By
David.E
Google’s parent company, Alphabet Inc., on Thursday reported a 12 per cent rise in revenue for the first quarter of 2025 to $90.2 billion, driven by robust growth across its core Google businesses and continued momentum in cloud computing and artificial intelligence offerings.
The big tech said net income surged 46 per cent year-over-year to $23.66bn, while earnings per share climbed 49 per cent to $2.81. Operating income rose 20 per cent and the operating margin expanded by two percentage points to 34 per cent.
Part of the report stated, “Consolidated Alphabet revenues in Q1 2025 increased 12 per cent, or 14 per cent in constant currency, year over year to $90.2bn reflecting robust momentum across the business, with Google Search & other, YouTube ads, Google subscriptions, platforms, and devices, and Google Cloud each delivering double-digit growth rates.”
Alphabet’s Google Services unit, which includes Search, YouTube ads, and subscriptions, generated $77.3bn in revenue, up 10 per cent from a year earlier.
YouTube and Google’s hardware and subscription platforms also contributed to the gains.
Google Cloud revenue jumped 28 per cent to $12.3bn, with growth across core Google Cloud Platform products, AI infrastructure, and generative AI solutions.
The Chief Executive Officer of Google, Sundar Pichai, stated in the financial report, “We’re pleased with our strong Q1 results, which reflect healthy growth and momentum across the business, and 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.’’
