Is YouTube down right now?
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Our latest checks found YouTube responding normally. Live verification is running now.
Your report feeds the live outage-velocity detector. One click per 30 s.
Live latency (probe round-trip, ms)
User reports, last 24 hours
Outage history
Episodes we recorded for YouTube, based on our own checks. An episode opens on the second check that finds a problem — a single adverse reading is not reported — and closes when a check finds the service normal again.
What YouTube reported
Taken from YouTube's own published incident feed. These are their words about their own service, shown here so you can compare them with what we measured. Scheduled maintenance and test posts are filtered out.
Comments
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Is YouTube down right now?
No evidence of problems with YouTube. Our last recorded check found it behaving normally. That does not rule out a fault affecting only some users or regions.
Every check runs a four-tier cascade and stops at the first tier that gives a clear answer: YouTube's official status feed, then a direct HTTP probe, then an ICMP network ping, and finally crowdsourced reports from visitors. The Verification tier box above tells you which one produced the verdict you are looking at.
YouTube (youtube.com) is re-checked about every 30 seconds, and this page picks up any change within 15 seconds, with no refresh needed.
Common YouTube problems users report
- Endless buffering or playback that never starts
- Playback error codes at the start of a title
- Profiles or watch lists failing to load
- Apps crashing on smart TVs and consoles
What to do when YouTube is not working
First check the banner above. If it shows evidence of problems, the fault is most likely on YouTube's side and waiting is usually the only option. If it shows nothing wrong, the problem may still be local or specific to your region, so it is worth trying these: restart the app, switch between Wi-Fi and mobile data, flush your DNS cache, and check whether a VPN or firewall is interfering.
About YouTube
YouTube is the world's largest video platform with over two billion monthly users. It publishes no public status feed, so we probe its edge directly; outages usually surface as videos failing to load or an endless spinning loader.
How outage detection works
We combine machine probes with human signals. When the volume of "Report a problem" clicks passes our alert threshold, we flag likely problems even before YouTube's own status page catches up.
Official YouTube resources
Cross-check an incident with the company's own channels:
- YouTube help center (support articles and contact options)
- @TeamYouTube on X (often the fastest official acknowledgement)
Other streaming services
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