What is the corporate parent of Google and YouTube?

Alphabet is the corporate parent of Google and YouTube.

Google reorganized under a new holding company called Alphabet in 2015. Under the structure, Google remained the largest operating company, while other businesses and projects were grouped as separate Alphabet units. Sundar Pichai became Google’s chief executive and later Alphabet’s CEO.

The reorganization was intended to give greater independence to businesses outside Google’s core internet products, including research and technology ventures. Google Search, advertising, Android, Chrome, Maps, and YouTube remain central to Alphabet’s financial performance.

Alphabet is sometimes incorrectly called Google in stock-market lists because Google’s products dominate the group’s public identity. Alphabet trades publicly under the ticker symbols GOOG and GOOGL, representing different classes of shares. Its market capitalization therefore reflects the value of the wider corporate group, not only the search engine.