Blackbird Share Discussion Threads

[nickb] 29/1/2020 12:28

Frameio doesn’t video edit it’s a plug in to traditional edit software to help with collaboration/review.

Never heard of IIUC What’s that?

[gnnmartin] 29/1/2020 12:23

Intriguing, cab|1. I see Forescene are mentioned as well as Blackbird. I assume we are not marketing both. Frame.io comes top by a whisker, but with only one voter. IIUC it gets adulation for its tools for community editing, rather than for speed of editing. Probably mostly aimed at creating low budget films, advertising videos, etc, where final content is all important, and speed of creation not critical.

I've no idea how important this listing is, but my guess is 'not very'.

[bonio10000] 29/1/2020 11:52

Don't reappoint Main and use his salary.

Done.

[cabi1] 29/1/2020 11:43

Bonio. Support staff. They are currently advertising at the moment.

[bonio10000] 29/1/2020 11:19

Which is the dichotomy between the interview and being told we need money for more sales staff.

[chriscallen] 29/1/2020 11:16

I listened to the interview and the key point he made was that the wins so far are good but they are to interim customers. The focus now is on OEMs which he defined as Cloud providers and Telcos who will sell BIRD as part of their products - he said that the analogy was that up to now they had been running a fleet of taxis in London whereas BIRD wanted to be integrated into the car manufacture. So the strategy continues to be to get the interim customers to buy it from the likes of Amazon, Microsoft and Google as part of the package.

The OEM strategy limits the need to employ sales and marketing people and all of the support costs such as travel and exhibition attendance.

[bonio10000] 29/1/2020 11:15

So results and then NAB announcements from mid Mar to mid Apr

[nickb] 29/1/2020 11:09

NAB 2020 show starts April 18th so we will have those OEM companies names by then.

[nickb] 29/1/2020 11:04

Geh
That’s a great idea

[flashheart] 29/1/2020 10:59

Not sure the BIRD will exist by then. Bought out before imo.

[geheimnis2] 29/1/2020 10:47

early suggestion for 2021 thread title

2021: THE BIRD IS THE WORD

[geheimnis2] 29/1/2020 10:46

Quick reminder, folks:

THE BIRD IS THE WORD

[geheimnis2] 29/1/2020 10:04

true, b - however they do wish to scale up their cost base plus agree with nick - they need to be in a strong financial position to secure contracts

[nickb] 29/1/2020 10:02

OEM is the best way to scale which could be global scale.

[nickb] 29/1/2020 10:01

Probably can’t sign A list large contracts without a good chunk of money in the bank.

[bonio10000] 29/1/2020 09:59

Oh - and the idea that we will be a tech company using others to resell doesn't quite add up with needing more staff to secure deals.

Will be interesting to see if the UK reseller network filters through into any numbers for 2019.

[bonio10000] 29/1/2020 09:58

Agreed.

But they know more than we do and it is them who decided £8m in the bank was needed.

[geheimnis2] 29/1/2020 09:53

b - i think any other comment on profitability would be market sensitive so i doubt he would share with Vox

in addition, until the contracts are in the bag, it is difficult to be certain

[nickb] 29/1/2020 09:29

That’s good.

[cabi1] 29/1/2020 09:26

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[bonio10000] 29/1/2020 09:24

the bit about "thinking" the fundraising will allow a "path" to profitability still suggests that cash might take a while to arrive.

[bonio10000] 29/1/2020 09:23

Problem is nobody listens to that channel.

They would be better wording a decent statement with the finals.

The Vox presenter is hilarious though.