The Streamer Awards 2025: What to Expect and Who Stands Out This Year

The Streamer Awards 2025 returns with the biggest list of nominees yet, offering fans around the world a chance to vote for the best streamers of the year. Voting is live on the official site. Visit The Streamer Awards to take part. This year’s awards matter because they highlight the top live streaming talent across gaming, variety, IRL, and more, and the 2025 edition includes new categories like Best Brand Partner, Best Marvel Rivals Streamer, Best Reality Streamer, Best Vertical Live Streamer, and Best Stream Duo. Two categories were added back from previous iterations of this annual event: Best Music Streamer and Best Minecraft Streamer.

The nominations reflect the global streaming scene. From mega-creators to rising stars, the roster shows how streaming culture has grown. Below are major categories, key nominees, and what to know if you want to cast your vote.

Best Variety Streamer
Creators in this category mix formats, games, and audience interaction. The nominees are:

Best Just Chatting Streamer
This category highlights creators who focus on interaction, commentary, and daily streaming rather than just gameplay. The nominees are:

Best Music Streamer
This category highlights creators who create the best music content, showcasing talents such as singing, playing instruments, or more. The nominees are:

Best Creative Arts Streamer
This category highlights creators who create the best Art, Food & Drink, Dance, Cosplay, ASMR, or Makers & Crafting content, among others. The nominees are:

Best Roleplay Streamer
This category highlights creators who deliver the most entertaining role-playing (RP) content in games like GTA RP, Rust, VRChat, Ark, Dungeons & Dragons, and more. The nominees are:

Best MOBA Streamer
This category highlights creators who create the best MOBA content, playing games like League of Legends, Dota 2, Pokémon UNITE, SMITE, and others. The nominees are:

Best Brand Partner
This category highlights brands that help streamers’ aspirations come true. The nominees are:

Hidden Gem Award – Presented by HP Omen and HyperX
This category highlights creators averaging under 200 viewers this year. This award goes to a true hidden gem that deserves to shine. The nominees are:

Best Battle Royale Streamer
This category highlights creators who create the best battle royale content with games like Fortnite, Apex Legends, PUBG, Call of Duty: Warzone, Fall Guys, and others. The nominees are:

Best Fighting Game Streamer
This category highlights creators who create the best fighting game content from Street Fighter 6 and Tekken 8 to Mortal Kombat and Super Smash Bros (and more). The nominees are:

Best MMORPG Streamer
This category highlights creators who create the most engaging MMORPG content while playing games like Final Fantasy, World of Warcraft, Runescape, Lost Ark, and others. The nominees are:

Best Speedrun Streamer
This category highlights creators who create the most entertaining and impressive speedrunning content. The nominees are:

Best Sports Streamer
This category highlights creators who create the best sports-related content, whether through gameplay (EA Sports FC, NBA 2K, Rocket League, etc.) or coverage. The nominees are:

Best Minecraft Streamer – Presented by Lunar Client
This category highlights creators who create the best Minecraft content. The nominees are:

Best Marvel Rivals Streamer – Presented by Marvel Rivals
This category highlights creators who create the best Marvel Rivals content. The nominees are:

Best FPS Streamer
This category highlights creators who create themost entertaining first-person shooter (FPS) content while playing games like VALORANT, Overwatch 2, Call of Duty, Counter-Strike, Halo, and others. The nominees are:

Best Strategy Game Streamer
This category highlights creators who create the best content with strategy games like Teamfight Tactics, StarCraft, Chess, Hearthstone, or Balatro, among others.. The nominees are:

Best Reality Streamer
This category highlights creators who flawlessly create the best blend of IRL and desktop content, balancing both seamlessly to create consistently entertaining streams. The nominees are:

Best IRL Streamer – Presented by TVU Networks
This category highlights creators who dedicates themselves to creating the best IRL content by getting outside, exploring, traveling, or streaming life beyond their desktop setup. The nominees are:

Best Vertical Live Streamer
This category highlights creators who create the most engaging and entertaining vertical-format live content on TikTok, YouTube, Instagram, Reddit, or other platforms. The nominees are:

Stream Game of the Year
This category highlights the most entertaining, novel, collaborative, or fun game to watch on stream during the past year. The nominees are:

Best Content Organization
This category highlights Esports or content organization or group that produced the best content during the past year. Note: this category is not subject to the hours streamed requirements. The nominees are:

Best International Streamer
This category highlights the top streamer excelling in content creation for a global audience, specifically catering to an international or non-North American English-speaking audience.. The nominees are:

Best Stream Duo
This category highlights creators who consistently create the most entertaining content together, with at least 25 hours streamed as a pair this past year. The nominees are:

Best Streamed Collab
This category celebrates the most exciting one-time or limited-time collaboration in live streaming during 2025, recognizing how streamers joining forces and bring in creators from outside the space to help grow the community and the streaming ecosystem. The nominees are:

Best Marathon Stream
This category highlights the most impressive marathon stream, one that kept going until the goal was achieved, whether it be the end of a subathon timer, a game completion challenge, or something similar. The nominees are:

FaZe Subathon – FaZe Clan
IShowSpeed America Tour – IShowSpeed
Mafiathon 3 – Kai Cenat
Stream For Humanity – aminematue

Best Streamed Event
This category highlights the most entertaining, unique, or memorable live event streamed in 2025. The nominees are:

Bingo Brawlers – Captain_Domo
GP Explorer 3 – Squeezie
Streamer Games – Ludwig
Streamer Prom – funnymike
Streamer University – KaiCenat

Best Streamed Series
This category highlights the best recurring show, series, segment, or repeat event of 2025, whether collaborative or solo. This award honors excellence in episodic live streaming. The nominees are:

Alveus Tours – Maya
Caretakers – yourragegaming
Fortnite Friday – ConnorEatsPants
In The Booth – plaqueboymax
Let Her Cook – Sydeon

Best Vtuber
This category highlights creators who use a virtual avatar and create the most entertaining and engaging content. The nominees are:

Rising Star Award – Presented by slingshot
This category highlights creators who began the year with under 1,000 average viewers and have shown rapid growth and huge potential for the future. The nominees are:

Best Breakout Streamer
This category highlights creators who experienced explosive growth in the past year, establishing themselves amongst the top streamers and as one of the most talked-about names in streaming. The nominees are:

League of their Own
This category highlights creators who create truly one-of-a-kind content, pioneering a niche or category that no one else does, a creator who is simply in a league of their own. The nominees are:

The Sapphire Award
This category highlights the best female or marginalized gender streamer of 2025. This award goes to a streamer who shines against the odds in a male-dominated industry and has excelled in entertaining at the highest level this past year. The nominees are:

Gamer of the Year
This category highlights creators who showcase exceptional gaming skill and entertainment across multiple titles and no matter the game, you can’t look away. The nominees are:

Streamer of the Year
This is the ultimate award for creators with wide reach, strong communities, and consistent impact. The nominees are:

How to Vote
Visit the official voting page at The Streamer Awards before the deadline. Your vote supports your favourite creators in categories like Streamer of the Year, Best Variety Streamer, Best Roleplay Streamer, Best IRL Streamer, Best VTuber, and more.