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At CEDIA Expo 2025, Attendance Continued Its Multi-Year Decline

October 1, 2025 by Ted 10 Comments

A sparse crowd gathered for the CEDIA Town Hall at CEDIA Expo 2025

Emerald Expositions, part of Emerald Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: EEX) and owners of CEDIA Expo and CEPro, has reported that final attendance at CEDIA Expo 2025, “the premier event for the custom systems integration industry,” establishes it was yet another year of declining participation. This rather sobering news is consistent with feedback I received from several exhibitors at the event this year – almost all of whom told me that attendance was noticeably off, with several saying it was significantly down from last year.

Now we know with certainty, even with Emerald’s attempt to hide the real attendance figures, that attendance at Expo 2025 was in fact appreciably below attendance at Expo 2024 last year.

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Filed Under: Associations, Feature, Industry Trends, News, Shows & Events, Strategy Tagged With: attendance, CEDIA, CEDIA Expo, Jason McGraw

Some of My Favorite Stories from CEDIA Expo 2025

September 19, 2025 by Ted 1 Comment

Another CEDIA Expo has come and gone, and the version this year, Expo 2025, had its share of disappointments, minor advances, AND pleasant surprises from several companies. In this post, I will share a brief synopsis of the items I saw that caught my attention. Many of these will be the subject of a more extensive article later, but this gives you an overview of some of the items I found interesting.

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Filed Under: Associations, Feature, Marketing, News, Shows & Events Tagged With: CEDIA Expo

CEDIA Expo 2025: Amid the Usual Show Reverie, Some Dark & Disturbing Undercurrents

September 11, 2025 by Ted 14 Comments

Opening day of CEDIA Expo 2025 as attendees enter
CEDIA Expo 2025 – Opening day crowd [Click to enlarge]

CEDIA Expo 2025 wrapped last week, and show-owner Emerald Exposition’s Group Vice President Jason McGraw gave the event a solid thumbs up. In an email to Strata-gee, McGraw told me that, “All reports we’ve received from exhibitors have been positive and we’ve had a very successful rebooking for next year’s show.” But my survey of exhibitors and attendees – and my own observations – uncovered some dark and disturbing undercurrents that – absent any corrective action – portend a troubling future for the event.

See what I discovered at CEDIA Expo 2025

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Filed Under: Associations, Feature, Shows & Events Tagged With: CEDIA Expo, Crestron, Daisy, Sonos

NEW: LG Products *Will* Be Displayed on the CEDIA EXPO 2025 Show Floor, Just Not By LG

September 3, 2025 by Ted Leave a Comment

CEDIA Expo show floor in 2019

Just two-and-a-half short weeks prior to the launch of CEDIA EXPO 2025, I reported that LG Electronics had decided to exit the show floor of the event, but was reviewing “alternative exposition options.” I noted that the major global electronics brand did have a meeting room reserved (MR#210), which could be repurposed as a smaller display area, but otherwise had no large exhibit space on the floor as they have had in past years.

Now the company has updated its plans to include a display on the floor…just not in an LG booth.

Learn about LG’s adjusted CEDIA Expo plans…

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Filed Under: Feature, Shows & Events Tagged With: CEDIA Expo, LG

CEDIA Announces HGTV Personality Chip Wade as Expo 2025 Keynote Speaker

August 19, 2025 by Ted Leave a Comment

Chip Wade is the keynote presenter for CEDIA Expo 2025

CEDIA, the trade group with the new tagline The Association for Smart Home Professionals, has announced that it has selected Chip Wade, a TV personality from certain Home and Garden Television (HGTV) shows, as the keynote presenter for CEDIA Expo 2025, taking place in two weeks in Denver, CO, from September 3-6. Wade’s presentation is titled Beyond the Blueprint: Where Innovation Meets Intention.

Learn more about the CEDIA Expo keynote presentation…

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Filed Under: Associations, Feature, People, Shows & Events Tagged With: CEDIA Expo, Chip Wade

LG is Out as an Exhibitor at the 2025 CEDIA Expo; Or Is It?

August 15, 2025 by Ted 5 Comments

LG's Suburban Living Room at CEDIA Expo 2018
Designer Kate Rumson shows her professionally designed Suburban Family Room as part of the LG booth at a past CEDIA Expo

Multiple sources over the last several weeks have reported that LG Electronics has decided not to exhibit at the upcoming 2025 CEDIA Expo, which begins in less than three weeks at the Colorado Convention Center in Denver, Colorado. While many industry people appear to be aware of this fact, most have no idea why the leading TV maker has made this decision.

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Filed Under: Feature, Integrators, Manufacturers, News, Shows & Events Tagged With: CEDIA Expo, Jason McGraw, LG, Samsung

Troubling Trend: 2024 CEDIA Expo Loses Hundreds of Attendees This Year

November 7, 2024 by Ted 4 Comments

Scene from the 2022 CEDIA Expo
On-site registration and badge pickup at the 2022 CEDIA Expo

Data from the 2024 CEDIA Expo in Denver, CO this past September shows a troubling trend – attendance actually declined…and declined appreciably – from the 2023 version of the event. And this decline took place even though the promoter has combined CEDIA Expo with a new event (new last year), the Commercial Integrator Expo (CIX), which was probably an effort to boost attendance numbers.

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Filed Under: Feature, Industry Trends, Management, News, Shows & Events Tagged With: attendance, CEDIA, CEDIA Expo, Commercial Integrator Expo

Emerald Expo Releases Registration Data for CEDIA Expo & CIX 2024

October 10, 2024 by Ted 1 Comment

The Crestron booth at CEDIA Expo 2023 which is put on by Emerald Expo
CEDIA Expo 2023

Emerald Will No Longer Report Event Attendance Numbers

Once again, the industry gathered to celebrate the world of custom integration last month at the CEDIA Expo 2024 in Denver, Colorado. An annual event that is part business conference, part education/training confab, and part social get-together & party, many in the industry look forward to this one-time seminal event in anticipation of finding the seeds of future business growth in the innovation shown there.

This week, Emerald Expositions released the registration numbers for CEDIA Expo & Commercial Integrator Expo 2024 (CIX), but did not disclose the verified attendance number. At first, I thought this was an oversight…

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Filed Under: Associations, Management, News, Shows & Events, Strategy Tagged With: CEDIA Expo, Commercial Integrator Expo, Jason McGraw

Russound Raises Its Game with New Smarter-Design Models

August 23, 2024 by Ted Leave a Comment

Russound Cinema Bar 3.0 with speaker grille removed
Cinema Bar 3.0 w/grille removed to show speaker configuration [Click to enlarge]

Earlier this summer, executives from Russound visited me to offer me (and Strata-gee readers) a pre-CEDIA Expo sneak peek at some newly redesigned models that are in many ways smarter. I say smarter because these new designs reflect input from integrators (as well as some industry trends) and have launched new sleeker (such as 1U models) and smaller footprint products (such as its popular mini-AVR models). The company is also previewing a new industrial design that I like a lot.

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Filed Under: Feature, Manufacturers, News, Products, Technology Tagged With: amplifiers, CEDIA Expo, Charlie Porritt, Colin Clark, mini AVR, Russound, soundbar

Emerald Reports Fiscal Q1 2024 Results; All Good, Except for One Unit

May 7, 2024 by Ted Leave a Comment

Emerald Holding title slide

On Tuesday, Emerald Holding, Inc. [NYSE: EEX], aka Emerald Expositions, a national B2B tradeshow company, reported its financial results for the First Quarter of Fiscal 2024. Emerald, as most Strata-gee readers know, is the owner of the CEDIA Expo show, the Total Tech Summit show, and various publishing entities like CE Pro, Custom Integrator and more.

The consolidated results looked pretty good, but one business unit was a decided under-performer. Can you guess which one? Read on…

See what division under-performed in the Q1 fiscal 2024 report from Emerald

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Filed Under: Financial, Management, Media Tagged With: CEDIA Expo, CEPro, Commercial Integrator, Emerald Expo, Total Tech Summit

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