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January 4 th kickoff event celebrating the acquisition announcements of KOI andMovistar Riders hosted by KOI co-foundersIbai Llanos ("Ibai") and Gerard Piqué reached nearly 120,000 concurrent viewers, the largest non-game day audience ever for OverActive. The announcement reached an audience of over 5 million across the Company's social media channels. - MAD Lions KOI kicked off the
League of Legends EMEA Championship (LEC) Winter Split in January, with their regular season match onJanuary 15th reaching 741,000 peak viewers, making it the most watched LEC match since summer 20211. Ibai's co-stream of the matches generated more than 4.7 million views on Twitch. This viewership, for example, beats theHBO series finale of Succession, the Emmy-winning series that drew 2.93 million viewers across all platforms on its debut night.4 - KOI founder and imminent OverActive shareholder and partner
Ibai Llanos' Twitch channel had the highest peak viewership of any esports channel in the world in January, during his co-stream of the MAD LionsKOI LEC match onJanuary 15, 2024 , peaking at over 225,000 concurrent viewers, according to data from Esports Charts. - In January, MAD Lions / Movistar KOI brands led the esports category in viewership and total engagements across the major social media platforms across both
Europe andNorth America . MAD Lions /Movistar KOI was a top five brand globally during the same period. - Also in January,
Toronto Ultra won the Major 1 Call of Duty League Championship inBoston onJanuary 28 . Major 1 hit peak viewership of over 245,000 and was one of the most watched Majors in CDL history.Toronto Ultra emerged as the Call of Duty Major I Champion and reached peak viewership of over 200,000 during the tournament final. - MAD Lions KOI reached record viewership of 830,816 peak concurrent viewers on
February 18, 2024 2, with Ibai's co-stream on Twitch hitting 321,900 peak viewers. Ibai's channel is the number one channel across all of Twitch in 20243. This was among the most watched matches in LEC history on the Spanish language stream. - MAD Lions holds three of the top four rankings in terms of peak viewership for
League of Legends esports acrossNorth America andEurope .
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1 (4) Esports Charts 🇺🇦 on X: "741.4K PEAK VIEWERS! 🔥 With this insane @KarmineCorp vs @MADLionsKOI, #LEC Winter 2024 becomes the most popular @LEC since Summer 2021! See more stats: 👉 https://t.co/ZRvgCaiTDC https://t.co/Z90FxxvKO6" / X (twitter.com) |
2 Esports Charts on X: "830,816 CONCURRENT VIEWERS! @G2League vs. @MADLionsKOI closes #LEC Winter on a high note, becoming the most popular series in the entire Split! |
3 Esports Charts on X: " LIVE @LEC main channel #Twitch stream rankings… The first channel in these last two? @IbaiLlanos. |
4 https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/succession-series-finale-ratings-1235503317/ |
"Our ability to captivate a massive, global audience is pivotal to our success. The immediate surge in engagement and viewership after announcing the acquisitions highlights the strategic value of our operations and solidifies our leadership in the esports industry," said
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