Alphabet earnings: advertising contraction alongside cloud growth
A historical filing showing divergent business revenue trends.
Updated Oct 29, 2026
Does weak advertising establish company-wide demand weakness?
Different businesses, different directions
The 2023-02-02 release showed that final-quarter 2022 advertising revenue fell from 61,239 to 59,042 year over year, while cloud revenue rose from 5,541 to 7,315. All figures are in USD millions.
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Read each business separately
The comparison encourages separate checks on business revenue and cash generation rather than extrapolating one segment’s weakness across the company.
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Limits of historical evidence
These figures establish historical business revenues. They do not prove an advertising slowdown at the broadcast date or future AI investment cuts.
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- Alphabet Q4 2022 earnings release — SEC Exhibit 99.1Accessed Oct 29, 2026