Exhibit and Booth Rentals for CES in Las Vegas

Exhibiting at CES

CES is the largest technology trade show in the world and the single most demanding exhibit environment in Las Vegas. It fills the entire Las Vegas Convention Center — West, Central and North Halls — plus the Venetian Expo and a sprawl of hotel and off-site activations across the city. Well over a hundred thousand attendees move through those halls across four days in January.

For an exhibitor, that scale is the opportunity and the problem in the same sentence. Everyone at CES has a screen. Everyone has motion. Everyone has spent money. A booth that would dominate a mid-size industry show is unremarkable here, and the exhibitors who succeed are not the ones who spent the most — they are the ones who made a single idea readable from across a hall and then delivered depth when someone walked in.

We build and install exhibit rentals for CES exhibitors in Las Vegas. Design, graphics printing, fabrication and installation all happen in house, and our crews work the LVCC and the Venetian Expo constantly.

What Makes CES Different to Build For

January is the hardest month in the Las Vegas exhibit calendar. CES move-in runs through the holiday period. Fabrication schedules, graphic production, freight and install labor across the entire city are compressed into the weeks either side of New Year, and every exhibit house in Las Vegas is under the same pressure at the same time. A project that would take eight weeks in April needs to be locked considerably earlier for a January show.

The show is spread across multiple venues that behave nothing alike. An exhibitor in LVCC West Hall and an exhibitor at the Venetian Expo are effectively at two different shows operationally. West Hall is newer, has the highest clear ceiling in the complex and the most capable rigging grid — large hanging structures and double-decks are straightforward there. The Venetian Expo runs across multiple levels with elevator-dependent freight to upper halls, which imposes hard limits on crate dimensions and slows install substantially. Your hall assignment determines what you can physically build.

Visual saturation is higher than any other show floor. Because every exhibitor is running LED and motion, the differentiator inverts. Adding more brightness does nothing. What reads at CES is hierarchy — one statement carried at height that resolves from two hundred feet, then progressive detail as the viewer closes distance. Booths that put a paragraph on the back wall are invisible here in a way they would not be at a smaller show.

The audience is not one audience. CES draws retail buyers, OEM partners, press, investors, and technical evaluators, and they want completely different things from the same twenty minutes. The booths that perform have separate places for those conversations — open demo at the aisle, semi-private space for partner discussions, and a genuinely closed room for anything involving numbers.

Press and analyst traffic concentrates in the first day and a half. If your launch matters, the booth needs to be photograph-ready before the doors open on day one, not finished during the morning of day two. That is a scheduling constraint, and it works backward into your install plan and your target move-in time.

CES Venue and Move-In

CES occupies the Las Vegas Convention Center and the Venetian Expo, with additional activations across Strip properties.

At the LVCC, freight routes through a marshalling yard and is released to the dock on an assigned target time. Missing your window means your crates wait while your install crew stands on the floor with nothing to build, which compresses the install into overtime hours on a job where crew size was already fixed. At CES specifically, with the entire city's install labor committed simultaneously, a missed target is more expensive than at any other show. We plan the target window into the schedule from the start of the project.

Standard height rules apply and are enforced. Inline booths cap at eight feet on the back wall with three-foot side rails for the aisle portion. Islands are permitted substantially higher, with the ceiling set by the organizer and the hall. Fire clearance, aisle-line compliance and covered-ceiling rules all apply, and we submit the drawing package for approval as part of the rental.

At the Venetian Expo, the constraint is vertical. Freight to upper-level halls moves by service elevator, which limits crate size and adds hours to move-in. Structural elements have to be engineered as sections that fit the lift, and that decision belongs in fabrication rather than being discovered when the truck arrives. We size builds for the specific hall level before anything is fabricated.

Rigging is available at both venues with organizer approval and engineered drawings. Rigging labor is booked through the show's official general contractor against a firm advance deadline — ordering after it costs materially more for identical work.

Booth Sizes That Work at CES

10x10 — Workable, but only with disciplined execution. In a hall this size an unlit 10x10 with dense copy is functionally invisible. It needs illumination, one readable sentence, and a counter with hidden storage so your cases are not the first thing a visitor sees.

10x20 — Enough back wall to be legible from down the aisle and enough floor for a demo station that does not block your own entrance. The point where a company stops reading as provisional.

20x20 island — The first footprint that reads from across a hall rather than from down one aisle, and the first that permits a hanging sign. At CES that height advantage matters more than at almost any other show because the sightlines are so long and the floor is so dense. An island has no back — every side is a front, and a design that works as an inline will look unfinished here.

20x40 and larger — Private meeting rooms, presentation areas with seating, separate staff circulation, and a hanging structure that is effectively mandatory at this scale. This is where the partner and investor conversations actually happen.

Double-deck — Private meeting space directly above your public demo space, which at a show where floor area is scarce and expensive is a genuinely efficient trade. Requires engineered stamped drawings, occupancy calculations, code-compliant stairs and railings, and organizer approval submitted well in advance. Not permitted in every hall. We confirm eligibility before you commit and handle the full approval package.

LED at CES

LED is not a differentiator at CES — it is the baseline. Which means the way to win with it is specification, not scale.

Three variables drive the outcome together: total panel area, pixel pitch, and the processing and content pipeline behind it. Pitch is the one exhibitors get wrong in both directions. Buying a tighter pitch than your viewing distance requires is expensive and completely invisible. Specifying too coarse for a wall people stand three feet from wastes the entire investment, because the content reads as pixelated at the distance it is actually seen from.

We specify pitch against the real viewing geometry of your booth. Power draw and rigging load also feed directly into your show-service costs, which is why LED decisions have to be made early rather than added late.

What Your CES Rental Includes

Every rental is quoted turnkey: the complete engineered structure pre-fit in our shop before it ships, all printed graphics produced in house, flooring, lighting, furniture appropriate to the design, delivery to the venue, coordination with the official general contractor, professional install and dismantle by our own crews, on-call support through show days, and full removal.

Show-charged services — electrical, rigging labor, material handling, cleaning and internet — are itemized separately as estimates against published advance rates and reconciled at actual cost.

How Early to Book for CES

Earlier than you think, and earlier than for any other show.

Six months is comfortable. Nine is better if you need custom fabrication or a double-deck, because the approval cycle runs on top of the build. The compressing factor is the calendar: a January show means production, freight and install all land across the holiday period, when the entire Las Vegas exhibit industry is working the same compressed window.

If your show is closer than that, call anyway. We hold inventory back for rush projects and we would rather tell you quickly what is achievable than have you assume it is too late.

Get a Quote for Your CES Booth

Tell us your hall, your booth number and your footprint. We will confirm what that location permits, what your rigging options are, what a realistic install timeline looks like against your target move-in, and what the booth costs delivered and installed.