With the esports season back in full swing, February 2026 was filled with channels from this segment that dominated YouTube Gaming. Leagues from Counter-Strike 2 and Battlegrounds Mobile India to Arena of Valor and League of Legends found time on the red platform's livestreaming space.
Moreover, VTubers continued to create top moments and put up entertaining content for viewers, with the table for streamers dominated by names from this genre. Lastly, a prominent name from the Fortnite world made a noteworthy comeback, topping the most popular content creators list.
Top YouTube Gaming organization channels, February 2026
ESL Counter-Strike took the top spot last month with 3.36 million Hours Watched (HW). It covered one of the most anticipated events on the highly competitive CS2 esports calendar, the IEM Krakow 2026, and the Closed Qualifiers for the IEM Atlanta 2026. The Polish event broke records, with the coverage of its Third Place Match and Grand Final ending among this official channel's most popular livestreams.
Second was KRAFTON INDIA ESPORTS, one of the most followed destinations for all things related to BGMI esports. This official channel accrued around 2.36 million HW in February 2026, thanks to live broadcasts of the Battlegrounds Mobile India Series 2026, one of the mobile battle royale shooter's most coveted trophies. What helped was that the channel had streams in multiple languages to cater to the diverse Indian demographic, helping it put up a higher watch time total.
Rounding off the podium was the official PGL channel, which touched 2.30 million watch hours last month. Most of the Romanian esports production company's HW numbers came from one tournament, the PGL Cluj - Napoca 2026, including highlights rerun streams. Just like the IEM Krakow 2026, Team Vitality triumphed here as well to secure its second championship title of the year.
Dozle (ドズル社), a Japanese content group run by five enthusiasts who provide video game commentary, maintained its run of appearances in these monthly rankings. As usual, its main game was Minecraft, with challenges and speedruns forming a bulk of what audiences witnessed. One stream in particular, which saw the participants try to survive in a world filled with TNT mobs, ended up doing a channel record 2.27 million HW.
Garena RoV Thailand, which covers matches for Arena of Valor in the Southeast Asia region, also made this table. The ongoing RoV Pro League 2026 Summer formed a majority of what was livestreamed on the channel last month. It was joined by Brazilian content creation company MADHOUSE TV, which attracted significant Portuguese-speaking audiences for its coverage of tournaments like the CBLOL, IEM Krakow 2026 and PGL Cluj - Napoca 2026.
Three channels covering the various LoL circuits across the globe also found places here: LCK Global, LCK Tiếng Việt and LCK-Carry. They were joined by another ESL channel, ESL Dota 2, where fans of the legendary PC MOBA could follow the action in the DreamLeague Season 28 and its qualifiers.
When moving to the most popular organization channels on YouTube Gaming in February 2026, a lot of names from above make the cut. However, it is livestreams from video gaming showcases that attracted the highest single moment viewership figures, led by Nintendo 公式チャンネル.
The Japanese company's latest Nintendo Direct: Partner Showcase touched 871,772 Peak Viewers (PV) on the official channel, as fans got some massive reveals related to the Nintendo Switch and Switch 2. In fact, its official English channel also made the podium, with its own stream reaching 264,798 viewers.
Another showcase's live broadcast, this time from PlayStation, came in the second spot last month. The official channel peaked at 580,498 viewers for the tech giant's latest State of Play stream, as it was filled with much-hyped announcements for fans of the latest generation of Sony's legendary console, including surprise new reveals, impending demos and updates about upcoming titles from third-party partners.
ポケモン公式YouTubeチャンネル, the official Japanese channel of the legendary Pokémon franchise, came in the fourth spot. Its broadcast of the Pokémon Day 2026 event, which celebrated the revered media franchise's 30th anniversary, hit 229,665 PV. Legacy content and physical merchandise featured prominently during the stream, but the clear highlight was the official reveal of Pokémon Winds and Pokémon Waves, the tenth generation of the mainline series.
We also got appearances from the Official Monster Strike and the Garena Free Fire Indonesia channels. The former did 166,521 PV during its Monst JAMLIT 2026 official esports event cum news stream, while the latter's special broadcast involving massive discounts on store items in celebration of Ramadan peaked at 143,373 viewers.
Top YouTube Gaming streamers, February 2026
VTubers took up a chunk of these top ten rankings, led by TheBurntPeanut, whose content last month accumulated just over 13 million HW. The fast-rising American VTuber's continued focus on Arc Raider content has been paying off handsomely, with his mixture of gameplay marathons and challenges involving other prominent content creators finding a loyal audience base.
Kuzuha Channel is next, some ways behind the top place after putting up 5.8 million HW in February 2026. He was joined in the top three by Kanae Channel, the only entry with over 4 million watch hours, as their content continued to focus on video games native to their homeland of Japan.
However, Grand Theft Auto V was their title of choice, as they focused on VAULTROOM's NEWTOWN role-playing event. This was also the case for a few other Virtual YouTubers in these standings, as the likes of Lauren Iroas and Ex Albio, who made rare appearances in these monthly rankings thanks to this highly discussed event.
Sticking with VTubers, Pekora Ch. and Ririka Kurumizawa continued to emerge among the most-watched names in their genre. Aside from their gameplay of different video games, they also streamed unboxing content and held community broadcasts of highly-publicized events like the above-mentioned PlayStation State of Play.
We also have a new entrant in Phixate, an ARC Raiders professional whose content on the popular multiplayer third-person extraction shooter has seen him shoot up the charts. The American YouTuber and Twitch streamer saw his month-on-month watch time rise by 60% in February 2026, as his rank grind streams and insights on any updates to the title have found him a solid audience.
This leaderboard is rounded off by two well-known faces in Alexandre "Gaules" Borba and Andre "Typical Gamer" Rebelo. The Brazilian icon was busy covering the major esports CS2 events mentioned above, while the Canadian YouTuber star Typical Gamer was busy playing influencer events and checking out the various updates in Fortnite, which helped him finish on top.
In the most popular YouTube Gaming streamers table, a lot of familiar names return, including a few who made the watch time list. Woo "SanD" Sack and Jeong "만만" Man-sik are two new faces in this rankings series, with their YouTube content relatively new as they make the jump to multistreaming alongside their main channels on SOOP Korea and CHZZK.
There was also the star Indian Battlegrounds Mobile India pro JONATHAN GAMING, who returned to livestreaming after a few months away. His YouTube channel peaked at 135,561 viewers during a rank grinding session on February 23, which has so far been his last stream as he prepares to return to the pro scene with GodLike Esports at the ongoing Battlegrounds Mobile India Series 2026.
Brazilian channel Core, which focuses on indie and horror games, finished in the ninth spot. A renowned Poppy Playtime creator in Brazil, his stream of the newly released Chapter 5, titled "Broken Things," in the episodic puzzle survival horror video game attracted a healthy 138,695 PV.
