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Will Google Overtake Apple?

Motley Fool Money

The Motley Fool

Business, Investing

4.43K Ratings

🗓️ 17 July 2015

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Google has its best week in more than ten years. Will the tech giant overtake Apple in the race to a trillion dollar market cap? Our analysts tackle that question and delve into big earnings from Dominos, eBay, and Netflix. And Motley Fool analyst Tim Beyers talks Comic Con 2015 and the battle for the living room.

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0:00.0

Everybody needs money. That's why they call it money.

0:07.0

From full global headquarters, this is Motley Fool Money. It's Motley Fool Money Radio Show. I'm Chris Hill joining me in studio this week for Million Dollar Portfolio, Jason Moser, and Matt Argus.

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I'm Chris Hill joining me in studio this week for Million Dollar Portfolio, Jason Moser, and Matt Argus.

0:24.0

I'm Chris Hill joining me in studio this week for Million Dollar Portfolio, Jason Moser, and Matt Argus.

0:31.0

I'm Chris Hill joining me in studio this week for Million Dollar Portfolio, Jason Moser, and Matt Argus.

0:38.0

I'm Chris Hill joining me in studio this week for Million Dollar Portfolio, Jason Moser, and Matt Argus.

0:46.0

I'm Chris Hill joining me in studio this week for Million Dollar Portfolio, Jason Moser, and Matt Argus.

0:52.0

I'm Chris Hill joining me in studio this week for Million Dollar Portfolio, Jason Moser, and Matt Argus.

0:59.0

I'm Chris Hill joining me in studio this week for Million Dollar Portfolio, Jason Moser, and Matt Argus.

1:07.0

I'm going into the quarter, a lot of us have been paying attention to the costs and wondering if they could actually pull those costs and tighten the operations up a little bit.

1:17.0

They have a new CFO in there, and she's doing a good job of communicating with shareholders. She talked a lot on the call.

1:25.0

They're doing very well. Let's go back to YouTube, though, because I think that's really the secret to this quarter.

1:32.0

They did a great job of cutting costs, but YouTube brought in some amazing numbers.

1:35.0

The average viewing session on YouTube is now more than 40 minutes. That's up 50% year over year.

1:40.0

The number of advertisers on YouTube is up 40% from a year ago.

1:44.0

The average spending of the top 100 advertisers on YouTube is up more than 60% from a year ago.

1:50.0

While we have talked ad nauseam about how Google has more or less missed the social boat to this point, they do have a very valuable property there in YouTube.

1:59.0

I think we're going to continue to see them really trying to exploit that for all its worth.

2:04.0

Yeah, I mean, the remarkable thing is I don't remember the exact number that Google paid for YouTube.

2:09.0

One point six billion. There it is. One point six billion. Google is probably going to end up adding about $50 billion worth of market cap on Friday alone.

2:16.0

A lot of it is, as Jason said, based on YouTube. I think it's a great point.

2:20.0

Video is getting huge, and it's a very friendly mobile format, which is something that Google has been trying to do.

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