Gaming Trailblazers, VENN, Select Blackbird For High-Speed, Efficient, Multi-Year Video Production

22 June 2020, Los Angeles and London:- Blackbird plc (AIM: BIRD), the leading developer and seller of the popular Blackbird cloud video editing software, today reported that VENN, a leading company for the development of ultra-fast and secure remote video, has chosen Blackbird. The deal has been concluded for 3 years with the current U.S. integration partner ASG of Blackbird.

VENN : This is a new type of streaming TV network designed to target audiences in games, pop culture and esports. Founded by Ariel Horn and Ben Kusin gaming visionaries, VENN broadcasts live from Studios in New York and Los Angeles with content on a variety of media platforms.

Blackbird: The fastest and most powerful professional Cloud video editing and release platform in the world. Blackbird offers rapid access to video content to make it easy to create clips, highlights and content in long format on several devices and platforms for extremely scalable remote production. With unbeatable editing and video output speed and quality, Blackbird can be accessed via any browser, is easily learned and only needs limited bandwidth to use. For any video enterprise, Blackbird provides substantial efficiency benefits. A variety of engaging video content will be modified, enriched and published by the VENN production team-using Blackbird’s innovative, super-efficient, ground-breaking Cloud video-editing platform.  Content can be shared with millions of fans worldwide on the VENN 24/7 post cable and social networks such as Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and Twitch. The contents will span various entertainment categories in-house, and in collaboration with some of the biggest names and developers of unique programming for games, entertainment, streaming and esports.

Scott Gillies, CTO of VENN, said: “VENN is launching a network dedicated to pop culture viewed through the lens of gaming and esports. Launching in this era of COVID and social distancing is presenting unique production challenges.  With Blackbird, we have a new level of flexibility and it allows us to reimagine how productions should work.  We can operate remotely and rapidly create and deliver highly engaging video content for gaming fans to enjoy whenever and wherever they wish. Blackbird is simply awesome and we’re super excited about utilizing this game-changing cloud video editing technology.”

Blackbird CEO, Ian McDonough, said: “We are excited to add VENN to our growing list of US and esports customers and also delighted that our new partner ASG have brought in their first deal with Blackbird. The VENN project is incredibly exciting and is a classic Greenfield site where there is no legacy hardware based incumbent and the teams are free to select our state-of-the-art cloud based solution. This fresh thinking makes production teams as efficient and sustainable as possible whilst being free to work from anywhere.”

For brands in the sports, news, entertainment and enterprise sectors, Blackbird drives awareness, reach and monetization. Customers include: IMG, Deltatre, Peloton, A+E Networks the Eleven Sports; Riot Games, Liverpool FC., as well as the U.S Department of State with approximately 50 local U.S. news stations with TownNews.