Google records $90.23 billion revenue in Q1 2025

Google’s parent company, Alphabet has recorded a $90.23 billion total revenue in Q1 2025. The revenue was driven by Google services: Google Search, YouTube, Subscriptions, and Networks. The total also represents a 12% growth for the tech giant year on year.

According to the company’s Q1 2025 financial report released on Thursday, its Search & other, YouTube ads, Google subscriptions, platforms, and devices, and Google Cloud delivered double-digit growth rates, contributing about 85.6% of the company’s revenue.

Specifically, YouTube ads recorded a total of $8.9 billion in revenue. Network followed with $7.2 billion, and Search with $50.7 billion.

Google Cloud revenues increased by 28% YoY to $12.3 billion, led by growth in its Cloud Platform (GCP), AI Infrastructure, and Generative AI Solutions. The company explained that the Cloud product has enabled a balanced performance in delivering the best value for AI leaders like Anyscale and Contextual AI.

Recall that Google announced a $32 billion agreement to acquire Wiz, a leading cloud security platform that protects all major clouds and code environments. This was to strengthen data in the Cloud, detect malware, investigate, and stay vigilant to cybersecurity threats.

The report also acknowledged the impact of AI infrastructure offerings and generative AI solutions, underpinning the Gemini 2.5 Pro launch as a magnificent ride. It delivers over 2 billion AI assists monthly across Google Workspace, including summarising Gmail and refining Docs. 

After its launch, the Gemini 2.5 pro on a wide range of benchmarks debuted at number one on the Chatbot Arena by a significant margin. The model achieved significant strides in reasoning, coding, science, and math capabilities, creating new experiences for developers and customers.

With 1.5 billion monthly users, active users in AI Studio and the Gemini API have grown by over 200% since the start of 2025, according to the report. Its Gamma 3 model, launched last month, has been downloaded over 140 million times.

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Reacting to the financial statement, the Chief Executive Officer at Google, Sundar Pichai, said:

“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.”

Also, YouTube now has over 1 billion monthly active podcast users, with YouTube Music and Premium reaching over 125 million subscribers globally, including trials.

On Wednesday, the company marked the 20th anniversary of the first video uploaded to YouTube – a 19-second video posted by YouTube co-founder Jawed Karim at the San Diego Zoo in the US. In the footage, he made inane remarks about the length of an elephant’s trunk.

Notably, Google highlighted that its Circle to Search, which includes Lens, is now available on more than 250 million devices, with usage increasing nearly 40 per cent in Q1 2025. Monthly visual searches with Lens have also increased by 5 billion since last October.

“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,” the company stated in the report.

Google’s future projection 

Following an improved quarter, the world’s leading search engine said the Google Assistant would be upgraded on mobile devices to Gemini. It will also upgrade tablets, cars, and devices that connect to phones, such as headphones and watches.

With its availability in about 40 languages in over 200 countries, the new addition will provide more flexible usage and seek to increase users.

For AI Overviews, the tool that generates concise results on Search, the company said it would continue to roll out the tool in more countries following an encouraged review in the U.S. “Search is more useful for more of their queries. So we’re leaning in heavily here, continuing to roll the feature out in new countries, to more users, and more queries,” the company said.