2 weeks Ago By Paul Thurrott
Google’s parent company reported that it earned a net income of $34.5 billion on revenues of $90.2 billion in the quarter ending March 31, 2025.
Those figures represent year-over-year (YOY) gains of 31.5 percent and 12 percent, respectively. “We’re pleased with our strong Q1 results, which reflect healthy growth and momentum across the business,” .
“Underpinning this growth is our unique full stack approach to AI. This quarter was super exciting as we rolled out Gemini 2.5, our most intelligent AI model, which is achieving breakthroughs in performance and is an extraordinary foundation for our future innovation.
Search saw continued strong growth, boosted by the engagement we’re seeing with features like AI Overviews, which now has 1.5 billion users per month. Driven by YouTube and Google One, we surpassed 270 million paid subscriptions.
And Cloud grew rapidly with significant demand for our solutions.” Google advertising revenues across Search, YouTube, and Google Network were $66.9 billion, a gain of 7.
8 percent YOY. So 74 percent of all Alphabet/Google revenues came from advertising, about even with . Sign up for our new free newsletter to get three time-saving tips each Friday — get free copies of Paul Thurrott's Windows 11 and Windows 10 Field Guides (normally $9.
99) as a special welcome gift! Google subscriptions, platforms, and devices added another $10.3 billion in revenues, up 15.8 percent.
And Google Cloud delivered revenues of $12.3 billion, up 22 percent. Alphabet’s Other Bets brought up the rear with revenues of $450 million, a decline of 10 percent YOY.
Google’s non-advertising-based revenues were about $22.6 billion, or 25 percent of total Alphabet/Google revenues. Google now employs over 185,000 people, up about 3 percent YOY.
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