Dec 26, 2025 20:00:00

Ranking of the most-viewed game commentary YouTubers, Vtubers, and streamers on YouTube in 2025

Streams Charts, which analyzes streaming platforms, has released a ranking of the most popular game streamers on YouTube for 2025.

Top YouTube Gaming Streamers of 2025: IShowSpeed, Pekora Ch., Typical Gamer & More | Streams Charts

https://streamscharts.com/news/top-youtube-gaming-streamers-2025

The top 10 channels by total viewing time per year according to Streams Charts are as follows:

The most popular game commentator in 2025 was American game commentator

IShowSpeed , whose channel's total annual viewing time was 64.1 million hours, an increase of approximately 30% from the previous year. This was due to the fact that the number of commentary hours per episode doubled compared to 2024, as well as his attendance at major sporting events and shows, his active collaborations with other YouTubers, and his expansion beyond gaming to include videos about travel and tour plans. However, the average number of concurrent viewers and peak concurrent viewers decreased compared to the previous year.

Coming in second place is Gaules , a popular Portuguese-speaking newscaster. He covered major esports events held in 2025, and was particularly supportive of Brazilian teams.

Japanese VTubers Usada Pekora came in third, Sakura Miko in fourth, and Kuzuha in fifth. Streams Charts notes that Usada Pekora and Sakura Miko are particularly vying for the title of most popular female streamer of the year.

Coming in sixth place is MixiGaming from Vietnam, who primarily streams Fortnite , but in 2025 he was also notable for playing other games such as ARC Raiders and Roblox . His total viewing time for the year was over 31.5 million hours, a 121% increase over the previous year, the greatest growth among the top 10 streamers.

BaianoTV , ranked 9th, is known as a League of Legends (LoL) caster and is particularly well-known in the Portuguese-speaking LoL community. The channel's total broadcast hours exceeded 2,711 hours, making it the longest of any channel in the top 10.


The ranking of game commentators by average number of viewers is as follows. The first and second places are the same as the ranking by total annual viewing time, and Sakura Miko came in third.

The ranking by peak concurrent viewers is as follows.

Skylar , who came in first, is a former professional player of Mobile Legends: Bang Bang. Since retiring from professional gaming in early 2025, he has been actively working as a game commentator.

Shion Murasaki , ranked 5th, is a VTuber who graduated from Hololive on April 26, 2025, and recorded 355,000 simultaneous viewers at her graduation live show .

Regarding how Stream Charts compiles its data, the company explains, 'This ranking has been updated following an internal methodological review. It is based solely on Stream Charts' internal data and includes all live streaming activity from creators who primarily stream gaming-related content, regardless of the category labels used in individual streams. The rankings in this article reflect data as of December 21, 2025. They will be updated in January once annual data becomes available.'