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Register here to attend Blackbird CEO Ian McDonough’s interview with Chris Redmond at StudioRed next Thursday 29th February at 16.00 GMT.

The twelfth FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup 2024 is underway in Dubai, where 16 teams compete for the World Championship title. Blackbird is used to clip and publish clips and highlights for the duration of the tournament.

As part of a wider set of user interface design and functionality improvements, Blackbird’s cloud video editor has released easy track toggles for the visibility of individual video and audio tracks as well as safe zone overlays to signify where content should be positioned. In live production where speed is paramount, editors can instantly position content for graphic safe, vertical and square exports, accelerating their workflow and enabling faster publishing to multiple endpoints and socials.

Blackbird plc (AIM:BIRD) will announce its final results for the year ended 31 December 2023 on 5 March 2024. Ian McDonough, Chief Executive Officer, and Stephen White, Chief Operating and Financial Officer, will give a live presentation relating to the final results via the Investor Meet Company platform on the 6 March 2024 at 11.00 a.m. GMT.

As part of ongoing enhancements to the Blackbird video editor, further interface design and functionality improvements have been released to facilitate User experience including; new fade controls, new colour palette, effects sliders as well as access to a full RGB colour adjustment effect. 

Imagicomm Stations Expand Cloud Editing with Blackbird reports TV Technology, in the latest expansion into TV newsrooms through partnership with content management systems provider BLOX Digital (formerly TownNews).

EVS Broadcast Equipment have been nominated for an award for the Flex Production Project. The project showcased the advantages of using 5G technology in centralized productions by live streaming a play from Liege Theatre to schools across Belgium, watched by over 10,000 students. By integrating Blackbird’s cloud video editing capabilities, students gained hands-on experience in crafting professional-grade content.

Blackbird, announces today that Blackbird has been deployed to a further two US TV stations for digital news production following the latest BLOX Digital (formerly TownNews) deployment. This is one of multiple expansions of Blackbird by BLOX Digital since the partnership began in 2018.

“CBS19 taps Blackbird for faster newsroom workflows” reports TVtech.