Is YouTube down?
YouTube is operating normally as of 10:04 UTC on July 27, 2026. 503Radar detected no elevated outage signals across 5 monitored service families. 503Radar does not read a machine-readable YouTube status feed, so this verdict rests on crowd signals only.
YouTube is a streaming service on the 503Radar board. We watch Video Playback, Upload & Processing, Live Streams, Comments & Community and YouTube Studio for outage signals — public crowd chatter and first-party visitor reports. 503Radar does not read a machine-readable YouTube status feed, so this board reflects crowd signals only. How detection works →
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incident overlayWhat a YouTube outage looks like
reported symptoms- › videos stall at 0% or show 'An error occurred'
- › uploads stick in processing
- › live streams buffer or drop
- › Studio analytics fail to load
Everyone, or just you? YouTube playback and YouTube Studio fail independently — Studio can be down while viewing is fine, and vice versa.
YouTube outage FAQ
honest answersIs YouTube down right now?
503Radar publishes a live YouTube verdict at the top of this page, stamped in UTC and rewritten by the detection pipeline whenever the signals change — not a cached daily snapshot. 503Radar does not read a machine-readable YouTube status feed, so this verdict rests on crowd reports from public platforms and first-party visitor reports. A quiet radar means we have no evidence of a YouTube outage — not a verified all-green.
How does 503Radar detect YouTube outages?
We monitor public outage chatter across forums, social platforms and developer communities, first-party "seeing this too" reports from visitors. YouTube publishes no feed we can read automatically, so its status page (www.google.com) is linked for you rather than parsed. A statistical anomaly across two or more independent evidence classes becomes a Signal; an official acknowledgement upgrades it to Confirmed. The full pipeline is documented on our methodology page — no black boxes.
Why is YouTube not working for me?
If 503Radar shows no elevated signals, the problem may be on your side: connectivity, DNS, a VPN or browser extension, or an account-specific issue. Try another network or device and check www.google.com for maintenance notices. You can also file a report here — enough independent reports from different countries open a community watch on the board.
What YouTube services does 503Radar track?
For YouTube we watch outage signals across Video Playback, Upload & Processing, Live Streams, Comments & Community and YouTube Studio. Coverage is signal-driven: we track what people actually report, plus everything YouTube publishes on its official status feed.