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Kick casino and slots streamers

Kick's Slots & Casino category is the single largest gambling-content category in live streaming: 238.25M hours watched in January–June 2026, 63% of the whole vertical, and 8% of everything watched on Kick. No other platform has a gambling category anywhere near that share of its own total.

The category peaked at 182,024 concurrent viewers in the period, with an average of 256 channels live at any moment — a small pool of very large channels rather than a long tail.

238.25M
hours watched
Slots & Casino, H1 2026
8%
of all Kick hours
every category combined
+22%
year on year
vs H1 2025
182,024
peak viewers
category record
Channel
1
Trainwreckstv
Kick·English
14.45M30K89K100%587K
2
Roshtein
Kick·English
9.71M14K22K100%399K
3
maherco
Kick·Arabic
8.41M23K52K24%718K
5
ClassyBeef
Kick·English
4.83M2K33K100%220K
6
Adin Ross
Kick·English
4.39M30K68K46%2.1M
7
SweetFlips
Kick·English
3.99M3K12K99%34K
8
N3on
Kick·English
2.78M20K64K23%668K
9
Mellstroy
Kick·Russian
2.65M14K51K97%921K
10
HSTikkyTokky
Kick·English
2.6M8K30K30%278K
11
Szymool
Kick·Polish
2.51M6K17K93%202K
14
Cheesur
Kick·English
2.09M8K41K46%205K
16
TheDoctor
Kick·English
1.95M2K17K99%94K
18
BakaPrase
Kick·Serbian
1.85M7K64K61%576K
20
Xposed
Kick·English
1.77M4K9K93%177K
Casino % is the share of the channel's total airtime spent in casino, slots, poker or betting categories — the fastest way to tell a dedicated casino channel from a variety streamer running paid segments. Sort any column.

Kick channels from the global top 20, re-ranked. Rank numbers are the global position. Source: Streams Charts, 2026-01-01 – 2026-06-30.

What is specific to Kick

One category, one identity

Casino is 8% of Kick's total watch time. On Twitch the equivalent figure is under 2%. Anything you buy on Kick sits inside an environment where casino content is normal, not exceptional — which cuts both ways for brand safety.

Extreme concentration at the top

The top three Kick channels — Trainwreckstv, Roshtein, maherco — produced 32.6M hours between them, about 14% of the whole category. Pricing at the top has no real comparables, which is exactly where independent benchmarks earn their keep.

Variety streamers as the growth edge

maherco, Adin Ross, N3on, HSTikkyTokky and BakaPrase all run casino as a minority of their airtime and still rank top ten. They deliver the highest concurrency in the vertical and reach audiences that do not seek casino content out.

Language markets, not one market

Arabic, Russian, Polish and Serbian channels all appear in the Kick top twenty. Each is effectively a separate media market with its own leader and its own regulatory exposure. Global rankings hide that; market-level shortlists do not.

Compare with Twitch

Twitch is the smaller half of the vertical at 139.1M hours, but it is growing faster and its category mix is completely different — licensed and social-casino products, a large Portuguese-language Virtual Casino scene, and always-on channels rather than event channels.

Twitch casino streamers →

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Frequently asked questions

How big is Kick's Slots & Casino category?+
238.25 million hours watched in January–June 2026, with an average of 256 channels live at any time and a record 182,024 concurrent viewers. That is 8% of all hours watched on Kick — roughly one hour in twelve, from a single category.
Who are the biggest casino streamers on Kick?+
Trainwreckstv, Roshtein, maherco, ClassyBeef, Adin Ross — in that order by hours watched. Trainwreckstv alone accounts for 14.45M hours, about 6% of the entire Kick casino category.
Why is casino content so central to Kick?+
Kick launched in 2022 with backing tied to the founders of the Stake casino brand, and with a Slots & Casino category from the start. When Twitch restricted unlicensed gambling sites in October 2022, Kick offered both a home for that content and a revenue-share deal aimed at the streamers producing it. The category has been a core part of Kick's identity ever since.
Is Kick's casino audience growing?+
Yes, but more slowly than the headline suggests. Kick's casino hours grew 22% year on year, against 47% for Twitch's casino categories over the same window. Kick's monthly figures have also flattened: the category peaked at 58.2M hours in October 2025 and has sat in the 34–44M range every month since.
Does Kick have viewer-count reliability problems?+
Kick's concurrency figures are self-reported by the platform's public API and have drawn scrutiny. We do not treat any single platform number as ground truth: audience-quality work relies on cross-checks — viewer-to-chatter ratio, concurrency variance, follower-growth shape — rather than the headline viewer count alone. The methodology page sets out what we can and cannot verify.