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With just over 11 million followers, Ibai Llanos, originally from Bilbao, is one of the most relevant streamers on Twitch.
Currently, more than 25 million users live on Twitch, of which more than seven million carry out content and broadcasts.
In Mexico, young people between the ages of 13 and 38 have in mind to become content creators.
After it was announced that on December 31, Ibai Llanos would end his contract with Twitch, the question of where he will broadcast has been one of the biggest constants among his followers. Now the answer is known.
Officially, Twitch launched in 2011, and ever since has been undergoing a great transformation and growthbeing the arrival of the pandemic the period in which, probably, it has had the greatest impact in terms of the number of its users and, above all, the time in reproductions.
According to agency data 3AW, Currently, Twitch spends around 60 million hours of views per day.
On the other hand, we are talking about the fact that, today and globally, Twitch has so far more than 26 million users, of which more than seven and a half million broadcast content at least once a month.
Also, on the Amazon platform 41 percent of the streamers are between 16 and 24 years oldthat is, we are talking about a space dominated by Generation Z or centennials.
Of course, the great rise of this type of platform is due to the accelerated digitization process that also came with the pandemic, which has allowed the birth of a new audience that is more immersed in the digital scene.
In the midst of this context, Twitch has earned a privileged place among the preferences of Internet users, to such an extent that personalities such as Ibai Llanos, AuronPlay, among others, have marked an important gap for those who, in the future, will They will be dedicated to content creation.
Ibai Llanos ends contract with Twitch; where he will streaming?
In Mexico and other parts of the world, the profession of “content creator” has gained great ground among young people.
Information of The Influencer Reportpoints out that more than half of young people in Mexico have their sights set on becoming content creators, a profession that, little by little, is also displacing an important series of careers that today are not on the horizon of a large part of community.
From this perspective, it is not surprising that personalities like Ibai Llanos, AuronPlay, Rubius, among a long list of others, are among the most followed on social networks.
However, not long ago the news about a probable farewell Ibai Llanos de Twitch caught the attention of a large number of netizens. And, to tell the truth, the native of Bilbao, in Spain, ends his contract with the Amazon platform on December 31.
It is thus that, before this, the doubt about where Ibai Llanos would begin to carry out his transmissions was a constant among his followers; however, the future of streamer it’s already solved.
Confirmed news: Ibai Llanos will not withdraw from Twitch, information that was confirmed through his next Ibainefico, the sixth edition of the charity event organized by the streamer. This means that Llanos will continue streaming on the Amazon platform, at least during 2023.
January 3 and 4, sixth edition of Ibainefico.
600,000 euros donated in the five previous editions.
Let’s go for the million euros.
I would like to have 50/60 creators who want to participate in this! pic.twitter.com/upvof2s71E
— Ibai (@IbaiLlanos) December 21, 2022
In short, the pandemic was the turning point for digitization to experience the moment it is now experiencing; a boom that has even given rise to a new language that allows the generation of new consumption habits among the Internet community itself.
