Streaming Service Status
Netflix, YouTube, Twitch, Spotify and more — down, or just buffering?
Endless buffering, error codes mid-episode, playlists that won’t load — streaming problems are uniquely frustrating because it’s rarely obvious whether the platform is down or your connection just dipped. This page collects our live checks for the major video and music streaming services. Each is tested from our servers every 15 minutes; a service’s own page adds an on-demand check, uptime history, and troubleshooting for its most common error patterns.
YouTube is Google’s video platform and one of the most visited sites on the internet. Complete outages are rare; more common are partial failures where the site loads but playback, comments, or live streams break.
Netflix is the largest subscription streaming service and runs its own CDN (Open Connect) inside many ISPs, which means playback problems are sometimes specific to your internet provider rather than Netflix globally.
Twitch is Amazon’s live-streaming platform. Its outages have distinct flavors: error 2000 on playback, streams dropping for broadcasters, or chat disconnecting while video keeps playing.
Spotify is the world’s largest music streaming service. Outages typically manifest as search failing, playlists refusing to load, or playback stopping between tracks — often while previously cached music keeps playing offline.
Disney+ is Disney’s streaming platform. Login storms around big premieres are its best-known failure mode — error code 83 and login failures spike whenever a major series episode drops.
Hulu is a US streaming service for shows, movies, and live TV. Its live TV product makes outages time-critical — error 94 or endless loading during a live game is the typical complaint pattern.
Buffering isn’t the same as down
A hard outage — nothing plays for anyone — is rare for the big streamers. Far more common is degradation: the app loads but playback stutters, or specific titles error out. That’s usually a CDN issue affecting some regions and not others, or your own bandwidth fluctuating. Our reachability check tells you whether the platform’s front door is answering; if it is and playback is still bad, run a speed test and try lowering the stream quality before assuming a platform outage.
Error codes are your friend
Streaming apps expose unusually specific error codes — Netflix’s NW- and UI- prefixes, YouTube’s playback IDs, Twitch’s error 2000 — and searching the exact code together with the service name is the fastest route to a fix. As a rule of thumb: network-prefixed codes point at your connection or DNS, licensing errors are on the platform’s side, and device-specific codes often clear after signing out and back in or reinstalling the app.
Frequently Asked Questions
Which streaming platforms have status pages here?
We track YouTube, Netflix, Twitch, Spotify, Disney+, and Hulu with dedicated pages. Each shows the current live status from our servers, the last 24 hours of scheduled checks, and response-time trends that often reveal degradation before a full outage.
The service is up but my stream keeps buffering. What should I do?
Buffering while the platform is healthy almost always means a bandwidth or Wi‑Fi problem. Restart your router, move closer to it or switch to a wired connection, close other bandwidth-heavy apps, and lower the stream quality. If another device on mobile data streams fine, your home network is the culprit.
Why does a streaming service work on my phone but not my TV?
TV apps update less often and cache more aggressively than mobile ones, so they can hold onto a broken session after an incident has already been fixed. Sign out and back in on the TV app, or unplug the TV or streaming stick for 30 seconds. Platform-wide outages rarely affect only a single device type.