HLTV Awards @ Belgrade, January 2026

Co-streaming in Counter-Strike

This page supports my talk at HLTV Awards on how co-streaming actually works in Counter-Strike today — what it adds, what it breaks, and what we can learn from other ecosystems that already went through this cycle.

The presentation is built on Esports Charts data and focuses on three things:

• How CS co-streaming has grown over the last three years

• Where the current model hurts rights holders, teams, and sponsors

• What a balanced, commercially sane co-streaming model can look like

📊 Key data points from the talk

• CS co-streaming hours watched grew 231% over the past three years

• Average co-cast viewership of major CS leagues grew ~40% YoY in 2025

• In other ecosystems (VALORANT, LoL), co-streaming works because it complements — not replaces — official broadcasts

🎯 Core idea

Co-streaming is not the enemy.
Uncontrolled co-streaming is.