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YouTube Down: Major Outage Affects Hundreds of Thousands
More than 300,000 outage reports were logged within an hour as users faced playback and streaming failures across multiple YouTube platforms.
- YouTube experienced widespread playback errors on Wednesday, affecting users across the United States and other countries with most unable to watch videos.
- Cause remains unknown, and YouTube has yet to acknowledge the issue amid past multi-hour outages in November 2020 and April 2022 lasting roughly two hours.
- Mobile apps show `Something went wrong` messages, and users can browse YouTube but videos fail to play while YouTube Music and YouTube Kids also experience streaming issues.
- Downdetector logged more than 300,000 U.S. outage reports within an hour as of 7:30 p.m. ET on Wednesday; Google Workspace, Google Cloud, and YouTube TV remain unaffected.
- The outage affects a platform with more than 2.7 billion monthly users and was reported in Europe, Asia and Latin America.
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The Google-owned video streaming platform YouTube suffered a significant outage today, leaving services inaccessible for roughly an hour. According to the outage tracking website Downdetector, reports began climbing at 4:47 am, peaking with more than 4,000 user reports. The issue was largely resolved by around 5:47 am. The disruption left millions of users unable to watch videos across the main platform. The problem wasn't limited to YouTube alo…
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