{"id":81107,"date":"2025-10-16T00:40:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T00:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/81107\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T00:40:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T00:40:08","slug":"youtube-outage-hits-users-as-error-messages-block-video-playback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/81107\/","title":{"rendered":"YouTube outage hits users as error messages block video playback"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-test-ui=\"figure__caption\">Thousands in New Zealand and across the world reported that YouTube was down this afternoon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">YouTube was not working for more than an hour this afternoon, showing users an error message when they clicked on a video. It appears to be back working now.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Downdetector New Zealand had more than 1600 reports of issues with the site since 12.15pm, with the number continuing to grow.<\/p>\n<p class=\"iNwUpnfLcxPBLSL\" style=\"display:none\">Popular virtual private network company NordVPN said on its website that YouTube was down, with more than 4000 issues reported since midday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"iNwUpnfLcxPBLSL\" style=\"display:none\">The problem appeared to be global, with users in the United States, Turkey and Japan also reporting issues.<\/p>\n<p class=\"iNwUpnfLcxPBLSL\" style=\"display:none\">Google said it was aware some users were experiencing issues watching videos on YouTube, YouTube Music or YouTube TV and was investigating the issue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thousands in New Zealand and across the world reported that YouTube was down this afternoon. YouTube was not&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":81108,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[11730,16425,806,1863,1972,138,62327,19959,4508,33262,6096,60677,130,111,139,425,69,25347,62326,5348,131,8229,1961,16742,416,1316,19135,4139],"class_list":{"0":"post-81107","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-afternoon","9":"tag-appears","10":"tag-as","11":"tag-back","12":"tag-block","13":"tag-business","14":"tag-clicked","15":"tag-error","16":"tag-hits","17":"tag-hour","18":"tag-message","19":"tag-messages","20":"tag-more","21":"tag-new-zealand","22":"tag-newzealand","23":"tag-now","24":"tag-nz","25":"tag-outage","26":"tag-playback","27":"tag-showing","28":"tag-than","29":"tag-they","30":"tag-this","31":"tag-users","32":"tag-video","33":"tag-when","34":"tag-working","35":"tag-youtube"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81107","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=81107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81107\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}