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What is YouTube Live Stream and why is it popular? It’s a great way for creators to connect with their audiences in real-time. Live streaming is the most popular for gamers, but there are other creators out there using the feature to gain traction on YouTube.

10 YouTube live streamers to watch

IShowSpeed

With almost 20 million subscribers, it’s safe to say that IShowSpeed is one of the most popular live streamers on YouTube. He shares gaming and other random streams, one of which even being at the hospital. His hilarious nature has even made him a meme on TikTok. These memes have over 87 million views.

Norma Geli

With 143K subscribers, Norma is another YouTube live streamer and regular YouTuber who focuses on her home, Las Vegas. She streams the weather in the city and just explores the city on a live stream with her followers.

Economic Ninja

With over 415K subscribers, the Economic Ninja shares entrepreneurial videos and live streams quite often with his followers. He shares a lot of financial news from his perspective, so while his channel may not be for everyone, if you’re focused on financial and entrepreneurial news, you’ll love his streams.

Brian Christopher Slots

Do you love gambling and slot machines? Then you’ll love Brian’s channel and live streams because they’re focused on just that. He’s even shared his biggest win ever on live stream. He has over 626K subscribers, following along to be a part of the winnings.

Tim the Tatman

Tim is another highly popular and followed gamer who loves sharing humor, scares and gaming with his followers. He has over 5 million subscribers that are a part of his #tatmanarmy. Some of his streams are 6+ hour long.

DrDisRespect

With over 4.5 million subscribers, DrDisRespect is amongst the top of the top live streamers on YouTube. His gaming style, personality and hair-do have created quite the following for his live streams His gaming lives are anywhere from 3-8+ hours long.

Ninja

Last but certainly not least with the most subscribers on YouTube live streaming is Ninja. This gamer has almost 24 million subscribers tagging along for his channel’s streams. He loves interacting with his audience live while fulfilling his passion in gaming with friends or on his own. 

Keya’s World

Keya is a YouTube live streamer discussing toxic positivity, hustle culture, self-help and spirituality. She’s grown her channel to almost 20K subscribers by having the uncomfortable chats critiquing what some creators post. She’s done videos about health gurus, MLMs and even politics.

Fundie Fridays

With 364K followers, Jen has another popular YouTube live-stream channel. She talks about topics that tend to be left unsaid like the different aspects of Christian fundamentalism, American conservative politics, pop culture and queer issues. Her videos are usually filmed in a humorous way and sometimes include her husband, who mostly focuses on politics.

Danielle Ryan

Danielle is a YouTube live streamer who covers topics related to the business and life-coaching industry, which she considers to be a scam. She wants to expose coaches who aren’t being truthful or maybe even charging exorbitant amounts for life or business coaching online.

Live streaming is not for the faint of heart, but if you love interacting with your audience authentically, loving sharing your gaming skills or have other ideas that would be fun for a live audience, there’s plenty of room to grow on YouTube.

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