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Start making GTA 6 videos
Eight steps to grow on YouTube and TikTok with GTA 6, from your first clip to getting paid.
Right now the fastest-rising GTA topic is gameplay details, at 6.8k views an hour across its videos. See every rising topic.
1Choose your formats
Shorts find you an audience; long videos and streams keep it. Start with one main platform and post shorts everywhere.
- Shorts: the funniest, wildest 20 to 40 seconds.
- Long videos: guides, secrets and challenges people search for after launch.
2Capture everything
On PS5, double-press the Create button to save the last moments of play. Set clip length and resolution once, before launch, so you never miss a moment.
- Set up one-press clipping during pre-load week.
- Turn on auto-upload to the PlayStation App to get clips on your phone.
3Make what people are searching for
Videos that cover a topic while it's rising get the views. After launch that's money, cars, secrets, glitches and the map. Check what's gaining views per hour before you record.
- Check rising topics every day in launch week.
- Answer the question in the first five seconds.
4Turn every session into shorts
Upload footage or connect Twitch, and Clip Autopilot finds the crashes, chases and reactions and cuts captioned vertical shorts, ready for TikTok, YouTube Shorts and Reels.
- Post at least one short a day.
- Put the hook on screen in the first second.
5Titles and thumbnails
Say what happens, not what the video is. Use the words that bring viewers, and keep story spoilers out of thumbnails.
- Write three titles and pick one.
- Use one face, one object, three words at most on thumbnails.
6Know the bar for getting paid
YouTube: 500 subscribers, 3 uploads in 90 days and 3,000 watch hours in a year or 3 million Shorts views in 90 days for fan funding; 1,000 subscribers and 4,000 hours or 10 million Shorts views for ad revenue. TikTok Creator Rewards: 18 or over, 10,000 followers, 100,000 views in 30 days, videos over a minute.
- Pick the bar you're aiming at and track it weekly.
Source: Tella: YouTube Partner Program requirements in 2026; TT Calculator: TikTok Creator Rewards Program requirements (2026)
7Get seen by GTA players
Post your best clip to Sunset Strip, where players vote and the best climb the board every hour. From launch, the Daily Job's top clip wins a month of Studio Pro.
- Post your best clip each day.
- Share your clip page: it shows your live rank.
8Stay inside Rockstar's rules
Rockstar lets players post gameplay and commentary. Leaked or pre-release footage, isolated cutscenes or the ending on their own, and money-glitch or mod-menu content get taken down.
- Keep cutscenes inside commentary or a full playthrough.
Source: Prepublish: What Rockstar allows GTA 6 creators to do (quotes Rockstar's video policy)
Track every step on your channel
Studio Pro checks your streams against each step and gives you three missions a week. They tick off as you go live.
Questions
How do I become a GTA 6 content creator?
Capture everything on your console, make videos about the GTA 6 topics gaining views fastest, and turn every session into vertical shorts for TikTok, YouTube Shorts and Reels. Post daily in launch week. Your targets: YouTube's 500 subscribers for fan funding and 1,000 for ad revenue, and TikTok's 10,000 followers for Creator Rewards.
Can I make money from GTA 6 videos?
Creators earn from GTA videos through YouTube and TikTok programmes. YouTube fan funding needs 500 subscribers; ad revenue needs 1,000 subscribers and 4,000 watch hours or 10 million Shorts views. Rockstar's policy tolerates monetised gameplay with commentary but takes down leaks, isolated cutscenes and cheat content.
What GTA 6 videos get the most views?
Topics while they're rising: early on that's first impressions, chaos and funny moments, then guides people search for, like money, cars and secrets. Sunset Strip's Trend Radar ranks GTA topics by views per hour.
How do I make GTA 6 shorts?
Clip on your console (double-press Create on PS5), then trim to 20 to 40 seconds in vertical format with captions. Clip Autopilot does this automatically from an upload or a Twitch stream.
What are TikTok's Creator Rewards requirements?
18 or over, at least 10,000 followers, 100,000 views in the last 30 days, and original videos longer than one minute, in a supported region.
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