Fastest growing gaming YouTube channels: October 2026

The fastest growing gaming YouTube channel from mid-September to 1 November 2026 was Gabrielmiranda_ofc from Brazil, which added about 2.2 million subscribers. Mexican creator Ricky Pepino came second with about 1.54 million, and grew the fastest of any large gaming channel, up 77% in about seven weeks.

Across 4,538 gaming channels Branzly tracks, 2,043 gained subscribers over that period, adding about 60.9 million between them. Below are the biggest gainers, the mid-sized channels growing fastest, and where the growth came from.

The fastest growing gaming YouTube channels by subscribers gained

Eleven channels tie on about 400,000. That is a side effect of rounding: YouTube shows counts above 10 million to three significant figures, so a channel with 24 million subscribers moves in steps of 100,000. We sort the ties by percentage growth.

Mexico and Brazil lead gaming growth

Latin America dominates the list. Five of the 19 channels are Mexican (Ricky Pepino, Liza Baez, Gonzok MAX, Dipssy and ChuuyMine), two are Brazilian, and Peru and Argentina have one each. That is nine of 19 from Latin America, against three from the US.

The pattern holds beyond the top 19. Of the 184 gaming channels that gained 100,000 subscribers or more, 45 are from the US and together added about 8.41 million. Mexico had 15 such channels that added about 5.93 million, and Brazil 16 channels that added about 4.55 million. The average Mexican channel in that group gained more than the average US one.

Spanish and Portuguese language markets account for a large share of the gains. Mexico, Brazil, Spain and Argentina together had 50 channels in this group, which added about 14.4 million subscribers, well above the 8.41 million added by the 45 US channels. India had 13 channels in the group, including Techno Gamerz from the top 19 and PAJI IS LIVE from the mid-sized table below.

Ricky Pepino grew fastest. It had about 2.01 million subscribers on 19 September and 3.55 million on 31 October. Gonzok MAX, also from Mexico, grew 13.6%, the second highest rate among channels that gained 500,000 or more. Liza Baez shows the other way to grow: the channel started from about 29.2 million subscribers and still added about 1.4 million, the third biggest gain in the table. Dipssy and ChuuyMine, two more Mexican channels with about 19 million and 25 million subscribers, added 500,000 and 400,000.

Two official game channels made the list. Minecraft and Brawl Stars each added about 400,000 subscribers, the same as the biggest creator channels in the tie.

MrBeast Gaming added about 1.1 million, which is 1.8% growth at 61 million subscribers. IShowSpeed and Techno Gamerz, two of the largest channels on the list, grew less than 1%.

Fastest growing mid-sized gaming channels (100K to 1M subscribers)

Percentage growth is the fairer test for smaller channels. These are the gaming channels that ended the period with between 100,000 and 1 million subscribers and grew fastest.

The top four also appear in our list of the fastest growing YouTube channels across all niches, which shows how strong gaming is in this size band. Several names point to a single game: bloxxedout and ForsakenRBLX to Roblox, and GTA HYPE to Grand Theft Auto. Channels built on one game tend to rise and fall with interest in that game, so their growth here says as much about the game as about the creator.

PAJI IS LIVE, an Indian channel, added about 162,000 subscribers, the second biggest raw gain in this table after TAKESHI. TAKESHI added about 244,000 to reach about 812,000, and at that pace would pass 1 million subscribers within weeks if the trend held.

Growth this fast over about seven weeks is rare. Only ten gaming channels in the 100,000 to 1 million band grew by more than 19%, and the median channel with a measurable change grew 0.7%. For a brand, these ten are the channels where today's sponsorship price is most likely to be out of date by the end of the year.

How the typical gaming channel grew

Gaming growth is very uneven. Of the 4,538 gaming channels we track, 2,308 showed a measurable change over the period, and the median among those grew just 0.7%. Only 184 gained 100,000 or more, while 265 lost subscribers. The other 2,230 showed no change at all in their public count, which for a large channel can still hide a gain of tens of thousands because of rounding.

How we got these numbers

Branzly records the public subscriber count of each YouTube channel it tracks. Our current count history starts on 15 September 2026, so this article measures each channel's change from its first recorded count (mostly between 15 and 24 September) to 1 November 2026, about seven weeks. We took that change for the 4,538 channels in Branzly's channel reports with the Gaming category; 2,308 of them showed a measurable change. Growth percentages compare the gain with the first recorded count. Channels whose first count came later in September have a shorter window, which slightly favours the channels we started tracking earliest.

We left out channels that hide their subscriber count. We also removed MrBeast's main channel, which is tagged Gaming in our data but is not a gaming channel (it appears in our all-niche list), and Adam Hidayat, whose view figures for the period contained an error. YouTube rounds public counts to three significant figures, so every figure is approximate, and small changes on very large channels do not show.

What to do with this

1. Look up your channel on Branzly to see its recent change next to these channels.
2. Compare on percentage growth with channels your size, using the YouTube rankings.
3. Watch the Roblox and GTA channels in the mid-sized table. If the game you cover is rising, a dedicated channel can grow quickly, but plan for the slowdown.
4. Brands: add fast growing mid-sized channels to a shortlist early and price deals with the sponsorship calculator. The sponsor leaderboard shows which brands already sponsor gaming creators.

1. Check back next month. Branzly's count history started on 15 September 2026, so each new month makes the window longer and the ranking steadier.

To see what any of these gaming channels earns, open its report or use the YouTube earnings calculator.