Alphabet CEO Reveals YouTube's <br />Revenue Earnings for the First Time The video-sharing website was purchased by Google back in 2006 for $1.65 billion. It has now been revealed that YouTube<br /> generated over $15 billion in revenue last year. The figure was revealed in a quarterly report <br />by Alphabet and Google CEO Sundar Pichai. The report is Pichai's first since <br />taking over the role at Alphabet following Larry Page and <br />Sergey Brin's decision to step down. In 2019's last quarter, Pichai also revealed that YouTube made $4.72 billion. For just advertising, he says that the video platform's<br /> 2019 monthly revenue was over $1 billion. The numbers come after Pichai said there would be more transparency at Alphabet when he took over.
