Simply as individuals had been settling in to primetime viewing hours on the east coast within the US and the top of the workday within the west, YouTube appeared to take a nap as greater than 800,000 individuals within the US and lots of of hundreds elsewhere on this planet reported the lack of the feed, based on Downdetector. The outage began to achieve traction at 5 p.m. PT and shortly spiked to 338,308 experiences by 5:10 p.m., based on Datadetector’s graph.
As of 6:30 p.m. PT, the variety of experiences had dropped to underneath 50,000. Google (which owns YouTube) supplied a status update naming an “problem with our suggestions system prevented movies from showing throughout surfaces on YouTube (together with the homepage, the YouTube app, YouTube Music and YouTube Youngsters).”
YouTube informed CNET that the outage was as a consequence of a difficulty with the corporate’s suggestion system which has since been resolved.
Downdetector reported the height of a YouTube outage on Feb. 17, 2026.
CNET staffers who observed the outage noticed YouTube’s acquainted dwelling display with a search bar and facet column, however no movies. YouTube apps, comparable to on an iPad, confirmed a Eighties-style pixel art work and the message “One thing went fallacious.”.
(Disclaimer: Downdetector is owned by the identical guardian firm as CNET, Ziff Davis.)
