YouTube Ad Revenue Tops $6 Billion in First Quarter

YouTube continues to grow at a torrid pace, with any sign of pandemic slowdown seemingly behind it.
The Google-owned video platform brought in more than $6 billion in advertising revenue in the first quarter of 2021, according to the quarterly earnings report of parent company Alphabet.
That is up from $4 billion in the same quarter of last year, a 50 percent year-over-year growth rate. YouTube first revealed its advertising revenue a year ago, and since then saw its fortunes wobb