Virtual idol and IP agencies
Characters run as talent — signed, managed and booked, whether or not a performer stands behind them.
- 2:10 Animation (两点十分动漫) — Wuhan animation studio running virtual UP hosts, guochao virtual idols and hyperreal digital idols, with COL Digital Publishing as co-developer
- 37entertainment (三七互娱) — The games studio builds digital humans such as Onion Girl.
- Alpha Group (奥飞娱乐) — Animation and toy group holding a stake in the Vsinger virtual-singer company and treating digital humans as licensable IP
- CA Cultural Technology Group (华夏动漫) — HK-listed animation group, formerly Huaxia Animation Image, that created Violet (紫嫣), billed as China first virtual idol
- Chuangyi Technology (创壹科技) — Shenzhen company creating viral virtual influencer Liu Yexi (founded 2018)
- Duodoule Entertainment Media (多豆乐漫娱) — Changsha digital-human IP producer and operator behind Fang Xiaoguo, from production to endorsement livestreams
- GLA Art Group (格兰莫颐) — Digital art company creating ultra-realistic virtual idols like ALiCE
- Guangdong Huanyin Cultural Creative — Nansha digital-culture company that produced the Greater Bay Area's first virtual-idol holographic concert and runs a virtual-human plus IP plus venue model
- Guangdong Network Radio and Television (广东网络广播电视台) — Builder-operator of Yue Xiaoman, billed as the world's first Cantonese virtual idol
- Guangzhou Chuanghuan Digital Technology (创幻科技) — The Guangzhou company behind the Chaociyuan virtual-IP brand — virtual anchor systems and idol services for Bilibili, Tencent and NetEase
- Guizhou Duocai Xinshixian Culture Media — Guiyang media firm that made Xinglan and Chenye, the AI virtual singers of the Duocai Guizhou Cheng complex
- Guizhou Wosi Technology — Guiyang AI company that modeled and drives Zhengyang, China's first metal-core digital-human music IP, launched at the 2026 Big Data Expo
- Guyu Qiushi (谷雨秋实) — Beijing E-Town studio behind generative-AI virtual idol Yuri, holder of China's first digital-artist performance card
- Hainan Chaociyuan Digital Technology (海南超次元) — The Hainan legal person of the Chaociyuan virtual-world group — Bilibili's virtual-performance partner for monthly 3D concerts and BML VR
- Hangzhou Nashi Culture Creativity (纳视传媒) — Hangzhou games-marketing house behind the ACG MCN Guoran TV, the Zhejiang trade-union digital-human matrix and hyperreal virtual IP Dara
- Huancifang Studio (幻次方工作室) — Builds and runs digital humans like Weiyang for Gen Z metaverse marketing content
- Hunan Radio and Television (湖南广播电视台) — Hunan TV/Mango TV deploys AI anchors, virtual hosts Xiao Yang, and AIM director across all channels
- Jiangsu Maike Digital Space — Changzhou digital-culture builder whose Digital Human IP Factory puts costumed historical figures and mascots into scenic parks and malls
- Kaiser (China) Culture Co., Ltd. (凯撒文化) — Entertainment company integrating digital humans into IP
- Migu Culture Technology — The digital intelligent human (数智人) product line, a sign-language digital anchor (数智手语主播), and the AIdol Linxi (麟犀)
- Migu Xinkong Culture Technology — Digital avatars and original-IP digital humans, and Xiao Fuduo, Fujian's official cultural tourism digital human
- miHoYo (米哈游) — Shanghai game developer whose in-house AI unit created the virtual streamer yoyo Lumi in 2020 and now feeds its digital-human work into games
- My Film and Television Culture Media — Guangzhou Panyu operator of AI virtual artist Fang Taozi, from the viral short drama The Girl Who Got Laid Off to a zero-pay COSMO e-magazine cover
- New Claw (Xinzhua) — Chengdu marketplace where real people license their faces to AI short-drama and ad producers on a non-buyout brokerage model
- OCT Cultural Tourism Technology Group — Hilarious Two Sisters (爆笑两姐妹), an animated short-video IP made with motion capture and virtual production
- Perfect World (完美世界) — Video game company incorporating NVIDIA ACE and AI-driven visual features in games
- Plus One Era Culture Industry — Beijing virtual-idol company behind the Jiayi Ciyuan (加一次元) 3D idol platform and co-founder of Guangxi's Plus One digital-human studio
- Quanzhou Guoling Technology — Operates VirtuaReal, the earliest virtual-idol agency in China, from its Quanzhou headquarters
- SemiGraph — Shanghai start-up behind the AI-native 3D virtual-idol game Code Live (代号Live), driven by its own human behaviour model
- Shanghai Bilibili Technology — Bilibili's mainland operating entity and rights holder of the first registered fully-virtual-human audio dataset, Luo Tianyi's
- Shanghai Mengdian Culture Technology (萌电文化) — Bilibili subsidiary that operated VirtuaReal, China's leading original virtual-anchor brand
- Shanghai Siba Culture Media Group — Shanghai idol company behind SNH48 that formed a virtual idol unit and co-released a virtual-human music and dance model
- Shanghai Weiapu Culture Technology (喂啊噗) — Operating company of Bilibili's virtual-idol business including VirtuaReal, 66 percent Bilibili-held, taking Quanzhou state capital in 2026
- Shanghai Yuewen Information Technology — Mainland operating company of China Literature (阅文集团, HKEX:00772), whose Ye Xiu became a virtual idol endorsing nine brands
- Shujing Technology (数镜科技) — Nanjing start-up behind the AI-generated Douyin digital human Doubao and bulk DH e-commerce video
- StarTrail (星迹互动) — StarTrail is a 2025 mainland China AI-native IP firm with 100+ reusable digital human actors
- Tencent Music Entertainment Technology — Tencent Music's technology company: Lyra Lab's virtual humans and Muse tools, the Zhumian (祝眠) virtual idol and digital-human patents
- Tianyu Digital Technology (Dalian) Group Co., Ltd. (天娱数科) — Digital technology company with esports focus and “Tianyu” digital human IP portfolio
- Tianzhou Culture (天舟文化) — Listed publisher and games group running four VTuber hosts
- Vsinger (禾念) — Virtual idol brand known for Luo Tianyi and AI-integrated holographic concerts
- Wanxiang Technology (万像科技) — Full-stack virtual idol services creating digital talents like Rainbow for e-commerce
- Warner Music China — Major-label arm giving DreamMaker's virtual artists full-chain label support since 2026
- Wuhan Mushi Culture Media — Hanyang culture and performance company that built the district's twin virtual spokespeople and stages virtual idols
- Xugu Future Technology (虚谷未来) — Beijing consumer virtual-human company of Digital Domain's 30%-held virtual-human group; operator of the children's reading ambassador Banzhang Xiao'ai
- Yiji Culture — Chengdu virtual-idol studio behind Yi Shiqi (伊拾七), a Douyin virtual idol launched in 2019
- Yinli Media (引力传媒) — Listed Beijing marketing group that signed the virtual humans Lingqiu and Muxi and makes DH ad video at scale
- Yuanyuan Technology (元圆科技) — Tianyu Digital Technology subsidiary that makes and operates Tianyu (天妤), the Dunhuang-styled guofeng virtual digital human
- Yuehua Entertainment (乐华娱乐) — Entertainment company managing artists and operating virtual idol projects like A-SOUL
- Zhejiang Zhongnan Animation — Hangzhou animation major whose holographic AI Su Dongpo digital human converses with festival and expo visitors from its interaction pod
- Zhongshi Xinke Animation — State-controlled operator of Xinke Niang, an early institutional virtual UP-host, now in bankruptcy liquidation