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Google gains 25M subscriptions in Q1, driven by YouTube and Google One | TechCrunch

TechCrunch·Sarah Perez·6 months ago
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Google has added another 25 million paid subscriptions to its services over the past quarter, according to parent company Alphabet’s first-quarter earnings on Wednesday. The company said it now had 350 million paid subscriptions across its services, up from 325 million in Q4 2025 , with YouTube and Google One plans driving the recent growth.

Its release didn’t tout the number of Gemini subscribers as a standalone metric, nor its monthly active users. But access to advanced Gemini features is now bundled in with those Google One plans , which are growing.

The lack of solid numbers, however, may suggest that the Gemini chatbot still has somewhere north of 750 million users, as in the prior quarter . Instead, this quarter, Google pointed to the growth of Gemini in the key enterprise market, noting a 40% quarter-over-quarter increase in paid monthly active users.…

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