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Infiled powers Finland’s Eurovision national selection

Uuden Musiikin Kilpailu (UMK) is Finland’s national selection competition for the Eurovision Song Contest. It returned for its fifteenth edition in 2026, broadcast live from the Nokia Arena in Tampere by YLE, the Finnish Broadcasting Company. The 2026 show drew an average of 1.8 million viewers, making it the most-watched edition of UMK since the competition launched in 2012. Linda Lampenius and Pete Parkkonen ultimately claimed Finland’s Eurovision spot with their song “Liekinheitin”.

At the centre of the visual production were two Infiled LED screen systems, together forming one of the most technically ambitious setups in the competition’s history. Technical delivery was handled by Akun Tehdas Oy, a Finnish AV production company and one of the country’s most experienced providers of large-scale events and television productions. Selected through a competitive process, the company was responsible for the full video infrastructure of the broadcast. Pasi Ristolainen served as head of video on the project, overseeing a team of on-site technicians.

The Infiled installation consisted of two distinct systems. A 21 x 7 metre ARmk2 Series LED screen formed the main back wall of the stage, providing a high-resolution backdrop for all seven competing acts. Alongside it, an AMT Series transparent LED cube with a 12 x 6-metre front face and 9 x 6-metre side panels served as the show’s defining structural element. Together, the two LED displays created a flexible visual architecture capable of supporting the distinct look and feel each act required.

“Installing the back screens was pretty straightforward, but the cube was more complicated”, reports Pasi Ristolainen, head of video at Akun Tehdas Oy. “Moving decorative elements and lights hung inside the cube made things a little trickier. Things were moving up and down during the show, and there were only a few centimetres of space between moving items. Everything had to be precise. There wasn’t any room for errors.”

The AMT Series’ 70-percent transparency was central to the production’s most striking creative choices. During the show, the cube was lowered onto the stage surface while cameras shot from inside the structure outwards, turning the screen itself into a framing device for the performance. Visual content was created by Ari Levelä of Mobb Helsinki Oy. “His team created a simple, yet stylish look”, says Ristolainen. “The Infiled screens gave us great image quality and colour reproduction. The black panels made images really pop.”

(Photos: Akun Tehdas)

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