The worldwide drone present trade is a quickly rising discipline, with progressive drone gentle present corporations pushing the boundaries of what’s potential. They’re breaking information for largest drone exhibits. They’re placing fireworks on bodily drones. They’re drawing enormous 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 exhibits throughout 62 international locations.
They then broke out the largest drone gentle present corporations by area. Listed below 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 exhibits. With greater than 1,000 drone exhibits documented over the previous yr, it’s straightforward to return by a drone present. Simply take a look at our drone present occasions schedule to search out one close to you — and it ought to be comparatively straightforward to search out one.
They’re plentiful at MLB video games and county festivals. And particularly in summer time 2024, theme parks leaned into drone exhibits. Many of the greatest theme park drone exhibits 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 Desires 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 group that powered my first ever drone present, which was a Star Wars drone present after an Oakland A’s baseball sport.
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 exhibits in a single weekend, which it did in the course of the 2023 Fourth of July weekend. Nowadays, 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 massive 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 house, with a market share of almost half. In keeping with the Drone Present Market Evaluation, Dronisos makes up 48% of all European drone exhibits.
Dronisos, which is predicated in France, is probably most well-known for working together with Disneyland Paris. That features placing on their nightly Disney Electrical Sky Parade present, in addition to one-off exhibits. One of the notable exhibits 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 exhibits per yr of any European nation, in line with the Drone Present Market Evaluation.
Different notable names which are nonetheless pretty giant embrace 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 most important 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 massive title, DAON, is just not far-off with a 26% market share. MIRS Innovate is usually 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. Based mostly out of the Indian Institute of Expertise Delhi, the drone present firm has a robust analysis background. The corporate makes use of all in-house merchandise, and has spent greater than seven years condugin swarm drone analysis and growth.
Although BotLab Dynamics has little competitors throughout the nation of India, it’s nonetheless a power on the planet. 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 planet to host a drone present of such a big scale.
Center Jap and North African drone gentle present corporations
Drone exhibits within the Center East are enormous — and fabulous. Averaging 401 drones per present, Center Jap drone exhibits are typically an over-the-top spectacle. Unsurprisingly, the UAE (which is dwelling to famously-flashy metropolis Dubai) holds the title of most exhibits per yr within the area.
There are a couple of 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 exhibits haven’t tremendous taken off in Latin America. There are solely a couple of dozen drone present corporations via the area, and the exhibits they placed on are usually fairly small. They common a small 115 drones per present. Distinction that with the large Asia Pacific exhibits that common 307 drones, or the Center East present averaging 401 drones per present!
That stated, the Latin American drone present corporations exhibiting the largest potential embrace Aion, Magic and Pixel Drones.
