The 2023 Arena of Valor Premier League broke numerous records and rose to prominence as the biggest competition in the history of the sport.
The $500K prize fund of the Bangkok-based midseason Arena of Valor Premier League 2023 came to an end on July 23. The championship set a number of viewership records. Not only did it turn into the most watched tournament in the discipline’s history, but it also greatly enhanced the game’s performance in terms of watching on TikTok and YouTube.
The AoV Premier League featured the top teams from four national leagues: Vietnam’s Arena of Glory, Taiwan’s Garena Challenger, Thailand’s RoV Pro League, and Indonesia’s AoV Star League. Fourteen clubs in all made it into the tournament after securing a Wild Card spot as well as direct qualification from the national leagues.
Bacon Time (Thailand) lost to Saigon Phantom (Vietnam) 4:1 in the championship match. It’s interesting to remember that the same clubs competed in the AoV Premier League 2022 finals last year, and Bacon Time emerged victorious with the identical score in the championship game.
Statistics on Arena of Valor Premier League 2023 viewership
28.3 million hours were watched of the 2023 Arena of Valor Premier League matches. With 974K Peak Viewers, the tournament’s grand final between Saigon Phantom and Bacon Time was the most watched series. It should be highlighted that the most watched series in the top 5 differed in two ways: first, during the last few days of the tournament, broadcast viewership spiked significantly. In contrast, little more than 300K viewers saw the peak viewers mark that was attained during the group stage.
The representatives of Vietnam and Thailand were among the top three most popular teams in the event. In terms of average viewers, there wasn’t much of a gap between the leaders, but there was a difference between the first and fifth teams of over 100,000 viewers.
AoV Premier League 2023 matches were shown on 40 distinct networks, including community casters. The two most widely used broadcast languages were Thai and Vietnamese. YouTube viewers accounted for more than 72 percent of the Hours Watched during the event.
Arena of Valor Premier League 2023 records
The AoV Premier League 2023 ended up being the most well-liked competition in the discipline’s history. A 4% improvement has been made over the previous Peak Viewers record, which stood for a full year and a half.
Additionally, AoV Premier League 2023 broke other platform records. For instance, YouTube hit 700K Peak Viewers, the highest number for the discipline since 2019 (this number hit 676.2K viewers at the 2019 Arena of Valor World Cup).
Approximately 160K Peak Viewers on TikTok—four times the previous record for the platform—were attained. Language records were also set on the same platform: for Vietnamese (which increased from 41.7K to 124K) and Thai (which increased from 24.7K to 33.2K). With 5.6K to 8K Peak Viewers, the competition also broke the record for Indonesian Facebook broadcasts.
In an effort to compete with Mobile Legends: Bang Bang for SEA viewers, Arena of Valor is expanding well. Discipline has expanded to new platforms, like as TikTok, in order to increase its viewership.
There will be plenty more significant Arena of Valor competitions before the year is up. Arena of Glory Winter 2023 will take place in Vietnam from August to October, coinciding with the Honor of Kings Brazil Championship 2023 in Brazil. Last but not least, the $10 million prize pool Honor of Kings International Championship 2023, the year’s flagship event and season’s last tournament, begins on December 30.
