YouTube resolves issue that briefly impacted video streaming globally

The YouTube app is shown on an iPad on March 20, 2018. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

Alphabet-owned YouTube said on Wednesday that it has resolved an issue impacting video streaming services for several thousand users globally.

YouTube said in a post on X that users should now be able to play videos on YouTube Music, YouTube TV and its main platform — without specifying what caused the issue.

At its peak, at 7:55 p.m. ET, 366,172 users in the U.S. had reported issues with YouTube, according to Downdetector, which tracks outages by collating status reports from a number of sources.

Thousands of outages were also reported in the U.K., Canada, and Australia, Downdetector showed.

Downdetector’s numbers are based on user-submitted reports. The actual number of affected users may vary.

(Reporting by Gursimran Kaur in Bengaluru; Editing by Alan Barona)