YouTube Outage: Thousands Report Video Issues on October 16, 2025
Update: 2025-10-16 14:25 IST
YouTube stopped working for many people on Wednesday.
Users in the US, Canada, Australia, and the UK reported problems.
What Happened
A website called Downdetector showed that over 293,000 people in the US had issues by 8:05 p.m.
People said they could not watch videos.
YouTube Responded
- YouTube said it knows there is a problem.
- The company is looking into what went wrong.
- They have not said what caused the issue yet.
- No Comment from Google
- Google owns YouTube.
- So far, Google has not replied to any questions from the media.
YouTube TV News
YouTube TV and Fox made a short-term deal.
This means users will not lose access to Fox channels for now.