Stream Awards has identified the most popular Ukrainian streamers of 2025
The Stream Awards 2025 announced the winners of the second season, which summarizes the development of Ukrainian streaming on Twitch and YouTube Live.
The Stream Awards 2025 announced the winners of the second season, which summarizes the development of Ukrainian streaming on Twitch and YouTube Live.
According to a Streams Charts press release, the nominees were formed based on platform analytics, and the winners were determined by community voting, which lasted from January 26 to March 2, 2026. There were 14 nominations in total (last year there were 10). They also introduced the option to nominate a streamer who did not make the shortlist based on the starting metrics.
Organizers report that this time the voting gathered 82,000 votes. This is 20% more than last year — from an audience of over 10,000 people.
The key victories of the season were as follows:
- Streamer of the Year — roolex9
- Streamer of the Year — sheisfoxy
- Debut of the year — valentinopradagucci
- Best CS2 streamer — Leb1ga
- Best Dota 2 streamer — Ghostik
- Non-gaming streamer of the year — Leb1ga
- VTuber of the year — luma_rum
- Best Show — "Streamer Mafia" by Leb1ga
- Game of the Year among streamers — Counter-Strike 2
- Esports Game of the Year — Counter-Strike
- Collaboration of the Year — “Survival 24 Hours in the Forest” (Leb1ga and Andriy Luzan)
- Always on the air — guthriee
- Marathon of the Year — “Weight Loss Marathon” by Leb1ga
- Community Choice — thetremba
The winners were announced during an online ceremony on the Olsior Twitch channel. The hosts of the broadcast were Mykhailo Olsior Zverev and Roman Skevich Paskevych. The organizers note that the peak of the broadcast, including co-streaming, was 3,048 viewers. Over 1,000 active chat participants and over 12,000 messages were recorded during the 2-hour broadcast. The winners of the community raffle with prizes from partners were also announced during the ceremony.
A little more about Stream Awards
The award was launched in 2025 as an initiative to celebrate Ukrainian-language live streaming. Streams Charts cites the final metrics for 2025: Ukrainian-language broadcasts gained over 319 million hours of viewing, airtime increased by 17%, and total peak online viewers reached 923,139. Organizers say they plan to hold the award annually and are considering an offline ceremony in the future.
Previously, dev.ua wrote about how on February 15, Ukrainian streamer Mykhailo Lebiga held a joint broadcast with singer and TV presenter Lida Lee. During the broadcast, Leb1ga's channel reached a peak of 65,866 simultaneous viewers, which became a record for Ukrainian-language channels on Twitch.
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