France’s biggest streamer-led charity drive hits new peak by raising over €16 million

Outside of France, ZEvent is not a household name, but the latest edition of the annual charity drive is putting it on the map. Across a four-day period that ended on September 7, 325 French streamers came together to raise more than €16.1 million, which will be disbursed across nine recipient charities.

ZEvent dates back to 2016 and has been run almost every year since (there was no event in 2023). The organizers behind the annual drive are esports caster Adrien Nougaret — whose ZeratoR account ranks among France’s most-followed Twitch hubs — and his colleague Alexandre Dachary, better known as Dach.

By bringing together top French creators, who proceed to go live on an official stream one at a time, the ZEvent organizers have been able to raise millions to support a variety of charities. The event first raised a seven-digit sum in 2018, and the total has steadily risen since then.

After three consecutive ZEvent streams that hovered around the €10 million mark, Nougaret and his cadre of streamers broke through in a big way in 2025. Their fundraising total, which translates to about $18.7 million, will be handled by the Fondation de France. The nonprofit will ensure that the money is directed to the chosen charities.
The latest edition of ZEvent isn’t just the biggest charity drive in the event’s history — it is now the most lucrative undertaking of its type ever hosted on a streaming platform. MrBeast raised about $12 million when he took to Kick to support his #TeamWater campaign, but Nougaret and co. blew that total out of the water (no pun intended).

The extraordinary results achieved at ZEvent 2025 are a testament to the cultural power of France’s streaming community. YouTuber Inoxtag demonstrated the powers of les createurs last year, when he turned his trek up Mount Everest into a documentary and subsequently sold 350,000 movie tickets in just 24 hours. Creator content has become so big in France that then-Prime Minister François Bayrou used an August 2025 web series to defend unpopular budget cuts.

Bayrou’s series failed to achieve its goal, as the PM was recently ousted, throwing the French government into chaos. In a sense, France’s economic turmoil helps explain how its creator community has gotten so big. Across the border in Spain, long-term economic difficulties have led consumers to the world of streamers, where they can find free entertainment that fits any budget. As a result, Spain now plays host to some of the biggest streamer events in the entire world, such as Ibai’s record-setting influencer boxing series La Velada del Año.

If France’s national woes persist, members of its streamer community may find more opportunities to grow and leverage their respective followings. Those creators might prefer for the economy to turn around, but hey — at least nine charities are (collectively) €16.1 million richer.