Popular video streaming platform YouTube is on a roll as the company continues to gain major ad revenue around the globe. The figures hit $8.9 billion in Q1 of this year, which is a massive 10.3% YoY jump. But that’s not all. Google’s parent firm Alphabet, soared to success after topping the Q1 2025 earnings estimates.
Advertising sales revenue for YouTube was just a little short of expectations from analysts, reaching $8.9 billion during Q1. Interestingly, this figure doesn’t entail billions more in revenue than the app generates via subscriptions like YouTube TV and Premium. The company never breaks those figures down to the public.
Still, it’s great news that the internet firm is really soaring to new heights of success. The fact that it has more than 270M paid subscribers says it all, and it’s all thanks to Google One and YouTube. Meanwhile, YouTube Premium and Music also hit 125M subscribers during the quarter.
The firm expanded cheap Premium Lite products across the US for just $7.99, which was a drop from the previous $13.99 a year for YouTube Premium. As a whole, Alphabet’s revenue was up 12% and net profit grew 46%. As per predictions from Wall Street, the company certainly exceeded the estimates.
Google and Alphabet’s CEO, Sundar Pichai, shared the glad tidings yesterday, expressing great happiness over the strong results for Q1. He spoke about how that clearly shows that the firm is headed in a healthy direction as growth continues to pick up the pace. Google Search witnessed strong growth, and that was complemented by a rise in engagement.
Thanks to new features like AI Overviews that have 1.5B users every month, the figures went above 270M paid subscribers. Similarly, Cloud grew big time with greater demand for their solutions.
YouTube marked its 20th anniversary this year and also shared new stats talking about 20B videos shared through its platform till today. For all of 2024, the company had revenue estimates hitting $54 billion, and that made it the second biggest media firm after Disney. Now, it’s expected to take over the top spot as per analyst predictions.
The macroeconomic uncertainty still continues to loom, and the company didn’t share how that could impact figures for the second quarter’s ad sales.
For now, Google is trying to battle its lawsuits after a major setback ruling from the US DOJ. The federal judge ruled that it used monopoly practices to attain its top spot in the ad tech world. The Android maker is keen on appealing those claims.
This comes after August 2024, when a ruling from another federal court shared how Google behaves as a monopoly by engaging in billion-dollar deals so its browsers remained the default option across smartphones like Samsung and Apple.
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Advertising sales revenue for YouTube was just a little short of expectations from analysts, reaching $8.9 billion during Q1. Interestingly, this figure doesn’t entail billions more in revenue than the app generates via subscriptions like YouTube TV and Premium. The company never breaks those figures down to the public.
Still, it’s great news that the internet firm is really soaring to new heights of success. The fact that it has more than 270M paid subscribers says it all, and it’s all thanks to Google One and YouTube. Meanwhile, YouTube Premium and Music also hit 125M subscribers during the quarter.
The firm expanded cheap Premium Lite products across the US for just $7.99, which was a drop from the previous $13.99 a year for YouTube Premium. As a whole, Alphabet’s revenue was up 12% and net profit grew 46%. As per predictions from Wall Street, the company certainly exceeded the estimates.
Google and Alphabet’s CEO, Sundar Pichai, shared the glad tidings yesterday, expressing great happiness over the strong results for Q1. He spoke about how that clearly shows that the firm is headed in a healthy direction as growth continues to pick up the pace. Google Search witnessed strong growth, and that was complemented by a rise in engagement.
Thanks to new features like AI Overviews that have 1.5B users every month, the figures went above 270M paid subscribers. Similarly, Cloud grew big time with greater demand for their solutions.
YouTube marked its 20th anniversary this year and also shared new stats talking about 20B videos shared through its platform till today. For all of 2024, the company had revenue estimates hitting $54 billion, and that made it the second biggest media firm after Disney. Now, it’s expected to take over the top spot as per analyst predictions.
The macroeconomic uncertainty still continues to loom, and the company didn’t share how that could impact figures for the second quarter’s ad sales.
For now, Google is trying to battle its lawsuits after a major setback ruling from the US DOJ. The federal judge ruled that it used monopoly practices to attain its top spot in the ad tech world. The Android maker is keen on appealing those claims.
This comes after August 2024, when a ruling from another federal court shared how Google behaves as a monopoly by engaging in billion-dollar deals so its browsers remained the default option across smartphones like Samsung and Apple.
Read next:
• AI Disrupts SaaS Growth: 39% of Mid-Sized Software Firms Struggle to Keep Up in 2024
• New Study Shows Children Can Develop Anxiety by Watching Negative Content on YouTube
