Simply as folks had been settling in to primetime viewing hours on the east coast within the US and the tip of the workday within the west, YouTube appeared to take a nap as greater than 800,000 folks within the US and lots of of hundreds elsewhere on the earth reported the lack of the feed, in line with Downdetector. The outage began to realize traction at 5 p.m. PT and rapidly spiked to 338,308 stories by 5:10 p.m., in line with Datadetector’s graph.
As of 6:30 p.m. PT, the variety of stories had dropped to below 50,000. Google (which owns YouTube) offered a status update naming an “subject 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 resulting from a problem 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 screen with a search bar and aspect column, however no movies. YouTube apps, comparable to on an iPad, confirmed a Eighties-style pixel paintings and the message “One thing went incorrect.”.
(Disclaimer: Downdetector is owned by the identical guardian firm as CNET, Ziff Davis.)
