Westcol breaks Kick viewership record again with Stream Fighters 4
Colombian streamer Luis “WestCol” Villa is known for his Stream Fighters streams and the live viewer milestones they set, and the content creator has now outdone himself again by breaking his own Kick viewership record.
Westcol is one of the most popular content creators on Kick, streaming primarily in Spanish. The streamer has a massive presence on Kick and is arguably the biggest Spanish-language content creator on the entire platform. While he streams a variety of content including gaming and IRL streams, he’s most famous for his Stream Fighters events. These are broadcast regularly on Kick, and Westcol previously set a record for highest live viewership on Kick with the third iteration of the event.
Westcol has now broken his own record and set an even bigger milestone with the Stream Fighters 4 event.
What was the viewership for Westcol’s Stream Fighters 4?
Stream Fighters 4 reportedly peaked at just under four million concurrent viewers as Westcol secured a new Kick viewership record by breaking his own previous mark.
Westcol’s Stream Fighters events are famous for their massive viewership. Still, fans and other streamers around Kick, including Adin Ross, were surprised that he surpassed one million viewers within just one hour of the start of Stream Fighters 4. The streamer failed to hit the four-million viewer number by just around 400 viewers.
This isn’t to say that his accomplishment is any less impressive, as he is still the Kick streamer with the greatest number of concurrent viewers. Westcol’s Stream Fighters 3 had peaked at 1.4 million concurrent users watching after Stream Fighters 2 had set its own records, and his new Kick viewership record is astounding compared to the previous numbers and what anyone else has been able to do on the platform.
Westcol on YouTube
As significant as these viewership numbers are for Kick, it really isn’t surprising. Fellow Spanish-speaking content creator Ibai “Ibai” Llanos Garatea, who streams on Twitch, recently set a record of close to 11 million concurrent viewers. The Latin American market is obviously hungry for great streaming content, and the market’s top streamers have legions of loyal fans, which is made clear by these Spanish-speaking streamers setting such impressive viewer count marks.
Not all the reaction to Westcol’s newest record has been positive, with some taking to social forums to claim that the content creator only achieved such high viewership through the use of bots. Viewbotting is a serious issue in the streaming industry, on Kick and elsewhere, and it makes some onlookers feel wary of any exceptionally high viewership claims. There isn’t any evidence, however, of Westcol using viewbots to increase his viewership numbers during Stream Fighters 4. What we do have evidence of is that the event was yet another massive success.
Feature image credit: Westcol on Instagram
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