hornblower, Microsoft even have their own encoder, if we were in their graphic it would be interesting but we're not:

[horneblower] 17/1/2019 20:22

Well, I wish 'em luck but am not holding my breath.
I expect the share price to go up in anticipation of higher sales...and then to come back down again when things happen slower than hoped for.
Even so, the chart suggests 11p to 13p so not to be sniffed at.

[chriscallen] 17/1/2019 18:46

There can be no doubt that being close to MSFT and AWS is good news. It puts Blackbird on the same pitch as Avid and Adobe and with MSFT promoting it they must win business.

[cabi1] 17/1/2019 18:22

Horneblower, I think you’ll find they are.

Microsoft sales reps can receive up to 10 percent of the annual contract value of the joint solution.

Schuster said the project sizes are on average nearly six times larger when a partner is involved, and she said opportunities are closing faster than with regular deals, as well.

[nickb] 17/1/2019 18:12

Microsoft Azure sales have a team dedicated for the Media industry a sales vertical headed by Scott Bounds to sell a Cloud native Video Editing solution that can drive additional Microsoft Azure services like storage achieve encoding and streaming. It is a multi billion $ vertical so yes Microsoft will be keen to sell us.

All part of hitting the big time for our technology imho.

[horneblower] 17/1/2019 17:37

Oh come on; Microsoft are not going to be selling Blackbird, that's Forbidden's job.
However, Microsoft's 'approval' of Blackbird can only be positive.

[cabi1] 17/1/2019 17:07

Bonio, I think people are sleeping. This MSFT news is big, as far as I’m concerned. IM has loaded up with shares, that’s good enough for me. It’s happening.

[bonio10000] 17/1/2019 16:46

So exciting the rest of the board refuse to buy shares?

Hopefully a large deal is stopping them.

[cabi1] 17/1/2019 16:35

IM LinkedIn.

A ‘better together’ partnership with Blackbird and Microsoft now in full swing of being established in the US as well as Europe. Just a glimpse at the high-profile, blue-chip customers that Blackbird and Azure can bring speed and efficiency too makes this really exciting.

[nickb] 17/1/2019 16:15

Nice to get some high level sales support from Microsoft

[mcsean2164] 17/1/2019 15:23

Nice to get some coverage!