{"id":98120,"date":"2021-01-19T16:03:42","date_gmt":"2021-01-19T16:03:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/?post_type=companies&p=98120"},"modified":"2021-01-19T16:03:42","modified_gmt":"2021-01-19T16:03:42","slug":"google","status":"publish","type":"companies","link":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/companies\/google\/","title":{"rendered":"Google"},"content":{"rendered":"

Google is a search engine platform and global advertising company founded in 1998.<\/p>\n

Google was previously the name of the brand’s parent company, but this became Alphabet after a restructuring<\/a> in 2015. As a result, Google became Alphabet’s main subsidiary.<\/p>\n

Google is the owner of YouTube, which in turn is the parent of YouTube Music.<\/p>\n

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Alphabet and Google financials<\/h6>\n

In the calendar year of 2019, Alphabet’s total revenues weighed in at $161.857 billion, up 18% year-on-year, or up 20% at constant currency<\/a> year-on-year.<\/p>\n

Of this $161.857 billion annual revenue haul,\u00a0$15.149 billion came from YouTube advertising.<\/p>\n

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Some $98.115 billion came from Google Search and related properties.<\/p>\n

In total, Google products \u2013 including YouTube and the Google Search engine \u2013 generated $134.811 billion in advertising in 2019.<\/p>\n

Alphabet’s operating income in the year was $34.231 billion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Google is part of Alphabet, and the parent of YouTube<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":98121,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-98120","companies","type-companies","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/companies\/98120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/companies"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/companies"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/companies\/98120\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}