YouTube back online after site struggles to play video

YouTube has confirmed you can start procrastinating again after a global issue made it unable to stream videos.

YouTube is back online after experiencing technical difficulties, with videos on the site not playing for users around the world.

A spike in reports of problems on the website began flooding in at around 10.45am AEDT, with thousands of reports being collated by the website status monitor DownDetector.

YouTube confirmed the issue and said it was working to fix it.

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If you’re having trouble watching videos on YouTube right now, you’re not alone – our team is aware of the issue and working on a fix. We’ll follow up here with any updates.

— TeamYouTube (@TeamYouTube) November 12, 2020

By 12.50pm a test by news.com.au found the site was again able to load and play videos.

At around 1.15pm the company confirmed it was back online.

...And we’re back – we’re so sorry for the interruption. This is fixed across all devices & YouTube services, thanks for being patient with us ❤️ https://t.co/1s0qbxQqc6

— TeamYouTube (@TeamYouTube) November 12, 2020

A spike in reports began just before 11am.

“How many people do y’all think called the local police because YouTube is down?” One complainant on DownDetector asked.

While it’s unlikely anyone actually called the police, YouTube users have been complaining on Twitter.

Everyone running to Twitter to see if YouTube is broken for everyone #YouTubeDOWN pic.twitter.com/I0p3FmGtI1

— 𝒦𝐸𝒱𝐼𝒩🪁 (@DrizzyKev) November 12, 2020

Me reading Twitter about how YouTube is broken while waiting for YouTube to unbroken itself.https://t.co/O5OxDPvJLf pic.twitter.com/4016UZnNTn

— Rene Ritchie (@reneritchie) November 12, 2020

Is ... YouTube broken right now?

— AmaLee (@LeeandLie) November 12, 2020

Me after wasting 10 minutes thinking chrome was broken but it was YouTube #YouTubeDOWN pic.twitter.com/HHiCHntaP6

— Jonah Corona (@Jsanderson5959) November 12, 2020

not youtube being broken when i have to watch 3 videos for class pic.twitter.com/KPls2aF0i1

— ken⁷ goes on (@jinnieday) November 12, 2020

Originally published as YouTube back online after site struggles to play video