YouTube Experiences Major Outage, Users Report Widespread Issues

San Bruno, Calif. — YouTube, the world’s largest video-sharing platform, was struck by a significant outage Tuesday evening, with hundreds of thousands of users reporting problems accessing key parts of the service.

Outage-tracking site Downdetector.com showed more than 320,000 user reports of service issues by about 8:18 p.m. Eastern Time, including reports of errors loading the homepage and problems with YouTube TV.

Users took to social platforms, including Reddit’s r/YouTube community, to describe what they were experiencing, with many saying the home feed wouldn’t load and displaying error messages even as direct video links sometimes worked. (According to user comments from Reddit thread r/YouTube/s/zFvRvpStht.)

As of this evening, neither YouTube nor its parent company, Alphabet Inc., has issued a public explanation or timeline for restoring full service.

The outage follows a string of high-profile online service disruptions in recent months. Social media platform X suffered multiple outages Feb. 16 that left tens of thousands of users unable to load feeds, according to outage trackers. In November 2025, a widespread disruption at web infrastructure provider Cloudflare briefly knocked offline major services including X and ChatGPT, highlighting vulnerabilities in key internet systems.

Outages at major cloud providers such as Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure also interrupted service for numerous platforms last year, underscoring continued challenges in maintaining the digital backbone of widely used services.