<story><title>YouTube Down</title><url>https://downdetector.com/status/youtube/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>augusto-moura</author><text>Maybe for other types of service yes, I find difficult to plug a alternative to YouTube, other type of streaming services maybe? Netlfix etc</text></item><item><author>birdyrooster</author><text>Downdetector seems like a great place to advertise. You have a bunch of people who were forced to abandon the provider of whatever type of service that your company may offer. What a great opportunity to show customers your competing product.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wongarsu</author><text>YouTube is the one-stop-shop of internet videos. Any specific niche has a competitor, but none of them seriously competes with the whole of YouTube.&lt;p&gt;I noticed the outage because I wanted to watch a stream, so I might go to Twitch now. Often I use Youtube for music, where Spotify is a solid alternative with many of the same creators. If I want to see that video from reddit of people throwing burning flares at a balcony I can probably find it on LiveLeak. Many of the educational channels I&amp;#x27;ve subscribed are also on Nebula, but I could also watch a documentary on Netflix or Disney+ instead.</text></comment>
<story><title>YouTube Down</title><url>https://downdetector.com/status/youtube/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>augusto-moura</author><text>Maybe for other types of service yes, I find difficult to plug a alternative to YouTube, other type of streaming services maybe? Netlfix etc</text></item><item><author>birdyrooster</author><text>Downdetector seems like a great place to advertise. You have a bunch of people who were forced to abandon the provider of whatever type of service that your company may offer. What a great opportunity to show customers your competing product.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sundvor</author><text>YouTube Music user here. Fired up Windows Media Player for the first time in ages, and told it to scan my old folder of ripped CDs.</text></comment>