YouTube hit by widespread outage affecting users worldwide

[Eugene]

Source: BNO News

YouTube hit by widespread outage affecting users worldwide

Published on October 15, 2025
By Carlos Robles

YouTube is experiencing an outage and loading issues affecting users across the United States and several other countries, according to outage-tracking websites and user reports.

Downdetector, which tracks online service disruptions, logged more than 300,000 outage reports from U.S. users within an hour as of 7:30 p.m. Eastern Time on Wednesday, with problems reported nationwide from the East Coast to the West Coast.

Users said videos were slow to load, pages were taking longer than usual to open, or they were receiving the message: “An error occurred. Please try again later.”

The outage appears to be global, with similar problems reported by users in Europe, Asia, and Latin America. Related services such as YouTube Music, YouTube Kids, and YouTube TV also appear to be affected.

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[Blues Heron]

1. Lol couldn't watch my "lions encounter wild dog puppies moving dens" video

[MineralMan]

11. Working for me in MN at 7:30 PM.

[Blues Heron]

13. Yes back on for me too, Thanks.

[Submariner]

2. It works okay here in Maine the past few hours

I know, because I'm currently watching "Road Rage Instant Karma with Karens' During Hi-speed Police Chase Resulting in Violent Crashes" to calm my nerves after just watching the DVR of Rachel Maddow's Monday night show.

[Laffy Kat]

14. I'm so glad I'm not the only DU-er that watches those, LOL.

The clips are some of my go-to for killing time.

[Submariner]

15. Yes, a semi-truck crushing a little car that brake-checks the truck

is very soothing, as well as entertaining, after seeing a Cankles all caps truth social rage tweet.

[Keepthesoulalive]

3. Thank you

I was going to blame brightspeed.

[Cloudhopper]

4. It's working thru the ROKU for me in CT, but not on my laptop

I had to try the ROKU app a few times, but it finally loaded.

UPDATE: 8:20p working for me on laptop now

[Nictuku]

5. I'm having issues

I thought it was because my computer updated last night, and that Firefox and my adblockers were causing it.

I'll wait it out a bit.

[BlueTsunami2018]

6. This just started for me literally two minutes ago.

I had to turn off Sammy the Bull talking about being a born again Christian. 🤣 Nothing will load now.

[Enter stage left]

7. Has "U-tube" tried unplugging it and plugging it back in again?

[mwmisses4289]

8. It was working fine for me a few minutes ago.

[Jacson6]

9. DOA here in CA. n/t

[chowder66]

10. I just went there and it was down. Then I went there via Roku and it was up. Then I went back and it was up. I'm in L.A.

[mitch96]

12. I had a hiccup but it's working now for me...nt