Alphabet Q4 Earnings Preview: Did Supply Chain Issues Reduce Advertising?

Alphabet (NASDAQ: GOOGL) (NASDAQ: GOOG) is scheduled to report fiscal 2021 fourth-quarter earnings on Tuesday, Feb. 1. The tech giant is home to Google Search and YouTube, primarily relying on ad revenue.

In the past two years, marketers have had to manage rapidly evolving business conditions. At the pandemic onset, ad spending decreased substantially as businesses preserved cash. Recently, many companies are ramping marketing spending back up. However, the recent COVID surge driven by omicron cases is hurting supply chains which could lead to certain marketers pulling back on advertising once again. Here's what investors should look for in Alphabet's earnings release on Tuesday.

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