{"id":230190,"date":"2025-10-16T23:55:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T23:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/230190\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T23:55:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T23:55:08","slug":"paypal-venmo-youtube-outages-resolved-after-widespread-service-disruptions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/230190\/","title":{"rendered":"PayPal, Venmo, YouTube outages resolved after widespread service disruptions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Fox News contributor Michele Tafoya weighed in on PayPal walking back its user agreement fining up to $2,500 for &#8216;misinformation.&#8217;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Major <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxbusiness.com\/technology\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">mobile payment services<\/a>, PayPal and Venmo, along with video-sharing platform YouTube, experienced widespread outages within a 24-hour period.<\/p>\n<p>PayPal and Venmo outages started at about 11 a.m. Thursday, with tens of thousands of reports about worldwide outages on both sites by noon, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/downdetector.com\/status\/paypal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Downdetector.com<\/a>, an online user reporting system.<\/p>\n<p>As of 3 p.m., the issue seemed to have been resolved.<\/p>\n<p>     <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/PayPal-logo.jpg\" alt=\"The PayPal logo on a laptop computer\"\/> <\/p>\n<p>PayPal acquired mobile payment company Venmo in 2013. (Gabby Jones\/Bloomberg via Getty Images \/ Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxbusiness.com\/business-leaders\/verizon-names-former-paypal-boss-dan-schulman-ceo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">VERIZON NAMES FORMER PAYPAL BOSS DAN SCHULMAN AS CEO<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a statement to FOX Business, a PayPal spokesperson described the outage as a &#8220;brief service disruption.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;PayPal and Venmo experienced a brief service disruption that has since been resolved,&#8221; the spokesperson wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Ticker Security Last Change Change % <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxbusiness.com\/quote?stockTicker=PYPL\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">PYPL<\/a> PAYPAL HOLDINGS INC. 66.05 -1.93<br \/>\n        -2.84%<br \/>\n      <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxbusiness.com\/quote?stockTicker=GOOGL\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">GOOGL<\/a> ALPHABET INC. 251.46 +0.43<br \/>\n        +0.17%<\/p>\n<p>Venmo, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/banking\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">mobile payments<\/a> company, was acquired by PayPal in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>It is unclear what led to the outage.<\/p>\n<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Venmo-teen-account.jpg\" alt=\"Venmo logo\"\/> <\/p>\n<p>It is unclear what led to the PayPal and Venmo outage, though it is now resolved. (Rafael Henrique\/SOPA Images\/LightRocket via Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxbusiness.com\/politics\/us-treasury-department-now-offers-novel-method-pay-nations-whopping-36-trillion-debt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">WANT TO HELP WITH AMERICA&#8217;S $36 TRILLION DEBT? TREASURY DEPARTMENT NOW TAKES PAYPAL AND VENMO DONATIONS<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hours earlier, YouTube confirmed users were unable to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxbusiness.com\/category\/technology\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">play videos<\/a> Wednesday night, noting they were &#8220;on it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Downdetector reported more than 800,000 users reported issues on the platform within an hour.<\/p>\n<p>YouTube later posted to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/tech\/companies\/twitter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">social media<\/a> saying the issue was resolved.<\/p>\n<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/youtube_influence_campaigns.jpg\" alt=\"YouTube\"\/> <\/p>\n<p>YouTube experienced an outage hours earlier, reportedly affecting more than 800,000 users. (Thomas Fuller\/SOPA Images\/LightRocket via Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxbusiness.com\/lifestyle\/jetblue-accepting-venmo-flights\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">JETBLUE ACCEPTING VENMO FOR FLIGHTS<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This issue has been fixed \u2013 you should now be able to play videos <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/tech\/technologies\/video\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">on YouTube<\/a>, YouTube Music, and YouTube TV!&#8221; YouTube&#8217;s support team wrote in an X post.<\/p>\n<p>No explanation was provided for the outage.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxbusiness.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">CLICK HERE TO READ MORE ON FOX BUSINESS<\/a><\/p>\n<p>YouTube did not immediately respond to FOX Business&#8217; request for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fox News contributor Michele Tafoya weighed in on PayPal walking back its user agreement fining up to $2,500&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":230191,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[165,74],"class_list":{"0":"post-230190","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mobile","8":"tag-mobile","9":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230190\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}