A+E Networks® doubles video edited with Blackbird – remote production expanded

25 March 2020, New York and London - Blackbird plc (AIM: BIRD), developer and seller of the market-leading cloud video editing platform, announced today that A+E Networks® will double the volume edited through the Blackbird platform to both enable a significant expansion of remote video production capability, while ensuring the overall safefy of its editors who will now be able to work even more effectively, remotely.

A+E Networks, a

joint venture between Hearst and Disney, has a portfolio of global brands

that includes A&E®, HISTORY®, Lifetime®, LMN®, fyi® and Viceland®. The international

media network first incorporated Blackbird within its infrastructure for a

range of key cloud video production workflows in June 2019 – delivering major

productivity enhancements across its operations.

This latest expansion sees

A+E Networks double the volume of file-based content available to its

production teams for access through Blackbird. The

visibility, immediacy and management of A+E Network’s entire video archive will

be significantly accelerated for the repurposing of content. Production teams will use Blackbird to rapidly ingest,

view, edit and publish content using a choice of hybrid workflows - on-premise

through the Blackbird cloud as well as on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) public

cloud.

Blackbird will also enable A+E Networks’ entire

production team to work remotely and collaboratively offsite. Production staff will

have access to Blackbird’s professional suite of editing tools in a browser from

home or anywhere else as needed – even on low bandwidth.

A+E Networks SVP Production Operations, Ed Russo said: ‘We have moved

swiftly to enable our video production teams to work safely and remotely.

Blackbird gives us all the tools needed to do this by providing professional

grade cloud video editing and publishing capabilities in a browser, even

under low bandwidth conditions."  

Blackbird CEO, Ian McDonough, said: “A+E Networks and Blackbird have been building a very strong

partnership this past year. As changes to working practices rapidly come into

force, we will be there to fully support them as we will the rest of our global

client base.”

Blackbird drives

awareness, reach and monetisation for brands in the sports, news,

entertainment and enterprise sectors.  Customers include IMG,

Deltatre, Peloton, TownNews, Eleven Sports and the U.S Department of State.