REG - Blackbird PLC - Grant of share options

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24/04/2024 07:00

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RNS Number : 7583L  Blackbird PLC  24 April 2024

24 April 2024

 

Blackbird plc

(the "Company")

 

Grant of share options

 

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 2,620,000
options were granted over the Company's ordinary shares of 0.8 pence (the
"Ordinary Shares") as part of an employee-wide share option grant under the
Company's EMI share option scheme (the "Scheme"). 950,000 options were granted
to the following directors:

 

 Name               Title                                      Number of options granted  Exercise price  Number of options held post grant

 Ian McDonough      Chief Executive Officer                    300,000                    5.35p           5,730,000
 Stephen Streater   R&D Director                               200,000                    5.35p           2,170,000
 Stephen White      Chief Operating and Financial Officer      200,000                    5.35p           2,150,000

 Anne de Kerckhove  Senior Independent Non-Executive Director  250,000                    5.35p           250,000

 

Under the Scheme the options are subject to certain performance conditions and
the exercise price has been calculated based upon the average closing price of
the Company's shares for the last three days.

 

Following the above grant, there are a total of 28,350,000 options outstanding
over unissued Ordinary Shares representing 7.32% of the Company's current
ordinary share capital of 387,077,188 Ordinary Shares, which includes a total
of 11,260,000 options outstanding over unissued Ordinary Shares relating to
Directors and PDMRs representing 2.91% of the Company's current ordinary share
capital.

 

The FCA notification, made in accordance with the requirements of the UK
Market Abuse Regulation is appended further below.

 

 

Contacts:

 

Blackbird plc
 
            Tel: +44 (0)20 8879 7245

Ian McDonough, Chief Executive Officer

Stephen White, Chief Operating and Financial Officer

 

Allenby Capital Limited (Nominated Adviser and
Broker)              Tel: +44 (0)20 3328 5656

Nick Naylor / Piers Shimwell (Corporate Finance)

Amrit Nahal / Guy McDougall (Equity Sales and Corporate Broking)

 

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, 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. elevate.io, built using Blackbird core technology, is
the company's new creator SaaS product, a browser based end-to-end content
creation tool aimed at the Creator Economy.

 

www.blackbird.video (http://www.blackbird.video/)

www.linkedin.com/company/blackbird-cloud
(http://www.linkedin.com/company/blackbird-cloud)

www.twitter.com/blackbirdcloud (http://www.twitter.com/blackbirdcloud)

www.facebook.com/blackbirdplc (http://www.facebook.com/blackbirdplc)

www.youtube.com/c/blackbirdcloud (http://www.youtube.com/c/blackbirdcloud)

www.elevate.io

 

 

Notification and public disclosure of transactions by persons discharging
managerial responsibilities and persons closely associated with them.

 1.  Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities / person closely
     associated
 a)  Name                                                         1.   Ian McDonough

                                                                  2.   Stephen Streater

                                                                  3.   Stephen White

                                                                  4.   Anne de Kerckhove
 2.  Reason for the Notification
 a)  Position/status                                              1.   Chief Executive Officer

                                                                  2.   R&D Director

                                                                  3.   Chief Operating and Financial Officer

                                                                  4.   Senior Independent Non-Executive Director
 b)  Initial notification/Amendment                               Initial Notification
 3.  Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction
     platform, auctioneer or auction monitor
 a)  Name                                                         Blackbird plc
 b)  LEI                                                          2138006DWRVTIAVW3415
 4.  Details of the transaction(s): section to be repeated for (i) each type of
     instrument; (ii) each type of transaction; (iii) each date; and (iv) each
     place where transactions have been conducted
 a)  Description of the Financial instrument, type of instrument  Grant of options over ordinary shares of 0.8p each

     Identification code                                          ISIN:  GB0004740477
 b)  Nature of the transaction                                    Grant of options
 c)  Price(s) and volume(s)                                       Price(s)       Volume(s)
                                                                  1.   5.35p     1.   300,000

                                                                  2.   5.35p     2.   200,000

                                                                  3.   5.35p     3.   200,000

                                                                  4.   5.35p     4.   250,000
 d)  Aggregated information:                                      n/a (single transactions)

     -Aggregated volume

     -Price
 e)  Date of the transaction                                      24 April 2024
 f)  Place of the transaction                                     Outside a trading venue

d)

Aggregated information:

-Aggregated volume

-Price

n/a (single transactions)

e)

Date of the transaction

24 April 2024

f)

Place of the transaction

Outside a trading venue

 

 

 

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