LONDON, May 1, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Forbidden
Technologies plc (AIM: FBT), the developer and seller of the
market-leading cloud video platform, Blackbird, is pleased to
announce that Deltatre has signed an agreement to extend its use of
Blackbird for a further 12 months.
Deltatre is a leading global provider of digital and broadcast
services within the sports sector. The company works with rights
owners and rights holders to grow the popularity of sports by
giving fans even more exciting and immersive experiences. Achieving
this enhances the brands of sports leagues, federations,
franchises, TV networks and other content providers.
Deltatre uses Blackbird for the fast turn-around of long and
short-form game highlights and clips for a wide range of sports
including rugby, cycling and athletics. Once clipped, edited and
enriched, game highlights can be distributed to social, mobile,
web, over-the-top (OTT) and on-demand platforms simply and quickly.
Deltatre runs Blackbird on the Microsoft Azure cloud platform with
users able to rapidly edit, manage and distribute content
collaboratively from North America
and Europe, all through a browser
using limited bandwidth.
Deltatre CTO, Jon Hanford,
said: "We're excited to commit to another year leveraging
Blackbird's technology to help enhance the content our customers
provide to their audiences. Their flexible platform is
best-of-breed in the space and a natural partner for a company like
Deltatre that is obsessed with maximizing fan engagement."
Forbidden CEO, Ian McDonough
said: "Deltatre is one of our key OEM customers and we are
delighted that they have extended their partnership with us. It
demonstrates the power and agility of Blackbird when rapidly
delivering high quality content to fans across multiple online
channels.
"We see increasing opportunities to expand the use of Blackbird
in the sports sector as the demand for sports clips and highlights
continues to grow rapidly. Fans want to keep up with all the latest
sports action almost instantly on a variety of different platforms
and Blackbird is ideally positioned to help sports broadcasters and
rights holders meet this demand."
About Forbidden Technologies plc
Forbidden
Technologies plc (AIM: FBT, www.forbidden.co.uk) floated in
February 2000.
Forbidden develops, markets and licenses a powerful cloud video
platform using its patented Blackbird technology. The technology
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.
The Blackbird technology 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 results in much more effective monetization.
Blackbird® is a registered trademark of Forbidden Technologies
plc.
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