Spanish Fortnite streamer TheGrefg breaks the historical twitch viewing record

Spanish Twitch streaming host David “TheGrefg” Martinez just broke the Twitch M&A record on his personal channel, and 2.4 million people watched his skin collaboration with Fortnite

.Martinez’s video stream reached more than 2 million viewers, easily breaking the record of simultaneous online viewers in a single stream. Tyler “Ninja” Blevins created 635,000 viewers in 201

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Martinez is showing his collaboration with Icon Series in Fortnite on streaming media, Fortnite is based on a series of character skins created by Fortnite’s top content creators. Anchors like Ninja, Lachlan Power and Kathleen “Loserfruit” Belsten have skins based on them in the Icon series, and Martinez is now on the list.

The Icon skin of TheGrefg is inspired by Dragon Ball Z.

Doron Nir, CEO of StreamElements, said in a statement to IGN: “One of the highlights of TheGrefg is that it demonstrates the global appeal of the media.” “All major live streaming platforms have a considerable international foundation, but Spanish Milestones such as streaming help to focus on the broad appeal of the industry.”

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¡ Vamos! @TheGrefg now keeps a record for most concurrent viewers on Twitch. pic.twitter.com/26VceVSJyS

-Twitch (@Twitch) January 11, 2021

According to StreamElements data, non-English streaming media like Gaules, auroplay, ibai and Rubius all rank high in the StreamElements report of the top streaming media in 2020.

Martinez’s record-breaking video stream shows that streaming is a global phenomenon, whether on Twitch or elsewhere, and creators who do not necessarily cater to English-speaking audiences are thriving in this global ecosystem.

Matt TM Kim is a reporter for IGN. You can find him on Twitter @lawoftd.