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RNS Number : 5297Y  Blackbird PLC  17 January 2022

17 January 2022
 
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Blackbird plc (the "Company")

 

Blackbird achieves AWS Technology Partner status and completes Foundational
Technical Review to accelerate AWS engagement

 

London, UK- Blackbird plc (AIM:BIRD, OTCQX: BBRDF), the technology licensor,
developer and seller of the market-leading cloud native video editing
platform, Blackbird, announced today that Blackbird has achieved Amazon Web
Services (AWS) Technology Partner status and completed the Foundational
Technical Review (FTR) of Blackbird Edge to accelerate AWS engagement.

 

The AWS FTR enables AWS Partners to identify and remediate risks in their
products or solutions. The FTR is led by an AWS Partner Solutions Architect
(PSA) who reviews AWS Partner products and solutions against a specific set of
requirements based around security, reliability and operational excellence as
defined by the AWS Well-Architected Framework. Adhering to FTR guidelines,
Blackbird can review projects against FTR requirements to select best
practices to follow ensuring the best possible client experience.

 

As an AWS Technology Partner, Blackbird offers any company creating video at
scale, access to rapid, efficient cloud content production. Browser based
Blackbird is a fast, powerful browser-based professional cloud native video
editing platform that provides instant access to video content for the easy
creation of clips, highlights and long form content for rapid publishing to
multiple channels.

Blackbird enables remote production, removing the need to travel to a facility
or event and also eliminates the need to transit material to and from multiple
local storage environments. Proven to reduce carbon emissions by up to 91%
compared to traditional video editing workflows, Blackbird also reduces
infrastructure costs by up to 75% due to its cloud native architecture.

Blackbird plc CEO, Ian McDonough, said: "We are very happy to have achieved
the AWS Foundational Technical Review.  Replicating and enhancing the
genre-defining Blackbird cloud video experience in a public cloud has been a
stated ambition of ours for some time. AWS have been very supportive and
enabled us to get to this first significant step. This milestone is
significant as fast-tracked progress through the AWS Partner Network will
allow us to scale much more flexibly for our customers which is key, whilst
opening up the addressable market for Blackbird significantly."

Enquiries:

 

 Blackbird plc
 Ian McDonough, Chief Executive Officer
 Adrian Lambert, Chief Marketing Officer

 Tel: +44 (0)20 8879 7245

 Allenby Capital Limited (Nominated Adviser and Broker)

 Nick Naylor / Piers Shimwell (Corporate Finance)

 Amrit Nahal (Sales and Corporate Broking)

 Tel: +44 (0)20 3328 5656

 

About Blackbird plc

 

Blackbird plc operates in the fast-growing SaaS and cloud video market. It has
created Blackbird®, the world's most advanced suite of cloud-native computing
applications for video, all underpinned by its lightning-fast codec. Blackbird
plc's patented technology allows for frame accurate navigation, playback,
viewing and editing in the cloud. Blackbird® enables 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 digital
distribution, and ultimately results in much more effective monetisation.

Blackbird plc is a licensor of 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.

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