India, Feb. 18 -- YouTube faced a major global outage on Tuesday, with users in India also reporting widespread access issues, according to outage tracking website Downdetector.

In India, Downdetector logged 19,097 complaints at 7:11 am, indicating a sharp spike in user reports about problems with video streaming, app access, and website loading.

Many users said videos were not playing or the platform was failing to load altogether.

The disruption was not limited to India. In the United States, more than 320,000 users reported issues with YouTube, with Downdetector showing 321,958 incident reports as of 8:18 pm ET. The tracker compiles outage data based on user-submitted reports and other signals.

Related services were also affected. ...