Ibai's La Velada just lost its Twitch record. Multistreaming ate the crown.

Ibai Llanos filled Estadio La Cartuja with 80,000 people, ran a 10-fight card, and still lost the crown. La Velada del Año VI peaked at 7.67M combined viewers across his official broadcasts on July 25, 2026, snapping a Twitch record streak that had stood since edition III. The record didn't fall because Ibai got smaller. It fell because multistreaming ate it.

What actually happened?

The receipts are unambiguous. Ibai's Twitch peaked at 2.07M, a fraction of the 9.33M single-channel Twitch mark La Velada V set in 2025. His YouTube channel, which he had historically underused for live, hit a personal-best 5,083,067 peak during the Gero Arias vs Viruzz fight. TikTok added another 576K on top of that.

The night itself was the biggest card in the event's history. Ten fights, 20 fighters from Spain, Mexico, Argentina, Colombia, El Salvador, and Puerto Rico shared the stage at Estadio La Cartuja, sold out at 80,000 attendees. Per Streams Charts, 41 unique broadcasting channels ran their own feeds of the fight card in parallel. Every co-streamer who used to be locked to Twitch was now free to pull audience wherever they wanted, and they did.

Why does this matter for creators?

For four years the Twitch platform peak was the receipt every livestream chased. La Velada V pushed Twitch to an all-time platform peak of 14.08M concurrent viewers across all channels, per Streams Charts. This year Ibai grew his total audience and still didn't touch that number, because the audience was fanned out across YouTube, TikTok, Kick, and 41 co-streamers all running their own feeds. The record loss is a measurement problem, not an audience problem.

That should permanently reset how creators think about winning a moment. Platform loyalty used to be a growth strategy. In 2026 it is a ceiling. The creators who monetize best from here on out are the ones who accept that a live audience of 7 million distributed across five feeds is more valuable than 9 million on one, because those five feeds each open a different door to a different revenue stack.

"NEW PEAK La Velada del Año VI has now reached 7.7M combined Peak Viewers across Ibai's official broadcasts. YouTube: 5.08M New Record. Twitch: 2.07M. TikTok: 576K."

Streams Charts, livestream analytics platform, on X

What's the bigger picture?

Twitch quietly ended its multi-stream ban in 2024, per Streams Charts. Creators can now simulcast to YouTube, Kick, or both without violating platform terms. La Velada VI is the first tent-pole event where that policy shift shows up unambiguously in the record books.

Ibai now sits among the ten most popular channels ever on both Twitch and YouTube, per Streams Charts. He is the only streamer with that split. The single-platform vanity record is over as a useful metric, and combined peak, per-platform bests, and creator-network watch time are the new receipts everyone should be reading.

Ibai isn't a special case either. Every creator with a fanbase now has permission to run the same playbook: main channel on the platform their community lives on, simulcasts on the ones they're growing, community co-streamers filling the rest. The math changed the second Twitch lifted its exclusivity clause, and 2026 is just the first year the receipts made it obvious.

The monetization implications hit even harder. When your audience is on five platforms at once, your revenue engine can't be tied to one platform's ad rate or one platform's payout schedule. Merchandise drops, membership tiers, and direct fan payments now have to be portable across every feed the audience shows up on, or you leave money on the table every time an event scales.

What does Fanvault think?

The Ibai receipt is the receipt every creator should be reading. Audiences don't live on one platform anymore, and pretending they do is how a record year still looks like a loss in the headline. The multistream era rewards owning the audience, not the platform.

Fanvault was built for that reality. Creators keep 92% at an 8% platform fee, running a full storefront (memberships, paid DMs, wishlists, authenticated memorabilia auctions) that captures value from a fanbase no matter which app they showed up on that night. The 8% take is a fraction of what Fanvue (15%), Passes (10% + $0.30), or Fanfix (~20%) charge. When a creator's audience is split across half a dozen surfaces, every extra point of margin compounds.

Ibai will do this again next year, and the audience will be more distributed than this one. The record book was never the point. The audience always was.