YouTube Down for More Than a Hundred Thousand Users, Downdetector Shows

YouTube Down for More Than a Hundred Thousand Users

YouTube experienced a major outage, with thousands reporting issues. At its peak, 366,172 users in the U.S. had reported issues with YouTube, according to Downdetector.

Downdetector tracks outages by collating status reports from multiple sources, basing its numbers on user-submitted reports. More than 200,000 users had reported problems with the platform as of 4:36 p.m. PT.

YouTube says that it has fixed an issue affecting video streaming services for users Wednesday afternoon. Nearly 300,000 users had reported a problem with YouTube, with over 600,000 users reporting issues at one point.

YouTube experienced a widespread outage Wednesday, with thousands of users reporting issues, according to Downdetector.com.

Author's summary: YouTube fixed outage issue.

more

GV Wire GV Wire — 2025-10-16