YouTube Outage Cause Revealed: Here's What We Know

03:27 - 18 Feb 2026

Users across the globe reported problems with the video 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. Now, we know what caused it.

In a statement posted to the official TeamYouTube X account, the company revealed that the outage was caused by a ...