Live data from Hacker News

$1,605: average annual ad value of a U.S. Google user

proton.me

1–10 of 48 posts

Re: $1,605: average annual ad value of a U.S. Google user

#3
post #2

There's a problem... Population of the US: 349 M, of which 250-300 M use Google services, multiplied by 1605 USD per user = from 401 B USD to 481 B USD, but in 2025 Alphabet did 403 B in total, from every service, in the whole world.

revenue vs profit?

Re: $1,605: average annual ad value of a U.S. Google user

#4
post #2

There's a problem... Population of the US: 349 M, of which 250-300 M use Google services, multiplied by 1605 USD per user = from 401 B USD to 481 B USD, but in 2025 Alphabet did 403 B in total, from every service, in the whole world.

google's the middleman, and it won't capture the whole 1600 right?

Re: $1,605: average annual ad value of a U.S. Google user

#6
post #2

There's a problem... Population of the US: 349 M, of which 250-300 M use Google services, multiplied by 1605 USD per user = from 401 B USD to 481 B USD, but in 2025 Alphabet did 403 B in total, from every service, in the whole world.

revenue vs profit?

403 B is the revenues - https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1652044/000165204426...

Re: $1,605: average annual ad value of a U.S. Google user

#7
post #2

There's a problem... Population of the US: 349 M, of which 250-300 M use Google services, multiplied by 1605 USD per user = from 401 B USD to 481 B USD, but in 2025 Alphabet did 403 B in total, from every service, in the whole world.

Presumably this only counts internet users who use Google.

Re: $1,605: average annual ad value of a U.S. Google user

#8
post #2

There's a problem... Population of the US: 349 M, of which 250-300 M use Google services, multiplied by 1605 USD per user = from 401 B USD to 481 B USD, but in 2025 Alphabet did 403 B in total, from every service, in the whole world.

There are some people who don’t use Google. I use Duck Duck Go for search. Additionally, with the rise of LLMs I have been using search much less in general.

Re: $1,605: average annual ad value of a U.S. Google user

#9
post #2

There's a problem... Population of the US: 349 M, of which 250-300 M use Google services, multiplied by 1605 USD per user = from 401 B USD to 481 B USD, but in 2025 Alphabet did 403 B in total, from every service, in the whole world.

Presumably this only counts internet users who use Google.

Correct. If 250 M people use it in the US out of a population of 349 M, Google would make 401 B USD out of them, vs 403 B USD in worldwide revenues. These numbers do not look right to me.

Re: $1,605: average annual ad value of a U.S. Google user

#10
post #2

There's a problem... Population of the US: 349 M, of which 250-300 M use Google services, multiplied by 1605 USD per user = from 401 B USD to 481 B USD, but in 2025 Alphabet did 403 B in total, from every service, in the whole world.

google's the middleman, and it won't capture the whole 1600 right?

No. They are saying 1605 USD is the average amount Google make from a user in the US.
Post reply on HN