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At a glance
- Employees
- 100000+
- Funding
- Public company (IPO 2004)
- Revenue
- $300B+
- Stock
- GOOGL
About
Dominant global leader in digital advertising; one of the two largest digital ad platforms worldwide alongside Meta, with the largest search advertising and programmatic infrastructure in the industry
Alphabet Inc. is an American internet technology conglomerate offering products, services, and solutions spanning computing, search, cloud, and online advertising technologies. Its advertising business sits within the Google Services segment, which encompasses ads, Search, YouTube, Android, Chrome, Google Maps, and Google Play, while its Google Cloud segment provides infrastructure, platform services, and collaboration tools that underpin advertiser and publisher operations. In Q2 2026, Google Search and other advertising businesses generated approximately $63.27 billion in combined revenue, while Google Cloud — a growing monetization engine for enterprise clients — reached $24.77 billion in revenue, up 82% year over year. Alphabet's Gemini AI platform, which has surpassed one billion monthly active users and processes 22 billion API tokens per minute, is widely adopted across the enterprise advertising and technology ecosystem, with nearly 90% of Fortune 100 companies using Gemini Enterprise. On the regulatory front, a September 2026 court ruling declined to order a full breakup of Google's ad-tech business, though it placed some limits on ad-auction restrictions and required reductions in certain integrations between Google's publisher ad server and its ad exchange. Source 1: ibisworld.com — Alphabet Inc. SupplierIQ Procurement Profile Source 2: tradingkey.com — Alphabet Stock Holds $341 as Cloud Growth and Ad-Tech ...
Business model
Advertising Platform, Cloud Services, Consumer Technology
Target market
Enterprise, SMB, Mid-Market, Consumers
What they offer
Google Search Ads
Intent-based search advertising platform reaching billions of queries daily across Google Search and partner search networks
Google Display Network
Contextual and audience-targeted display advertising across millions of websites and apps
YouTube Advertising
Video advertising platform spanning skippable, non-skippable, bumper, and connected TV ad formats on the world's largest video platform
Google Ad Manager
Enterprise-grade ad server and programmatic supply-side platform (SSP) for publishers to manage and monetize ad inventory
Google Ads
Self-serve advertising platform for businesses of all sizes to run search, display, video, shopping, and app campaigns
DV360 (Display & Video 360)
Demand-side platform (DSP) enabling programmatic buying of display, video, audio, and connected TV inventory at scale
Google Analytics
Web and app analytics platform providing marketers with audience insights, attribution, and campaign performance measurement
Google Marketing Platform
Integrated suite of marketing and analytics tools including Campaign Manager 360, Search Ads 360, and DV360
Google Cloud
Enterprise cloud computing platform offering infrastructure, data analytics, and AI/ML services
Android
Mobile operating system powering the majority of the world's smartphones, integral to Google's mobile advertising ecosystem
Google Maps Platform
Location and mapping APIs used by businesses and developers, with advertising integration for local businesses
Waymo
Autonomous vehicle subsidiary developing self-driving technology
DeepMind
AI research lab focused on artificial general intelligence and applied AI solutions
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API
Yes
- 2015 · Founded