ProAV Market Expected to Grow 6.1% In 2024, According to Latest AVIXA Report

ProAV revenue will grow from $306.4 billion in 2023 to $325 billion in 2024, a healthy growth rate of 6.1%, but down from 6.9% from the previous year, according to AVIXA’s 2024 Industry Outlook and Trends Analysis (IOTA). The market will add $98 billion over the next five years, with a 5.35% CAGR. While office […]

ProAV Market Expected to Grow 6.1% In 2024, According to Latest AVIXA Report

AV’s Headlines Suck. Here’s How to Fix That.

With fresh eyes on amazing new products and services presented over the last few tradeshows (InfoComm, DSE, ISE) so far this year, the rAVe Agency has seen some truly remarkable technology coming out of the audiovisual (AV) industry. But while AV technology is undoubtedly impressive, the way AV products are promoted and advertised has mostly […]

AV’s Headlines Suck. Here’s How to Fix That.

AV Industry EOL: Planned Obsolescence (Part One)

For all of the massive technology improvements and innovations within the AV industry, there is irony in the faster obsolescence of digital equipment compared to the analog age of AV, leaving customers vulnerable to unexpected end-of-life notifications of planned obsolescence at the discretion of the manufacturer and reducing the life-span of digital AV gear. In […]

AV Industry EOL: Planned Obsolescence (Part One)

HB Communications’ Kevin Collins Passes Away

Friends and colleagues, Dana Barron, CEO of HB Communications, called me yesterday to ask if we would send out a message to the AV community in regards to Kevin’s sudden passing. I have mixed feeling about sending an email blast about someone’s death, but Kevin simply wasn’t “someone” – he was not only the face […]

HB Communications’ Kevin Collins Passes Away