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YouTube is an American video-sharing website headquartered in San Bruno, California. The service was created by three former PayPal employees—Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim—in February 2005. It is currently owned by Google.

Problems in the last 24 hours

The graph below depicts the number of Youtube reports received over the last 24 hours by time of day. When the number of reports exceeds the baseline, represented by the red line, an outage is determined.

Youtube Outage Chart 02/21/2026 02:30

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Most Reported Problems

The following are the most recent problems reported by Youtube users through our website.

  1. Sign in (39%)

    Sign in (39%)

  2. Crashing (23%)

    Crashing (23%)

  3. Buffering (23%)

    Buffering (23%)

  4. Playback Issues (13%)

    Playback Issues (13%)

  5. Video Quality (2%)

    Video Quality (2%)

Live Outage Map

The most recent Youtube outage reports came from the following cities:

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City Problem Type Report Time
United StatesArlington Buffering
United StatesCincinnati Playback Issues
United StatesHicksville Buffering
United StatesLong Beach Playback Issues
United StatesSan Marcos Video Quality
United StatesBay City Playback Issues
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Youtube Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

  • RSeptre Right Handed Septre (@RSeptre) reported

    @MichaelSwenny @YouTube Same issue here

  • itsgiashbd Digital Marketer (@itsgiashbd) reported

    @jakejameslugo @YouTube I am a digital marketer and promotion expert, I promote YouTube and i will do youtube monetization, I provide the services from Fiverr. If you take this service from me. I will provide you this service at a very cheap price with quality work

  • BradJosephJolly Brad jolly (@BradJosephJolly) reported

    @YouTube I lost my subscription icon on my fire tv. My premium account is missing but other users (non premium) still have the subscription icon. Help!!?!?

  • shahzad54864681 shahzad (@shahzad54864681) reported

    Since the last update, thumbnails on my phone have started to blurr. The quality of the video is same but thumbnails are mostly blurry @YouTube

  • m13570377 m (@m13570377) reported

    @Bismatik_ @NBA2K_MyTEAM @YouTube Quality is ***🥰

  • hiitsAlejandro Alejandro Valdes (@hiitsAlejandro) reported

    @YouTube @TeamYouTube Please fix the YouTube app on Android TV, is broken, my subscription and history and more dissapears when I log in, and it happens only while using a Brand Account, not a YouTube channel account

  • Just_1Kenya Kenya Smith (@Just_1Kenya) reported

    So.... @TeamYouTube the @YouTube app on fire stick is missing my subscriptions tab and others. I see this is a big issue with a lot of people now. Please fix soon 😢😩

  • SuppressionAnti Anung Un Rama (@SuppressionAnti) reported

    @PLE46558376 @ScottAdamsSays @YouTube He's unafraid to make mistakes. Solving problems well means failing often.

  • itsgiashbd Digital Marketer (@itsgiashbd) reported

    @EthanPo26057496 @YouTube I am a digital marketer and promotion expert, I promote YouTube and i will do youtube monetization, I provide the services from Fiverr. If you take this service from me. I will provide you this service at a very cheap price with quality work

  • HotNewMusic__ HOT NEW MUSIC ‼️🔥 (@HotNewMusic__) reported

    @GM_SKAeM @YouTube Check dms let’s work

  • bhav12rathi Anubhav Rathi (@bhav12rathi) reported

    @YouTubeIndia @YouTube please work on your advertisement department..! like today I am attending some lecture in youtube and you guys start giving ads of movie,music etc. At least provide some educational ads at that moment.... please take on this issue. It's distract allot!🙏

  • BitmapsRetro bitmaps.co.uk (@BitmapsRetro) reported

    @Atari_VB_Pod @YouTube The clue is that those games were actually good. This one is most definitely not, indeed I would go as far as to say it's one of the worst games ever made on the Atari ST!

  • Sul_Haren The Ordinator (@Sul_Haren) reported

    @ErlendJB1 @YouTube Maybe just immigrate to the US (you sound like someone from there anyway) or one of the other countries with death penalty that work so well according to you.

  • Spanked84 Eric Griffin (@Spanked84) reported

    @PiatPod @elibosnick @YouTube lol are the errors in the quote on the picture taken from the script? I always figured the typos were a running joke.

  • lilbakerlady Mama Liz (@lilbakerlady) reported

    @VVission123 @YouTube It was there. I made an error.

  • healertanker Paladin ➕ (@healertanker) reported

    I watch anime with 720p the audio still ****, i turn to 1080p to watch a video that only had an album image with music and the quality still ****. Please stop compressing the audio quality on mobile phones @YouTube

  • esperegion26 Jhed (@esperegion26) reported

    @YouTube Hi YouTube Team. I hope you can help me reinstate my YouTube account which was wrongfully suspended. It says I posted videos that are spam, but I actually didn't do anything wrong. Please help.

  • aReallyCoolBro theRCB (@aReallyCoolBro) reported

    @eminus @ParadiseDecay @YouTube Ive never gotten dolphin 2 work

  • SoupNY Soup (@SoupNY) reported

    So a couple months ago @YouTube terminated my reaction channel and my music channel which shared the same email due to copyright strikes on the former. @TeamYouTube hasn't been any help even after one of the strikes had been removed by the copyright owner....

  • itsgiashbd Digital Marketer (@itsgiashbd) reported

    @ChartHits64 @YouTube I am a digital marketer and promotion expert, I promote YouTube and i will do youtube monetization, I provide the services from Fiverr. If you take this service from me. I will provide you this service at a very cheap price with quality work

  • insidethepuzzle insidethepuzzle (@insidethepuzzle) reported

    @YouTube @PlayStation I’d love to buy a PS5. If I could find one. But it’s getting super tiresome to be watching YouTube and have a “you wanna watch this adult content?” Prompt then be told I’m age restricted!!! I made sure my account is 18+!!!! I’m 35!!!! WTF!!! FIX IT NOW!!!

  • Thekellydiaries Kelly Chapman (@Thekellydiaries) reported

    @YouTube Is there someone... ANYONE who can help me with my account? I have been at this for 6 hours on your support page. Please DM me.

  • TgsToxicxx TGS_Toxicxx (@TgsToxicxx) reported

    When I try to watch YouTube on my TV there is no watch history can u fix it @YouTube

  • patterson_z0 Z_0🐶 (@patterson_z0) reported

    @____radiate @iCrazyTeddy @YouTube Seek help from global tech100 on instagram

  • theadammcknight Adam P. McKnight (@theadammcknight) reported

    @YouTube @Google when do you plan on fixing your issues? Videos are all over the place audio is messed up on both app and Site.

  • JoshuaLondon11 Joshua Games 4076 (@JoshuaLondon11) reported

    @YouTube ummm youtube theres a bug with the likes not working properly.... it literally stays at 1 and the vies aren't accurate enough... it stays at 1 and over 10 people watched my vid.... please fix

  • itsgiashbd Digital Marketer (@itsgiashbd) reported

    @shvroon @YouTube I am a digital marketer and promotion expert, I promote YouTube and i will do youtube monetization, I provide the services from Fiverr. If you take this service from me. I will provide you this service at a very cheap price with quality work

  • BHBuying Bill ****** (@BHBuying) reported

    @PsuOtto @YouTube If that was last night I wish he had broken 2 more. Cost me a round robin

  • Bob41422555 Bigfella (@Bob41422555) reported

    @Brookranger @YouTube Died in Poole hospital , severe alcohol problems

  • j_ssebuwufu Julius Ssebuwufu (@j_ssebuwufu) reported

    implying all these loyalties off the bundles are not shared amongst @YouTube #WhatsApp #Twitter #Instagram and all websites/Apps we visit/use @Airtel_Ug fix this issue Stop exploiting your customers