Blackbird PLC Result of AGM

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Blackbird PLC

18 June 2024

 

18 June 2024

Blackbird plc

(the "Company")

Result of Annual General Meeting

Blackbird plc (AIM:BIRD), the technology licensor, developer and seller of market-leading cloud native video editing platform, Blackbird, and developer of the multiplayer editor in a browser, elevate.io, announces that at the Company's Annual General Meeting ("AGM") held earlier today, all resolutions were duly passed on a show of hands.

The proxy votes received from shareholders on each resolution are set out below:

	FOR*		AGAINST		Total votes cast (excluding votes withheld)	No. of votes withheld
	No. of votes for	% of total votes cast	No. of votes against	% of total votes cast
ORDINARY RESOLUTIONS
1.     To receive the Company's annual reports and accounts for the year ended 31 December 2023	187,553,227	99.86%	257,000	0.14%	187,810,227	8,048
2.     In accordance with the 2023 QCA Code, advisory vote to approve the directors' remuneration and benefits for the year ended 31 December 2023.	174,892,929	93.13%	12,906,498	6.87%	187,799,427	18,848
3.     To reappoint Moore Kingston Smith LLP as auditors of the Company	187,549,283	99.86%	260,944	0.14%	187,810,227	8,048
4.     To reappoint Andrew Bentley as a Director	174,673,509	93.01%	13,136,718	6.99%	187,810,227	8,048
5.     To reappoint Ian McDonough as a Director	187,504,838	99.84%	305,389	0.16%	187,810,227	8,048
6.     To reappoint Stephen White as a Director	175,552,125	99.57%	758,102	0.43%	176,310,227	11,508,048
7.     To reappoint Stephen Streater as a Director	187,502,125	99.84%	308,102	0.16%	187,810,227	8,048
8.     To reappoint Anne de Kerckhove as a Director	187,052,125	99.60%	758,102	0.40%	187,810,227	8,048
9.     To renew the authority of the Directors to allot shares	187,464,710	99.82%	345,517	0.18%	187,810,227	8,048
SPECIAL RESOLUTION
10.  To renew the disapplication of pre-emption rights	174,986,409	93.18%	12,817,018	6.82%	187,803,427	14,848
11.  To approve the extension of the Company's Long Term Incentive Plan 2019	187,373,329	99.77%	436,898	0.23%	187,810,227	8,048

*Includes Chairman's and Third Party discretionary votes.

Further to the Company's announcement on 28 May 2024, following the conclusion of the AGM, Anne de Kerckhove is now Chair of the board of the Company.

Contacts:

Blackbird plc Ian McDonough, Chief Executive Officer Stephen White, Chief Operating and Financial Officer	Tel: [phone]
Allenby Capital Limited (Nominated Adviser and Broker) Nick Naylor / Piers Shimwell (Corporate Finance) Amrit Nahal / Guy McDougall (Equity Sales and Corporate Broking)	Tel: [phone]

 

About Blackbird plc

Blackbird plc operates in the fast-growing SaaS, Media and Entertainment and content creation markets.  Blackbird plc's patented technology allows for frame accurate navigation, playback, viewing and editing in the cloud and it has two products.

Blackbird^Ⓡ a market leading suite of cloud-native computing applications, is used by rights holders, broadcasters, sports and news video specialists, live events and content owners, post production houses, other mass market digital video channels and corporations.

elevate.io, currently in general release, is the company's new collaborative content creation tool in a web browser aimed at professional teams and the Creator Economy.

Blackbird plc also licences its core video technology under its 'Powered by Blackbird' licensing model. Enabling video companies to accelerate their path to true cloud business models, licensees benefit from power and carbon reductions, cost and time savings, less hardware and bandwidth requirements and easy scalability.

www.blackbird.video

www.linkedin.com/company/blackbird-cloud

www.twitter.com/blackbirdcloud

www.facebook.com/blackbirdplc

www.youtube.com/c/blackbirdcloud

www.elevate.io

 

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