Blackbird PLC Regulatory News (BIRD)

11 July 2017

Forbidden Technologies plc

("Forbidden" or the "Company")

Forbidden Technologies Plc increases its commercial capacity in Canada

Forbidden Technologies plc (AIM: FBT) is pleased to announce an agreement with F2 Technologies ("F2"), a provider of IP-based solutions that bring digital content to market, to act as a value-added reseller for Forbidden's Forscene cloud video platform in Canada. 

It is expected that F2, with its focus on the media and entertainment sector, will significantly add to Forbidden's sales capacity in Canada and provide strong local servicing capabilities.

F2 Technologies CEO, Barry Fairhurst said:

"F2 Technologies is well positioned to assist companies in Canada's media and entertainment industry to transition from traditional proprietary high-priced infrastructures to today's IP-based solutions. F2 Technologies sees the media, entertainment and audio-visual industry's move to a fully IP-based infrastructure as the next unstoppable trend. We are delighted to represent the Forscene platform in Canada and have positioned Forscene as a cornerstone solution in our software portfolio. With media companies increasingly building new capabilities involving the cloud, we see Forscene as being critical to these workflow requirements."

Forbidden Technologies Chairman, David Main, said:

"We are delighted to be working with F2 Technologies in Canada. They are a strong, experienced group with the ability to represent us across all the key media sectors. They combine significant sales, implementation and customer service capabilities, which are essential in our market."

Enquiries:

Forbidden Technologies plc


David Main, Chairman

Jonathan Lees, Chief Financial Officer

Tel: +44 (0)20 8879 7245

Allenby Capital Limited (Nominated Adviser and Broker)

Nick Naylor

John Depasquale

Richard Short

Katrina Perez

Tel: +44 (0)20 3328 5656

Redleaf Communications (Financial PR Adviser)

David Ison

Sam Modlin

Tel: +44 (0)20 7382 4730

Email: forbidden@redleafpr.com

About Forbidden Technologies plc

Forbidden Technologies plc (AIM: FBT, www.forbidden.co.uk) floated in February 2000.

Company develops, markets and licenses a powerful cloud video platform, with multiple applications, which can be used by rights holders, broadcasters, sports and news video specialists, post-production houses, other mass market digital video channels, corporates and consumers. The platform helps provide customers visibility on all their content and more effectively monetise their content, including improving their time to market for live digital content such as clips and highlights packages for social media.

Websites:

www.forbidden.co.uk

www.forscene.com

Social media:

www.facebook.com/FORscene

www.plus.google.com/+Forscenepro/posts

www.linkedin.com/company/forscene

www.twitter.com/forscenepro

www.youtube.com/user/ForsceneTraining