日本語
한국어
Tiếng Việt
简体中文
San Francisco, CA – YouTube, the world’s leading video streaming platform, experienced a significant service interruption on Wednesday, October 15, 2025, which affected over one million users globally. Reports of the widespread outage escalated throughout the afternoon, according to tracking service Downdetector.com, before the company announced a resolution by early evening.
The technical issue, which initially saw tens of thousands of users reporting problems, quickly grew in scale. Downdetector, which aggregates status reports from various sources to monitor outages, recorded a surge in complaints:
- By 4:36 p.m. PT, over 200,000 users had reported issues.
- This number climbed rapidly to nearly 300,000 by 4:40 p.m. PT.
- By 5:00 p.m. PT, more than 600,000 users were impacted.
- The peak of the outage saw over 1 million users reporting problems with YouTube’s services by 5:28 p.m. PT, though the rate of new reports began to slow around this time.
Millions of individuals attempting to access videos and live streams encountered difficulties, highlighting the platform’s critical role in daily digital consumption. The problems disrupted viewing experiences across multiple devices, including web browsers and the dedicated YouTube app.
By approximately 6:00 p.m. PT on Wednesday, October 15, 2025, YouTube officially confirmed that the service issue had been successfully resolved. Users began to report a return to normal functionality, allowing them to resume their video streaming activities without interruption. The rapid increase in user reports and subsequent resolution underscore the dynamic nature of managing a global online platform of YouTube’s magnitude.
This incident, tracked extensively by services like Downdetector that rely on user-submitted reports, serves as a reminder of the fragility of even the most robust internet infrastructures.