Fanvue Celebrates Music, Art And Virtual Personas With Pioneering World AI Creator Awards

One of Fanvue’s headline goals was always to constantly shift the narrative: to show the world a creator platform doesn’t have to simply host creators, it can also celebrate and empower them. The Fanvue World AI Creator Awards (WAICA) represents that vision in full force.

Its latest awards, a world-first event which celebrated the power of AI Music on a human and technical level are not a side project or a marketing fad, they are a mission statement writ large.

Fanvue didn’t just hand out trophies at its new Future Sound Awards, it built something new, a stage uniquely suited to the multi-dimensional, hybrid world of AI and human creators that is now emerging.

In doing so, it is signalling that creators themselves not platforms should be the heroes of the story.

The Awards That Bridge Art, AI And Identity

The World AI Creator Awards is structured around its core verticals, music, visual art, AI personas, fashion and more. One flagship strand was Miss AI, the world’s first award designed exclusively for AI-generated personas. In 2024, Kenza Layli, a virtual influencer from Morocco created using AI tools, was crowned the inaugural Miss AI. Kenza Layli was created by Myriam Bessa to empower women in the Middle East.

The competition evaluated entries across three axes: tech, realism, and social clout combining aesthetic voice, prompt engineering, and audience reach. 

In choosing to judge the craftsmanship behind AI personas and to reward creators as much as the avatars themselves, Fanvue placed the human agency front and centre. It’s a statement showing that AI is not a gimmick but a tool, one ripe with expressive potential.

In 2025, this idea was extended into the Future Sound Awards, a WAICA music vertical where creators using AI to make music compete for a $10,000 prize pool.

The contest was powered by partnerships with SoundCloud and the AI Music platform, TwoShot, along with an esteemed judging panel that combined in-person technical evaluation with listening metrics, giving real weight to the musical craft and talent behind the entries. 

Why Fanvue Built WAICA

Some might ask: why not just build tools and leave the awards to others? For Fanvue, recognition is a form of investment, and culture is infrastructure. Its co-founder, Harry Fitzgerlad, said: “We didn’t want to wait for others to validate creators. “If the AI-creator economy is to reach its potential, we need an awards ecosystem that understands its unique ability to transform how creators earn and operate in the future, not just recycle norms from legacy media.”

WAICA does more than elevate winners. It raises standards across the ecosystem: by inviting creators to push their tools, refine their craft and explore new hybrid forms. It also signals to brands, media and stakeholders AI creation isn’t just a fringe niche, but a booming frontier. The awards so far have amplified voices and identities rarely seen in tech narratives.

The Future Sound Awards featured a creator, Lucas Horne from Nottingham, who was previously in a coma during his teenage years, after which he was able to use AI to give himself a musical voice that would otherwise remain unheard.

Lucas spent three years recovering from a large brain bleed in 2016, after unknowingly living with AVM (arteriovenous malformation, or a tangle of blood vessels in the brain or on the brain surface). Although he couldn’t walk and struggled to talk, songwriting became an outlet during the early days of his recovery. 

Although he would later be physically able to record his music, the result was not the same after his injury, as the tone of his voice changed. But AI gave his music career a new lease of life, and Lucas, known as The BTO Kid, was shortlisted among 15 other entries from around the world, at the Future Sounds Awards with his song “AI gave me a voice”.

The future of creator culture is not one monolithic style, but plural, experimental and inclusive. 

WAICA aligns with Fanvue’s broader ambition of building the Creator AI Economy. Through its AI tools, from AI messaging and voice replies to generative visuals Fanvue aims to give creators not just new reach, but compositional power, elevating them to the title of entrepreneur. 

Impact, Signals And The Road Ahead

Already, WAICA has attracted thousands of entries across continents, positioning Fanvue as a cultural catalyst rather than a mere platform. The broader creator economy, estimated by many analysts to hit $250billion in value is hungry for new institutions, not just utility tools. WAICA is one of the first. Fitzgerald said, “Awards anchor legitimacy. When we crown creators who are doing something bold with AI, it shifts perceptions. Suddenly, every creator starts asking: ‘How do I get to that level?’”

From the Miss AI contest to the expansion into AI music awards and forthcoming verticals in fashion, visual art and virtual personas WAICA is scaling. Fanvue’s hope is that the awards themselves become self-perpetuating: showing creators competing and inspiring others to get involved. 

Crucially, the awards reinforce the fact that Fanvue does not just profit at the expense of creators, but instead partners with them. At a time when every platform claims “creator-first,” Fanvue is walking the walk.

In shaping an awards fabric tailored to our hybrid world, Fanvue stakes a claim: the future is influence and AI-powered monetisation.