Blackbird PLC Riot Games chooses 'best-in-class' Blackbird
June 17 2020 - 2:00AM
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Blackbird PLC
17 June 2020
17 June 2020
Blackbird plc
(the "Company")
Riot Games chooses 'best-in-class' Blackbird
Los Angeles and London - Blackbird plc (AIM: BIRD), the
developer and seller of the market-leading Blackbird cloud video
editing platform, announced today that Riot Games ("Riot") has
chosen Blackbird for remote fast turnaround video production.
Developer and publisher of the world's most player focused video
games, Riot also leads in the field of esports. Riot's games
portfolio includes League of Legends, the most-played PC game in
the world with over 80 million monthly players and a key driver of
the explosive growth of esports. Riot continues to evolve League of
Legends while delivering new experiences to players with Legends of
Runeterra, League of Legends: Wild Rift, Teamfight Tactics,
VALORANT and multiple work-in-progress titles.
Blackbird is the world's fastest, most powerful professional
cloud video editing and publishing platform. Enabling very scalable
remote production, Blackbird provides rapid access to video content
for the easy creation of clips, highlights and longer form content
to multiple devices and platforms. Delivering unbeatable speed and
quality of editing tools and video output, Blackbird is accessible
through any browser, easy to learn and needs only limited bandwidth
to use. Blackbird delivers significant efficiency benefits to any
enterprise-level organization working with video.
Riot's video production team will use Blackbird remotely to
frame-accurately edit video content from its hugely popular live
streamed esports tournaments and events. Once created, the content
will be published ultra-fast to Riot's social channels including
Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and Twitch. Millions of fans around the
world will be able to instantly enjoy the best moments of gaming
action in broadcast quality from star esport players of League of
Legends and other Riot games.
Riot Games Chief Operating Officer, Scott Gelb, said : "Recent
months have introduced unprecedented challenges in video production
but Blackbird has helped us meet these obstacles head on. With
Blackbird as a partner, we're delivering the content fans deserve
while prioritizing employee health and safety. Blackbird has
best-in-class video technology and will allow our team to turn
around high quality content quickly and easily in our current
remote work environment."
Blackbird CEO, Ian McDonough, said: "Riot Games are world
leaders in so many ways and we are delighted that they have chosen
Blackbird. Esports is a hugely exciting growth sector and its fans
demand exacting standards, high resolution and incredible accuracy
in the edit and publish process. Blackbird is unique in being able
to offer this in a browser based remote solution."
Blackbird drives awareness, reach and monetization for brands in
the sports, news, entertainment and enterprise sectors. Customers
include IMG, Deltatre, Peloton, A+E Networks, Eleven Sports,
Liverpool FC, the U.S Department of State and almost 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
Nicholas Chambers
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.
Website
www.blackbird.video
Social media
www.linkedin.com/company/blackbird-cloud
www.twitter.com/blackbirdcloud
www.facebook.com/blackbirdplc
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