Is YouTube down right now?

No. Our checks are finding no problems with YouTube right now. That verdict is live, and the banner at the top of this page carries it too. We re-check YouTube continuously using its official status feed, direct network probes and reports from visitors, stopping at the first check that gives a clear answer, and the page updates itself as soon as anything changes. A green verdict does not rule out a fault affecting only some users or regions.

The problems visitors report most often on this page are website / app down, can't log in, video won't play, constant buffering, poor video quality, search not working, no notifications and app keeps crashing. Those are the options the report button offers for YouTube, chosen for how this service actually fails rather than a generic list, and the "user reports" chart above breaks down which ones people are picking right now.

Our checks run from one place on the internet, so a fault limited to your region or network can be real while our probes succeed. With YouTube specifically, playback, the home feed, comments, uploads and sign-in are separate, and video is served from Google's delivery servers installed inside internet providers. A problem can stay inside your provider while YouTube is fine elsewhere, and a single video can be blocked or removed without anything breaking. That is why this page reports what it observed rather than declaring the service healthy, and why reports from other visitors count toward the verdict.

For YouTube, try a different video, then the same video in a private window while signed out. One video failing while others play is that video or its availability where you are. Everything failing on Wi-Fi but working on mobile data points at your provider. A problem that follows you across networks and devices is very unlikely to be yours.

If this page shows evidence of problems, the fault is most likely on YouTube's side. Specifically: do not clear the app's data on a TV or console to fix playback. It signs you out, and sign-in may be the degraded part. Videos downloaded on mobile keep playing offline. Reporting it here helps other people see they are not alone.

Continuously, around the clock. YouTube does not publish a machine-readable status feed, so we cannot read a verdict from them. We probe youtube.com directly over HTTP, fall back to an ICMP ping if that is inconclusive, and weigh reports from visitors. That means we can tell you the service is unreachable, but not what YouTube says about it. The verification tier box on this page names whichever check produced the verdict you are reading, so you can see how direct the evidence is.

No. status.buzz is an independent monitoring site operated by LuzLab LLC, with no connection to YouTube or youtube.com. It reads publicly available endpoints and status feeds, and publishes what it observed. For account or billing problems you need YouTube's own support, not us.