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Alphabet Q3 2026 Revenue Rises 25 Percent As Cloud Revenue More Than Doubles
Alphabet's third quarter 2026 revenue rose 25 percent year on year, CEO Sundar Pichai said, with annualized revenue at $500 billion.
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Why it matters
Search advertising and AI spending are carrying Alphabet's quarter while the CFO flags currency effects on Search and YouTube advertising ahead in Q4, which puts the ad business, not the cloud unit, at the center of the next quarter's risk.
Key Facts
- Alphabet's third quarter 2026 revenue rose 25 percent year on year, reaching $500 billion on an annualized basis.
- YouTube advertising revenue was $11.2 billion, up 9 percent year on year, according to CFO Anat Ashkenazi.
- Google Search and other advertising revenue was $63.3 billion, up 12 percent.
- CEO Sundar Pichai said the search query growth rate was the highest in the past five years.
- YouTube Music and YouTube Premium worldwide subscribers, including trials, surpassed 150 million.
YouTube advertising revenue reached $11.2 billion, up 9 percent, and Search and other advertising revenue was $63.3 billion, up 12 percent, according to CFO Anat Ashkenazi. Pichai said the search query growth rate was the highest in the past five years.
Pichai described the quarter as strong and tied search momentum to AI investment, with the search query growth rate the highest in the past five years. Alphabet's own model API is processing about 32 billion tokens per minute, up 40 percent from the previous quarter, and the Gemini app has reached 1 billion users.
YouTube Music and YouTube Premium worldwide subscribers, including trials, surpassed 150 million. Alphabet expects foreign exchange fluctuations to have a somewhat larger impact on consolidated revenue in the fourth quarter, mainly on Search advertising and YouTube advertising.
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