30-07-2025
9.3 million viewers! Ibai shatters Twitch stream record
New record shatters previous by nearly 6 million
Picture how many people fill the stadium during any given Super Bowl.
Now, picture about 130 of those full stadiums.
That's about how many people watched Spanish streamer Ibai Llanos's Twitch stream on July 26 as he shattered the platform's record for most viewers at one time, according to streaming-data site StreamsCharts.
The record-breaking event was the fifth edition of La Velada del Año (Night of the Year), an annual event hosted by Llanos that features a combination of boxing matches, influencer showdowns, musical performances and celebrity guests.
Spanish newspaper El País reported that 80,000 people attended the event at La Cartuja Stadium in Seville, Spain.
Online, the seven-hour stream attracted 9.3 million viewers at its peak, according to StreamsCharts.
That figure shattered the previous record of 3.8 million viewers, also set by Llanos at last year's La Velada del Año event, StreamsCharts said.
TwitchTracker, another popular website for streaming metrics, recorded the new record at 9.1 million concurrent viewers.
CBC Kids News reached out to Twitch to confirm these numbers and has not yet heard back.
Who is Ibai?
Llanos, who goes by Ibai, is a massively popular esports streamer and announcer with more than 19 million followers on Twitch and 13 million subscribers on YouTube.
He is the most followed streamer on Twitch.
According to the New York Times, Ibai first got into the gaming world when he was 15, posting videos to YouTube of himself and his friends playing Call of Duty.
Later, he began commentating professionally for Spain's Professional Video Game League (LVP), as well as for national soccer matches and other real-life spotting events.
In more recent years, he co-founded the esports organization KOI and has turned the annual La Velada del Año into a star-studded event.
