Wednesday, June 3, 2015

2014 Google Economic Impact Report



Last year, Google’s search and advertising tools helped provide $131 billion of economic activity for more than 1.8 million businesses and nonprofits across the United States.

Google is best known as a search engine. But it's also an engine of economic growth for millions of American businesses, small and large. Ninety-seven percent of Internet users look online for local products and services, and businesses use the Internet—and Google tools—to reach these potential customers.

In New York, Google contributed $21.5 billion of of economic activity Google helped provide for New York businesses, website publishers and non-profits171,000 New York businesses and non-profits benefitted from using Google’s advertising tools, AdWords and AdSense, $22.6 million of free advertising was provided to New York non-profits through the Google Ad Grants program, and 4,000+ full-time employees in NYC.
You can read about NYC businesses like Poppin and learn how we calculate Google’s economic impact at google.com/economicimpact.

If you have any questions, just let me know and here are some of our additional small business efforts that may come in handy for Chamber members: Let’s Put Our Cities on the Map, Get Your Business Online, and Accelerate with Google.

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