{"id":289364,"date":"2026-02-18T04:22:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T04:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/289364\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T04:22:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T04:22:07","slug":"youtube-down-blank-screen-and-something-went-wrong-errors-hit-users","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/289364\/","title":{"rendered":"YouTube down: Blank screen and \u2018something went wrong\u2019 errors hit users"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"PjjNclxixstKXPGyV\" style=\"display:none\">YouTube Shorts also appeared to be unavailable on the app, but users could still watch videos by searching for them. <\/p>\n<p><img  alt=\"YouTube is showing blank screens for users.\" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>YouTube is showing blank screens for users.<\/p>\n<p class=\"PjjNclxixstKXPGyV\" style=\"display:none\">A spokesperson for Google said an issue with the recommendations system prevented videos from appearing across surfaces on YouTube, including the homepage, the YouTube app, YouTube Music and YouTube Kids.<\/p>\n<p class=\"PjjNclxixstKXPGyV\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cThe homepage is back, but we\u2019re still working on a full fix \u2013 more updates coming soon!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img  alt=\"Downdetector has reported a large spike in problems across New Zealand. Photo \/ Downdetector\" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>Downdetector has reported a large spike in problems across New Zealand. Photo \/ Downdetector<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"YouTube Shorts also appeared to be unavailable on the app, but users could still watch videos by searching&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":289365,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[2840,11730,95,2724,682,114034,138,6097,63726,3594,111,139,69,22507,15267,5419,4525,1961,2742,16742,3114,2201,3608,102,25152,4139,80],"class_list":{"0":"post-289364","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-across","9":"tag-afternoon","10":"tag-and","11":"tag-app","12":"tag-being","13":"tag-blank","14":"tag-business","15":"tag-down","16":"tag-errors","17":"tag-hit","18":"tag-new-zealand","19":"tag-newzealand","20":"tag-nz","21":"tag-outages","22":"tag-reported","23":"tag-screen","24":"tag-something","25":"tag-this","26":"tag-thousands","27":"tag-users","28":"tag-website","29":"tag-went","30":"tag-were","31":"tag-with","32":"tag-wrong","33":"tag-youtube","34":"tag-zealand"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=289364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289364\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/289365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}