YouTube Suffers Major Global Outage, Users Report Widespread Disruptions

Brief By timesnownews / 1:00 AM on 20 Dec 2025

Thousands of users worldwide reported a major YouTube outage on Thursday, with widespread complaints logged on DownDetector. Users faced problems accessing the website, mobile app, and video streaming services. Reports surged rapidly, including significant disruptions in India. While other websites functioned normally, YouTube users experienced slow loading, playback delays, and intermittent failures as engineers worked to restore services globally today.