The second quarter is over, and it was quite a fruitful one for YouTube, as it saw a multi-billion-dollar quarter for the digital video platform.
During April, May, and June, YouTube secured $9.8 billion in advertising revenue. That beat previous projections of $9.6 billion the platform was expected to reach during the second quarter.
The figure is the second-largest quarter on record for YouTube, with the previous coming during the final quarter of 2024, when the platform reached $10.5 billion in advertising revenue.
The second quarter represented a bounce-back of sorts for the platform, after its ad revenue fell to $8.9 billion during the first quarter of 2025.
“We had a standout quarter, with robust growth across the company,” Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai said in a statement about the company’s financial results. “We are leading at the frontier of AI and shipping at an incredible pace. AI is positively impacting every part of the business, driving strong momentum. Search delivered double-digit revenue growth, and our new features, like AI Overviews and AI Mode, are performing well.
“We continue to see strong performance in YouTube as well as subscriptions offerings. And Cloud had strong growth in revenues, backlog and profitability. Its annual revenue run-rate is now more than $50 billion. With this strong and growing demand for our Cloud products and services, we are increasing our investment in capital expenditures in 2025 to approximately $85 billion and are excited by the opportunity ahead.”
The digital video platform’s financial results come on the heels of the latest Nielsen Media Distributor Gauge which shows that 12.8% of all television viewing happened with YouTube during the month of June. That marked the largest lead the platform has held since the Distributor Gauge was unveiled.
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