{"id":6585,"date":"2023-07-19T14:48:11","date_gmt":"2023-07-19T14:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dronevideos.com\/?p=6585"},"modified":"2023-07-19T14:48:11","modified_gmt":"2023-07-19T14:48:11","slug":"drone-light-show-market-is-surging-worldwide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dronevideos.com\/drone-light-show-market-is-surging-worldwide\/","title":{"rendered":"Drone Light Show Market is Surging Worldwide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nkuGmhGG2GA\" width=\"740\" height=\"415\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><br \/>\nTexas-based Sky Elements claims on its website to be the \u201dlargest drone show provider in the United States.\u201d\u00a0 With so much marketing hype and fierce competition in the drone industry these days, many companies make claims of this sort that are impossible to verify.\u00a0 Sky Elements is surely in the running but so are several other fledgling companies, including Open Sky and Verge Aero.\u00a0\u00a0 And that\u2019s just in the United States. China and India, the two largest drone markets in Asia, also feature burgeoning light show markets.\u00a0 Globally, the market is growing by leaps and bounds.\u00a0 Current estimates place it at roughly $2.5 billion, but it could easily reach five times that size by 2030.\u00a0 That makes it one of the fastest growing sectors in the entire drone industry\u2013with a robust CAGR of roughly 21%.<\/p>\n<p>Drone light shows \u2013 and the companies provide them \u2013 seem to have popped up virtually overnight.\u00a0 Sky Elements was founded less than three years ago.\u00a0 Within a year, it was staging the first-ever Major League Baseball light show for the Oakland Athletics,\u00a0 Gigs with the Los Angeles Dodgers and Pittsburgh Pirates\u00a0 soon followed.\u00a0 And it wasn\u2019t long before NFL and MLS teams and major corporate brands like Paramount came knocking.\u00a0 The company has a special fondness for clients in the Dallas-FortWorth area, its home base.\u00a0 Two weeks ago, on Independence Day, it staged one of the largest drone light shows anywhere in the world (apparently) commemorating our nation&#8217;s founding.\u00a0 Just to prove it, a representative from the Guinness Book of World Records showed up to award the company\u2019s management team an official certificate.<\/p>\n<p>From a business perspective, drone light shows are proving to be quite lucrative.\u00a0 Especially out West, where seasonal wildfires rage, many cities are looking for cleaner, safer, more sustainable and less noisy alternatives to fireworks displays.\u00a0 Sky Elements claims to have put on nearly fifty July 4th shows recently.\u00a0 But the shows are expensive for the end users, one reason many smaller towns are sticking to fireworks, which some citizens actually prefer, because of their more booming visceral effects.\u00a0 Companies like Sky Elements might charge $500 a drone, and with 500 drones w\/LED lights needed to make a dazzling visual display, costs quickly mount.\u00a0 And that\u2019s just the hardware.\u00a0 The real genius lies in the creative design, in the choice of themes matched to particular events, and in the computer programming needed to choreograph and synchronize drone movements to produce the desired effect, without crashes and collisions. A single designer can perform that task and indeed a single remote operator can ruin\u00a0 the entire show, but it may only last 20 minutes, because drone battery power is limited, another reason some users still prefer fireworks displays.<\/p>\n<p>Unquestionably, drone light shows are techie and a bit gimmicky, but the novelty has yet to wear off.\u00a0 Far from it.\u00a0 Fireworks displays are loud and dazzling in their own right, of course, but drone shows have enormous flexibility when it comes to their visual effect. When Sky Elements designed that first show for the Oakland A\u2019s, its designers cleverly merged a Star War motif with baseball imagery.\u00a0 A shimmering light saber suddenly \u201cdissolved\u201d into a swinging baseball bat,\u00a0 and a death star morphed into a baseball.\u00a0 It was impressive and audiences, adults and kids alike, were clearly fascinated with what the technology could do.<\/p>\n<p>Drone light shows are only just beginning to realize their story-telling potential.\u00a0 But it doesn\u2019t take a lot for a business to get up and running and to design and manage them,\u00a0 Amazing, Sky Elements has a team of just four, three of them young guys starting out their careers and two of them FAA certified drone pilots, plus Rick Boss, an old technology pro who sensed a promising new opportunity back in 2020, and ran to fill the void.\u00a0 The company is still running to catch up with the racing consumer demand \u2013 everything from major holiday spectaculars to local business promotions, and even weddings \u2013 with apparently no end in sight.\u00a0 So are some long-established drone companies, who have suddenly added a dazzling new service line to their portfolios.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\ufeff Texas-based Sky Elements claims on its website to be the \u201dlargest drone show provider in the United States.\u201d\u00a0 With so much marketing hype and fierce competition in the drone industry these days, many companies make claims of this sort that are impossible to verify.\u00a0 Sky Elements is surely in the running but so are&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/dronevideos.com\/drone-light-show-market-is-surging-worldwide\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":6587,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dronevideos.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6585"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dronevideos.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dronevideos.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dronevideos.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dronevideos.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dronevideos.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6585\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dronevideos.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dronevideos.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dronevideos.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dronevideos.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}