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Trends

AV Industry Trends for Live Visuals and New Media Art

Where the audiovisual and new media art industries are heading, and what it means for people who actually produce shows. Display technology, immersive formats, event production economics, AI tooling, and the market forces underneath all of it.

What we track in AV industry trends

Four threads. Display technology — the LED-versus-projection crossover, brightness, price per square metre. Immersive formats — permanent galleries, fulldome, large-scale installations. Production economics — what venues pay, what rental costs, where margin actually sits. AI tooling — what is genuinely usable in production and what is still a demo reel.

Forecasts are labelled as forecasts

Market figures come with a source and a date. Projections are marked as projections, with the assumption behind them stated in plain language. Where an analyst number contradicts what we see in our own sales data, we say that too. You should be able to check every figure here against its origin.