Amazon tops Big Tech earnings with $1.1M per minute, followed by Apple, Google, Microsoft, Meta.
Revenue per minute shows how cloud, AI, and ads drive explosive growth for major tech giants.
From AWS to YouTube ads, Big Tech monetizes everything
Every minute, your favorite tech companies make more money than most people see in a year. A lot more. Whether it’s a quick search on Google, a scroll through Instagram, or a package shipped by Amazon Prime, those seemingly small interactions fuel a financial engine that generates millions of dollars every 60 seconds. Big Tech isn’t just big, it’s massive. And the latest earnings reports from Q1 2025 reveal just how much these giants are raking in minute by minute.
SurveyWe crunched the numbers. Based on quarterly revenues from January to March 2025 (a 90-day span, or 129,600 minutes), here’s what Apple, Amazon, Google (Alphabet), Meta, and Microsoft are earning every single minute.
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Amazon: $1,105,709 per minute
Amazon is the undisputed heavyweight champion of revenue. In just one minute, it makes over $1.1 million. That’s thanks to its diverse empire: from its core e-commerce business to Amazon Web Services, which pulled in $25 billion this quarter, and a booming ads business worth $11.8 billion. In Q1 alone, Amazon posted $143.3 billion in revenue which is up 13% year-over-year. Every 60 seconds, it earns enough to fund a startup, buy a superyacht, or outspend entire industries.
Apple: $736,111 per minute
Apple, the world’s most valuable brand, is pulling in $736,111 every minute, equivalent to $95.4 billion in Q1 revenue. While iPhone sales stayed flat, Apple’s Services division (App Store, iCloud, and more) made $26.6 billion alone. Up 5% from the same period last year, Apple’s ability to extract recurring revenue from its loyal customer base is unmatched. Every minute, Apple earns enough to charter a private jet or buy 1,000 top-end iPhones, and still have cash left over.
Google (Alphabet): $696,759 per minute
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Alphabet, Google’s parent company, turns its digital reach into cold, hard cash, $696,759 per minute, to be exact. Its Q1 2025 revenue was $90.2 billion, with YouTube ads contributing $8.9 billion, and Google Cloud climbing to $12.3 billion, up 28%. The rise of Gemini 2.5 Pro and AI-driven services has only strengthened Alphabet’s position. It’s up 12% year-over-year and every minute, it’s like Google monetizes curiosity itself.
Microsoft: $541,204 per minute
From enterprise software to cutting-edge AI, Microsoft brings in $541,204 per minute, with a Q1 total of $70.1 billion. The biggest driver? Azure, its cloud platform, which grew 35%, with AI contributing 7% of that growth. Microsoft’s blend of cloud, productivity tools, and AI services delivered a 15% revenue bump from the same quarter last year. Every minute, Microsoft earns enough to greenlight a major tech acquisition or bankroll your favorite AAA video game five times over.
Meta: $326,389 per minute
Meta might be fifth in this list, but it’s still a financial juggernaut. With $42.3 billion in Q1 revenue, Meta earns $326,389 per minute, driven almost entirely by its ad business, which accounted for nearly 97% of revenue in 2024. Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp continue to dominate digital ad space, while Meta’s AI assistant just crossed 1 billion monthly users. Reality Labs may be losing billions, but Meta’s core model is still printing money.
The clock never stops
These numbers are mind-bending, and they’re real. Derived from official Q1 2025 earnings and calculated using the 129,600 minutes in a 90-day quarter, these figures show what happens when scale, tech, and attention collide.
Big Tech is making millions by the minute. Some social media sources, like TheDataHubX on X, have suggested slightly higher per-minute estimates for companies like Amazon, but we’ve stuck to direct quarterly figures for precision.
These per-minute snapshots aren’t just trivia, they’re proof of how central Big Tech is to modern life. Amazon’s scale touches everything from retail to the internet backbone, Apple’s loyalty loop ensures customers keep spending even when they don’t notice, Google and Meta turn attention into dollars with uncanny precision, Microsoft’s cloud-and-AI model is transforming how businesses operate.
Every minute, the financial gap between Big Tech and the rest of the world widens. And in a future increasingly powered by AI and digital services, these revenue engines are only accelerating.
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Vyom Ramani
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