YouTube Outage Affects Over 600,000 Users
YouTube experienced a major outage, with thousands of users reporting issues, according to Downdetector.
At its peak, 366,172 users in the U.S. had reported issues with YouTube, with more than 200,000 users reporting problems as of 4:36 p.m. PT.
According to Downdetector, nearly 300,000 users had reported a problem with YouTube, and over 600,000 users have reported a problem with the platform.
YouTube says that it has fixed an issue affecting video streaming services for users Wednesday afternoon.
Update: Wednesday, 6 p.m., Oct. 15, 2025
Downdetector tracks outages by collating status reports from a number of sources, basing its numbers on user-submitted reports.
Author summary: YouTube fixed issue.