Having experienced troubles with a major bot influx in May 2025, Kick returned to its ways last month. The green platform continued to see steady growth across major viewership metrics as the esports segment took off in June 2025, thanks to a series of prominent events, alongside the culmination of the various splits in the highly popular hybrid football universes of the Kings League and the Baller League.
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Last month, Kick experienced increases in its watch time and average online viewership, although there was a slight dip in its peak live viewership. With much action to cover, especially across the gaming and sports segments, the number of streamers going live in June shot up 26%, with most of them staying online more frequently. As a result, the average number of channels live at any given time continued its upward trajectory, this time jumping by 4%.
There was not much change in the viewership totals of the top segments on the Stake-backed livestreaming service in June 2025. Just Chatting continued to be the dominant category, followed by IRL, Grand Theft Auto, and Slots & Casino, as all but the last name saw green in terms of month-on-month viewership changes.
Things were much more interesting down the table, with Counter-Strike 2 and Old School RuneScape enjoying big spikes in watch time compared to May 2025. The massively multiplayer online role-playing game was the biggest mover as it hosted the ten-day Deadman Allstars Season 2 tournament. It witnessed seasoned PvP content creators like odablock and Adam "b0aty" Lyne come together with their teams and battle rival teams to claim the ultimate victory.
Japanese sensation korekore_ch continued his rise within the Kick ranks by posting 6.32 million Hours Watched (HW). This growth has come on the back of a unique format that concentrates on "dark news," where he addresses real-time social media controversies, offers advice live on-air, and assists viewers in resolving disputes during his broadcasts.
On the back of his increased activity in Old School RuneScape, odablock enjoyed a 106% improvement in his monthly watch time, helping him climb to fifth among the most-watched streamers in June 2025. The Latin American trio of Steven "rdjavi" Santos, David "davooxeneize" Quint, and Fernando "westcol" Alvarez also saw green in their HW figures last month. Westcol even held a presentation livestream for the next edition of his hit influencer boxing event, Stream Fighters 4.
After finishing third in May 2025, zullyy_cs continued her ascent by topping the female table after averaging almost 13,000 viewers per livestream. She is accompanied in the 10,000 Average Viewers (AV) by Alondra "Alondrissa" Michelle, the Puerto Rican streamer who topped the May 2025 list.
Peru's prominence among female content creators was reiterated in the fact that Milenka "milenkanolasco" Nolasco and Sandra "sandraskins" made it three names from the nation in the top five. Most top female creators on Kick continue coming from Spain and Spanish-speaking countries in South America, but America had a sole representative in the form of Kimberlee" kimmee," a renowned IRL creator.
