Top official esports broadcaster channels of 2025

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2025 was another milestone year for esports and its fans, with record numbers created across titles and new games showing their potential to a global audience. Community casting also continued to grow, but the official broadcasting channels of studios and organizers continued to attract the highest viewership numbers.

With that in mind, Esports Charts has sifted through its database to identify the most popular official esports broadcasting channels of 2025. The total livestreaming watch time for these channels has been used as the metric of choice, as it provides a clear picture of their consistency and ability to sustain audience interest throughout the year.

Most-watched official esports broadcasting Twitch channels of 2025

Twitch remains the undisputed king of esports livestreaming in North America and Europe, as evident in its list of most-watched esports channels. Six of the platform's top ten names by watch hours this year are English-speaking, including the topper, blastpremier.

The popular Danish esports entertainment company was the only one to cross the 30 million Hours Watched (HW) mark. It helped that the channel livestreamed Counter-Strike tournaments across tiers, including top-tier ones like the BLAST.tv Austin Major 2025, BLAST Rivals Fall 2025 and BLAST Premier Bounty Season 1 2025.

Dota2_paragon_ru was the top Russian-speaking channel for esports on the purple platform this year. Dota 2 remains a massively popular title in the Eurasian nation, and this channel provided fans with coverage of all the MOBA's major tournaments, including The International 2025, the Esports World Cup 2025 and the various seasons of the DreamLeague and PGL Wallachia series.

Dota 2's rival PC MOBA, League of Legends, found the most comfort among the French and Korean channels. Otplol, the game's official broadcaster in France for years, accumulated 26.3 million HW in 2025. Meanwhile, the Korean regional league LCK's Twitch channel also made it thanks to a lengthy split and other global events. It was the sole Asian representative in terms of languages, reiterating Korea's importance to the esports scene today.

The official Rainbow 6 channel for English audiences also made it here, accruing over 14 million HW, thanks to coverage of major global events like the Esports World Cup 2025 and the two Majors in Birmingham and Raleigh. The conduct of three online Open tournaments for each in-person Major tournament also helped add to these numbers.

Most-watched official esports broadcasting YouTube channels in 2025

Moving to YouTube, the other massive livestreaming name globally, the above picture makes it clear that it enjoys higher preference in Southeast Asia, South Asia and Brazil, and among mobile esports audiences. The official channel of one of the biggest regional leagues in competitive video gaming today takes the top spot.

MPL Indonesia, which covers all things related to the event of the same name, alongside global championships, racked up almost 81.2 million HW in 2025. Depending on the competition, viewers can get Indonesian, English and Japanese livestreams on this channel, although Indonesian remained the dominant language.

This channel also livestreamed other MPL leagues, such as those in Singapore, Cambodia and Malaysia, this year. Moreover, it gave fans access to international events, such as the SEA Games 2025, M7 World Championship Qualifiers and IESF World Esports Championships 2025.

The LCK had its official channel come in the second spot, thanks to the new single-season format that ran from April to September. The 2025 league created a record across all livestreaming, reaching 161 million HW to become the series' first split to break the 100 million watched hours barrier.

As a result, based on Esports Charts' new metric, the Korean franchise league had an estimated Media Value of over $71 million, making it 2025's most valuable esports tournament. Thanks to the fame of sides like T1 and Gen.G, the LCK has been able to remain steady in popularity, keeping audiences highly engaged throughout, something many other prominent titles and circuits struggle with.

In third was Garena Liên Quân Mobile, the official channel for Arena of Valor's Vietnamese version of the game. The mobile MOBA remains a massive deal in this SEA nation and on YouTube, with the channel's coverage of various regional and global championships racking up almost 58 million watch hours.

The Indian esports market, enjoying a renaissance since the return of Battlegrounds Mobile India, shows its value through the KRAFTON INDIA ESPORTS channel. It helps that this official handle covers events in seven languages, with the high engagement shown by viewers this year helping five of this year's events end among its ten most popular tournaments ever.

Arena of Valor, one of the biggest esports titles in SEA, had two entries in the form of the official Vietnamese and Thai channels. These are the game's two biggest regions and contribute the most to its viewership. Although Thailand has been more successful in lobal events, Vietnam's fans continue to be the most passionate, emerging as the MOBA's biggest market.