ZEvent 2026 Results: A Record €32.9M Raised and 1.3M Peak Viewers as the Final Edition Signs Off

€32,891,874 — Double the Record, in One Weekend

The organisers confirmed the final figure shortly after midnight Paris time on September 7. For scale: the 2025 edition's €16,658,660 was itself the largest total ever collected by a charity livestream marathon, and it stood for exactly one year. The 2026 total is 1.97 times that figure, and by itself accounts for more than a third of the €90,984,628 ZEvent raised across all ten editions.

Translation: “Thanks to you, this ZEVENT 2026 raised €32,891,874. Thank you for a generosity that has only grown over the years. It is the end of ZEVENT, but clearly not the end of solidarity. Take care of yourselves — and of others.”

Unlike every previous edition, the money is not going to a newly chosen set of causes. It flows through the Fondation de France to all 22 associations the event has supported since 2016 — the closing gesture the organisers designed for the final run.

1,305,662 Peak Viewers — 4,635 Short of the Series Record

The 2026 peak of 1,305,662 is the second-highest in ZEvent history, behind only the 1,310,297 of October 2021 — a gap of 4,635 people, or about 0.35%. Two things make that near-miss more impressive than a clean record would have been. First, 2026 ran 55 hours 25 minutes against 2021's 60 hours 10 minutes, so it got there with less airtime. Second, the two editions in between peaked at 573,507 and 580,634 — the 2026 number is more than double the 2024 peak and 66% above 2025.

Where 2026 did set the record is total attention: 26,182,020 hours watched, the highest in the series, on an average of 472,458 concurrent viewers across the whole marathon. That average is the more telling figure — it means the room held close to half a million people for fifty-five hours straight.

The reach came from breadth as much as from the main stage. 354 unique channels took part directly or co-streamed the marathon, and the number of co-casting channels has more than doubled since 2024. Every one of them broadcast in French: there was no official English-language stream, even though Twitch created a dedicated Z Event category for the weekend.

The Most Watched Channels — mastu Outdraws the Founder

For the first time the event's creator was not its biggest draw. Théo “mastu” Becker peaked at 476.8K — the most-watched stream of his career — on the back of a live raffle for a Lionel Messi Barcelona jersey. ZeratoR followed at 370.4K, also a personal best. Domingo took third on peak but first on endurance: 4.84 million hours watched, the most of any channel. And Anyme023 produced the weekend's defining entrance, arriving at the venue on a motorcycle at the head of a full convoy on the way to a 188.6K peak.

Five of the top ten set new personal records during the event — mastu, Domingo, Anyme023, Joyca and nico_la — which is the clearest signal of what ZEvent did for the French streaming scene over ten years: it was the one weekend a year when everybody's ceiling moved.

Every Edition: €90.98M Over Ten Years

No edition was held in 2023 while the organisers restructured the format. Totals per Streams Charts; the 2025 figure is the final audited total, slightly above the €16.18M shown on screen when that broadcast ended.

Read the money column top to bottom and the shape is unmistakable: five years climbing from €170,000 to €10 million, three editions parked almost exactly at €10 million, a 64% jump in 2025 — and then the final edition nearly doubling that. Half of everything ZEvent ever raised came in its last two years.

One more record to note in passing: by peak viewers, the six most-watched charity marathon streams ever recorded by Streams Charts are all ZEvent editions. The first outsider in the top ten is TheGrefg's Spanish-language Calvogames from 2020.

“The End of ZEVENT” — and What the Organisers Hinted At

The weekend opened on Thursday, September 3 with a concert at the Sud de France Arena in Montpellier — GIMS, Gazo, Bigflo & Oli and L'Orchestre Curieux — before the marathon proper ran from Friday evening to Sunday night. It was billed from the start as the tenth and final edition, founded in 2016 by Adrien “ZeratoR” Nougaret and Alexandre “Dach” Dachary, and the closing message did not soften that: “C'est la fin du ZEVENT.”

What the organisers did leave open is the future of the community they built. They have hinted at charity projects to come, not under the ZEvent name. Given that this one brand raised €91 million in a decade and holds the six biggest charity-stream audiences ever measured, whatever replaces it starts with the largest proven fundraising audience in livestreaming.

Our pre-event coverage — schedule, the free Twitch badge and where to watch — is in ZEvent 2026: the final edition. Full viewership breakdown at Streams Charts .