The International Moscow Autoshow became a noticeable event in the otherwise sluggish cultural life of Moscow in August. For several year organizers have been promoting the event. As a result, Moscow Autoshow has become prestigious, and no serious manufacturer or distributor may afford not to participate.
Apart from professionals who visit the exhibition on business, it turns into a Mecca for curious Muscovites and tourists. The atmosphere is lively. Exactly the type of atmosphere when people are relaxed and prone to be affected by any outside information, i.e. advertising. That is why advertising is present everywhere in all forms and types: leaflets, brochures, balloons, plastic bags, and video advertising.
Firms of simpler status restrict themselves to TV displays. Reputable firms use a series of TV sets, or projection screens. For a specialist it is quite exciting to walk around pavilions looking not at flashy cars but at various types of screens. Projection (or plasma) screens indoors are quite useful: they are sufficiently bright and have good color saturation.
However, installed outdoors the projection screens are practically invisible. But the weather is perfect, there are plenty of people outdoors, it is just the place to attract them by commercials. The solution is obvious: in such conditions you need an outdoor display. The mobile outdoor LED displays are still rare in Russia, but they appear at various shown nonetheless. However, the Autoshow did not have one. It’s a pity. An outdoor display would be definitely worth installing there.
More professional approach to advertising was noticeable at the Airshow in a little town of Zhukovsky near Moscow. The mobile outdoor LED display was the hit of the show. It was obvious that LED outdoor display is very effective. In Europe and North America hardly any exhibition is organized without electronic displays. In Russia it is still a novelty.
As the large displays becoming cheaper, lighter and easier to maintain, they push aside all other types of outdoor advertising. It is inevitable that in the near future there will be plenty of outdoor displays everywhere, and then the carnival atmosphere of exhibitions and shows will be enhanced by lively colors of electronic advertising.