Overview
- TeamYouTube acknowledged playback failures across YouTube, YouTube Music and YouTube TV, then declared the issue resolved roughly an hour after it began.
- Reports spiked shortly after 7 p.m. ET on Oct. 15, with Downdetector logging hundreds of thousands of problem submissions in the U.S. and signals from multiple countries.
- Users saw black screens, error messages and mobile app crashes, and support advised affected mobile users to delete and reinstall the app.
- Google has not detailed a single global root cause, and unverified social media claims of a DDoS attack were not confirmed by the company.
- In South Korea, Google Korea told officials an error during a security or spam‑prevention update blocked user requests and was rolled back, drawing attention to incident‑reporting rules.