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Message: [QUOTE="Queen, post: 86366, member: 27"] A $60 billion combined haul from ads and subscriptions just turned YouTube into a revenue beast that even its parent company's $400 billion milestone can't overshadow. YouTube's ad growth hit the brakes [LIST] [*]YouTube's Q4 2025 ad intake reached $11.4 billion, an 8.7% bump. [*]Growth dipped from Q3's 15% pace considerably. [*]Full-year ad revenue landed at $40.37 billion overall. [*]Election-related spending in 2024 inflated the comparison base. [/LIST] Subscriptions quietly became a cash machine [LIST] [*]YouTube's ad and subscription revenue combined blew past $60 billion for 2025. [*]Subscription revenue alone clocks in at roughly $20 billion annually. [*]Execs kept name-dropping YouTube Music as a major growth factor. [*]Philipp Schindler noted that Premium conversions slightly dent ad numbers. [/LIST] Alphabet crossed $400 billion for 2025 [LIST] [*]Alphabet's full-year revenue hit $402.8 billion, a 15% year-over-year climb. [*]Net income ballooned 32% to $132.2 billion for the year. [*]Q4 operating cash flow set a record at $52.4 billion. [*]Sundar Pichai confirmed 325 million paid subscribers spanning consumer offerings. [/LIST] YouTube Music and Premium keep stacking subs [LIST] [*]Lyor Cohen pegged YouTube Music and Premium at 125 million paying users. [*]That figure jumped from 100 million roughly a year prior. [*]YouTube shelled out over $8 billion to the music industry in one year. [*]Spotify's comparable payout topped $11 billion for 2025. [/LIST] Shorts and AI moves are picking up steam [LIST] [*]Shorts is pulling over 200 billion daily views on average. [*]Revenue per watch hour beats traditional in-stream in some countries. [*]Alphabet's 2026 CapEx budget is projected between $175 and $185 billion. [*]Google DeepMind's Lyria 2 model powers a speech-to-song tool for Shorts. [/LIST] [/QUOTE]

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