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Ibai is now the biggest streamer in the world, with almost 20M followers on Twitch. Here are La Velada del Año V’s numbers.
He shared goofy moments with iShowSpeed, filmed challenges with Mr.Beast, and now hosted one of the biggest online events in history: This is Ibai “Ibai” Llanos, the biggest streamer in the Spanish-speaking community and the creator of La Velada del Año V.
Roughly translated to “The Boxing Night of the Year”, La Velada featured some of the biggest Spanish streamers and content creators. Also, between matches, a selection of very well-known musicians would play short set lists for the public. The live event sold out 80,000 tickets, valued at:
Despite how massive this number of people may look, “La Velada V” was even more impressive on Ibai’s Twitch channel. According toa recent study from Streams Charts, the event reached an astonishing number of9,334,179 peak viewsacross all platforms. This is the most-viewed stream in Twitch’s history, and it’s now ranked third among the most popular events broadcast on any platform.
The secret behind Ibai’s La Velada V success
Before being the most followed overall Twitch streamer, with 19.7M followers, Ibai used to be a League of Legends caster. He still broadcasts Riot events, and even owns an esports team: Movistar Koi. But his biggest following transcended video games a long time ago.
He was a pioneer amongst Spanish streamers, replicating long-time traditional events with a twist, like “Las Campanadas”, a New Year’s television broadcast of the twelve bells that sound before midnight. He was even more successful than the traditional show, and started building his persona around this new audience. Ibai jumped from contests to tournaments to content around traditional sports. And then, he created La Velada del Año — a boxing night with only one aim: making famous streamers and content creators train for months to reach their best shape ever, and fight against each other.
La Velada is not only about boxing, but he made a real show around it. Last year, he hadWill Smithon-stage and almost got Amouranth to fight in what he wanted to be a “Spanish vs. English streamers night”. If you follow Ibai, you know he will keep doing La Velada del Año until he gets to invite Bad Bunny (who, by the way, he has already interviewedtwice).
This year, Ibai focused even more on La Velada V’s storytelling. He hand-picked rivalries that made a lot of sense for the fans. And, of course, the hype behind some of them was notorious.
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Top fights at La Velada V (according to peak viewers) and their story:
However, none of the aforementioned fights were the main event, which belonged to Westcol vs. TheGrefg. The first is the most-followed streamer on Kick and is very well known for not being disciplined and partying. His declarations through the training months showed him as the villain, someone who constantly said he didn’t need training to beat his opponent. TheGrefg, on the other hand, used to be the biggest Fortnite streamer in Spanish. He has a custom-made skin in the game and is perceived as a try-hard at everything.
International reaction to Ibai’s La Velada V
To everyone’s surprise, TheGrefg destroyed Westcol. But this fight was still big enough to reach Ludwig’s ears, who said on stream how massive Ibai’s La Velada V was. His chat asked him to do a new edition of “Creator’s Clash,” a similar event for the English community. He only giggled at the possibility, but Ibai’s numbers may incentivize him to try.
La Velada V made Ibai the biggest Twitch streamer of the month, and he set a record that will be hard to beat. But the Spanish content creator will keep trying to beat his own record, which sparks the question: What’s next?
