How to Download Kick VODs Before They Expire (2026)

Kick puts your favourite streams on a short clock. A past broadcast is kept for just seven days on most channels, thirty for verified streamers, and then Kick deletes it automatically. Add the streamers who remove their own VODs and the accounts that vanish overnight, and very little on Kick is safe to leave where it is. This guide covers exactly how long Kick keeps a VOD, and how to save a channel's past broadcasts and clips to your own drive before the clock runs out.

How Kick Content Disappears

Kick grew quickly, and the flip side of a young platform is that very little on it is settled. Content you assume will be there next month often is not, for reasons that have nothing to do with you:

• The streamer deletes it. A broadcaster can remove their own past broadcasts at any time, to tidy a channel, to bury a bad stream, or simply because they do not think of the VODs as something anyone is keeping.
• The account goes down. Bans, self-deletions, and streamers leaving the platform all take their content with them. Kick has seen plenty of high-profile accounts appear and disappear, and when one goes, its VODs go too.
• Kick deletes them on a timer. Stream replays are kept for just seven days on most channels, and thirty days for verified streamers. After that Kick removes them automatically, whether or not anyone saved a copy, and there is a cap on how many replays a channel can hold at once.
• Channels get removed. Whether by the streamer or the platform, a channel disappearing takes its entire back catalogue at once, the same way it does everywhere else.

None of these come with a warning. The only thing you control is whether a copy already exists somewhere Kick cannot reach.

What You Lose With a VOD

When a Kick VOD goes, the video is the obvious loss. The rest is what people miss more:

• The full broadcast. Clips are short, curated moments. The complete stream, everything around the clip, only exists in the VOD, and the VOD is the part most likely to be deleted.
• The context. When it aired, what it was called, how it fit into a channel's run. Once the VOD is gone, so is the record of what actually happened and when.
• The one-offs. The stream a creator never clipped, the collab that only existed as a past broadcast, the moment nobody thought to save because it seemed like it would always be there.

"The clips are still up" is small comfort when the clips are a highlight reel and the VOD was the whole thing.

What Kick Lets You Download

For a viewer, the answer is nothing. Kick has no download button on a past broadcast, so if you are not the streamer there is no supported path on Kick itself to keep a VOD you want. Even for a broadcaster, saving every past stream by hand inside a seven-day window is exactly the kind of chore that does not happen consistently until the one you wanted is already gone.

Why "I'll Grab It Later" Fails

The problem is how short the default window is. Seven days is not long. A stream you meant to rewatch at the weekend can already be gone by the next, and for most channels the clock starts the moment the broadcast ends. Even the thirty-day verified window passes faster than it sounds when you are not watching for it, and a streamer can always delete a replay sooner. So the only capture that reliably works is the one that happens automatically, in advance, whether or not you are paying attention that week.

And there is no recovery afterwards. Kick has no public way to restore a deleted VOD, and a video stream behind a player is not something web archives keep at full quality. The version that exists after a VOD is gone is the version someone saved before it went. Being that person, ahead of time, is the whole point.

How to Archive a Kick Channel

The goal is a local copy that builds itself as a channel streams, so an unpredictable deletion never catches you out. StreamStash is a self-hosted desktop app for Windows that handles this, with Kick archiving on the Personal tier. The workflow is short:

1. Add the channels you'd miss. Start with the handful whose lost broadcasts would actually bother you, and the ones you already sense are volatile.
2. Follow each one as a monitored feed. StreamStash checks the channel on a schedule and saves new VODs and clips into a local library on your own drive, so they are captured while they are still up rather than chased after they are gone.
3. Grab anything urgent right now. If a stream just ended and you know you want it, paste the Kick VOD or clip link into Quick Download to pull it immediately instead of waiting for the next scheduled check. You can turn a one-off download into a monitored channel later with one click.
4. Check in occasionally. The archive runs unattended. Because it captures VODs while they are live rather than after they vanish, the content is already saved by the time you would have gone looking for it.

For now StreamStash archives saved Kick content, VODs and clips, after a broadcast finishes. Recording Kick streams live as they happen is planned for a future update.

What Gets Saved

A Kick archive keeps the past broadcasts and clips a channel makes public, saved to the same local library as everything else you archive rather than to a folder of its own. That means a Kick VOD shows up in your dashboard, storage breakdown, global search, favourites, and notes, plays in the built-in player, and can be grouped alongside the creator wherever else you follow them. On the Power tier, cross-platform deduplication recognises when the same clip turns up on more than one platform, so a streamer you archive on both Kick and elsewhere does not fill your drive with duplicates.

Beyond Kick, One Archive

Streamers rarely commit to one platform, and Kick creators in particular often keep a presence on Twitch, YouTube, or elsewhere at the same time. Twitch has its own countdown that deletes past broadcasts on a timer, covered in how to download Twitch VODs before they expire, and the same logic applies across every platform a creator uses. Keeping them in one local library means a streamer you follow in several places lands in a single searchable archive instead of a scatter of tools and folders. The wider case for that is laid out in the best self-hosted social media archiver for Windows.

A Note on Responsible Use

This is about keeping a private copy of streams you can already watch, for personal, research, or archival purposes. Saving publicly available VODs and clips for those reasons is generally reasonable. Re-uploading or redistributing a streamer's content as your own is a separate matter and is not what this is for. Always check Kick's terms of service and your local laws, respect the creators whose work you are keeping, and treat your archive as the private reference library it is meant to be.

FAQ

Can I download a Kick VOD?

Kick has no viewer-facing download button for a past broadcast. If you are not the streamer, there is no supported way on Kick itself to save a VOD you want to keep. StreamStash fills that gap by archiving the VODs and clips a channel makes publicly available, the same ones you can already watch, to a local library on your own machine.

How long does Kick keep VODs?

Kick keeps stream replays for seven days on non-verified channels, and thirty days for verified streamers. After that the VOD is deleted automatically and cannot be recovered, and streamers can also delete or hide a replay before the window ends. In practice that means most Kick VODs have a one-week life by default, shorter than Twitch's fourteen days, so anything you want to keep needs archiving well before it lapses.

What plan is Kick archiving on?

Kick archiving is on the Personal tier, which also adds Instagram, Threads, and Telegram on top of the free platforms. It is a one-time purchase, not a subscription.

Can StreamStash record a Kick stream live?

Not yet. For now StreamStash archives saved Kick content, VODs and clips, after a broadcast has finished. Recording Kick streams live as they happen, the way StreamStash already does for TikTok, is planned for a future update.