Blackbird, a publicly owned company headquartered in the United Kingdom, which was previously known as Forbidden Technologies, was founded in 2001, operates with approximately 60 employees, and reported $1.8M in revenue as of 2025. The company specializes in production and post-production, offering a cloud-native video editing and publishing platform designed to enable remote and collaborative workflows. This solution is accessible through a web browser and facilitates distribution to multiple platforms, including social media.

2025 Revenue

Founded

2001

Headcount

43

Headquarters

United Kingdom

Primary Segment

Production and post production

Ownership

Publicly Owned

Deployments

32

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On September 7, 2026, Blackbird plc appointed Adrian Wilding as its non-board interim Chief Financial Officer. Wilding is an ICAEW-qualified chartered accountant with over 20 years of senior finance and leadership experience, holding senior roles in software, payments, fintech, and SaaS businesses. This appointment follows the announcement on August 24, 2026, that Chief Operating & Financial Officer Steve White would step down from his role on August 31, 2026, to pursue new opportunities. White also ceased to be a director. The company indicated it would appoint a non-board interim Chief Financial Officer shortly and had initiated the recruitment process for a permanent replacement. Earlier, on June 23, 2026, Blackbird plc announced that all resolutions were duly passed at its 2026 Annual General Meeting, which included the reappointments of directors Ian McDonough, Stephen White, Stephen Streater, Youri Hazanov, and Nicholas Lisher.

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Jun
23rd
2026
18:49
Emerging Tech
Blackbird plc Announces Results of 2026 Annual General Meeting
Blackbird plc, the technology licensor, developer, and seller of market-leading cloud native video editing platform, Blackbird, and developer of the online collaborative video editing and content creation platform, elevate.io, announces that all resolutions were duly passed on a show of hands at the Company's 2026 Annual General Meeting. The proxy votes received from shareholders on each resolution are set out below: FOR* AGAINST Total votes No. of votes No. of votes % of No. of % of cast withheld for total votes total (excluding votes against votes votes cast cast withheld) ORDINARY RESOLUTIONS 1. To receive the Company's annual reports and accounts for the year ended 31 December 2025 123,207,084 99.80% 247,644 0.20% 123,454,728 6,347,102 2. In accordance with the 2023 QCA Code, advisory vote to approve the directors’ remuneration and benefits for the year ended 31 December 2025. 121,553,142 93.98% 7,792,079 6.02% 129,345,221 456,609 3. To reappoint Ian McDonough as a Director 119,831,586 92.66% 9,497,668 7.34% 129,329,254 472,576 4. To reappoint Stephen White as a Director 121,768,460 94.17% 7,536,143 5.83% 129,304,603 497,227 5. To reappoint Stephen Streater as a Director 127,841,132 98.83% 1,518,122 1.17% 129,359,254 442,576 6. To reappoint Youri Hazanov as a Director 121,199,025 93.72% 8,122,853 6.28% 129,321,878 479,952 7. To reappoint Nicholas Lisher as a Director 121,778,002 94.16% 7,551,252 5.84% 129,329,254 472,576 8. To renew the authority of the Directors to allot shares 128,522,297 99.09% 1,184,542 0.91% 129,706,839 94,991 SPECIAL RESOLUTION 9. To renew the limited disapplication of pre- emption rights 127,599,674 98.62% 1,783,568 1.38% 129,383,242 418,588 *Includes Chairman’s and Third Party discretionary votes.
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Blackbird's customers primarily consist of spectator Sports, international Affairs and content rights companies. Examples of Blackbird's customers include U.S. Department of State, National Basketball Association and IMG. Blackbird has commercial and technical partners like Moments Lab, Deltatre and EVS Broadcast Equipment.

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