YouTube Issues Resolved After Brief Outage Across Multiple Platforms
More than 366,000 users reported streaming issues on YouTube and related platforms before the problem was fixed within an hour, company said.
- On Wednesday, Alphabet-owned YouTube said it resolved streaming issues after hundreds of thousands reported problems, confirming a fix at 8:30 p.m. ET.
- At its peak, at 7:55 p.m. ET, 366,172 users in the United States reported issues, with thousands also affected in the UK, Canada and Australia, Downdetector showed.
- Some users reported seeing error messages when playing videos, while YouTube TV and YouTube Music also saw surges of reports.
- Downdetector showed more than 350,000 reports of problems with YouTube on Downdetector as of 8:15 p.m. ET, though the actual number of affected users may vary.
- YouTube posted on X that videos should now play on YouTube Music, YouTube TV and its main platform but did not specify a cause.
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YouTube resolves issue that briefly impacted video streaming globally
Alphabet-owned GOOGL.O YouTube said on Wednesday that it has resolved an issue impacting video streaming services for several thousand users globally.
YouTube Resolves Issue That Briefly Impacted Video Streaming Globally
Alphabet-owned YouTube said on Wednesday that it has resolved an issue impacting video streaming services for several thousand users globally. YouTube said in a post on X that users should now be able to play videos on YouTube Music, YouTube TV and its main platform—without specifying what caused the issue. At its peak, at 7:55 p.m. ET, 366,172 users in the U.S. had reported issues with YouTube, according to Downdetector, which tracks outages by…

YouTube issues resolved after brief outage across multiple platforms
YouTube said all issues are resolved after users reported seeing error messages across its various platforms.
YouTube, owned by Alphabet, said that it had solved a problem that had affected video broadcasting services for thousands of users worldwide. YouTube stated via X platform that users could now run videos on YouTube and YouTube T. on its main platform, and did not identify the cause of the problem. According to Down Detctor's case-tracking site, 366172 users in the United States reported problems in YouTube at their peak at 7:55 yesterday, Easter…
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