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Blackbird PLC
24 August 2020
24 August 2020
Blackbird plc
(the "Company")
Live X chooses Blackbird for cloud video editing and publishing
at U.S. Democratic National Convention
London and New York - Blackbird plc (AIM: BIRD), the developer
and seller of the market-leading cloud video editing platform,
Blackbird, announced today that Live X selected Blackbird for cloud
video editing and publishing at the U.S. Democratic National
Convention held on 17 - 20 August 2020.
Based in New York, Live X is a full-service production company,
designing, producing and broadcasting live events for global brand
leaders. From creative concept development, video and graphic
design and animation to live production, encoding and streaming,
Live X uses state-of-the-art technologies to help industry-leading
clients all over the world create captivating live events and
multimedia experiences to increase audience engagement and brand
building.
Blackbird is the world's fastest, most powerful professional
cloud video editing and publishing platform, providing rapid access
to video content for the easy creation of clips, highlights and
longer form content to multiple devices and platforms. A
fully-featured editor accessed through any browser, easy to learn
and needing only limited bandwidth to use, Blackbird powers
significant productivity and efficiency benefits for any enterprise
organization working with video.
Live X chose Blackbird to easily and rapidly produce video
content in the cloud during this past week's U.S. Democratic
National Convention. Live X's media production team used Blackbird
remotely and safely to edit and enrich live, engaging content from
the convention and publish it ultra-fast to social media platforms
including Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and Instagram. Blackbird was
also used to make content rapidly available to media partners for
re-purposing to multiple platforms and channels.
Live X co-founder, Corey Behnke, said: " Live X is dedicated to
delivering the best possible event experiences for our clients. To
make the magic happen we only partner with best-in-class
technologies and for true cloud-native video editing, Blackbird is
the only show in town. We're excited to incorporate Blackbird into
our tech offering and look forward to Live X and our clients
benefitting from the significant productivity efficiencies the
platform delivers."
Blackbird plc's CEO, Ian McDonough, said: "Our new partnership
with Live X is exciting in two ways. Firstly, it is focused on live
workflows and that's very much in the sweet spot of where Blackbird
offers the most competitive advantages through speed, agility and
quality. Secondly it's an OEM model where Blackbird is trusted to
deliver on some of the world's most relevant content, like the
Democratic National Convention, as part of Live X's technology
stack."
Blackbird drives awareness, reach and monetization for brands in
the sports, news, entertainment and enterprise sectors. The
Company's customers include IMG, Sky News Arabia, Deltatre,
Peloton, A+E Networks, NHL, Eleven Sports, Riot Games, Arsenal FC,
the U.S Department of State and 50 local US news stations with
TownNews.
Contacts:
Blackbird plc Tel: +44 (0)20 8879
7245
Ian McDonough, Chief Executive Officer
Adrian Lambert, Marketing Director
Allenby Capital Limited (Nominated Adviser Tel: +44 (0)20 3328
and Broker) 5656
Nick Naylor / Asha Chotai (Corporate Finance)
Amrit Nahal (Sales)
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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