GTA 6 Videos Can Earn YouTube Ads With Graphic Violence After 7 Seconds – GTA BOOM

GTA 6 Videos Can Earn YouTube Ads With Graphic Violence After 7 Seconds  GTA BOOM

YouTube now lets gameplay ads run on graphic violence after a video's first 7 seconds, and recreational drug content is newly eligible too. YouTube appears to be making moves to become the home of Grand Theft Auto VI and its changes, including a rewrite of its once-strict rules, line up with making that happen. Behind the recent promotional ads telling people there is "more to GTA VI on YouTube," are new monetization rules that describe the kind of content GTA 6 is about to produce in enormous volume for the platform. Spotted on Instagram and Facebook, YouTube's latest campaign uses lightly altered key art of Jason and Lucia, minus the pistol from the original, under taglines like "There's more to GTA VI on YouTube" and "All roads lead to more GTAVI on YouTube." It is YouTube positioning itself as the place for everything GTA 6, the first and second trailers, Grand Theft Auto VI: An Extended Look and the coming wave of creator videos, during the most intense marketing stretch the industry has seen.

Given that GTA 6 is scheduled to launch on November 19 and that YouTube is where the first trailers broke records and where the Extended Look arrived after its Netflix exclusivity window, some believe the ads are a tease for Trailer 3 or music videos tied