GTA 6 trailer 1 hits 291 million views: every count, dated

The first Grand Theft Auto VI trailer reads 291,981,122 views and 12,462,408 likes on Rockstar Games’ YouTube channel, counted on August 28, 2026 at around 20:30 UTC. Trailer 2, up since May 6, 2025, sits at 180,266,274 views, a little over 60 percent of what its predecessor has.

Video	Posted	Runtime	Views on August 28, 2026	Likes
Trailer 1	December 4, 2023	90 s	291,981,122	12,462,408
Trailer 2	May 6, 2025	2 min 47	180,266,274	6,601,821
An Extended Look	August 27, 2026	26 min 48	8,748,111	1,092,376

The record most often attached to the first of those numbers does not hold. On November 11, 2025, NME reported that trailer 1 had become the most viewed trailer in YouTube history, past 268 million views against 267 million for “Avengers: Infinity War”. Five days later the specialist account Rockstar Mag’ went back on X over a claim it had passed on itself, calling it false.

Numerama published its own correction on November 17, 2025, with the figures behind it. The Subway Surfers trailer, online since 2012, was at roughly 361 million views, against roughly 269 million for GTA 6. That gap comes from the video sitting inside Google Play, where every playback through the YouTube player, recommendations and ads included, counts as a view.

Half of the comparison survives. On the Marvel Entertainment channel, the “Avengers: Infinity War” trailer reads 272,455,559 views on August 28, 2026, so trailer 1 is ahead of it by close to 20 million, more than nine months after the NME piece.

Rockstar told The Hollywood Reporter on May 7, 2025 that trailer 2 had passed 475 million views across all platforms in a single day, ahead of the 365 million of “Deadpool & Wolverine”. On March 19, 2026, the first trailer for “Spider-Man: Brand New Day” cleared 500 million views in twelve hours and reached 718.6 million in twenty-four.

Rockstar has never broken those 475 million down by platform, and only the YouTube share is documented, at more than 80 million in a day according to Numerama on May 8, 2025. No 24-hour figure exists for the Extended Look.

Netflix published a weekly one. Its global English-language film chart for August 24 to 30, 2026 puts “Grand Theft Auto VI: An Extended Look” first, with 31.1 million views, ahead of the 23.2 million of “The Whisper Man” in second. The video had only been up since August 27, four of the seven days counted.

That counter does not work like YouTube’s. Netflix publishes 14 million hours viewed beside it, for a runtime it rounds to 27 minutes, and the 31.1 million views are the ratio of the two.