GOOGL 2025 Q2 Earnings Update
By Yimin Xu on July 24, 2025
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1. Business Highlights
Alphabet Business Breakdown
Most of Alphabet’s money machine is, surprisingly in the Golden Age of AI, still Search. Search makes up 56% of GOOGL’s Q2 revenue.
Google Cloud takes a distant second place, contributing towards 14% of the revenue. Cloud is closely followed by Google subscriptions, platforms, devices, YouTube ads (I pay Premium to not watch them, which goes to the Subscriptions revenue), and finally Google Network.
Waymo operates under Other Bets, which brings in negligible money right now.
Alphabet Q2 Performance
Google Search is very resilient, up 12% YoY to $54 billion. That’s a $200 billion annual run rate. TSLA’s entire annual revenue is half that. Google Search’s AI Overview boasts over 2 billion monthly users and has led to 10% more queries globally.
YouTube ads grew by a similar 13% YoY to $10 billion, thanks to Shorts. YouTube Shorts average over 200 billion daily views. Its monetisation is now approaching parity with the traditional in-stream ads in the US.
Most impressively, Google Cloud grew by 32% to $13.6 billion. That puts the annual run rate over $50 billion. A lot of growth has been driven by the enterprise usage of Gemini.
Google subscriptions, platforms, and devices are up 20% YoY to $11 billion. There was strong growth in YouTube and Google One subscriptions.