ZEvent 2026 Day 3: 14 105 645 € on the Counter, 2 073 451 € From the Record, and One Night Left

At 11:42 UTC on Sunday, which is 1:42 pm in Montpellier, the official ZEvent counter reads 14 105 645 €. The record to beat is 16 179 096 €, set last year. The marathon ends tonight. That is the whole story of day 3 in three numbers.

Quick context if you are new here: ZEvent is a French charity streaming marathon, running since 2016, where hundreds of creators go live at the same time for the same cause. This is the tenth edition and the organisers have said it is the last one. The full history, the format and the clipping method are in our ZEvent 2026 hub. Yesterday's numbers and the first goals that fell are in the day 2 recap.

Where the counter stands

Reading taken at 2026-09-06T11:42 UTC, straight from the official zevent.fr API:

• Total raised: 14 105 645 €
• Cumulative viewers across participating channels: 569 849
• Streamers registered: 339, of which 200 were live at that exact minute
• Growth since the same reading on 5 September (4 348 968 €): 9 756 678 € added in about 24 hours

So the gap to the 2025 record is 2 073 451 € with the closing hours still to come. Nobody can tell you today whether it falls. What we can tell you is the shape of the curve: the money moved almost ten million in a single day, and at ZEvent the final stretch is historically the loudest part, because that is when everyone stops playing and starts pushing.

One more number worth staring at. Of those 569 849 cumulative viewers, 569 230 are watching channels tagged in the ZEVENT category. Everything else on the French side of Twitch is background noise right now: Genshin Impact at 395, Skyrim at 71, Dofus at 69, Path of Exile 2 at 55, League of Legends at 29. For a weekend, one event owns the entire attention pool of a language.

Vue large de la salle de stream, les setups des streamers alignés, au ZEvent 2025. Photo : Mickaël Schauli, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

What has been going on

Mastu is running away with the individual leaderboard. His personal pot sits at 2 093 590 €, well ahead of mistermv at 1 456 448 € and Domingo at 1 423 584 €. Before the event he had said publicly that he wanted the biggest pot of the edition, a title Domingo had held for three years. Right now he has it, with hours left for the other two to answer.

Anyme023 is past his headline tier. He had set a stream from space at 200 000 € of personal donations. His pot reads 273 204 €, so the threshold is behind him. Nico had announced a Dakar to Paris trip without taking a plane, in 30 days, at that same 200 000 € mark. We have not been able to confirm where his pot stands, so we are not going to pretend we know.

The rest of the top ten is a who is who of French streaming. ZeratoR, who co-founded the event, is at 316 494 €. Antoine Daniel is at 301 273 €, Joyca at 284 176 €, the mcflyetcarlito channel at 254 471 €. These are individual pots, not the total, and they move every refresh.

Worth remembering from the opening night: Gims, who was on the concert bill at the Sud de France Arena on Thursday, cancelled at the last minute for health reasons and made a donation instead. The lineup was reshuffled on the night and the show went ahead.

What day 3 teaches you as a clipper

Three things, and they all apply outside ZEvent weekend.

The last hours produce the densest clip material of the whole event. Fatigue plus deadline plus a public counter is a machine for reactions. People who have been awake for 40 hours do not filter themselves. Goals that sat untouched for two days get smashed in twenty minutes. If you only have the energy for one watch session this weekend, make it tonight, not this afternoon.

The window to publish is closing with the event. Search interest and social interest around a marathon collapse the moment the counter stops. A reaction you record tonight lands in a hot feed. The same reaction posted Wednesday competes with nothing but indifference. This is exactly the timing problem we broke down in when to post your clips, and event weekends are the extreme version of it.

One long watch session is not one clip, it is a batch. If you co-stream your reaction to the final hours, you finish with a VOD of several hours that contains the ending, the goal chases and your own commentary on all of it. That is a week of short form if you cut it properly. We walk through the workflow in 30 clips from one stream, and the sorting logic in how to spot a highlight in a VOD.

And the line that does not move, the same one we held for the Esports World Cup and for the World Cup: do not repost the official feed. The footage belongs to ZEvent and its broadcasters, the concert stacks music rights on top, and a charity event is the worst possible place to get a copyright strike. What you clip is your own watch party, your own face, your own take. That is yours, and it is the only version that is safe to monetise.

ZeratoR, mégaphone en main, en train de haranguer la salle, au ZEvent 2025. Photo : Mickaël Schauli, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

What is left to watch today

The marathon closes in the night from Sunday to Monday, after more than 50 hours of live. Between now and then, here is what is actually worth your attention:

1. The record line. 2 073 451 € to go as of the 11:42 UTC reading. Every large donation from here reads as a possible tipping point, and the counter is public, so the tension is shared by everyone watching.
2. The end of pot raids. In the closing stretch, streamers commonly point their audience at one specific personal pot to push it over a final tier. That is when goals nobody expected suddenly unlock.
3. The Mastu, mistermv and Domingo leaderboard. Roughly 640 000 € separates first from third. Three hundred thousand euros can move in an evening at this event.
4. The closing ceremony itself. It is the last one, ever. Whatever the organisers have planned for the final minutes of a ten year run, it is going to be the most reposted footage of the weekend, which is exactly why you want your own camera rolling on your own reaction rather than a ripped copy of theirs.

We publish the final total tomorrow, record or no record, plus the ten year recap.

Your clipping setup for tonight

If you are covering the finale, the practical part is simple. Record your own session, run the VOD through multi-modal detection so audio, image and transcript all get a vote on what mattered, export in 9:16 for TikTok, Reels and Shorts and in 16:9 for YouTube, and let AutoPilot handle the repetitive part while you sleep off the weekend. StreamClipping has a free plan with 15 minutes of video per month, for life, no card required, and every new account gets 7 days of Elite. If you would rather clip for someone else, the paid per view campaigns live in /discover.

Étoiles à son setup de stream, casque sur les oreilles, au ZEvent 2025. Photo : Mickaël Schauli, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

In short

At the 11:42 UTC reading on Sunday 6 September, ZEvent 2026 stands at 14 105 645 €, with 569 849 cumulative viewers and 339 registered streamers, 200 of them live. The 2025 record of 16 179 096 € is 2 073 451 € away and the event ends tonight. Mastu leads the individual pots at 2 093 590 €. For a clipper, the last hours are the richest and the most perishable material of the year, and the only footage you can safely use is your own.

Also read

• The ZEvent 2026 hub, for the full programme and history
• 30 clips from one stream, for the batch workflow
• How to spot a highlight in a VOD
• Turning one long VOD into short form

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