who owns google and youtube

Google and YouTube are both ultimately owned by Alphabet Inc. , a large, publicly traded holding company based in the United States. Alphabet is the parent company; Google and YouTube sit underneath it as subsidiaries.

Who owns Google?

• Google is a subsidiary of Alphabet Inc., created when Google restructured into a holding-company model in 2015.

• Alphabet’s shares are traded on the stock market, so ownership is spread across many investors, including large institutions like Vanguard and BlackRock.

• Google’s co‑founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, retain significant control through special “super‑voting” Class B shares that give them a majority of voting power despite owning a smaller percentage of total equity.

Who owns YouTube?

• YouTube was founded in 2005 and bought by Google in 2006 for about 1.65 billion dollars in stock.

• Today, YouTube is a wholly owned subsidiary of Google, and because Google is owned by Alphabet, Alphabet is the ultimate owner of YouTube.

• Strategically, YouTube sits inside Google’s core “Google Services” segment, benefiting from Google’s advertising tech, infrastructure, and AI.

So who’s “on top”?

• At the very top is Alphabet Inc. (the holding company).
• Under Alphabet sits Google; under Google sits YouTube as a fully controlled subsidiary.

• In practice, long‑term control is anchored by Google’s founders (Page and Brin) via their high‑voting shares, plus major institutional shareholders that own large blocks of Alphabet stock.

TL;DR:

• Google owns YouTube.
• Alphabet Inc. owns Google (and therefore YouTube).
• Founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin, along with big institutional investors, hold most of the real power over both.

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