World’s Largest Signs

Throughout the world there are many different types of enormous, lighted outdoor signs.   The neon sign that looms over the Palace Station Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada is one example.  As the largest free-standing sign in the world, it consists of over 6 miles of neon and fluorescent lights and contains more than 12,000 individual light bulbs.  The sign is 279-feet-tall and 40-feet-thick with a surface area of more than 70,000 square feet.  An even larger sign had stood in its place but was blow over in a severe wind storm. 

The biggest figural (signs based on human or animal figures) neon sign in the country is in Saginaw, Michigan.  The sign is 35 feet tall and 50 feet long.  Other large neon signs can be found in Piccadilly Circus in London, Tokyo’s Ginza and Shibuya, and Shanghai’s Nanjinj Road to name a few. 

Also over the last few years, we have seen larger and larger digital billboards become part of a city’s landscape.  Two years ago, New York Times Square went live with the highest resolution and most expensive digital billboard to-date in North America.  The new billboard spans an entire city block and is eight stories tall and almost as long as a football field.  The display has a higher resolution than the best top-of-the-line television sets and is comprised of nearly 24 million LED pixels, made up of miniature red, blue and green light.  The screen represents one of the most expensive pieces of outdoor advertisement, and at the time it was installed, it cost more than $2.5 million for four weeks.

Another huge digital billboard in the U.S. is the 65-foot-tall and 320-foot-long sign at Harmon Avenue and Las Vegas Boulevard in Las Vegas.  The billboard serves as a display for high-definition advertisements and special events, and has an ultra-high pixel count of 7K or 7,360 by 1,440 pixels.

LightSources and our affiliated companies are among the leading light bulb manufacturers in the world. As part of our group, Voltarc Technologies Inc. is a recognized leader in the signage industry and architectural lighting and the leading manufacturer of fluorescent and neon sign lighting components and specialty fluorescent lamps.

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