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YoY

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139 articles accelerating

Recent YoY coverage spans Starlink’s 105% subscriber growth, Apple’s 19% capex decline, and Take-Two’s flat bookings, making it a cross-sector benchmark for momentum.

Who they are

In this coverage, YoY is not an operating company but the year-over-year comparison measure used to frame changes in technology companies’ revenue, shipments, spending, subscribers, emissions, and engagement. It appears most often alongside Apple, Google, Intel, Amazon, Meta, and device-market reporting, turning disparate quarterly disclosures into comparable indicators of business momentum.

The recent arc

Coverage strengthened through 2025’s middle quarters as earnings and infrastructure stories made year-over-year changes central to the news: Reuters reported Intel’s Q1 revenue was flat at $12.67 billion and that it cut its 2025 capex target, while CNBC reported that data-center deals reached $61 billion globally in 2025 and debt issuance nearly doubled. The emphasis has shifted from routine sales comparisons toward whether AI-era investment is translating into growth or adding financial strain.

In 2026, the measure has featured in a broad mix of signals rather than a single sector narrative. Recent stories include SpaceX’s filing showing Starlink subscribers up 105% year over year to 10.3 million, Apple as the only Big Tech company with year-over-year capex down in Q4, and Take-Two reporting flat Q4 bookings while maintaining its GTA VI launch date. A Pew analysis also applied the comparison to US executive agencies’ X engagement, underscoring the metric’s use beyond corporate results.

The tension

The central tension is between expansion and proof of returns. Google’s reported 48% five-year rise in emissions from AI-supporting data centers, Meta’s debt-funded data-center investment, and Apple’s lower capex point to sharply different investment postures, while Intel’s flat revenue and Take-Two’s flat bookings show that spending and attention do not automatically produce near-term growth. The recurring comparison with QoQ also reflects the contest between annual trend measurement and more immediate quarterly momentum.

Why it matters

If this trajectory holds, year-over-year comparisons will remain a key lens for separating durable demand from effects of prior-year baselines across AI infrastructure, consumer devices, gaming, and connectivity. The metric can make divergent strategies legible—such as Starlink’s subscriber expansion versus Apple’s restrained capex—but its significance will depend on the underlying base period and whether reported growth is accompanied by sustainable revenue, profitability, or operating capacity.

YoY has appeared in 139 articles since 2015-04. Coverage peaked in 2025Q3 with 5 articles. Frequently mentioned alongside Apple, China, Twitter, QoQ.

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Coverage Timeline

2025-08-02
@semianalysis_ 3 related

Microsoft's latest 10-K shows that the company's committed datacenter construction is down YoY, with almost no new leases signed in the past 12 months

Microsoft datacenter strategy - still in⏸️mode 🧵 @JeremieEO Four months ago we flagged Microsoft's pause on more than 1.5 GW of self-build capacity — on top of the leasing freeze we called out in Dece...

2025-07-02
The Guardian 4 related

A report finds Google undercounted its carbon emissions, which rose 65% from 2019 to 2024, not 51% as claimed; the largest YoY jump was 26%, from 2023 to 2024

Research says Google's carbon emissions went up by 65% between 2019-2024, not 51% as the tech giant had claimed

2025-04-22
Counterpoint Research 5 related

Global PC shipments rose 6.7% YoY in Q1 2025 driven by anticipation of US tariffs and growing adoption of AI PCs; Apple rose 17% YoY and Lenovo jumped 11% YoY

• The global PC market's shipments rose 6.7% YoY in Q1 2025, driven by pull-ins in anticipation of US tariffs and growing adoption of AI-enabled PCs.

2025-01-15
Nikkei Asia 4 related

Industry insiders say China's share of the global DRAM chip market could double YoY to 10% in 2025, driven by CXMT, up from virtually zero just five years ago

Nikkei Asia :

2024-04-10
Bloomberg 15 related

Sources: Apple assembled $14B worth of iPhones in India in the past fiscal year, doubling production YoY; Apple now makes as much as 14% of its iPhones in India

- It now assembles about 1 in 7 of its iPhones from India  — That ramp-up suggests an accelerating shift from China

2024-01-11
TechCrunch

Sensor Tower: Netflix Games downloads rose 180%+ YoY to 81.2M globally across the App Store and Google Play in 2023, with Q4 accounting for ~53% of downloads

2023-04-17
Vox 7 related

Similarweb: in March 2023, Twitter's traffic fell 7.7% YoY, the third straight month of decline, web visitors fell 3.3% YoY, and Android app DAUs fell 9.8% YoY

Say goodbye to the old Twitter and hello to the new normal.  —  It's been a year since Elon Musk initiated his takeover of Twitter.

2023-04-16
Vox 1 related

Similarweb: Twitter's traffic fell 7.7% YoY in March, the third straight month of decline, unique web visitors fell 3.3% YoY, and Android app DAUs fell 9.8% YoY

Say goodbye to the old Twitter and hello to the new normal.  —  It's been a year since Elon Musk initiated his takeover of Twitter.

2022-10-29
Financial Times

eMarketer: US advertisers are on track to spend $65.3B on Facebook, Twitter, and other social networks in 2022, up 3.6% YoY, which is ~10x slower than in 2021

A decade-long era of breakneck growth in social media advertising has come to an abrupt halt.  Who killed the boom? Tweets: @alexeheath and @philwahba See also Mediagazer Tweets: Alex Heath / @alexehe...

2022-10-10
IDC 13 related

Global PC shipments declined 15% YoY to 74.3M units in Q3 2022; Lenovo, HP, and Dell declined YoY by 16%, 28%, and 21%, respectively, while Apple was up 40%

Declines continued for the traditional PC market as global shipments totaled 74.3 million units during the third quarter of 2022 …

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Quarterly Coverage

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Narrative

YoY has appeared in 4,472 tech news articles since December 2014, making it one of the most-covered entities in the archive. The biggest stories include Apple reports Q2 revenue up 17% YoY to $111.18B, vs. $109.66B est., net income up 19% YoY... and Apple reports Q1 revenue up 16% YoY to $143.76B, vs. $138.48B est., net income up 16% YoY.... Frequently covered alongside Apple, CNBC, Amazon, Samsung, and Microsoft.

Key Moments

2024Q2enterprise +10pts; funding -6pts
2024Q3funding +5pts; competition -6pts
2024Q4enterprise -6pts

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