On October 16, 2025, YouTube experienced a significant and widespread outage that affected its services globally, including YouTube, YouTube Music, and YouTube TV. Users across numerous countries, including the United States, United Kingdom, and Japan, reported issues with video playback, accessing the website, and using the mobile application. Downdetector, a service that monitors online outages, recorded hundreds of thousands of user complaints, with over 268,000 reports from the US alone. Google's official "@TeamYouTube" account on X (formerly Twitter) acknowledged the disruption and later confirmed that the issue had been resolved. While there was no official statement from Google on the cause, some reports speculated the outage could be linked to a recent major visual redesign of the platform. Another report suggested the outage was caused by an error during an update to YouTube's spam-prevention system.