Kick in October 2025: Stream Fighters 4 breaks records
Coming to the final quarter of the year, Kick continued its trend of record-breaking viewership for 2025. The rapidly-expanding platform benefitted from a major, community event, which helped Kick to set a brand-new peak concurrent viewers record. On top of this, the platform also maintained strong viewership across the remainder of the month.
2025 has seen Kick expand across the global, capturing footholds in emerging and growing livestreaming markets like those from Latin America or the MENA region. Crucially, not only has the platform rocketed up the charts, but it has been able to sustain this strong performance month-on-month, proving how the platform is fully integrating itself into the industry as a major player.
In October 2025, Kick recorded more than 518.4M Hours Watched, slightly increasing its overall watch time compared to last month. There was a slight decrease in Peak and Active Channels, however, it’s important to note these metrics are calming down from record heights in the past couple of months. Another minor record, Games Streamed also hit a new high at 5,380 games.
The platform’s biggest gain came with its record-breaking peak viewership of 4.6M, which was reached during Luis “WestCol” Villa’s Stream Fighters 4 event. The Colombian streamer held the fourth iteration of his boxing series, which features other content creators, personalities, and celebrities. It was a major success, and its viewership essentially single-handedly boosted Kick to a new platform peak.
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Turning towards the most-watched genres on Kick, we can take a dive into the kind of content which is fuelling the site’s rise through the industry. Sitting at the top with over 178M HW, the IRL category ranked as the new most-watched genre for Kick.
Thanks to a boost from WestCol’s Stream Fighter 4 and other special events, the IRL genre was able to overtake Action to claim the top spot on Kick for October. Aside from this anomaly, the other top categories remained the same, with the leaderboard very similar to previous months.
On the lower end of the ranking, MOBA broadcasts increased enough in October to nab the final spot of the leaderboard; this coincided with the Mobile genre slipping from the ranking following a drop in viewership. The proportionally biggest winner of the quarter, Gambling streams increased their viewership by over 48% to climb to seventh on the leaderboard.
Taking a closer look at the content on Kick, the top categories for the month reflect some of the trends observed in genres. Special Events enjoyed a particularly strong October — outshining IRL and Just Chatting which grew in viewership slightly, and the Slots & Casino category also jumped up into the podium places.
With the League of Legends World Championship ongoing, the MOBA title shot up the rankings for October. League of Legends earned 21.2M HW to become the most-watched game of the month, excluding GTA V which tops the gaming rankings as always for Kick. A new release, EA Sports FC 26 also received a warm welcome on Kick, becoming one of the platform's top games just a month after release.
Of course, Colombia’s WestCol was Kick’s top streamer for October, with over 17.76M Hours Watched he blew the competition out of the water — in terms of Peak Viewer the gap was even larger, compared to WestCol’s 4M PV the next-best streamer earned only 305K PV. For the entire month, 77% of WestCol’s viewership came from his single Stream Fighters 4 broadcast, a testament to the series’ popularity and cultural impact.
Compared to the previous month, the top streamers on Kick remained stable, excluding WestCol’s star performance and Mofareh “drb7h” Al Asiri returning to the rankings after a streaming break in September. Brazil’s Gustavo “BaianoTV” Gomes is a LoL co-caster and was also highly-watched during the month thanks to the ongoing LoL Worlds; compared to September, his viewership increased by 29%. Kick’s top streamers continued to span its wide range of audiences from the Americas, MENA, and Asia.
Turning toward the most popular female Kick streamers of the month, Alondra “alondrissa” Michelle reclaimed her top spot as the premier female creator on the site with 16K Average Viewers. The runner-up in average viewership, Milenka “milenkanolasco” Nolasco, recorded the strongest peak viewership for the month, with just shy of 53K PV for a special surprise stream.
Nov 04, 2025•
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