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Aferian PLC

21 March 2022

21 March 2022

AFERIAN PLC

(" Aferian ", the "Company" or the " Group ")

Result of AGM

Aferian plc (LSE AIM: AFRO), the B2B video streaming solutions company, announces today that at the Annual General Meeting of the Company held earlier today at the offices of Investec Bank plc , all resolutions put to the meeting were duly passed. The total number of votes received on each resolution were as follows:

 
 Resolutions                 Votes        % of     Votes       % of     Total        Votes        Votes 
                              For          Votes    Against     Votes    Votes        cast         Withheld 
                                                                                      as % 
                                                                                      of voting 
                                                                                      rights 
 To receive 
  the audited 
  financial statements 
  of the Company 
  for the year 
  ended 30 November 
  2021, and the 
  Directors' 
  report and 
  the Auditors' 
  report on those 
  financial statements.      48,990,485   100.00           -        -   48,990,485        56.69           - 
                            -----------  -------  ----------  -------  -----------  -----------  ---------- 
 To receive 
  the Remuneration 
  Report of the 
  Company for 
  the year ended 
  30 November 
  2021.                      48,896,378    99.81      93,867     0.19   48,990,245        56.69         240 
                            -----------  -------  ----------  -------  -----------  -----------  ---------- 
 To declare 
  a final dividend 
  of 2.09 pence 
  per ordinary 
  share for the 
  year ended 
  30 November 
  2021.                      48,990,485   100.00           -        -   48,990,485        56.69           - 
                            -----------  -------  ----------  -------  -----------  -----------  ---------- 
 To elect Mark 
  Wells as a 
  Director.                  48,984,525    99.99       5,960     0.01   48,990,485        56.69           - 
                            -----------  -------  ----------  -------  -----------  -----------  ---------- 
 To appoint 
  BDO LLP as 
  the auditors 
  of the Company 
  to hold office 
  from conclusion 
  of the meeting 
  to the conclusion 
  of the next 
  meeting at 
  which the financial 
  statements 
  of the Company 
  are to be laid.            48,983,419    99.99       6,826     0.01   48,990,245        56.69         240 
                            -----------  -------  ----------  -------  -----------  -----------  ---------- 
 To authorise 
  the Directors 
  to agree the 
  auditors' remuneration.    48,984,525    99.99       5,960     0.01   48,990,485        56.69           - 
                            -----------  -------  ----------  -------  -----------  -----------  ---------- 
 That the directors 
  be authorised 
  to allot shares 
  in the Company 
  up to an aggregate 
  nominal amount 
  of GBP565,919 
  (see notice).              47,405,523    96.77   1,583,017     3.23   48,988,540        56.69       1,945 
                            -----------  -------  ----------  -------  -----------  -----------  ---------- 
 That the directors 
  be authorised 
  to allot equity 
  securities 
  for cash on 
  a non-pre-emptive 
  basis (see 
  notice).                   47,403,023    96.76   1,585,517     3.24   48,988,540        56.69       1,945 
                            -----------  -------  ----------  -------  -----------  -----------  ---------- 
 That the Company 
  be authorised 
  to make market 
  purchases of 
  its own shares 
  (see notice).              48,938,630    99.89      51,855     0.11   48,990,485        56.69           - 
                            -----------  -------  ----------  -------  -----------  -----------  ---------- 
 

Notes:

1. Any proxy appointments which gave discretion to the Chairman have been included in the "for" total.

2. The Company's issued share capital at the date of the meeting was 86,419,410 ordinary shares of 1 pence each ("Ordinary Shares"). There are now 1,531,458 Ordinary Shares held in treasury. Therefore the total number of voting rights at the date of the meeting was 84,887,952. A "vote withheld" is not a vote in law and is not counted in the calculation of the proportion of the votes "for" and "against" a resolution.

For further information please contact:

 
Aferian plc                                                          +44 (0)1223 598197 
Mark Wells, Chairman 
 Donald McGarva, Chief Executive Officer 
 Mark Carlisle, Chief Financial Officer 
 
Investec plc (NOMAD and Broker)                                      +44 (0)20 7597 5970 
David Anderson / Patrick Robb / Nick Prowting / Cameron MacRitchie 
 
FTI Consulting (Financial communications)                            +44 (0)20 3727 1000 
Matt Dixon / Elena Kalinskaya 
 

About Aferian plc

Aferian plc (AIM: AFRN) is a B2B video streaming solutions company. Our end-to-end solutions bring live and on-demand video to every kind of screen. We create the forward-thinking solutions that our customers need to drive subscriber engagement, audience satisfaction, and revenue growth.

It is our belief that successful media companies and services will be those that are most consumer-centric, data driven and flexible to change. We focus on innovating technologies that enable our customers stay ahead of evolving viewer demand by providing smarter, more cost-effective ways of delivering end-to-end modern TV and video experiences to consumers. By anticipating technological and behavioural audience trends, our software solutions empower our customers to heighten viewer enjoyment, drive growth in audience share and ultimately their profitability.

Aferian plc has two operating companies: 24i, which focusses on streaming video experiences, and Amino, which connects Pay TV to streaming services. Our two complementary companies combine their products and services to create solutions which ensure that people can consume TV and video how and when they want it. Our solutions deliver modern TV and video experiences every day to millions of viewers globally, via our growing global customer base of over 500 service providers.

Aferian plc is traded on the London Stock Exchange's AIM stock market (AIM: symbol AFRN). Headquartered in Cambridge, UK, the Company has over 350 staff located in offices in San Francisco, Amsterdam, Helsinki, Copenhagen, Madrid, Porto, Brno, Buenos Aires, and Hong Kong.

For more information, please visit www.aferian.com

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