A counter, a crowd of creators, and a figure that surpasses everything that French charity streaming has ever known. In the night from Sunday, September 6 to Monday, September 7, ZEvent 2026 closed its chapter with nearly â¬33 million collected for 22 charities. The Fondation de France announced â¬32,889,235, which is approximately double the amount raised in 2025. For this final edition, the event created by Adrien Nougaret, known as ZeratoR, and Alexandre Dachary, known as Dach, not only broke its record: it transformed its farewell into a demonstration of collective strength.
For over fifty hours, more than 300 streamers and content creators mobilized their communities. About 80 were gathered at the Corum in Montpellier, while around 200 others participated remotely, according to the count reported by AFP. Challenges, games, concerts, raffles, and donation goals kept the audience on edge until the last minutes. Behind the spectacle, the stakes were real: to finance organizations active in health, the environment, the fight against precariousness, exclusion, and humanitarian aid.
A Record that Changes the Scale of Charity Streaming
The final amount is staggering. The 2025 edition had already set a high mark with approximately â¬16.9 million. A year later, the collection has nearly doubled. This leap cannot be explained by a single personality or an isolated viral sequence. It relies on a network of hundreds of channels, communities, and small gestures that, when combined, produced a result comparable to major national charity campaigns.
The Fondation de France, responsible for managing the operation and monitoring the financed projects, indicates that ZEvent has raised nearly â¬91 million since its inception. In ten years, an initiative born from video game culture and Twitch has thus become an institution of online generosity. This journey tells a broader transformation: creators are no longer just individual entertainers but organizers capable of gathering an audience, building a physical event, and converting attention into measurable impact.
Montpellier at the Center of a Digital Mobilization
The Corum in Montpellier served as the beating heart of this last edition. The city witnessed nearly 340 creators mobilized and over fifty hours of live streaming. On-site, the event resembled both a festival and a vast studio: gaming spaces, animations, performances, meet-and-greets, and moments of improvisation unfolded before the cameras. An opening concert also brought together Yame, Bigflo & Oli, and Gazo at the Arena of Montpellier, giving the event a musical and popular dimension that far exceeded the gaming universe alone.
This interplay between a physical venue and hundreds of online streams constitutes one of the strengths of the format. The audience sees participants react in real-time, follow the progress of their fundraising, modify a challenge, or celebrate a milestone. Each channel maintains its tone and community, but all move towards a common goal. ZEvent thus created participatory television without a traditional schedule: the audience does not just watch; they give, share, comment, and push the event further.
Why Communities Responded So Strongly
The record is primarily due to a trust accumulated over the editions. The public knows the ritual, the organizers, and the logic of the fundraising. The presence of the Fondation de France adds a framework for managing and monitoring the funds. The 22 beneficiary charities correspond to various causes, allowing many sensitivities to identify with the operation without reducing the event to a single struggle.
The mechanics of donations are also designed as a narrative. Donation goals transform each milestone into a promise: a challenge, a costume, a performance, a meeting, or an unexpected action. Raffles and exceptional items add a spectacular dimension, while small donations remain the main fuel for mobilization. The average amount matters less than the repetition and circulation of the gesture from one community to another.
Finally, the announcement of a final edition likely heightened the urgency. Participating no longer meant just supporting an annual collection but taking part in the last chapter of a story that began in 2016. Nostalgia, the desire to thank the organizers, and the wish to set one last record gave the weekend a particular intensity. The final figure is thus as much a sum of money as it is a message addressed to those who built the event.
Twenty-Two Charities, Then the Time for Impact
A record collection is not only measured on the evening of the closure. The next step will be that of financed projects, their implementation, and their monitoring. The Fondation de France specifies that it will support the charities and ensure the public interest character of the supported actions. This less visible phase is essential: it transforms the emotion of the live event into sustainable programs, on-the-ground aid, and results that donors can understand.
The choice to support 22 organizations broadens the event’s reach but also demands clarity. Streaming communities are accustomed to instant data and shared evidence in real-time. They will naturally expect information on the distribution of funds and the achievements. This demand for transparency can become a model for other digital campaigns: showing not only how much has been raised but what each euro allows to build.
The End of ZEvent Opens a Global Question
ZEvent may be ending, but the format it has popularized will not disappear. From the United States to Europe, through Africa, Asia, and Latin America, creators are already organizing charity live streams, community campaigns, and hybrid events. The French experience shows that an operation can grow without losing its native language: that of the Internet, private jokes, improvised challenges, and the closeness between a creator and their audience.
It also demonstrates that digital attention can be more than a product sold to advertisers. For one weekend, time spent watching, comments, clips, and virality become an infrastructure of solidarity. This lesson transcends Twitch. It concerns YouTube, TikTok, live streaming platforms, and all brands or institutions seeking to connect with a generation less attached to traditional media appointments.
Farewells, Not Erasure
The last image of ZEvent is therefore not one of a fatigued format but of an event at the peak of its power. Nearly â¬33 million, 22 charities, and over 300 creators give this farewell a historic dimension. Few cultural projects born on the Internet can claim such spectacular growth and such a concrete footprint in associative life.
For B-EMPIRE, this record marks a passing of the torch. ZEvent has proven that web culture can organize its own grand stage, create its own rituals, and mobilize immense sums without renouncing its identity. The event takes its bow, but its influence will continue in every charity marathon, every collection led by a creator, and every community that understands that together, a live stream can become much more than entertainment.