Monday, 12 October 2026
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Concerts, venues, live production, lighting and the professional AV industry.
Apple opened its first permanent live music venue on 28 September, a 600-capacity room built into Battersea Power Station in London. Elton John played the opening show, his first public UK performance in more than three years, opening with…
"Stray Kids: The dominATE Experience," a concert film built from the K-pop group's dominATE world tour, opened across 61 territories the weekend of February 5-6, 2026, and finished that weekend at the top of the global box office with…
The Audio Engineering Society has moved its flagship US trade show out of the two coasts for the first time in the event's history.
Fever, the company behind ticketing platform DICE, raised $250 million this month in a round led by EQT, valuing the live-entertainment technology business at $5.2 billion. The company is calling it the largest financing round ever closed…
Signify just put a number on what AI removes from lighting design: 80 percent of the cost and time.
For a decade, a concert built around a photorealistic digital performer has meant building it in one place and leaving it there. ABBA Voyage cost roughly £140 million and still runs in the single London arena built for it.
A Hollywood studio just put $100 million behind a bet that immersive entertainment doesn't need a headset.
PLASA Show 2026 wrapped at Olympia London this month — three days under one roof for lighting, sound, AV, rigging and staging, running September 6 to 8.
An immersive venue in London is handing an entire live show to an AI agent, with no script to fall back on.
A live festival now has two audiences: the crowd in the room, and everyone watching from somewhere else.
Pro AV is being built around XR now, not experimenting with it.
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