The company said it now has 325 million paying users across Google One and YouTube Premium, up from 300 million users three months earlier.

YouTube generated more than $60 billion in revenue for 2025, including advertising and subscriptions, the first time parent company Alphabet has broken out total revenue for the platform.

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