Overview
- Alphabet reported $109.9 billion in first‑quarter revenue, up 22% year over year, with net income of $62.6 billion.
- YouTube ads brought in $9.88 billion, a 10.7% jump from a year ago that came in just below the roughly $9.99 billion Wall Street expected.
- Usage on YouTube kept climbing as viewers watched more than 200 million hours per day and over 10 million channels posted Shorts each day.
- Paid subscriptions across YouTube Premium and Google One reached about 350 million, following recent U.S. price hikes for Premium, Music, and Premium Lite.
- Google Cloud revenue grew 63% and its backlog topped $460 billion, with executives citing AI products like the Gemini app as momentum drivers across the business.