In 2023, Google's ad revenue amounted to 264.59 billion U.S. dollars. The company generates advertising revenue through its Google Ads platform, which enables advertisers to display ads, product listings and service offerings across Google’s extensive ad network (properties, partner sites, and apps) to web users. Google advertising Advertising accounts for the majority of Google’s revenue, which amounted to a total of 305.63 billion U.S. dollars in 2023. The majority of Google's advertising revenue comes from search advertising. Google market share These revenue figures come as no surprise, as Google accounts for the majority of the online and mobile search market worldwide. As of September 2023, Google was responsible for more than 84 percent of global desktop search traffic. The company holds a market share of more than 80 percent in a wide range of digital markets, having little to no domestic competition in many of them. China, Russia, and to a certain extent, Japan, are some of the few notable exceptions, where local products are more preferred.

In the most recently reported fiscal year, Google's revenue amounted to 348.16 billion U.S. dollars. Google's revenue is largely made up by advertising revenue, which amounted to 264.59 billion U.S. dollars in 2024. As of October 2024, parent company Alphabet ranked first among worldwide internet companies, with a market capitalization of 2,02 billion U.S. dollars. Google’s revenue Founded in 1998, Google is a multinational internet service corporation headquartered in California, United States. Initially conceptualized as a web search engine based on a PageRank algorithm, Google now offers a multitude of desktop, mobile and online products. Google Search remains the company’s core web-based product along with advertising services, communication and publishing tools, development and statistical tools as well as map-related products. Google is also the producer of the mobile operating system Android, Chrome OS, Google TV as well as desktop and mobile applications such as the internet browser Google Chrome or mobile web applications based on pre-existing Google products. Recently, Google has also been developing selected pieces of hardware which ranges from the Nexus series of mobile devices to smart home devices and driverless cars. Due to its immense scale, Google also offers a crisis response service covering disasters, turmoil and emergencies, as well as an open source missing person finder in times of disaster. Despite the vast scope of Google products, the company still collects the majority of its revenue through online advertising on Google Site and Google network websites. Other revenues are generated via product licensing and most recently, digital content and mobile apps via the Google Play Store, a distribution platform for digital content. As of September 2020, some of the highest-grossing Android apps worldwide included mobile games such as Candy Crush Saga, Pokemon Go, and Coin Master.

Advertising remained the main revenue-generating segment for Google in 2024. During the examined year, 77.8 percent of Google’s revenue came from advertising on Google properties and YouTube. The Google Cloud revenue segment generated 10.8 percent of the company's revenues, up from 4.3 percent in 2018.

In 2024, YouTube's advertising revenue accounted for approximately 13.66 percent of Google's total revenue. That year, the video platform's annual ad revenues amounted to 36.1 billion U.S. dollars, up from the 31.5 billion U.S. dollars in the previous year. YouTube creators Video content creators on YouTube have been evolving with the platform since its creation. In 2020, it was estimated that YouTube supported over 800 thousand jobs worldwide, almost half of which referred to creators located in the United States. Apart from sharing a portion of YouTube advertising revenues, the most popular video creators can decide to license their existing content libraries for a limited amount of time in exchange for their advertising revenues. As YouTube ranked among the leading ad-selling companies worldwide in 2021, the recent success of financing companies focusing on user-generated video content does not come as a surprise. Digital video ads In 2021, global spending for online video advertisement surpassed 61 million U.S. dollars and is expected to reach approximately 90 million U.S. dollars by 2024. Video ads can engage users across multiple devices, with a 2021 survey of app developers worldwide seeing over 40 percent of respondents considering full-screen videos the most effective ad format to acquire new app users.

In 2024, the advertising revenue of Google network sites amounted to 30.359 billion U.S. dollars. As of the most recently reported period, Alphabet, the parent company of Google, had total revenues of over 350 billion US dollars in 2024.

In 2024, Meta (formerly Facebook Inc) generated over 160 billion U.S. dollars in ad revenues. Advertising accounts for the vast majority of the social network's revenue. Facebook advertising revenue – additional information Facebook’s business model heavily relies on ads, as the majority of social network’s revenue comes from advertising. In 2020, about 97.9 percent of Facebook's global revenue was generated from advertising, whereas only around two percent was generated by payments and other fees revenue. Facebook ad revenue stood at close to 86 billion U.S. dollars in 2020, a new record for the company and a significant increase in comparison to the previous years. For instance, the social network generated almost seven billion U.S. dollars in ad revenue in 2013, about 10 billion less than the 2015 figure. Facebook's average revenue per user also significantly increased in the same time span, going from 6.81 U.S. dollars in 2013 to 32.03 U.S. dollars in 2020. The U.S. and Canada are important markets for Facebook, considering the average revenue per user (ARPU) in these two countries is far above the global average. Facebook’s ARPU in the U.S. and Canada was 41.41 U.S. dollars in the last quarter of 2019, while the global average was 8.52 U.S. dollars. In Europe, Facebook’s average revenue per user was 13.21 U.S. dollars during the same time period. In terms of segments, mobile is the most promising advertising form for the company. In 2018, Facebook’s mobile advertising revenue already accounted for 92 percent of the social network’s total advertising revenue. Facebook’s mobile advertising revenue grew from an estimate of 13 billion U.S. dollars in 2015 to 50.6 billion U.S. dollars in 2018.

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Significant fluctuations are estimated for all segments over the forecast period for the ad spending. The ad spending decreases only in the segment Print Advertising towards the end of the forecast period, while the remaining segments follow a positive trend. The absolute difference between 2020 and 2030 is 6.06 billion U.S. dollars. Find further statistics on other topics such as a comparison of the ad spending in Canada and a comparison of the reach in Bangladesh. The Statista Market Insights cover a broad range of additional markets.

In the first quarter of 2025, Google's revenue amounted to over 89.52 billion U.S. dollars, up from the 79.97 billion U.S. dollars registered in the same quarter a year prior. The company amounted to an annual revenue of 348.16 billion U.S. dollars throughout 2024, its highest value to date, with most of its earnings being powered by advertising through Google sites and its network. Google advertising The foundations of Google's earnings are its advertising revenues, generated through its Google Ads platform, which enables advertisers to display ads, product listings, and service offerings across its extensive network (properties, partner sites, and apps) to web users via programs like AdSense or AdSearch. In 2024, Google accounted for most of its parent company Alphabet's annual revenues with 234.2 billion U.S. dollars in Google website ad revenues alone. Other sources of revenue Google's multitude of income sources also includes digital content products and apps sold through the digital content distribution platform Google Play, as well as hardware including Chromecast devices and smartphones. Geographically, the biggest single country share of Alphabet’s revenue comes from the United States, and close to 30 percent of revenues originate from the EMEA region.

In 2021, Google's net search advertising revenue reported exceptional growth, increasing more than ** percent of the values from 2020. In the following years, the revenue is expected to continue growing, albeit at a significantly slower rate.

In 2020, Google dominated the digital advertising market in Canada with a share of 50 percent, compared to Facebook's market share of 33 percent. Total digital ad spend in Canada stood at over 9.6 billion Canadian dollars that year.

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In 2024, digital pure players (companies that operate primarily online, such as Google or Amazon) generated an advertising revenue of *** billion U.S. dollars worldwide. In 2025, their ad revenue is forecast to amount to *** billion dollars.

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Over the past decade, the revenue share of Danish internet advertising abroad was higher than the share of revenue of advertising abroad in total. As of 2020, 64 percent of the revenue of internet advertisements went to the foreign companies Google, Facebook, and LinkedIn.

In 2024, Alphabet's revenue from Google websites (including YouTube advertising) amounted to around 234.23 billion U.S. dollars, up from 206.5 billion U.S. dollars in the previous year. Google Search is by far the biggest revenue segment of Alphabet. Alphabet Inc. is an American multinational conglomerate created in 2015 as the parent company of Google and several other companies previously owned by or tied to Google.

In 2023, Google's share of digital advertising revenues worldwide was projected to amount to ** percent. Facebook followed with a projected digital ad revenue share of ** percent, while Amazon came in third with an expected ***** percent. The player from Asia with the highest share is TikTok, with ***** percent, followed by *****, ******, as well as *******, all three with *** percent.

The average ad spending per internet user in the 'Search Advertising' segment of the advertising market in the United States was forecast to continuously increase between 2024 and 2030 by in total ***** U.S. dollars (+**** percent). After the ***** consecutive increasing year, the average ad spending per internet user is estimated to reach ***** U.S. dollars and therefore a new peak in 2030. Notably, the average ad spending per internet user of the 'Search Advertising' segment of the advertising market was continuously increasing over the past years.Find further information concerning the average ad spending per internet user in the 'Social Media Advertising' segment of the advertising market in Norway and the ad spending in the 'Search Advertising' segment of the advertising market in Japan. The Statista Market Insights cover a broad range of additional markets.

In the most recently reported fiscal year, Alphabet's revenue amounted to 350 billion U.S. dollars, up from 307.3 billion U.S. dollars in the previous year. Alphabet Inc. is an American multinational conglomerate created in 2015 as the parent company of Google, along with several other companies previously owned by or tied to Google. Alphabet business segments Alphabet has several operating segments, including Google and Other Bets. Google is the only reportable segment, as none of the other segments meet the quantitative revenue thresholds to qualify as reportable segments. In 2024, Google segment revenue amounted to 348.1 billion U.S. dollars. During the same fiscal period, the Other Bets segment revenue amounted to 1.64 billion U.S. dollars in total. According to the company, the Google product segment includes “revenues from the company’s main products Ads, Android, Chrome, Google Cloud, Google Maps, digital content distribution platform Google Play, Hardware, Search and YouTube. Google generates revenues primarily from advertising; sales of apps, in-app purchases, digital content products, and hardware; and licensing and service fees, including fees received for Google Cloud offerings.” Alphabet’s Other Bets segment mainly generates revenues through the sales of TV and internet services through Access, in addition to R&D services and licensing through Verily. Alphabet businesses Calico, CapitalG, GV, Waymo and X are also included in this segment.