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YouTube earns about
$46.80M/month
range $25.74M – $67.86M · $561.62M/year
Live data · refreshed every hour
Per Day
$1.56M
$858.0K – $2.26M
Per Week
$10.92M
$6.01M – $15.83M
Per Month
$46.80M
$25.74M – $67.86M
Per Year
$561.62M
$308.89M – $814.35M
Lifetime
$1.40B
$772.23M – $2.04B
Brand revenue
✓ Verified filing
Alphabet (Google) - full brand revenue
Annual brand revenue (2024)
$350B/year
App Store / Play Store share
1%
≈ $562M/year of in-app revenue
Off-store revenue (everything else)
$349B/year
99% of total brand revenue
Alphabet (Google) earns about $350B/year across the whole brand.
Most of that money comes from off-store revenue - trading fees, commissions, payment processing, ad sales, hardware, enterprise contracts - not in-app purchases or subscriptions on the App Store / Google Play.
App store revenue (in-app purchases, subscriptions, ads, paid downloads)
Off-store revenue (trading fees, commissions, web subscriptions, ad sales, enterprise)
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A specific clone-and-improve plan for YouTube
Auto-generated from this app's real revenue ($46.80M/month · $561.62M/year), monetization model, rating signals and category. Every line is calibrated to this app, not generic advice.
73/100
Opportunity
0/100
Cloneability
$0
Revenue / install
✓ Features to copy
- subscription paywall (~$7.07/mo) - proven monetization
- in-app purchase tier ladder for upsells
⚡ Improve / fix
- ★ rating only 3.9 - read /intelligence/reviews/android/youtube/ to mine the top complaints
🛠 MVP scope
- core feature loop
- subscription gating
- free-tier limits
- trial period
- analytics
💰 Pricing recommendation
YouTube is at $7.07/mo. Consider going slightly lower with a longer free trial (14 days) to win price-aware users.
🔡 App Store title ideas
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📺 TikTok / ad hook angles
- "I tried YouTube for 30 days - here's what I'd do differently"
- "Why YouTube costs $7.07/mo when ours costs $4.24"
- "The video players & editors app YouTube won't tell you these 3 things"
Monetization
Subscription (~$7.07/mo)Revenue mix (estimated)
- Subscriptions ~72%
- One-time IAP ~22%
- Ads ~6%
Paying users (est.)
22.5B installs · 0.7% active · 3.0% pay
In-App Purchases
- Sub Subscription tier $0.05/month
- Sub Subscription tier $999.99/month
Subscription tiers parsed from store description.
App Details
Pulled from Google Play- Released
- Oct 20, 2010
- Last Updated
- May 8, 2026
- Content Rating
- Teen
- Category
- Video Players & Editors
- Price
- Free
- Currency
- USD
- Developer
- Google LLC
What's new
For new features, look for in-product education & notifications sharing the feature and how to use it!
Fun Numbers - share these
$18
every second
$1.1K
every minute
$65.0K
every hour
$1.56M
every day
- ☕ Buys 312K $5 coffees every day
- 👨💻 Pays for 3K senior engineer salaries per year
- 🚗 Earns enough for 13K Tesla Model 3s annually
12-Month Revenue Trajectory
Modeled from grossing rank, app score, and update cadence. Hover any point to see the value. Real growth depends on retention, marketing, and seasonality.
Total Installs
22.5B
Reported: 10,000,000,000+
Active Users (MAU est.)
157.5M
0.7% of installs · default benchmark · cumulative-install decay × 0.06
Rating
3.88 ★
3.0M reviews
Monetization
Subscription (~$7.07/mo)
IAP: $0.05 - $999.99 per item
Rating Distribution
5★
106.4M
4★
12.9M
3★
8.7M
2★
7.6M
1★
34.5M
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Frequently Asked About YouTube
How much money does YouTube make on Google Play? ⌄
YouTube has an estimated Play Store revenue of $46.80M per month (~$561.62M per year, $1.56M per day) with a likely range of $25.74M to $67.86M. This sums earnings from in-app purchases, subscription revenue, ad monetization and any paid downloads on Google Play - directional estimates from public signals only.
How many Play Store downloads does YouTube get? ⌄
Google Play publishes install ranges (e.g. 1M+, 10M+, 100M+). YouTube reports 10,000,000,000+ installs. Rev.now combines that range with ratings, reviews, grossing rank and category trends to estimate roughly 22.5B total downloads and 157.5M monthly active users on Android.
Is YouTube a top grossing Android app and what is its Play Store rank? ⌄
YouTube is analyzed using Google Play grossing rank, category ranking, install range, ratings velocity, monetization model (subscription revenue, in-app purchases, paid downloads) and ad-revenue signals. Compare it to other highest-grossing Android apps on the Play Store leaderboard.
How is YouTube Play Store revenue estimated? ⌄
Rev.now estimates YouTube Play Store revenue from public app data: Google Play download ranges, monthly active users (MAU), Android paying-user conversion, scraped subscription pricing, in-app purchase ranges ($0.05 - $999.99 per item), ad monetization (eCPM × impressions × MAU) and the Video Players & Editors category ARPU benchmark - net of Google's 15-30% Play Store cut.
What in-app purchases and subscriptions does YouTube offer on Android? ⌄
YouTube offers in-app purchases ($0.05 - $999.99 per item) on Google Play, which usually means subscription tiers (weekly, monthly, annual), virtual currency or one-time unlocks. Subscription revenue and IAP earnings are usually the biggest contributors to monthly Play Store revenue.
Can I compare YouTube Play Store revenue with another Android app? ⌄
Yes. Use the free compare tool to compare YouTube side-by-side with any other Google Play app by estimated revenue, downloads, paying users, subscription pricing, in-app purchase tiers, grossing rank and monetization model.
Does Rev.now show exact Play Store revenue for YouTube? ⌄
No - Rev.now shows estimated Play Store revenue, in-app purchase earnings and subscription revenue for YouTube. Exact financial data, paying-user counts and ad income are private to Google and the developer; Rev.now does not have access to Play Console or developer payouts.
