YouTube: most subscribed gaming channels 2025
As of January 2025, Italian YouTuber PANDA BOI was ranked first among the most popular YouTube gaming channels with 56.3 million subscribers. Spanish gaming YouTuber Miguel Bernal Montes, better known online as Mikecrack, was ranked second with 53.9 million subscribers.
Gaming on YouTube
Gaming content is a popular part of the YouTube content ecosystem. Gaming tutorials, walkthroughs and Let’s Play videos are a staple of the video platform, and over 350 gaming video creators on YouTube had more than 10 million followers and more than 100 billion hours of gaming video content were watched on YouTube. A big audience usually also translates into being able to make a living from monetized YouTube content, sponsorships, influencer marketing campaigns, and merchandise sales. Tyler Blevins (aka Ninja) topped the ranking of the highest earning video gamers worldwide with approximately 17 million U.S. dollars in annual earnings.
Gaming live streaming on YouTube
Live streaming on YouTube has also gained in popularity since 2018 and has seen a significant boost due to the COVID-19 pandemic. After peaking at the end of 2020, YouTube Gaming Live generated a cumulative 1.18 billion hours of content watched in the third quarter of 2022, representing a 7.4 percent decrease from the previous quarter.
