{"id":2914,"date":"2026-02-18T03:53:41","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T03:53:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/?p=2914"},"modified":"2026-02-18T03:53:41","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T03:53:41","slug":"128490414-cms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/?p=2914","title":{"rendered":"YouTube down in US: Company gives \u2018final update\u2019, explains what caused the outage &#8211; The Times of India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-articlebody=\"1\">\n<div class=\"_s30J clearfix  \">\n<div class=\"MwN2O\">\n<div class=\"vdo_embedd\">\n<div class=\"T22zO\">\n<section class=\"D3Wk1  clearfix id-r-component leadmedia undefined undefined  VtlfQ\" style=\"top:0px\">\n<div class=\"D3Wk1\" data-ua-type=\"1\" onclick=\"stpPgtnAndPrvntDefault(event)\">\n<div class=\"zPaFh\">\n<div class=\"wJnIp\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.toiimg.com\/thumb\/msid-128490409,imgsize-31226,width-400,resizemode-4\/youtube-down-in-us-company-gives-final-update-explains-what-caused-the-outage.jpg\" alt=\"YouTube down in US: Company gives \u2018final update\u2019, explains what caused the outage\" title=\"YouTube (representative image)\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"cj2hz img_cptn\"><span title=\"YouTube (representative image)\">YouTube (representative image)<\/span><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Thousands of <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/youtube\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\">YouTube<\/a> users in the US and other countries worldwide faced problems accessing the video platform. The outage impacted YouTube.com, the YouTube app, YouTube Music, Kids, and TV with Downdetector reporting more than 2,40,000 reports at the peak in the US.<!-- --> In India, around 17,000 reports were registered. YouTube was quick to acknowledge the down time. Sharing a post on X, the Google-owned video platform said: \u201cIf you\u2019re having trouble accessing YouTube right now, you\u2019re not alone \u2014 our teams are looking into this \u2026\u201d. &#8220;We&#8217;re also seeing a small number of reports that some people are unable to login to YouTube TV. This is related to the broader issue across YouTube, and we&#8217;re also working on a fix here,&#8221; an update from the company read.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"7\"\/>YouTube has now shared a \u2018final update\u2019 on the video outage where it says that all platforms are back to normal. \u201cFinal Update: The issue with our recommendations system has been resolved and all of our platforms (YouTube.com, the YouTube app, YouTube Music, Kids, and TV) are back to normal! We really appreciate you bearing with us while we sorted this out,\u201d reads a Google support page. <span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"9\"\/><\/p>\n<p><h2>What caused <keyword id=\"23932760\" type=\"General\" weightage=\"20\" keywordseo=\"YouTube-outage\" source=\"keywords\">YouTube outage<\/keyword><\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"11\"\/>As explained by Google, an issue with the recommendations system prevented videos from appearing on YouTube. The outage affected the home page, YouTube app, YouTube Music and YouTube Kids. As per social media posts, YouTube users reported problems with video playback failure, login and account access issues and streaming interruptions on YouTube TV.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"13\"\/>\u201cAn issue with our recommendations system prevented videos from appearing across surfaces on YouTube (including the homepage, the YouTube app, YouTube Music and YouTube Kids),\u201d the company wrote.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"15\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/technology\/tech-news\/youtube-down-in-us-company-gives-final-update-explains-what-caused-the-outage\/articleshow\/128490414.cms\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>YouTube (representative image) Thousands of YouTube users in the US and other countries worldwide faced&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2915,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[8280,4173,8251,8278,8250,8277,8279],"class_list":["post-2914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-is-youtube-down-in-us","tag-youtube","tag-youtube-down","tag-youtube-music","tag-youtube-outage","tag-youtube-problems","tag-youtube-tv-login-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2914\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}