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Established in 2014, MOONTON is a global video game company dedicated to gaming development, publication and esports. With more than 1600 employees worldwide, the company operates offices in Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Hong Kong and mainland China.

We have successfully launched a number of high-profile mobile games globally and has built long-term relationships with governments and esports organizations in more than 30 countries around the world. Mobile Legends: Bang Bang is its current star game and the leading mobile multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) game worldwide.

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Our Journey

2023

Esports Charts, a third-party authoritative data platform, released multiple global esports rankings for 2022 in January. MLBB achieved the highest peak viewership and hours watched out of all mobile events, claiming seven spots in the Global Mobile Esports Peak Concurrent Users (PCU) Chart.
On January 15th, 2013, the 4th MLBB World Championship concluded in Jakarta, Indonesia. The event has achieved an unprecedented viewership record with 79.68 million hours of total viewing time and a PCU (Peak Concurrent Users) of 4.26 million, an impressive increase of 33.5% compared to M3. This marks a new PCU record for MLBB esports events and places it among the top three global esports tournaments.

2022

In January 2022, the first Mobile Legends: Bang Bang World Women's Invitational was kicked off with a PCU of 392,000, making it one of the most watched women's esports events of all time.
In May 2022, the curtain descends on the SEA Games 31, with MLBB ratings ranking 1st of all esports titles.

2021

In 2021, Mobile Legends: Adventure entered Japan and South Korea, both topping the Apple and Google free game charts.
In January 2021, the second Mobile Legends: Bang Bang Global Championship (M2) was successfully held in Singapore, with a peak audience of 3.08 million and a cumulative total of over 130 million viewers, making it one of the most influential esports event in the world.
In March 2021, Mobile Legends: Bang Bang was once again selected as a medal event for SEA.
In March 2021, Moonton and ByteDance reached a strategic acquisition agreement, after which Yuan Jing stayed on as CEO while Moonton maintained independent operations.
In July 2021, MPL was launched in Brazil and Cambodia.
In August 2021, the total registered accounts of Mobile Legends: Bang Bang exceeded 1 billion.
In August 2021, Legends of Dawn - The Sacred Stone, the first animation series of Mobile Legends: Bang Bang was aired on WeTV (online platform), NET TV (Indonesia), ABS CBN (Philippines), Media Prima (Malaysia) and many other platforms around the world, with a cumulative total of 360 million views in its first run.
In October 2021, the Philippines branch was established.
In October 2021, M2 was named the Best Esport Event of the Year at Gamescom Asia 2021 in Singapore.
In October 2021, the peak concurrent users (PCU) for MPL Season 8 in Indonesia reached 2.4 million, breaking the MPL viewing record and winning the 3rd place in the PCU rankings of the global professional esports event.
In November 2021, Mobile Legends: Bang Bang LIGA LATAM was successfully held, featuring eight teams from Brazil, Peru, Argentina, Chile and Bolivia.
In December 2021, M3 was successfully held in Singapore. The tournament’s total viewing time exceeded 60 million hours, a 49% increase over M2, with a peak PCU of 3.19 million. This new record made Mobile Legends: Bang Bang the 3rd highest-rated mobile esports event in the world.
In 2021, Mobile Legends: Bang Bang ranked 1st in the global mobile esports viewing time chart with 386 million viewing hours, meaning that Mobile Legends: Bang Bang had become one of the most popular gaming events in the world.

2020

In October 2020, Mobile Legends: Bang Bang attained over 1 billion cumulative downloads, with peak monthly active users exceeding 100 million.

2019

In February 2019, MPL was launched in Myanmar.
In August 2019, Mobile Legends: Adventure was launched worldwide (Japan, Korea and China's mainland excluded)and was listed in Google Play 2019 Best of the Year - Best Casual Games.
In November 2019, the first Mobile Legends: Bang Bang Global Championship (M1) was successfully held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, featuring 16 competing teams from 14 countries, a cumulative total of over 40 million viewers and nearly 10 million hours of total viewing time.
In December 2019, Mobile Legends: Bang Bang officially became a medal sport of Southeast Asian Games.

2018

In March 2018, MPL was launched in the Philippines.
In April 2018, the total registered accounts of Mobile Legends: Bang Bang exceeded 200 million.
In May 2018, Singapore branch was established.
In October 2018, Indonesia branch was established.

2017

In May 2017, Moonton held the first Mobile Legends: Bang Bang offline esports tournament in Indonesia.
In September 2017, Moonton held the first MSC (MLBB Southeast Asia Cup).
In November 2017, Moonton launched MPL, a professional esports league based on the game Mobile Legends: Bang Bang, in Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore.

2016

In November 2016, Mobile Legends: Bang Bang was launched worldwide and was listed in Google Play 2016 Best of the Year - Best Competitive Games.

2015

In April 2015, Magic Rush: Heroes was launched worldwide (China's mainland excluded) and was listed in Google Play 2015 Best of the Year - Best Strategy Games.
In December 2015, Magic Wars went live globally.

2014

In July 2014, MOONTON was born.

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Honors & Awards

NimoTV Gala 2021 Awards

MOONTON 丨 NimoTV, Strategic Partner 2021

Kotak Game Awards

Best indonesia esports mobile game 2017

Youtube Partner Day 2022

MPL ID 丨 Most Watched Live Event - Gaming Category

Indonesia Gaming Award

MLBB丨The Most Favorite Game of The Year 2019

Indonesia Gaming Award

MPL ID 丨 The Most Favorite Tournament of The Year 2019

Indonesian Esports Awards 2020

MPL ID 丨 Most Favorite Esports Tournamen by Game Publisher

SensorTower

MLBB 丨 Best MOBA overseas game

Dunia Games Awards

MOONTON 丨 Game Publisher of the year 2021

Youtube

MPL PH 丨 Gold Creator Award Play Button

GGWP Reader Awards

MPL ID 丨 Esports organization of the year

Dunia Games Awards

MPL ID 丨 Publisher Tournament of the year 2021

Dunia Games Awards

MLBB 丨 Game of the Year 2021

Indonesian Esports Awards 2021

MLBB 丨 The Most Favorite Esports Tournamen by Game Publisher

GamingonPhone Game Awards 2021

MLBB 丨 Best Mobile Esports Game Of The Year

Kotak Game Award 2021

MPL ID 丨 Best Turnamen Esports Nasional di Indonesia

Kotak Game Award 2021

MLBB 丨 Best Esport Mobile Game in Indonesia

Kotak Game Award 2021

MLBB 丨 Mobile Game of the Year in Indonesia

Telekomsi Awards

MPL ID 丨 Favourite Event Esports Publisher

Social Responsibility

MLBB players from Dhaka University in Bangladesh are enthusiastic about public welfare activities

MLBB players from Dhaka University in Bangladesh are enthusiastic about public welfare activities

On May 22, 2022, Dhaka University in Bangladesh held a small gathering of about 40 people. The organizers were college students from Dhaka University. They were enthusiastic about public welfare activities and donated MOONTON cultural shirts to donate food to local children and the poor.
WWF-Philippines teams up with MPL-Philippines to achieve Victory for Nature

WWF-Philippines teams up with MPL-Philippines to achieve Victory for Nature

From January to June 2021, the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) Philippines and MPL-PH cooperated for the first time to promote MPL-PH S7 through advocacy. In addition to the team name, 10 teams also used some threatened wild Animal species named to raise awareness for wildlife conservation, reverse accelerating environmental degradation in the Philippines.
2019 MLBB Singapore Christmas Charity Showmatch

2019 MLBB Singapore Christmas Charity Showmatch

In December 2019, MLBB launched the first MLBB official e-sports charity event in Singapore. This charity event took the e-sports entertainment event as an opportunity and invited more than 10 top KOLs in Singapore, including Jianhao Tan and Skywee. The donation organization is Club Rainbow, a well-known local charity in Singapore; the organization aims to help children with heart disease or their families, so as to help them solve the problems they encounter in the treatment of diseases or in daily life.