YouTube seems to be experiencing a widespread outage

What you need to know

• Some users have reported on DownDetector that they’re unable to see video previews.
• While others have reported that everything seems to be working fine, but slower than usual.
• The outage began at 1:00 p.m. ET and is still ongoing, with over 5,000 people reporting issues with the streaming app.

YouTube’s webpage seems to be facing a widespread outage that is impacting only the webpage of the streaming app as of now. The outage began approximately around 1 p.m. ET with users saying they had “video streaming” issues.

Several users reported the outage on DownDetector, claiming that YouTube’s website seems to be down, with no video previews loading. While some say that despite everything on the streaming website working, it was slower than usual (as reported by 9to5Google).

According to DownDetector, there was a spike in outage reports around 2:30 p.m. ET, with approximately 5,000 people confirming they had trouble accessing YouTube and seeing a blank screen instead of the videos.

To break things down, 83% faced issues with the website, 15% of users saw video streaming issues, and 3% of users reported that they weren’t able to access the YouTube app. The site showed outages in New York City, Washington, DC, Atlanta, Chicago, Los Angeles, and San Francisco. Other major metropolitan areas across Canada and other parts of the world were encountering similar issues.