AIU Founder Bree Sky Named Rising Clip Creator of the Year at 2026 XMA Awards
one brag per semester, as agreedAdult Industry University founder Bree Sky was named Rising Clip Creator of the Year at the 2026 XMA Creator Awards in Miami Beach on May 16. The annual ceremony — presented by Fansly and hosted by Elly Clutch and Girthmasterr at M2 Miami — recognizes independent creators across streaming, clip, premium social, and fetish categories.
About the XMA Creator Awards
The XMA Creator Awards are produced by XBIZ, the long-standing adult industry trade publication, and honor independent and community-driven creators across more than two dozen categories spanning format, niche, and creator size. The 2026 edition was presented by Fansly, hosted by Elly Clutch and Girthmasterr, and held at M2 in Miami Beach on May 16.
Rising Clip Creator of the Year recognizes clip creators who have notably grown their reach and fan base over the past year. Other 2026 winners included Bunnydollstella (Female Streamer of the Year), Big Bear (Male Streamer of the Year), Carrie Madsin (Trans Streamer of the Year), Liz River (Fetish Clip Creator of the Year), and Violet Brandani (Female Premium Social Media Star). Full XMA coverage of the ceremony →
Bree’s acceptance comments
Sky accepted the award in front of an audience of fellow creators, agents, and industry figures, tying the recognition to the work across her VR studio and the platform she’s been building:
“It’s super awesome to win because it shows that creators can do things. I’m doing everything by myself, creating my own VR studio and creating my own platform. So it’s awesome to be recognized.”
The quote points at something genuinely rare in the adult creator space: a working creator simultaneously running an active clip career, building premium VR content, and operating a platform she founded and owns. Most adult-platform founders are not active creators. Most active creators do not own and operate platforms.
Recognition same month as AVN feature
The XMA win lands the same month as Bree’s feature in AVN Magazine’s May 2026 issue. The combination — a peer-voted industry award plus a trade-press feature in the same month — marks a high-press moment for a creator who has historically kept a quieter editorial profile through her work on Adult Industry University.
About AIU and Bree’s wider work
Bree founded Adult Industry University in 2024 as a free, independent educational resource for adult creators — practical creator literacy: taxes, legal questions, mental health, safety, and platform comparisons, covered honestly. AIU is a standalone editorial project: it does not sell courses and does not run sponsored content reviews.
Outside of AIU, Bree runs Bree Sky VR, a premium VR studio with distribution on SexLikeReal and VRPorn, and is the founder of ThirstChat, an adult creator monetization platform.
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Rising Clip Creator of the Year, presented at the XMA Creator Awards ceremony in Miami Beach on May 16, 2026.
Produced by XBIZ; the 2026 ceremony was presented by Fansly and hosted by Elly Clutch and Girthmasterr at M2 in Miami Beach.
An XMA category recognizing clip creators who have notably grown their reach and fan base over the past year, among more than two dozen categories.
Bunnydollstella (Female Streamer), Big Bear (Male Streamer), Carrie Madsin (Trans Streamer), Liz River (Fetish Clip Creator), Violet Brandani (Female Premium Social Media Star) — full results in the XMA recap.
This article is for general informational purposes. Industry awards and event details vary by year and venue; the facts cited here are accurate as of publication.
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