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 a number of 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 in total.

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

Author's summary: YouTube fixed issue after major outage.

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GV Wire GV Wire — 2025-10-16