YouTube largely back up after being down for thousands of users, Downdetector shows

FILE PHOTO: The YouTube app icon on a smartphone in this illustration taken October 27, 2025. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File Photo

Dec 19 (Reuters) - ‌Alphabet's YouTube was largely back up ‌after a brief outage denied ‌access forthousands of users globally on Friday, according to Downdetector.com.

There were about 200 ‍outage reports from users ‍of the ‌platform as of 9:00 a.m. ET, ‍compared with ​the peak of nearly 10,800, Downdetector showed.