# Drone Stories – The drone light show pioneers. We tell your story in the sky.

> Drone Stories founded the drone light show industry and flew the impossible: Central Park, Burning Man, Cannes, Copacabana with 2.2 million people, F1 Las Vegas. For Spotify, Samsung, Red Bull. Book the best storytelling in the sky.

Source: https://dronestories.com/

Drone light show pioneers · Amsterdam · New York

# We tell your story in the sky.

We founded this industry, and we still fly the shows nobody else will: Central Park, Burning Man, Cannes, Copacabana in front of two million people, Formula 1 with the drivers on track. When you book Drone Stories, you book the best storytelling in the sky.

[Get a proposal](/proposal/)[See the shows](/drone-shows/)

Where we've flown

## The impossible, delivered.

A drone show over a city park, a desert, a beach with two million people on it, or a Formula 1 circuit is not a product you order. It is a project we design, permit and fly ourselves, with our own crews. These are some of the places.

* Central Park, New York

  1,000 drones over Manhattan
* Burning Man

  Fifteen shows in the desert
* Copacabana, Rio

  Shakira, 1,500 drones, two million people
* Las Vegas

  Mercedes-AMG F1, with Hamilton and Russell on track
* Cannes Lions

  For Kargo, in front of the ad industry
* Venice

  The first indoor drone performance, at the Biennale
* Kennedy Space Center

  Apollo 11, fifty years on
* Amsterdam

  A city’s New Year countdown

Selected work

## Shows that landed.

[All shows](/drone-shows/)

[### Franchise Freedom in New York Central Park

DRIFT · New York - USA · 1,000 drones](/drone-shows/franchise-freedom-in-new-york-central-park/)

[### FORMULA 1 LAS VEGAS GRAND PRIX

Formula 1 · Las Vegas - USA · 1,000 drones](/drone-shows/f1-las-vegas-gp-2023/)[### Shakira at Copacabana

Shakira · Copacabana Beach, Rio de Janeiro · 1,500 drones](/drone-shows/shakira-copacabana/)[### Björk at Coachella

Björk · Coachella · Indio, California · 864 drones](/drone-shows/coachella-drone-show/)[### Kargo at Cannes Lions

Kargo · Cannes, France · 1,400 drones](/drone-shows/cannes-drone-show-2024/)

[All shows](/drone-shows/)

How we work

## Storytelling first. Drones second.

01

### The story

We start with what you want people to feel, not with how many drones you can afford. A launch, a countdown, a tribute, a headline act: every show gets a narrative arc with a beginning, a turn and an ending people remember.

02

### The design

Our designers and animators write that story in light: choreography, timing, music, and the one image the whole crowd will photograph. We prototype in simulation and iterate with you until it lands.

03

### The flight

Permits, airspace, safety cases, weather windows, crew: we handle all of it and fly it ourselves. In Central Park, in the desert, on a beach with two million people. That is what you are booking.

Who books us

* Spotify
* Samsung
* Red Bull
* Disney+
* Mercedes-AMG F1
* Formula 1
* Kargo
* Van Gogh Museum
* Coachella
* EDC
* UNICEF
* City of Amsterdam

We fly as Drone Stories and, for our art performances, as Studio DRIFT. Across 25 published shows and 13,464 drones in the air, for brands, festivals, cities and museums. And a fair number of shows we can’t publish.

Impact, not price tag

## Not every show needs us. Let’s find out together.

We take the shows that have to make an impact: a launch with one shot, a city that wants its people to look up together, a couple who want their story told once, perfectly. Big or small isn’t the point; impact is. Some of our best work was modest in size.

Our partners at [Sky Elements](https://skyelementsdrones.com/) fly every kind of show at every scale, from a few hundred drones to record-breaking fleets, and they are the best in the world at it. If that is what your event needs, we’ll happily introduce you. If it has to land, talk to us.

[What a drone show costs](/drone-show-cost/)

What are you planning?

[### Brands & agencies

Launches, activations and the one image that travels.

→](/drone-shows/for/brands/)[### Festivals & concerts

A headline moment for a crowd of tens of thousands.

→](/drone-shows/for/festivals/)[### Cities & institutions

Silent, safe and civic: a show a whole city shares.

→](/drone-shows/for/cities/)[### Weddings & private

Your story, told once, for the people who matter.

→](/drone-shows/for/private/)

Impact

## The crowd goes home and keeps talking.

A show lasts ten minutes. The clips of it travel for weeks. These are the numbers from our own Instagram alone, before the client’s channels, the press and the people who filmed it themselves.

| | |
|---|---|
| Video views | 7.5M |
| Likes | 760k |
| Comments | 4k |
| Posts | 169 |

* “Congratulations on culminating so many years of hard work with such a beautiful gift to the city”

  @chetindurak · [franchise freedom in new york central park](/drone-shows/franchise-freedom-in-new-york-central-park/)
* “One of the most beautiful art pieces ever. So emotional and needed for our community at that time. Thank you to the artists for their gift ❤️”

  @monicalynn3tree · [free burn 2021](/drone-shows/free-burn-2021/)
* “my wife walked down the aisle to this intro ❤️”

  @karlneville11 · [a wedding with old and new memories](/drone-shows/a-wedding-with-old-and-new-memories/)
* “You guys nailed it once more. Hope I can see one of your performances live one day… maybe in Amsterdam?”

  @magari.maelis · [burning man](/drone-shows/burning-man/)

As seen in

[All press →](/press/)

Let’s collaborate

## Have a story that belongs in the sky?

Brief us on the event, the place and the audience. Within a day you’ll hear whether a drone show is the right call, roughly what it takes, and what we would do with it.

[Get a proposal](/proposal/)[Talk to a human](/contact/)