Best YouTube Gaming Creators · Yearly
As of June 2026, the best youtube gaming creators are PewDiePie, VanossGaming and Dream, ranked by the BestCreators cross-platform score. The top 19 below are updated yearly using audience reach, engagement and 30-day growth.
- 1PewDiePieGamingYouTube111MFollowers+0.1%91Established
- 2VanossGamingGamingYouTube26MFollowers+0.1%84Established
- 3DreamGamingYouTube31MFollowers0.0%82Rising
- 4MarkiplierGamingYouTube37MFollowers+0.5%81Rising
- 5DanTDMGamingYouTube29MFollowers+0.2%80Rising
- 6LazarBeamGamingYouTube22MFollowers+0.5%78Rising
- 7SSundeeGamingYouTube25MFollowers+0.7%76Rising
- 8JacksepticeyeGamingYouTube31MFollowers+0.3%76Rising
- 9AphmauGamingYouTube22MFollowers+1.0%75Rising
- 10CoryxKenshinGamingYouTube22MFollowers+1.2%73Rising
- 11NinjaGamingYouTube24MFollowers+0.6%63Rising
- 12Ali-AGamingYouTube19MFollowers0.0%62Rising
- 13GloomGamingYouTube6.5MFollowers+0.4%49Emerging
- 14Marshmello GamingGamingYouTube6MFollowers0.0%45Emerging
- 15PokimaneGamingYouTube9.2MFollowers+0.6%39Emerging
- 16JacksfilmsGamingYouTube5.2MFollowers+0.2%36Emerging
- 17TimTheTatmanGamingYouTube4.6MFollowers+0.5%29Emerging
- 18ValkyraeGamingYouTube4MFollowers+0.8%22Emerging
- 19SykkunoGamingYouTube3MFollowers+0.9%15Emerging
These 19 creators average 23M followers with a median BestCreators Score of 73. The fastest riser this yearly window is CoryxKenshin. Rankings are recomputed continuously from public platform data; see our methodology.
Data & methodology
“Rankings are recomputed continuously from public-platform data using the BestCreators cross-platform score — a deterministic 0–100 percentile measure, not an estimate.”
The top 19 youtube gaming creators average 23M followers with a median BestCreators Score of 73; PewDiePie leads at #1.
Sourced from the YouTube Data API v3, captured June 2026. All figures are public-platform metrics shown with their capture date; the BestCreators Score is computed by a deterministic, versioned algorithm (v1) that percentile-normalizes audience, engagement and reach. See the full methodology.