YouTube is the largest streaming service by far in the U.S. At this time, the cause of the outage is unknown. Mashable reached out to Google for more information (YouTube is owned by Google), and we'll update this story if we receive more information.

YouTube experienced a widespread outage Tuesday evening in the United States and internationally, with users reporting blank homepages and error messages across YouTube, YouTube Music, YouTube Kids and YouTube TV, before the company said it had implemented a fix.

More than 338,000 users reported issues with YouTube Tuesday evening, Feb. 17, according to Downdetector.As of 6:30 p.m., 338,308 people had flagged problems with the video platform, Downdetector data shows.

More than a million people around the world reported the popular video site had gone dark. Just in time for Olympics coverage!

YouTube says issue ‘resolved’ after more than a quarter million users report problems accessing website and app - As of Tuesday evening, there had been more than a quarter million reports of YouTube issues,

Tens of thousands of users reported trouble accessing YouTube on Tuesday night, but the issue has since been fixed, the company said.

YouTube is experiencing an outage across the United States, with users in other countries like Canada, India, the Philippines, Australia and Russia also having problems with accessing the website. The issue seems to have started at around 8 PM Eastern time and reached 338,

YouTube users were having trouble accessing the platform due to issues with the platform's recommendations system.

For an hour, users were met with the message, "Something went wrong. Try again."

Google-owned YouTube said some users were having trouble accessing the online video-sharing platform. YouTube said that an issue with its recommendations system prevented videos from appearing on YouTube,