YouTube Suffers Major Outage Across US and Other Countries

TL;DR

• Outage: YouTube went down across the US and other countries
• Reports: 338,000 outage reports on Downdetector
• Duration: Issues started around 8PM ET, fixed by 10:12PM ET
• Cause: Problems with the recommendation system

What Happened

YouTube experienced an outage across the United States, with users in Canada, India, the Philippines, Australia, and Russia also having problems accessing the website. The issue started at around 8 PM Eastern time.

Scale of the Outage

At its peak, Downdetector received about 338,000 outage reports before starting to taper down. More users reported having issues accessing the app, but many lost access to the web homepage first.

Resolution

Team YouTube posted on X that the issue has been completely fixed. While it did not say why YouTube went down, the team acknowledged the problem before 9PM and posted an update 20 minutes later that its recommendation system was having issues, even though its homepage was back.

Source: Engadget