Streams Charts summarizes the first month of summer on Kick. In June, the platform showed significant growth across all major metrics: total Hours Watched increased by 44%, and the Peak Viewers number grew by 69%. The major reason for it is that several prominent streamers joined the servers, and the biggest viewership boost was caused by (former) Twitch stars.
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The Kick platform is currently struggling to compete with Twitch and YouTube Gaming, but it has comparable stats to such popular platforms as NimoTV or Facebook Gaming. In June, Kick was the undisputed leader in terms of high-profile events. Firstly, popular rapper Drake held a stream on the platform, where he gave away gift subscriptions for several hours, attracting over 105K Peak Viewers.
Popular streamer Adin Ross has set a new record for Peak Viewers among all channels on Kick in June. On June 25, he did another joint stream with Andrew Tate, which attracted almost 190K PV.
In June, several top streamers from other platforms, including three Twitch legends, Ninja, AMOURANTH, and xQc, joined Kick. According to xQc's manager, the Canadian streamer signed a two-year contract worth $70 million, which can be increased to $100 million through bonuses.
Most Popular Categories on Kick in June
The most popular category on Kick in June was Just Chatting, it accumulated 27.7 million Hours Watched, nearly twice as many as the closest follower in the ranking. Worth noting that in May, the category had only 21 million Hours Watched.
In second place of the Top is the Slots & Casino category. In the first month of summer, it accumulated slightly over 15 million Hours Watched, which is 14% more than in May. The GTA RP category rounds out the Top 3, nearly doubling its Hours Watched in a month. This was greatly aided by active broadcasts from drb7h and Buddha.
Fourth and fifth places in the Top are taken by Call of Duty: Warzone 2.0 and Other, Watch Party: they accumulated 3.2 million and 2.6 million Hours Watched, respectively. Compared to May, the growth of these categories was 25-30%.
There are also some changes in the second half of the Top. The most interesting one was that the Fortnite category surpassed Pools, Hot Tubs & Bikinis, although both categories saw significant growth compared to May. The June Top 10 also includes games like Diablo IV, Rocket League, and Valorant. They replaced Old School RuneScape, Just Sleeping, and CS:GO in the rating.
Most Popular Kick Streamers in June
The most popular streamer on Kick in June once again was Adin Ross, his channel accumulated almost 6.3 million Hours Watched in the first month of summer. For comparison, in the previous month, he had 4.12 million Hours Watched.
Roshtein rose from fourth to second place in the ranking, reaching 3.7 million HW. This is twice as many as he had the previous month. In third place of the ranking is Canadian streamer xQc — in just a few streams on the new platform, he amassed almost 3.6 million HW. Interestingly, during his very first stream, xQc received a warning from Kick moderators for violating DMCA rules as he was watching the movie "The Dark Knight" during the stream.
BruceDropEmOff, a popular American Twitch streamer who also started streaming on Kick in June, takes fourth place in the ranking. He broadcast for about a hundred hours and accumulated over 2 million Hours Watched over that time. Slightly behind is WestCOL, a popular streamer from Colombia, who claimed the fifth spot in the Top.
In the second half of the ranking are iceposeidon, drb7h, ac7ionman, brunenger, and destiny. They mainly produced content in the Just Chatting, GTA RP, and Diablo IV categories.
Looking at concurrent viewership, Adin Ross's stream with Andrew Tate reached almost 190K Peak Viewers, securing the streamer undisputed leadership in the monthly ranking. In second place, with a result of 105K Peak Viewers, is rapper Drake, who distributed free subscriptions to platform users. xQc claimes third place, with 86.5K PV tuning in to one of his early streams on Kick.
Most Popular Kick Female Streamers
The most-watched female streamer on Kick in June was AMOURANTH, her channel accumulated 285K HW in less than a month. She mainly streamed in the Just Chatting and Pools, Hot Tubs & Bikinis categories.
Apart from AMOURANTH, only three other female streamers in the Top managed to surpass the 100K HW mark — actuallyangel, thedandangler, and neonjade. They primarily held streams in the Hot Tubs & Bikinis category.
Interestingly, the leader of the May ranking, corinnakopf, did not even make it into the Top 5 in June. Compared to the previous month, she barely streamed and was live for less than seven hours.
Among the female streamers, ellerkive taked the lead by Peak Viewers — during one of her streams, she managed to gather over 51K PV on her channel. For comparison, her closest competitor in the rankings had around 21.5K Peak Viewers.
