Blackbird PLC Blackbird teams up with Amazon Web Services at NAB

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Blackbird PLC

11 March 2020

11 March 2020

Blackbird plc

("Blackbird" or the "Company")

Blackbird to showcase ultra-efficient video editing in the cloud with Amazon Web Services at NAB 2020

Seattle and London - Blackbird plc (AIM: BIRD) today announced that it will showcase ultra-efficient video editing in the cloud Amazon Web Services ("AWS") booth at NAB 2020.

Organisations working with video on a large scale need to be able to rapidly and easily access, view, edit and publish their content to all platforms and devices for audiences to consume. With cloud-based video editing and publishing platform Blackbird running on AWS, companies can drive productivity efficiencies across their operations.

Blackbird is a professional video editor in a browser. Providing rapid access to live and non-live content, Blackbird enables the fast creation of video clips and highlights to multiple devices and platforms including web, broadcast, OTT and social. Easy to learn and use, Blackbird is available to anyone, virtually anywhere in the world, even with low bandwidth. Blackbird drives awareness, engagement, reach and monetization opportunities for brands in the sports, esports, news, entertainment and enterprise sectors.

A green technology, Blackbird supports the sustainability goals of the media production industry. Users do not have to travel to use Blackbird, no new equipment is needed and with content remaining in situ, large energy savings are made.

Blackbird runs on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud ("Amazon EC2") - a web service that provides secure, resizable compute capacity in the cloud - and ingests content through AWS Elemental MediaLive, a broadcast-grade live video processing service that lets users create high-quality video streams for delivery to broadcast televisions and internet-connected multiscreen devices, like connected TVs, tablets, smart phones, and set-top boxes.

Blackbird CEO, Ian McDonough, said: "Blackbird is delighted to showcase its solution at the AWS booth at NAB for the first time this year. We are now leveraging AWS for a number of live customers in the of global sports, entertainment, and news verticals and this is a great opportunity to showcase the unique benefits of our combined workflow."

Blackbird will exhibit on the AWS booth (#SU2202) at NAB 2020 from the 19 - 22 April.

For more information about Blackbird please visit www.blackbird.video

Contacts:

 
 Blackbird plc                                Tel: [phone] 
                                               7245 
 Ian McDonough, Chief Executive Officer 
 Adrian Lambert, Marketing Director 
 
 Allenby Capital Limited (Nominated Adviser   Tel: [phone] 
  and Broker)                                  5656 
 Nick Naylor 
 Nicholas Chambers 
 

About Blackbird plc

Blackbird operates in the fast-growing SaaS and cloud video market, and has created the world's most advanced suite of cloud-native computing applications for video, all underpinned by its lightning-fast codec. Blackbird's patented technology allows for frame accurate navigation, playback, viewing and editing in the cloud. Blackbird underpins multiple applications, which are used by rights holders, broadcasters, sports and news video specialists, esports, live events and content owners, post-production houses, other mass market digital video channels and corporations.

Since it is cloud-native, Blackbird removes the need for costly, high end workstations and can be used from almost anywhere on almost any device. It also allows full visibility on multi-location digital content, improves time to market for live content such as video clips and highlights for social media distribution, and ultimately results in much more effective monetisation.

Blackbird(R) is a registered trademark of Blackbird plc.

Websites

www.blackbird.video

Social media

www.linkedin.com/company/blackbird-cloud

www.twitter.com/blackbirdcloud

www.facebook.com/blackbirdplc

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