Youtube? That platform has been going downhill for almost a decade. Twitter, tiktok etc yeah.
Don't get me wrong, the Youtube numbers are really good for this trailer. It is now the third most viewed video on Rockstar's channel. X.com is still great for advertising. 106+ million views (or interactions, as I think it is called?) on Rockstars x.com page. Instragram numbers are strong. Facebook; maybe not the best for promotional stuff like this, but it still pulls in numbers.
Add up all of the below numbers, I count around 300 million views. I'm not sure where the other alleged 100+ million views could come from. Maybe Rockstar Games includes the 'let's watch' and reactions, as well? But, I guess they also have much better metrics than I do.
I haven't even gotten into the South Korean, Japanese, Chinese, or India social media/ youtube equivalent sites. Or the Spanish websites. That is a whole other thing.
Maybe when I add up global view counts, it could be closer to 500 million views? That doesn't mean half a billion people saw these ads. There are a lot of re-watches.
Youtube:
- Rockstar: 84+ Million Views
- IGN: 2.7+ million Views
- Rockstar Games Brasil: 468k views
- Playstation: 464k views
- PlayStation España: 312K views
- GameSpot : 178K views
- Xbox: 124K views
- Rockstar Games France: 119K views
- PlayStation France: 47K views
- Playstation Brazil: 11K views
- GameTrailers: 9.6K views
There are other uploads too. But I am not going to deep dive any further. Also, a lot of 'lets watch', analysis videos and reaction videos. For example, AngryJoe has a video with 200+K views. Plus he has a secondary video shouting that Sony copyright striked him for playing a second worth of licensed music.
X.com:
- Rockstar: 106+ million views
- Playstation: 3.6+ million views
- XBOX: 1.9+ million views
- IGN: 884K views
Instagram:
- Rockstar: 66+ million views
- Playstation: 486k views
- IGN: 303k views
FaceBook:
- Rockstar: 11+ million views
- IGN: 1.7+ million views
- Playstation: 57.7k views
TikTok: To be honest... I don't use TikTok. I don't have an attention span short enough to have any interest in the site yet. I cannot find a full upload of the trailer from Rockstar. Lots of hot takes and reaction videos.
BlueSky: Rockstar has a Bluesky account. But like most Blusky accounts, it is empty. Also, Bluesky's video upload seems to be limited in size, unless you host your own videos from an external server.
Rumble: 4.10k
Dailymotion: Doesn't have a view counter.
IGN: They have a video uploaded to their main website. But no view count.
GameSpot: Same as IGN. But no view count is made public.
Note: No ChatGPT or any other form of AI was used. I literally did all the ground work myself and went to every site and took down numbers the old fashioned way.