The worldwide drone present business is a quickly rising area, with progressive drone gentle present corporations pushing the boundaries of what’s doable. They’re breaking information for largest drone reveals. They’re placing fireworks on bodily drones. They’re drawing big crowds.
So which drone gentle present corporations are the largest?
SPH Engineering, which builds drone present know-how and can also be behind the annual Worldwide Drone Present Competitors, simply put out a examine that illuminates the largest drone present corporations worldwide. Of their “Drone Present Market Evaluation” made in collaboration with market analysis group Duamentes International Alliance in June 2024, the groups analyzed knowledge from 1,000 drone reveals throughout 62 international locations.
They then broke out the largest drone gentle present corporations by area. Listed here are these names:
The world’s greatest drone gentle present corporations
North American drone gentle present corporations
North America is, by many metrics, a frontrunner in drone gentle reveals. With greater than 1,000 drone reveals documented over the previous yr, it’s straightforward to come back by a drone present. Simply try our drone present occasions schedule to seek out one close to you — and it needs to be comparatively straightforward to seek out one.
They’re ample at MLB video games and county gala’s. And particularly in summer time 2024, theme parks leaned into drone reveals. A lot of the finest theme park drone reveals occurred within the U.S., together with CineSational: A Symphonic Spectacular, the nighttime present at Common Studios Orlando. In the meantime, the close by (and free-to-watch) Disney World drone present known as “Disney Goals That Soar” has been drawing unprecedented crowds.
With a lot demand comes alternatives for dozens of North American drone gentle present corporations to proliferate. That stated, Sky Parts is the largest. Maybe not coincidentally, they’re the workforce that powered my first ever drone present, which was a Star Wars drone present after an Oakland A’s baseball recreation.
Sky Parts famously placed on the drone gentle present for Serena Williams’ gender reveal social gathering. It additionally holds a Guinness World File by producing 40 drone reveals in a single weekend, which it did throughout the 2023 Fourth of July weekend. As of late, it’s getting fancy by mounting fireworks to its drones. The corporate holds a number of awards, and was even a winner within the SPH Engineering Worldwide Drone Present Competitors.
Different huge names within the North American drone present market together with Pixis Drones and FireFly.
European drone gentle present corporations
As of June 2024, estimations present there are roughly 50 European drone gentle present corporations. However one dominates the area, with a market share of practically half. In keeping with the Drone Present Market Evaluation, Dronisos makes up 48% of all European drone reveals.
Dronisos, which is predicated in France, is maybe most well-known for working along side Disneyland Paris. That features placing on their nightly Disney Electrical Sky Parade present, in addition to one-off reveals. Some of the notable reveals was the July 14 Bastille Day drone present, which broke a Guinness World File for “Largest aerial show of a fictional character fashioned by multirotors / drones.” With that, it made a spectacular, tricolor Mickey Mouse head made out of 1,571 drones.
Maybe unsurprisingly, France additionally homes essentially the most drone reveals per yr of any European nation, in line with the Drone Present Market Evaluation.
Different notable names which can be nonetheless pretty massive embody UMILES Group and Drone Present Europe.
Asia Pacific’s drone gentle present corporations
Although there are far fewer drone present corporations in Asia Pacific versus Europe, none has as dominant of a market share. The largest drone present firm in Asia Pacific is Pink Cliff, which is predicated in Tokyo, Japan. However nonetheless, it solely claims a 33% market share.
One other huge title, DAON, isn’t distant with a 26% market share. MIRS Innovate is mostly thought of the third-largest drone present firm in Asia Pacific.
Indian drone gentle present corporations
There’s actually only one Indian drone gentle present firm to know, and that’s BotLab Dynamics. Primarily based out of the Indian Institute of Know-how Delhi, the drone present firm has a powerful analysis background. The corporate makes use of all in-house merchandise, and has spent greater than seven years condugin swarm drone analysis and improvement.
Although BotLab Dynamics has little competitors throughout the nation of India, it’s nonetheless a drive on the earth. When it set the then-record of internet hosting India’s largest drone gentle present with 1,000 drones at Rashtrapati Bhawan (that was in January 2022), that made India the fourth nation on the earth to host a drone present of such a big scale.
Center Jap and North African drone gentle present corporations
Drone reveals within the Center East are big — and fabulous. Averaging 401 drones per present, Center Jap drone reveals are usually an over-the-top spectacle. Unsurprisingly, the UAE (which is dwelling to famously-flashy metropolis Dubai) holds the title of most reveals per yr within the area.
There are a few dozen drone gentle present corporations within the Center East, and the largest names are New Rise Applied sciences, Lumasky Drone Present and SKD.
Latin American drone gentle present corporations
Drone reveals haven’t tremendous taken off in Latin America. There are solely a few dozen drone present corporations via the area, and the reveals they placed on are usually fairly small. They common a small 115 drones per present. Distinction that with the huge Asia Pacific reveals that common 307 drones, or the Center East present averaging 401 drones per present!
That stated, the Latin American drone present corporations displaying the largest potential embody Aion, Magic and Pixel Drones.