YouTube experienced widespread service disruptions affecting more than 340,000 users, Bloomberg reported, with the platform attributing the problem to issues in its recommendations system. The outage left homepages blank and prevented videos from loading across YouTube, YouTube Music, and YouTube Kids.

Reports of the disruption spiked on internet monitor Downdetector, which tracked a surge in complaints from regions including the United States, United Kingdom, India, and Australia. Users reported that while the homepage and subscription feeds failed, some features such as direct video links or search remained functional for certain users.

Other digital services, including Google, Amazon Web Services, and Cloudflare, also saw increased outage reports during the same period, suggesting broader infrastructure dependencies may have contributed to the disruption.

By Wednesday morning in Asia, YouTube’s homepage was restored, though the company stated it was “still working on a full fix” for all affected services. According to Reuters, the platform subsequently confirmed that normal service had resumed globally.