We did it, everyone! The 4th Airwiggles Audio Conference has come and gone, and it was a huge success, and AirCon26 was our biggest year yet: 31 livestreams, 40 in-person meetups around the world, and over 1,800 livestream attendees.
Here’s our look back at this year’s conference: the numbers, the worldwide meetup photo album, the audience survey, the Airwiggles Quiz Night and the $15,000 raffle draw, the 3rd Annual Airwiggles Awards winners, and how to catch up on the livestream replays.
The stats
Numbers-wise, AirCon26 was our biggest year yet. We had…
Take the audience survey
Please remember to take our audience survey! Even if you completely missed all of AirCon this year (if so, I will forgive you, eventually), we’d still love to hear your opinion about the conference so we can make it even better next year.
This survey will only take a couple of minutes to fill out, and it helps us massively, so please do give it a quick look over.
The worldwide meetups
On the final Sunday of the conference, we did something that we still can’t quite get our heads around: we hosted in-person audio meetups in 40 cities around the world, and had an estimated 650 people attend.
I’ve found that you can’t quite get an accurate idea of the scale of 40 meetups without seeing them… so here you go! Enjoy this photo album of all of our meetups below, and again, a huge thank you to everyone who helped us organise a meetup and to everyone who attended!
Photos from each location of the 2026 Airwiggles Worldwide Meetup. view the full album on Flickr
The Airwiggles Quiz Night
Rounding off the conference was my personal favourite livestream of the year: the Airwiggles Quiz Night.
Played live, with 45 questions solely about audio: the sound round, the music round, the games round, the film & tv round, and the infamous Airwiggles round… designed to make you question everything you know about audio.
There was plenty to play for, too: the top 3 finishers received 100, 50, and 25 raffle tickets respectively for the raffle draw that followed.
The $15,000 raffle draw
Immediately following the quiz night came The $15,000 AirCon26 Raffle Draw: we gave away 128 prizes (found at aircon26.com) to some of our lucky AirCon attendees, with everything from plugins and sound effects libraries to subscriptions up for grabs, courtesy of our raffle sponsors below.
Your 2026 award winners
In case you missed it, we wrapped up the final week’s livestreams with The 3rd Annual Airwiggles Awards, celebrating the amazing people who make up the audio community.
Let’s hear it for the winners!
The Audio Philanthropy Award
Awarded to an Airwiggles user who has given away quality free hardware, software, sounds, or tools, or constantly shares free resources or jobs.
The winner of a 1-year subscription to Strata from Audiokinetic is… Faith Abi Haydar, for releasing the “Tiny Town Tuesdays” sound pack
The Wisdom Fountain Award
Awarded to an Airwiggles user who uses their experience to frequently share knowledge and feedback with others.
The winner of Kilohearts Ultimate + the SFX Pro 9000 Content Bank from Kilohearts is… Chris Pollard
The Social Butterfly Award
Awarded to an Airwiggles user who is actively engaged in all aspects of the audio community.
The winner of BOOM Library’s UBERLOUD, RECENTER, and DEBIRD is… Victor Arias
The Rising Star Award
Awarded to an Airwiggles user who has recently shown incredible levels of potential and improvement in their audio work.
The winner of the Mastering Bundle from FabFilter is… Brent Richard
The Audio Initiative Award
Awarded to an Airwiggles user who has dedicated time and resources to create or maintain an audio initiative that benefits the community.
The winner of a bundle of sound effect libraries from Rogue Waves is… Jakub Řehoř and Jonas Bengio, for creating the “Airwiggles Audio Challenge”
The Content Creation Award
Awarded to an Airwiggles user who has recently produced and shared high quality content relating to audio.
The winner of the MCreativeFXBundle from MeldaProduction is… Akash Thakkar, for creating outstanding video content
The Audio Creation of the Year Award
Awarded to a recent winner of Audio Creation of the Month, who has created and shared an outstanding piece of audio work.
The winner of the Synchron Duality Strings Bundle from Vienna Symphonic Library is… Chris BØLT, for this audio creation
A huge congratulations to all of our winners! We’ll be in touch soon to distribute your prizes.
Livestream recordings
I’m sure everyone who missed AirCon is desperate to know when the livestream recordings will be up! We’re working super hard on this, and they will be up in the #Live Replays space soon, trust us!
Support Airwiggles at airwiggles.shop
If you like Airwiggles and AirCon, then there’s one extra way you can support us: by getting some merch from our store.
We’ve completely revamped the Airwiggles merch store with a new look and a tonne of new designs. If you want to rock some minimalist audio-production-related designs that, upon wearing, will summon all nearby fellow audio enthusiasts to come up to you and say ‘nice shirt’, then look no further. My personal favourites among our embroidered designs: a drawing of a sound wave of me saying “this is a tshirt”, and a Mid/Side design with “Mid” embroidered into the middle, and “Side” embroidered onto the sides.
We’re also, for a limited time, selling a festival-style poster of all of the speakers in the lineup, as well as a wonderfully-orange AirCon26 T-shirt. These won’t be available for much longer, so if you want to commemorate AirCon26, now is the last chance to do so!
The sponsors who kept AirCon free
We’re very proud to have been able to keep AirCon a free event for everyone, and that’s only made possible thanks to our sponsors. So again, a huge thanks to all of these wonderful companies:
Headline sponsors
Wwise by Audiokinetic • Strata by Audiokinetic • Kilohearts • A Sound Effect
Event sponsors
BOOM Library • The Brightskull Entertainment Group • Dolby • FMOD • GameSoundCon • MPSE • Rev Rooms • Soundcuts • Sound Warriors
Award sponsors
Audiokinetic, Kilohearts, BOOM Library, FabFilter, Rogue Waves, MeldaProduction, and Vienna Symphonic Library
Raffle sponsors
Kilohearts, Vienna Symphonic Library, MeldaProduction, UnitedPlugins, W.A. Production, Rogue Waves, Slava Pogorelsky, MNTRA, nvk.tools, Syntorial, Mindful Audio, aha sound, Chris Procopiou, New Sound Lab, Orbital Emitter, Out There Audio, SFXAFRIK, Articulated Sounds, Rescopic Sound, Sound Yeti, Epic Stock Media, Frick & Traa, Sonik Sound Library, and Sounds Like George!
See you on Airwiggles!
That was one hell of a wrap-up post, so thank you for getting this far!
If you’re sad to see AirCon go, know that it will be back again next year! And, in the meantime, Airwiggles itself isn’t going anywhere. Make sure to stay tuned on Airwiggles to be a part of the most wonderful audio community out there, and to catch all of our other events and contests we run year round!
– Lewis, Greg, and the Airwiggles team :)