Alphabet stays on a roll as its world-beating streaming-video platform YouTube continues to dominate.
Wall Road forecast Alphabet Q2 2025 earnings per share (EPS) of $2.20 on income of $94.02 billion. The corporate, previously often called Google, bested each by posting EPS of $2.31 on $96.4 billion in income. Web revenue was $28.2 billion, up 19 p.c from the second quarter of 2024.5
YouTube’s advert income for the quarter ending June 30, 2025 was anticipated to return in at $9.6 billion; the UGC platform bested that with roughly $9.8 billion. One other beat.
Learn final yr’s comparable Alphabet quarterly earnings right here, and the most-recent quarterly outcomes right here.
In June, YouTube made up 12.8 p.c of all TV utilization, in keeping with Nielsen, which far exceeded the second-place platform, Netflix, at 8.3 p.c. Nobody else reached 5 p.c. It seems like an insurmountable lead, and can also be the rationale why Netflix at some point ventures into the user-generated content material area.
“We had a standout quarter, with strong progress throughout the corporate. We’re main on the frontier of AI and delivery at an unimaginable tempo. AI is positively impacting each a part of the enterprise, driving sturdy momentum. Search delivered double-digit income progress, and our new options, like AI Overviews and AI Mode, are performing nicely,” Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai mentioned in a press release. “We proceed to see sturdy efficiency in YouTube in addition to subscriptions choices. And Cloud had sturdy progress in revenues, backlog and profitability. Its annual income run-rate is now greater than $50 billion. With this sturdy and rising demand for our Cloud services, we’re rising our funding in capital expenditures in 2025 to roughly $85 billion and are excited by the chance forward.”
Google Search income jumped from $48.5 billion final Q2 to $54.2 billion on this one.