WASHINGTON, United States, Feb 18, 2026 (BSS/AFP) - Video sharing site YouTube suffered a widespread outage late Tuesday, with hundreds of thousands of users reporting issues from around the world. "If you're having trouble accessing YouTube right now, you're not alone -- our teams are looking into this," the company said on X, linking to a support page. The help page later posted that "an issue with our recommendations system prevented videos from appearing across surfaces on YouTube (including the homepage, the YouTube app, YouTube Music and YouTube Kids)." During the worst of the outage, visitors to the website's homepage were greeted with an invitation to come back later. Google-owned YouTube is the world's largest video sharing platform, with over 2.5 billion users actively using the site each month.

Source: Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha February 18, 2026 02:45 UTC