Paramount Plus, Spotify and Discord down? Users report widespread outages

Paramount Plus, Spotify, and Discord experienced widespread outages for thousands of users across the United States on Thursday night, July 17, 2026.

Paramount Plus users reported the streaming service crashing or failing to load, with over 15,000 outage reports on Downdetector by 10:15 p.m. EDT.

Spotify users reported problems with audio streaming, with more than 8,000 outage reports logged on Downdetector by 10:15 p.m. EDT.

Discord users reported streaming and connectivity issues, with over 4,000 outage reports on Downdetector by 10:15 p.m. EDT.

None of the three companies had publicly responded to the outage reports at the time of writing.