Result of AGM

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Blackbird plc announced that all resolutions were passed at its Annual General Meeting, with strong shareholder support for the company's annual reports and accounts for the year ended 31 December 2025, receiving 123,207,084 votes for and only 247,644 against. Directors' remuneration and benefits for the same period were approved by 93.98% of votes cast, and the reappointments of directors Ian McDonough, Stephen White, Stephen Streater, Youri Hazanov, and Nicholas Lisher all received over 92% approval. Furthermore, the authority for directors to allot shares was renewed with 99.09% of votes in favour, and the limited disapplication of pre-emption rights was approved by 98.62% of shareholders.

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Blackbird PLC
10 June 2026
 

10 June 2026

 

Blackbird plc

(the "Company")

 

Result of Annual General Meeting

 

Blackbird plc (AIM:BIRD), 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 at the Company's 2026 Annual General Meeting (the "AGM") held earlier today, all resolutions were duly passed on a show of hands.

 

The proxy votes received from shareholders on each resolution are set out below:

 

FOR*

AGAINST

Total votes cast (excluding votes withheld)

No. of votes withheld

 

No. of votes for

% of total votes cast

No. of votes against

 

% of total votes cast

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.

 

 

Contacts:

Blackbird plc                                                                                                                      Tel: +44 (0)20 8879 7245

Ian McDonough, Chief Executive Officer

Stephen White, Chief Operating and Financial Officer

 

Allenby Capital Limited (Nominated Adviser and Broker)                             Tel: +44 (0)20 3328 5656

Nick Naylor / David Asquith (Corporate Finance)

Amrit Nahal (Equity Sales and Corporate Broking)

 

About Blackbird plc

 

Blackbird plc operates in the fast-growing SaaS, Media and Entertainment and content creation markets. Blackbird plc's patented technology allows for frame accurate navigation, playback, viewing and editing in the cloud and it has two products. Blackbird a market leading suite of cloud-native computing applications, is used by rights holders, broadcasters, sports and news video specialists, live events and content owners, post production houses, other mass market digital video channels and corporations.

 

elevate.io is the company's online collaborative content creation platform currently in general release. elevate.io is built using Blackbird's core technology and is aimed at professional teams and the fast-growing Creator Economy. Blackbird plc also licenses its core video technology, under its 'Powered by Blackbird' licensing model, enabling video companies to accelerate their path to true cloud business models.

 

www.blackbirdplc.com

www.elevate.io

www.blackbird.video

www.linkedin.com/company/blackbird-cloud

www.twitter.com/blackbirdcloud

www.facebook.com/blackbirdplc

www.youtube.com/c/blackbirdcloud

 

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