YouTube’s top game-trailer ads of 2017 — Minions get more hits than Star Wars: Battlefront II

The various Google brands are looking back on 2017, and YouTube is revealing its top videos of the year. That includes the “game trailer” ad category, which features familiar blockbusters throughout the top 10. But it is mobile games that dominated the top of the chart, with Clash of Clans and Despicable Me: Minion Rush taking two of the top three spots.

Before I get to the list, it’s worth pointing out that Google did not consider something like Super Mario Odyssey for this list. I’ve reached out to YouTube for the exact criteria, but this is apparently its top 10 most-viewed game trailers that are also YouTube ads. If you included Mario and its 23 million views, it would have finished higher than the majority of Google’s list (thanks to Twitter user Pacotromas for the heads up). The below top 10, however, is a combination of organic and paid views on YouTube. I’ll update this if Google provides any more details on what it considered for this list.