LONDON, Sept. 25, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Blackbird plc
(AIM: BIRD), developer and seller of the market-leading cloud video
editing platform Blackbird, received a 'What Caught My Eye'
award at IBC 2019 – one of just 6 products to win the prestigious
accolade from over 1700 on display during the show.
The 'What Caught My Eye' awards are given to the most exciting,
innovative and important products at IBC. They focus on leading,
unique products that are changing the face of broadcast and
on-demand publishing and driving the media technology
revolution.
Blackbird was selected for the coveted award on behalf of IBC by
guest expert, Renard Jenkins – a 30 year veteran of the television
and film industry and VP of Operations, Engineering and
Distribution at the Public Broadcasting Service in the US.
Blackbird is the world's only video editing platform developed
from the ground up specifically for the cloud. The fastest video
clipping, editing and distribution platform on the market,
Blackbird provides rapid access to live and non-live video for the
creation of clips and highlights to multiple devices and platforms
including web, broadcast, OTT and social. Accessed
through any browser, easy to learn and needing only limited
bandwidth to use, Blackbird delivers significant productivity and
efficiency benefits to any enterprise level company working with
video.
Blackbird is driving major awareness, engagement and reach for
brands in the sports, esports, news, entertainment and enterprise
sectors. Customers include IMG, Deltatre, MSG Networks, Gfinity,
Peloton, TownNews and A+E Networks.
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® 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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