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- YouTube has been hit by a worldwide outage starting around 4 pm ET
- Issues are plaguing the website, app and the company’s streaming service
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YouTube has been hit by a worldwide outage, leaving users unable to watch their favorite videos.
Issues hit the platform around 4 pm ET Tuesday, plaguing the website, app and the company’s streaming service, YouTube TV.
YouTube has more than 2.7 billion active users as of 2023, but the number impacted by the outage is unknown.
The platform addressed the outage on X at 4:46 pm ET in a post: ‘We’re aware of the issue, working on a fix [right now]! Thanks for your patience.’
YouTube has been hit by a worldwide outage, leaving tens of thousands of users unable to watch their favorite videos
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DownDetector, a site that monitors online outages, shows over 4,000 issue reports in the US, but other countries like the UK, India, Australia and parts of Europe have also been hit.
Approximately 51 percent of users report having problems with the website, 28 percent cited the app, and 20 percent cannot connect to YouTube’s streaming service.
The streaming service, called YouTube TV, launched in 2017 as the public hopped on the cord-cutting movement.
Users have shared their issues on X, showing screenshots taken from the ‘offline app and telling them to check their internet connection.
Issues hit the platform around 4 pm ET Tuesday, plaguing the website, app and the company’s streaming service
YouTube is the largest video provider and rarely experiences outages.
However, the cause could be caused by a server going down – which usually happens during more extreme events.
