How YouTube and mobile search drove revenue for Google’s parent company

Letters spell the word ‘Alphabet’ as they are seen on a computer screen with a Google search page in this photo illustration taken in Paris in 2015. Google’s parent company, Alphabet, reported $26.06 billion in total revenue in 2016, a 22 percent increase over 2015’s revenue of $21.33 billion, with their mobile search engine and YouTube as the primary revenue-driving subsidiaries of the online giant.