YouTube said on Tuesday it has resolved an issue that briefly affected access to the video-sharing platform, after outage-tracking website Downdetector reported widespread global disruptions.

The popular video-sharing platform YouTube faced a major global outage on Wednesday morning (February 18), leaving millions of users unable to watch videos for several hours. Users across multiple countries,

YouTube is back online after an outage knocked out the website for more than 300,000 users Tuesday night. Details. Transcript

YouTube is experiencing an outage across the United States, with users in other countries like India and the Philippines also having problems with accessing the website. The issue seems to have started at around 8AM Eastern time and reached 35,

According to YouTube's support page on X, the company resolved the issue nearly two hours after it began affecting users.

More than 338,000 users reported issues with YouTube Tuesday evening, Feb. 17, according to Downdetector.As of 6:30 p.m., 338,308 people had flagged problems with the video platform, Downdetector data shows.

YouTube experienced a widespread disruption Tuesday night that temporarily prevented users from accessing videos across its platform. The Google-owned service later confirmed the cause of the issue and began restoring functionality after reports surged globally.

YouTube experienced a major outage late Tuesday, as hundreds of thousands of users worldwide reported disruptions. The company later resolved an issue with its recommendation system that had affected more than 350,