YouTube outage affects millions: Google’s video and music streaming services face widespread disruption

The Google-owned video streaming platform YouTube is down for thousands of users across the world on Wednesday afternoon. This sudden YouTube crash affected users from the USA, UK, Canada, Australia, South Korea, and other regions.

The users suddenly found YouTube crashing, and they faced widespread issues with video playback, receiving error messages, or encountering black screens when they attempted to stream content on YouTube, YouTube TV, and YouTube Music.

This phenomenon began around 7:15 pm ET on October 15, 2025, and peaked within 45 minutes. Approximately, more than 358,000 outage reports have been logged by 7:59 pm ET on DownDetector.

DownDetector data reveals that the majority of issues were related to content delivery. 63% of the reports are related to video streaming issues, while 30% reported regarding the app, and 7& involved the website.

By late evening on October 15, YouTube announced that it had resolved the outage issue across all services. A follow-up message from Google spokesperson Dwight Harvey announced, “This is resolved across all YouTube services”.

The spokesperson further thanked the users for their patience. Although the exact cause of the YouTube outage was not declared to the public; however, technical reports suggest a temporary internal routing or server-side glitch hampered the content delivery on the platform.

Users can now stream videos normally. Those who are still facing issues are advised to clear their browser cache, update their YouTube app, or restart their devices.

The YouTube down highlights the significant role of the platform in the global digital environment, with over 2.7 billion users potentially relying on this platform for entertainment, education, and communication.