Streamer Awards 2026 Nominees: 4.5% of Watch Time on Kick
The 2026 Streamer Awards are the first open to Kick streamers. Of 110 nominees, 12 stream on Kick, which has 4.5% of their watch time.
The 2026 Streamer Awards are the first edition whose rules open nominations to Kick streamers, but the nominees mostly stream on Twitch. Of the 110 streamers nominated in the 28 categories that name one streamer each, 12 were live on Kick for at least an hour between September 28 and November 2, 2026, and 5 drew more viewing on Kick than on Twitch. Kick carried 4.5% of the nominees' combined Kick and Twitch watch time: 4,920,461 of 109,347,940 hours. Among the 1,000 most-watched English-language channels on the two platforms over the same five weeks, Kick's share was 21.9%.
The numbers come from PlayerSells' own samplers, which read Kick's whole live directory and the top 30 live streams of every Twitch category every 15 minutes. The ceremony is on November 12, 2026; nominations were announced on October 16, and Wikipedia's page on the show states: "For the first time, Kick streamers are eligible for nominations." Streamer.Guide (Mira Okonkwo, October 18, 2026) wrote the same: "Kick streamers are eligible for the first time". Streamers who are also live on Kick have been nominated before: Wikipedia's 2025 nominee list includes xQc and Kaysan. What changed this year is the eligibility rule. YouTube, where several nominees stream, is not covered by our samplers, so this is a Kick and Twitch measurement only.
How many Streamer Awards 2026 nominees stream on Kick?
12 of 110, or 10.9%. Four streamed only on Kick and 8 on both platforms; 88 (80.0%) were live on Twitch and not on Kick. 17 nominees have a Kick channel with Kick's verified badge, but 5 of those (BruceDropEmOff, Topson, Yourrage, cooksux, staryuuki) were not live on it for an hour in the five weeks. 10 nominees were not live for an hour on either platform in the five weeks or could not be matched to a channel; some of them stream on YouTube, which we do not measure.
| Where the nominee streamed | Nominees | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Twitch only | 88 | 80.0% |
| Both Kick and Twitch | 8 | 7.3% |
| Kick only | 4 | 3.6% |
| Neither (not observed on either) | 10 | 9.1% |
110 unique nominees in the 28 single-streamer categories of the 2026 Streamer Awards. "Streamed" means at least one hour live on that platform between September 28 and November 2, 2026 (October 5 not covered). Kick channels count only when verified.
Which nominees stream mainly on Kick?
Five: willito, Odablock, Kanel Joseph, Kaysan, Peller. Together they account for 80.8% of all the Kick watch time in the nominee group. Two of them are in Best Reality Streamer, where Kick has 32.4% of the category's watch time, the highest of any category. Odablock and Kaysan both have Twitch channels but were live there for 4.8 and 0.2 hours in five weeks. The largest single Kick nominee by watch time is willito; without that channel, Kick's share of the nominee group drops to 3.4%.
| Nominee | Category | Hours live on Kick | Hours live on Twitch | Kick hours watched |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| willito | Best Reality Streamer | 74.0 | 0.0 | 1,243,134 |
| Odablock | Best MMORPG Streamer | 107.0 | 4.8 | 1,215,575 |
| Kanel Joseph | Best Reality Streamer | 190.2 | 0.0 | 977,891 |
| Kaysan | Best Role-Play Streamer | 88.8 | 0.2 | 478,194 |
| Peller | Best International Streamer | 6.2 | 0.0 | 59,871 |
Nominees with more Kick than Twitch watch time, September 28 to November 2, 2026. Hours watched = the viewer count at each 15-minute reading, times a quarter hour. All Kick channels carry Kick's verified badge.
How does that compare with Kick's share of big English-language channels?
The nominee group leans much further toward Twitch than the most-watched channels do. Ranking every Kick and Twitch channel by watch time over the same five weeks and keeping the English-language ones, Kick had 223 of the top 1,000 channels and 21.9% of their watch time, about five times the nominees' 4.5%. Without the language filter Kick's share is 38.9%, because Kick's largest audiences are in other languages: among the top 1,000 channels, Kick has 78.7% of Spanish-language watch time, 79.0% of Portuguese and 100.0% of Arabic, against 22.0% of English. None of the ten most-watched English-language Kick channels is a nominee in the single-streamer categories; two of them, N3on and LosPollosTV, appear only in collab or marathon categories.
| Group, September 28 to November 2, 2026 | Kick channels (English) | Kick share of watch time, English channels | Kick share, all languages |
|---|---|---|---|
| 100 most-watched channels | 25 of 100 | 21.3% | 40.9% |
| 500 most-watched channels | 116 of 500 | 21.9% | 39.7% |
| 1,000 most-watched channels | 223 of 1,000 | 21.9% | 38.9% |
| Streamer Awards 2026 nominees (110) | 12 active on Kick | 4.5% | 4.5% |
Channels ranked by five-week watch time on their own platform; a streamer live on both counts once per platform. Language is the channel's language setting in each platform's directory. Of 1,471,596 channels observed, 58 nominee channels are in the overall top 1,000.
Which award categories have the most Kick viewing?
Reality, role-play and MMORPG. In 17 of the 28 single-streamer categories, no nominee was live on Kick at all, including Streamer of the Year, Best Variety Streamer, Best Fortnite Streamer and Rising Star. The 11 categories with any Kick viewing are below.
| Category | Nominees | Active on Kick | Mainly on Kick | Kick share of watch time |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Best Reality Streamer | 5 | 2 | 2 | 32.4% |
| Best Role-Play Streamer | 4 | 2 | 1 | 23.4% |
| Best MMORPG Streamer | 4 | 1 | 1 | 17.4% |
| Best International Streamer | 5 | 2 | 1 | 7.5% |
| Best VTuber | 5 | 1 | 0 | 6.1% |
| Best FPS Streamer | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4.3% |
| Best Music Streamer | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3.3% |
| Gamer of the Year | 5 | 1 | 0 | 3.3% |
| Best IRL Streamer | 5 | 1 | 0 | 2.8% |
| Best Sports Streamer | 4 | 1 | 0 | 2.1% |
| Hidden Gem Award | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0.8% |
September 28 to November 2, 2026. A nominee in several categories counts in each. Categories with 0.0% are omitted.
Do the Streamer of the Year nominees stream on Kick?
No. All five Streamer of the Year nominees were live on Twitch and none on Kick in the five weeks. Jynxzi had the most Twitch watch time of the five, 9,453,420 hours. IShowSpeed was live on Twitch for 23.5 hours; IShowSpeed's YouTube streams are outside this measurement.
| Nominee | Hours live on Twitch | Twitch hours watched | Hours live on Kick |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jynxzi | 334.8 | 9,453,420 | 0.0 |
| Caseoh | 77.8 | 4,196,260 | 0.0 |
| Stable Ronaldo | 141.2 | 4,184,146 | 0.0 |
| Joe Bartolozzi | 90.2 | 1,221,668 | 0.0 |
| IShowSpeed | 23.5 | 329,533 | 0.0 |
Streamer of the Year nominees, September 28 to November 2, 2026. Twitch hours are hours in which the stream was among the top 30 of its category.
Do any nominees simulcast on Kick and Twitch?
Six do, by the definition from our simulcasting series (live on both in the same 15-minute block for at least an hour a week, in the same category). Burn and TheBurntPeanut simulcast in all five weeks. For the simulcasting nominees Kick is usually the smaller side: TheBurntPeanut drew 7.6% of combined watch time on Kick.
| Nominee | Weeks simulcasting | Kick share of the nominee's watch time |
|---|---|---|
| Burn | 5 of 5 | 4.5% |
| TheBurntPeanut | 5 of 5 | 7.6% |
| cnotbusch | 4 of 5 | 1.8% |
| DDG | 2 of 5 | 12.6% |
| Qoqsik | 2 of 5 | 13.9% |
| Odablock | 1 of 5 | 98.9% |
Five weeks from September 28 to November 2, 2026. Kick share covers all Kick and Twitch watch time of the nominee, not only simulcast hours.
Did anything change after the nominations were announced?
Not in the data. Nominations were announced on October 16. The number of nominees live on Kick for at least an hour stayed between 9 and 11 a week, and Kick's share of the group's watch time moved between 2.1% and 6.8% without a trend.
| Week (2026) | Nominees live on Kick 1 hour or more | Kick share of nominee watch time |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 28 to Oct 4 | 10 | 4.7% |
| Oct 6 to Oct 12 | 9 | 2.1% |
| Oct 13 to Oct 19 | 11 | 4.8% |
| Oct 20 to Oct 26 | 9 | 6.8% |
| Oct 27 to Nov 2 | 9 | 4.0% |
Weeks in UTC. October 5 is not covered.
How we measured
The panel is every unique nominee in the 28 categories of the 2026 Streamer Awards that name one streamer per nominee, taken from the nominee list on Wikipedia on November 3, 2026. Brand, game, content group, duo, collab, marathon, event and series categories are left out because they name groups or pairs. Each name was matched to a Twitch channel whose login or display name equals it, and to a Kick channel whose name equals it and that carries Kick's verified badge; 100 nominees matched a Twitch channel and 17 a verified Kick channel. Three Twitch matches use a handle variant of the name (RealKatieB, yourragegaming, DrDonutttttt); with exact matches only, Kick's share is 4.6%. Two samplers run every 15 minutes: the Kick one reads Kick's whole live directory, the Twitch one the top 30 live streams of every category, because Twitch's API stops paging there. Weeks run September 28 to October 4, October 6 to October 12, October 13 to October 19, October 20 to October 26 and October 27 to November 2, 2026 (UTC); in the last week the samplers recorded 670 of 672 blocks on Kick and 666 on Twitch. Hours watched are viewer counts at each reading times a quarter hour. The aggregate tables are open data at github.com/playersells/open-data (CC BY 4.0).
Limitations
- Kick and Twitch only. YouTube, TikTok and other live platforms are not measured. Nominees who stream mainly on YouTube look small or absent here.
- Twitch top 30. A small Twitch stream in a busy category is not read, so Twitch hours of smaller nominees are a lower bound. That pushes the nominees' Kick share up, not down.
- Name matching. A nominee who uses a different name on a platform is missed. Kick channels without the verified badge were not used, which drops at least one possible match.
- Five weeks. The window is September 28 to November 2, 2026, after most of the year the awards cover. A streamer who moved platforms earlier in 2026 is counted where they stream now.
- Displayed viewer counts. Kick and Twitch count viewers in their own ways; we cannot separate real viewers from embeds, bots or inflated counts.
- Who gets nominated. Nominees are chosen by fans and a panel, and this year nominees had to apply to accept. The gap with Kick's audience is a description, not a finding about why.
Frequently asked questions
Can Kick streamers win a Streamer Award?
Yes. Wikipedia and Streamer.Guide describe 2026 as the first edition open to Kick streamers, although streamers who also stream on Kick, such as xQc, were nominated in earlier years. Of the 110 nominees in single-streamer categories, 5 stream mainly on Kick: willito, Odablock, Kanel Joseph, Kaysan, Peller.
How many Streamer Awards 2026 nominees stream on Kick?
12 of 110 were live on Kick for at least an hour between September 28 and November 2, 2026, and 88 streamed on Twitch only.
What share of the nominees' viewing is on Kick?
4.5% of their combined Kick and Twitch watch time over five weeks, against 21.9% for the 1,000 most-watched English-language channels on the two platforms.
When are the 2026 Streamer Awards?
November 12, 2026. Nominations were announced on October 16 and voting closed on October 31.
For channel-level numbers, see our Kick channel rankings and Twitch channel rankings, built from the same samplers, or check a channel with the Kick follower rank and Twitch follower rank tools. For the wider comparison, read Kick vs Twitch: which platform has the viewers and do streamers keep simulcasting on Kick and Twitch.
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