Video game showcases under spotlight in September 2026's YouTube Gaming rankings

Loading

Multiple video game showcases led the way on YouTube Gaming in September 2026, with Nintendo's livestream even crossing 1 million Peak Viewers. As the esports season nears its climax across multiple titles, competitive video gaming also remained a focus for many organization channels last month, led by familiar series like the MPL and LCK.

Among individual streamers, VTubers were among the busiest, with half of the watch time rankings coming from this genre. Broadcasts of new video game releases also helped content creators reach high single-moment peaks on YouTube Gaming last month.

Top YouTube Gaming organization channels, September 2026

MPL Indonesia returned to the top of the podium for these rankings thanks to MPL Indonesia Season 18. This regional circuit's Regular Season, which will run until October 18, has already put up over 37 million Hours Watched, according to Esports Charts, with the main channel contributing 5.98 million HW to this number last month.

Another Mobile Legends: Bang Bang channel, MPL Philippines, also found a place in this top ten table, thanks to coverage of Season 18 of the namesake regional league. Like its Indonesian counterpart, the Regular Season will run until October, and last month, its livestreams on the official channel racked up over 1.87 million watch hours.

KRAFTON INDIA ESPORTS comes in the second spot with just over 3 million watch hours in September 2026. All of this watch time was generated from broadcasts of the Battlegrounds Mobile India Showdown 2026, part of the circuit that decides Indian representatives for the PUBG Mobile Global Championship 2026.

Official League of Legends channels were not far behind, with as many as three entries that covered the Playoffs of the top-tier Korean league. LCK Live, LCK Global and LCK-Carry put up between 2.8 million and 1.7 million HW to make this top ten list. The LCK 2026 Season ended with Gen.G Esports completing a hat trick of domestic titles, with three other LCK representatives joining it in qualifying for the 2026 World Championship.

Broadcasts of multiple Arena of Valor events also helped two official channels make it here. Liên Quân Mobile eSports-Garena covered matches of the Arena of Glory Winter 2026, Vietnam's top professional league for AoV, to accrue 1.88 million HW. Garena RoV Thailand broadcast games from the country's highest-tier AoV tournament, RoV Pro League 2026 Winter, to post 1.80 million watch hours.

Renowned Japanese Minecraft content group Dozle (ドズル社) also found a place here after accumulating 2.41 million HW through collaboration, challenge and marathon streams. Last but not least is Nintendo 公式チャンネル, the Japanese giant's official channel that racked up 1.72 million watch hours from two showcases: The Legend of Zelda 40th Anniversary Direct and the September 2026 Direct.

Nintendo channels topped the peak concurrent viewership table for September 2026, with the Japanese and English channels reaching 1.66 million and 898.7K Peak Viewers, respectively. The official Minecraft channel also made the podium courtesy of its Minecraft LIVE September 2026 broadcast, which attracted 336K PV and outperformed the spring showcase.

Sticking with showcases, the official PlayStation channel peaked at 265.5K viewers for its livestream of the State of Play September 2026. Genshin Impact ended in the tenth spot with 174.6K PV for its Version 7.1 Special Program.

The official Monster Strike channel also found a place here, as its online anniversary event, MONST FREAK 2026, celebrated the 13th anniversary of the mobile game and hit almost 306K Peak Viewers. Lastly, Free Fire MAX Esports India Official took the ninth position after hitting just over 176K peak concurrent viewers during coverage of the Free Fire MAX India Cup 2026 Fall.

Top YouTube Gaming streamers, September 2026

TheBurntPeanut topped the table after accruing 8.77 million HW last month, showcasing his gameplay of titles like Project Zomboid, Payday 3 and WARDOGS. As always, the popular American VTuber also held plenty of collaborative streams involving fellow online personalities like Bryce "HutchMF" Hutchinson, Tony "LVNDMARK" and Nick "NICKMERCS" Kolcheff.

Four other popular Japanese VTubers also made it here, with Kanae Channel putting up the highest watch time of 2.83 million HW. Their content focused on various games and participating in events hosted by fellow Virtual YouTubers, such as RoseCamp ARK, a three-day team-based survival challenge event hosted by Hololive's Aki Rosenthal.

Prominent esports community casters like Gustavo "BaianoTV" Gomes and Ade "set1awanade" Pamungkas also found top-ten places. Baiano was the main destination for Brazilian fans to watch matches at the ongoing CBLOL 2026 Split 2, while Indonesian sensation Ade ensured coverage of the Regular Season matches of the MPL Indonesia Season 18.

Another popular Indonesian YouTuber, Windah Basudara, spent most of September 2026 trying out games like Grand Theft Auto V, Silent Hill Townfall and Marvel's Wolverine. He ended up among the most-watched and most popular streamers for the latter two, which were new releases in September 2026 and did decent numbers at launch.

Brazilian online star "CEROL" made a rare appearance in these rankings, taking the eighth spot with 1.58 million HW. He was joined by rising Indonesian YouTuber Aldean "DEANKT" Gemilang, the former Vice President of EVOS Esports, who hosted watch parties for and co-streamed smaller events to post 1.5 million watch hours.

A look at the most popular streamers list for September 2026 throws up a lot of familiar names. Darren "IShowSpeed" Watkins Jr topped the table after hitting 162.7K PV for his streams of the recently released EA Sports FC 27, which made a solid start in livestreaming.

One of India's most well-known gaming creators, Sujan "Gyan Gaming" Mistry, made it to the second spot. His collaboration stream with another popular Indian streamer, Ayush "UnGraduate Gamer" Dubey, attracted 123.4K PV.

Alter EGO CEO Delwyn Sukamto maintained his recent run in our rankings. His stream of the MPL Indonesia Season 18 clash between Alter EGO and ONIC Esports peaked at almost 120K viewers. His team won the series 2:0 and currently sits second on the Regular Season table with an 8:3 record.

Brazilian talents Alexandre "Gaules" Borba and Lucas "LuquEt4" Gagliasso were also part of the September 2026 table. The former reached 86.4K PV during his broadcast of the BLAST Open Fall 2026 Quarterfinals involving FURIA, Team Falcons and Team Vitality. Lucas, meanwhile, saw his stream of the Supercopa dos Streamers, an influencer-led event, peak at 80.5K concurrent viewers.

Battle royale esports also got representation from Sanjan "Cr7 HORAA" Gautam and Phạm "BÁC GẤU VLOG" Trung Vàng. Their livestreams of matches from top-tier events in PUBG Mobile and Free Fire helped attract healthy audiences from their homelands of Nepal and Vietnam, respectively.