YouTube Outage Cause Revealed: What We Know

02:44 - 18 Feb 2026

Users across the globe reported problems with the platform on Tuesday.

YouTube suffered a global outage on Tuesday, with thousands of people reporting issues with the platform from around 8:00 p.m. ET / 5:00 p.m. PT. Now we know what caused it.

In a statement shared to the official TeamYouTube X account, the company revealed that the outage ...