GTA 6 Trailer: Launch Trailer and All Four Official Videos

Short answer

• Trailer 1: Newswire post dated December 5, 2023; released early after a leak. Guinness record: 90,421,491 YouTube views in 24 hours.
• Trailer 2: May 6, 2025, four days after the first delay.
• An Extended Look: Netflix on August 27, 2026 at 3 p.m. ET, YouTube and Rockstar's site at 9 p.m. ET.
• Launch Trailer: October 15, 2026 on Rockstar Newswire, with new music from Justice.
• Trailer 3: no video goes by that name; the fourth official video is the Launch Trailer.
• Rockstar's media page holds 4 videos, 9 clips and 99 screenshots.

Every official GTA 6 video, in order

GTA 6 trailer 1: December 2023 and the Guinness record

Rockstar's Newswire post for Trailer 1 is dated December 5, 2023. It introduced Leonida, "home to the neon-soaked streets of Vice City and beyond", and set the window as "Coming 2025 to PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S". That window later slipped twice, as the delays timeline shows.

The video went up ahead of schedule. Guinness states it was "released earlier than scheduled due to a leak a few hours prior". Hence some sites list December 4: in the Americas it was still evening.

The numbers set three records at once, by Guinness:

• most viewed videogame reveal trailer on YouTube in 24 hours: 90,421,491 views;
• most viewed YouTube video in 24 hours, non-music, beating MrBeast's 59.4 million;
• most liked videogame trailer: 8.9 million likes on day one.

YouTube's own blog put the first day at "over 93 million views". The gap is a matter of timing: Guinness certified a snapshot, YouTube kept counting. Fair wording is "over 90 million in a day, 90,421,491 by Guinness".

GTA 6 trailer 2: May 2025

Trailer 2 went up on May 6, 2025 under the line "Explore Vice City and beyond". Rockstar relaunched its GTA VI site at the same time and added wishlist buttons for PS5 and Xbox.

The timing mattered. Four days earlier, on May 2, Rockstar had moved the game from 2025 to May 26, 2026.

Rockstar then claimed more than 475 million views across all platforms in 24 hours, calling it "the fastest-growing video launch in the internet's history". By Game Rant's report, that beat the 365 million of the Deadpool & Wolverine trailer, and the total passed 500 million within days. We list this figure as reported: Game Rant cites Rockstar, but we did not open Rockstar's own post with the number.

The Extended Look on Netflix

Rockstar announced Grand Theft Auto VI: An Extended Look on August 6, 2026. It premiered on Netflix on Thursday, August 27 at 3 p.m. ET, then on Rockstar's YouTube channel and site at 9 p.m. ET. Rockstar says it was "captured entirely from in-game footage on PlayStation 5".

The premiere came one day after Rockstar's statement on the August leaks, in which it called the game "nearly there". News from that week sits in our GTA 6 news log.

Netflix Top 10 data, reported by Beebom, counted 31.1 million views over four days. It was the top English-language film in 87 of 93 countries, and the YouTube upload passed 17 million views in five days.

Newswire does not list a running time, so we don't quote one.

Is it gameplay? Rockstar's wording is "captured entirely from in-game footage on PlayStation 5". It has not said how much of that footage is live play and how much is staged scenes, so treat it as a showcase of the game running on a PS5, not as a recorded play session. What Rockstar has actually confirmed about play is listed in GTA 6 gameplay: what is confirmed.

The radio stations and podcasts came later, on October 8, and have their own page: GTA 6 radio stations and music.

GTA 6 Launch Trailer: October 15, 2026

Rockstar posted the Launch Trailer on Newswire on October 15, 2026: "Check out the new Launch Trailer, featuring new music from electronic duo Justice, composers of the original score from Grand Theft Auto VI". It is the fourth official video, and Rockstar's media page now lists it first.

Rockstar sums up the story in one line: when "an easy score goes wrong", Jason and Lucia "find themselves on the darkest side of the sunniest place in America". The post ends with the date: "Grand Theft Auto VI arrives November 19 to PlayStation 5 and XBOX Series X|S". The fixed dates up to launch are in GTA 6 release date.

The post also points to the duo's new standalone single, "Flower in a Hurricane". Rockstar says it is on Grand Theft Auto VI: The Album, the official soundtrack, which you can pre-save on music streaming services or pre-order on vinyl or CD at gtavi-thealbum.com. The post does not say which track plays in the trailer itself. The album and the in-game stations are covered in GTA 6 radio stations and music, and the week's other news is in the GTA 6 news log.

When is GTA 6 trailer 3?

No video is called Trailer 3. The fourth official video came out on October 15, 2026, and Rockstar named it the Launch Trailer. Whether another video comes before launch, Rockstar has not said. If a site names a date for trailer 3, it isn't quoting Rockstar.

What we can give you is the gaps between official videos. These are past intervals, not a forecast.

The gaps tell you about the past, not about Rockstar's plans: a launch can bring its own videos on any schedule. The fixed dates to watch are in GTA 6 release date.

Where can you watch the GTA 6 trailers officially?

Rockstar's media page at rockstargames.com/VI/media holds all four videos, along with the rest of the official material:

The three earlier videos are also on Rockstar's YouTube channel, and the Launch Trailer has its own Newswire post. Game Informer issue No. 382 added 12 exclusive screenshots in September 2026, and the official music page has short station previews, one to three minutes each by Game Informer's count.

If you only have time for one video, make it the Launch Trailer: it is the newest. Rockstar says the Extended Look was "captured entirely from in-game footage on PlayStation 5". Trailers 1 and 2 are short and mostly set the tone and the place. The cast is described in text on Rockstar's Only in Leonida page, and in our GTA 6 characters guide. The GTA 6 FAQ answers the questions people usually have after watching, and the pre-order guide covers the next step if you decide to buy. What each edition contains, in text, is in our editions comparison.

What usually goes wrong

• Calling the Launch Trailer "Trailer 3". Rockstar named its fourth video the Launch Trailer, and none of its videos is titled "Trailer 3". Edits with that title are not Rockstar videos. If Rockstar's Newswire and media page don't have a video, it isn't real.
• Leaked footage passed off as a trailer. The videos that have appeared since August 2026 come from an unauthorized work-in-progress build. Rockstar has confirmed none of it, and we don't link it.
• December 4 or December 5? Both appear, and both are fair. Rockstar's post says December 5; the leak pushed the release into the evening of December 4 in the Americas.
• Comparing view counts from different sources. 90.4 million (Guinness, YouTube, 24 hours) and 475 million (Rockstar, all platforms, 24 hours) measure different things. Don't put them in one ranking.
• Watching a re-upload instead of the original. A copy on someone else's channel can be trimmed, sped up or re-edited. The originals are on Rockstar's YouTube channel and at rockstargames.com/VI/media, which also show the real publication date.

What the videos actually confirm, as opposed to what people read into them, is sorted on our confirmed vs rumors board. The rest of our pages on the game are on the GTA 6 hub.

See also

• GTA 6 countdown by time zone

FAQ

Sources

• Rockstar Newswire: Watch Trailer 1 now (Dec 5, 2023)
• Guinness World Records: most viewed videogame reveal on YouTube in 24 hours
• YouTube Blog: Grand Theft Auto breaks record (Dec 5, 2023)
• Rockstar Newswire: Watch Trailer 2 now (May 6, 2025)
• Game Rant: GTA 6 trailer 2 view record claim (May 8, 2025)
• Rockstar Newswire: GTA VI An Extended Look announced (Aug 6, 2026)
• Rockstar Newswire: An Extended Look now playing (Aug 27, 2026)
• Beebom: Extended Look hits 31.1 million Netflix views (Sep 2, 2026)
• Rockstar Newswire: Watch the GTA VI Launch Trailer (Oct 15, 2026)
• Rockstar: GTA VI media page, 4 videos (checked Oct 19, 2026)