La página oficial de Eurovisión en Instagram acaba de publicar esto hoy mismo. Qué casualidad! Justo cuando España acaba de ganar el Mundial. Os lo dije. Es un factor externo influyente a tener en cuenta.
🇲🇹 INSIGHT: How many of Malta's YouTube views are real?
With over 19 million views across all official uploads of Aidan's "Bella", Malta boasts the second-most watched #Eurovision 2026 entry on YouTube, only after Italy.
It's no secret that Malta conducted an extensive promotional campaign this year, which included billboards in Lithuania and Hungary, buses plastered with "Vote for Malta" ads in Romania and Cyprus, and, of course, YouTube commercials featuring parts of the song's video and performances. In the first 11 days of May, these YouTube ads drove "Bella"'s total views from 2.3 million to 13.9 million.
Both videos of the semi-final and the grand final's live performances uploaded on the Eurovision's YouTube channel showed non-organic trajectories: both had extremely high views in the first few hours, despite a relatively low number of likes and comments, and then completely stalled. The grand final live performance has been stuck at 1.5 million views for six hours as this post is being written. Yet, it drew less likes and comments than Croatia's "Andromeda", the 19th-most watched grand final performance, currently with 240,000 views.
Of "Bella"'s 19 million YouTube views, only roughly 3.5 million, less than one in five, can be considered genuine according to the tracking model we've been using.
Malta's unprecedented promotional campaign resulted in 8 points from the televote in the Eurovision final--placing it in the bottom five from the public's point of view.
This isn't the first time Malta has been found using tricks to inflate their winning chances: in 2021, they were reported by French website Pure Charts to have spent up to €650,000 on overhyping their entry by betting on it and making it the bookies' favorite throughout the build-up to the event.
In a unique moment of partiality from this account, we can only hope that no public money coming from Maltese taxpayers was spent on this.
🇲🇩 TRM has published a statement after the Moldovan jury gave 3 points to Romania during last night's Eurovision Grand Final.
"The jury that awarded the score at Eurovision does not represent the position of [Teleradio Moldova]."
O sea, que la UER e Israel idearon un complot para que Suecia fuese tankeada SOLO porque Felicia se posicionó en contra de la participación de Israel??? 😭😭😭 Alguna teoría conspiranoica más??? Qué vergüenza dais.
If the EBU doesn’t see this or what happens every year with Greece, Cyprus and Serbia’s JURIES as a problem, then I don’t know what else needs to happen for them to realise. What a shame.
Lo advertí en noviembre de 2025 ante la Comisión de Control y Martin Green lo confirma: Eurovisión abriría la puerta a Rusia en plena invasión de Ucrania solo para justificar su doble rasero con Israel.
Un insulto flagrante a los valores europeos.
Confiamos en que @EBU_HQ rechace formalmente estas declaraciones, que destruyen la imagen del concurso y dificultan el regreso de España. Es hora de un tiempo nuevo en #Eurovisión.
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I warned Parliament in November 2025, and Martin Green confirms it: Eurovision would welcome Russia back mid-invasion just to justify its double standards with Israel.
A blatant insult to European values.
We trust @EBU_HQ will formally reject these statements, which destroy the image of the contest and hinder Spain's return. It is time for a new era in #Eurovision.
Qué pena que Australia no pudiese organizar un festival en caso de ganar… A mí como europeo no me importaría hacer un sacrificio y verlo en otro horario distinto, pero entiendo que se perdería dinero y habría dificultades técnicas, etc., etc.