K-pop platform Universe records 2.6m viewers for first show
The NCSoft fan app will compete with Big Hit’s Weverse with concerts like Uni-Kon, which featured K-pop artists Iz*One, Monsta X and Kang Daniel
News By IQ | 15 February 2021
NCSoft Corporation, the South Korean developer behind the long-running online video game Guild Wars, welcomed more than 2.5 million viewers in 164 countries to its first online concert, staged via new artist-to-fan platform Universe on Valentine’s day.
Universe (no relation to the ticketing service) launched earlier this year as an “all-in-one technology platform” to connect Korean fans with their favourite K-pop and ‘idol’ groups.
The app is seen as a rival to Big Hit Entertainment’s Weverse fan platform, which is home to the likes of BTS, GFriend, CL and TXT. Weverse currently holds the record for the biggest-ever ticketed concert live stream, for BTS’s Bang Bang Con: The Live, which recorded 756,000 concurrent viewers last summer.
The concert featured a multi-view mode that allowed fans…
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