Service Outage

YouTube experienced a partial service disruption in South Korea on Wednesday, February 18, the last day of the Lunar New Year holiday. Industry watchers reported an error preventing video playback on the mobile app. Desktop users faced similar issues.

17. februar 2026 Rapportert av AI

Google-owned YouTube service reported widespread technical disruptions on Wednesday morning, February 18, 2026, coinciding with the second day of Chinese New Year. Users worldwide reported empty homepages and error messages, with no official statement from Google yet.