How Much of Kick Is Gambling? One Week vs Twitch

Gambling took 7.2% of all viewing on Kick in the week of September 26 to October 2, 2026. Almost all of it was the Slots category, at 7.1%, with Poker adding 0.1%. We measured Twitch the same week with the same method, and its gambling categories (Slots, Poker and Virtual Casino) took 1.7% of viewing, with Slots alone at 1.2%. On those readings Kick's gambling share is 4.2 times Twitch's. Our Twitch sampler sees gambling streams less completely than it sees the rest of Twitch, so the true Twitch figure is probably somewhat higher and the gap somewhat smaller: adjusted for that, Twitch's figure is about 1.9% and Kick's share is about 3.8 times Twitch's.

The numbers come from PlayerSells' own live samplers, which walk Kick's whole live directory and read the top streams in every Twitch category several times an hour. Over the week that covered 201,070 Kick channels and 385,643 Twitch channels. Kick's gambling share is not a new question, and streaming analytics firms such as Streams Charts already track Kick's categories, Slots included. What this page adds is both platforms measured with one method in the same week, with the sampling limits written out next to the numbers.

How much of Kick's viewing is gambling?

About one minute in every fourteen watched on Kick went to gambling streams in the week of September 26 to October 2, 2026. Slots took 7.1% of all Kick viewing, Poker 0.09% and Sports Betting a further 0.004%, for a gambling total of 7.2%. That made Slots the fifth largest category on Kick that week, behind Just Chatting (19.8%), IRL (14.9%), Grand Theft Auto V (14.6%) and Minecraft (8.4%), and ahead of EA Sports FC 27 (4.2%). The share is measured as concurrent viewers: we took the viewer count of every live Kick channel at each sweep, kept one reading per channel per 15-minute block, and divided the viewers in each category by the viewers on the whole platform. The daily share ranged from 5.9% on October 2 to 8.7% on October 1.

How does that compare with Twitch in the same week?

Twitch's gambling categories took 1.7% of viewing in the same week, about a quarter of Kick's 7.2% on our sampler's readings. Slots alone was 1.2% of Twitch viewing against 7.1% on Kick, a factor of 6.0. Twitch splits gambling across several categories, so the comparison below counts Slots, Poker and Virtual Casino on Twitch, and Slots, Poker and Sports Betting on Kick. Adding every other Twitch category with casino, slot or poker in its name moves Twitch only from 1.70% to 1.72%.

Share of concurrent viewers, September 26 to October 2, 2026 (UTC), one reading per channel per 15-minute block. Twitch figures are from a sampler that reads the top streams in each category; see below for how that affects them.

Our Twitch reading is probably too low, not too high. The Twitch sampler reads at most 30 streams per category, so in big categories such as Just Chatting it misses the long tail of smaller streams. Gambling categories never reached that limit: in 652 reads during the week, Slots returned a median of 24 streams and never 30, and Virtual Casino a median of 12. Even so, they were not read completely. On October 3, 2026 we compared the sampler with Twitch's own category viewer counters eight times between 14:35 and 15:43 UTC. The sampler held about 62% of the viewers Twitch's counters showed in Slots, Virtual Casino and Poker, against about 70% in Twitch's other largest categories. We do not know why Twitch's directory returns fewer gambling viewers than its counters show. The same check on Kick found the sampler holding about 97% of Kick's own Slots and Poker counters and 95% to 97% of its other categories, so the Kick figure needs no adjustment.

Scaling Twitch's gambling share by that gap (about 70% against 62%) lifts it from 1.7% to about 1.9%, and Kick's lead falls from 4.2 times to about 3.8 times. The correction rests on one afternoon of checks, so we quote the range rather than either end. The platforms' own counters point the same way: at the moments we checked, Twitch's counters put gambling at no more than 1.1% to 1.6% of the viewing in its 100 largest categories, while Kick's put it at 7.3% to 8.5% of all Kick viewing.

How concentrated is gambling streaming on Kick?

Kick gambling is spread across thousands of channels but led by a small group. 5,903 Kick channels streamed in the Slots category at least once during the week. The 10 most watched of them took 17.9% of all Slots viewing, the top 50 took 34.9% and the top 100 took 44.1%. So more than half of Kick's Slots viewing went to channels outside the top 100. On Twitch, 689 channels appeared in Slots during the same week, although our Twitch sampler reads only the top streams of a category at a time and will have missed some smaller ones. We do not name channels here; the figures are totals.

What else do Kick viewers watch?

Just Chatting, IRL and Grand Theft Auto V together took almost half of Kick's viewing in the measured week. The table lists Kick's ten largest categories with the number of channels that streamed in each. IRL is the most concentrated of the large categories: 6,781 channels shared 14.9% of viewing, while Just Chatting spread 19.8% across 64,561 channels. Kings League, a seven-a-side football league, took 2.4% of viewing with only 169 channels.

Kick, September 26 to October 2, 2026. Channel counts use the category a channel was in during each 15-minute block, so a channel that switched categories counts in each.

Most Kick streams have almost no audience. In 54.1% of all channel and 15-minute readings during the week, the stream had two viewers or fewer. That long tail is why the share of viewing is a better measure of what Kick is used for than the share of channels: a category can have thousands of streamers and still be a small part of what people watch.

How big is Kick next to Twitch at the same rank?

On our samplers, Kick has roughly half as many channels as Twitch at every audience level above 100 viewers, and its channels are smaller at the same rank. To compare like with like, we ranked every channel on each platform by its average concurrent viewers while live over the 30 days to October 3, 2026, counting channels that were live at least once in the last 10 days. Twitch had 19,937 channels averaging 100 or more viewers and Kick 10,835. Above 1,000 viewers the counts were 2,286 and 1,284. The 1,000th largest Twitch channel averaged 1,894 viewers and the 1,000th largest Kick channel 1,252; at rank 20,000 the figures were 99 and 28. So a 7.2% share on Kick is a share of a smaller audience than the same percentage would be on Twitch. Two sampler effects pull the Twitch column in opposite directions: a channel outside the top 30 of its category is never read, which makes the Twitch counts floors, while a Twitch channel's average is taken only over the times it was read, which can flatter small channels. Treat the deep ranks as approximate. These figures use a 30-day window and are not directly comparable with the two-day window in our September comparison of the two platforms.

How we measured

The week. September 26, 2026 00:00 UTC to October 3, 2026 00:00 UTC: seven full days. We exported the category totals for this week on October 3, because raw readings are kept for about eight days.

Kick. Our Kick sampler walks Kick's whole public live directory, page by page, and records each live channel's viewer count and category. It starts a new walk as soon as the previous one ends, but a given stream is not caught on every walk: on October 1 the median gap between two readings of the same live stream was 18.5 minutes, and one gap in ten was longer than 43.7 minutes. Over the week it recorded 201,070 channels.

Twitch. Twitch's public interface does not let a crawler page through its full live list, so our Twitch sampler reads every category on its list every 15 minutes (more than 1,000 categories had live streams in a typical sweep) and records up to 30 streams per category, the most watched first. Over the week it recorded 385,643 channels.

Share of viewing. For both platforms we kept one reading per channel per 15-minute block (the average if there were several), summed viewers by category, and divided by the platform total. A share calculated this way is the share of concurrent viewers across the week. As a check, we also weighted each Kick reading by the time until the same stream's next reading, capped at 30 minutes. That puts gambling at 7.5% of Kick viewing and Slots at 7.4%, slightly above the block-based figures we quote.

Spot check. On October 3, 2026, between 14:35 and 15:43 UTC, we read each platform's own category viewer counters eight times and compared them with the sampler's nearest reading. For Kick, five of the eight checks had complete sampler data to compare.

Gambling categories. Kick: Slots & Casino, Poker and Sports Betting. Twitch: Slots, Poker and Virtual Casino. Category names are the platforms' own.

Why don't we publish total hours watched?

Because our samplers measure shares more reliably than totals. Neither sampler sees every channel every 15 minutes. On Kick the median gap between two readings of the same stream was 18.5 minutes on October 1, and small streams are caught less often: streams averaging 1,000 or more viewers had a reading in 83% of their 15-minute blocks, streams averaging under 10 viewers in 58%. On Twitch we see only the top 30 streams of each category at a time. An hours figure built from these readings would understate Kick's real watch time by an amount that varies with channel size and time of day, and the Twitch figure would miss everything below the top 30 streams of each category. A share does not have that problem to the same degree, because the same sampler produces both the category and the platform total. That is why this page reports percentages and ratios and no absolute hours.

Limitations

• One week. The figures describe September 26 to October 2, 2026. Gambling viewing moves with events and with individual streamers, so another week will read differently.
• The Twitch figure is a sampler reading. It is not an upper limit. Our spot check suggests it understates Twitch's gambling share by roughly a tenth, which is why we give a range for the ratio (3.8x to 4.2x) rather than a single number. The spot check covers one Saturday afternoon.
• Category labels are the streamers' own. A slots stream filed under Just Chatting counts as Just Chatting. If gambling streams hide in other categories, both platforms' gambling shares are understated.
• Viewer counts are what the platforms display. We cannot separate real viewers from embedded players, bots or inflated counts on either platform.
• No hours watched. See the section above.

Frequently asked questions

What percentage of Kick viewership is gambling?

7.2% of concurrent viewing on Kick went to gambling categories in the week of September 26 to October 2, 2026: 7.1% to Slots & Casino, 0.09% to Poker and a trace to Sports Betting. The measurement covered 201,070 Kick channels.

Does Kick have more gambling than Twitch?

Yes. In the same week, gambling categories took 1.7% of Twitch viewing on our sampler, against 7.2% on Kick. That is 4.2 times Twitch's share on our sampler's raw readings, or about 3.8 times after adjusting for gambling viewers the Twitch sampler misses.

How many Kick streamers stream slots?

5,903 Kick channels streamed in the Slots category at least once between September 26 and October 2, 2026. The ten most watched took 17.9% of Slots viewing and the top 100 took 44.1%.

Is Slots the biggest category on Kick?

No. In the measured week Slots was fifth, with 7.1% of viewing, behind Just Chatting (19.8%), IRL (14.9%), Grand Theft Auto V (14.6%) and Minecraft (8.4%).

For channel-level numbers, see our Kick channel rankings and Twitch channel rankings, which are built from the same samplers. Our earlier Kick versus Twitch comparison looks at audience size rank by rank.