On 3 October 2026, ViceRadar was tracking 19,217 GTA VI videos on YouTube. 4,043 of them were published in the last seven days — roughly 580 a day, and that is only what one tool can find.
The videos come from 8,661 channels that published at least one GTA VI video in the last thirty days. That number is the one worth staring at: GTA VI is not a niche with room for everyone. It is one of the most contested subjects on the platform, six weeks before the game is even out.
Almost all of the competition is small
By subscriber count, the channels covering GTA VI last month:
- Under 1,000 subscribers: 5,807 channels
- 1k – 10k: 1,406
- 10k – 100k: 795
- 100k – 1M: 468
- 1M+: 185
Two thirds of everyone making GTA VI content has fewer than a thousand subscribers. If you are in that group, the useful read is not "I am competing with the big channels" — you are mostly competing with five thousand people exactly your size, all chasing the same handful of obvious subjects.
Which is also where the opening is. The large channels cover whatever Rockstar announced this week, because that is what their audience expects. Nobody with 185 million subscribers is making the definitive video about the physics of a specific vehicle.
Most subjects are already past their peak
ViceRadar groups videos into topics — differently titled videos about the same thing — and gives each one a state. Right now, across 2,048 tracked topics:
- DECLINING: 995 topics
- NEW: 872
- RISING: 154
- HOT: 12
- SATURATING: 11
- BREAKING: 4
Just under half of everything being covered is already losing attention. Only 170 topics — about 8% — are rising, hot or breaking at any given moment.
That ratio is the actual problem with picking a subject by scrolling YouTube. What you see when you scroll is what already worked, which is a list of topics in their DECLINING phase. By the time a subject is obviously popular, the videos that will win it are published.
What timing is worth
The window matters more than the production. A topic that is BREAKING has sharp acceleration, strong performance relative to the channels posting it, and few channels on it — and four of those exist today out of two thousand. They do not stay that way: coverage arrives within days, and the topic moves to HOT and then to SATURATING.
So the question for a small channel is not "what should I make a video about?" but "what is accelerating that nobody has covered yet?" That is a question about measurement, and it is why the radar re-measures every tracked video on a schedule rather than looking once.
Caveats
These numbers describe what ViceRadar can see. Coverage is wide — thousands of channels, every video they publish about GTA VI — but no tool indexes all of YouTube, so read them as the shape of the competition rather than a census. They were measured on 3 October 2026; the statistics page keeps the same figures current to the hour.