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Ibai hosts record-breaking stream for the third year in a row, breaking the Twitch record for most concurrent viewers by a huge margin.
For the third consecutive year, Ibai’s La Velada del Año has set a new stream viewership record on Twitch. The Spanish content creator’s boxing event sold out Real Madrid’s stadium and peaked at over 3.8 million viewers on Twitch.
Ibaiis now responsible for the top three most-viewed Twitch streams of all time. The fourth entry on the list falls almost a million viewers short of Ibai’s third-place record stream.
A star-studded event sells out the Santiago Bernabéu
Ibai’s event, La Velada del Año, fittingly translates to “The Night of Year”. It pitches some of the world’s biggest content creators against each other in multiple live boxing matches. This year’s fourth edition of Ibai’s La Velada sold out the Santiago Bernabéu’s full capacity of over 80 thousand inunder an hour.
The Spanish stadium is home to Real Madrid and a sacred ground recognized by football fans everywhere. Over the years, it’s hosted countless legendary matches, including finals for UEFA’s Champions League, Euros, and the FIFA World Cup.
In addition to content creators with massive followings, Ibai’s record-breaking stream also featured several famous musicians. Notably,Will Smithsurprised viewers with a performance at the event. Arguably more shocking was when Spanish national team players Marc Cucurella and Nico Williams joined him on stage. The two footballers were living it up while having to play in theEuro 2024 finalless than 24 hours later.
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Ibai’s La Velada stream breaks Twitch’s viewership record
Ibai shows the exact analytics for the record-breaking stream on hisInstagram. The screenshot shows a mindblowing peak viewership of just under 3.85 million viewers. This puts Ibai in the #1 spot for the most-viewed Twitch stream of all time, surpassing his own previous record by over 400 thousand viewers.
Those who missed the event can watch the entire VOD on Ibai’sTwitch. Alternatively, the stream is available on Ibai’sYouTubein a series of separate videos for each segment of the broadcast.
