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2025-04-16T19:33:16.356ZZoom’s down.Remote employees everywhere: pic.twitter.com/As0Yx93oGHApril 16, 2025

Zoom’s outage could grind work to a stop for some companies that use the video conferencing software to get through their days. Thankfully, the best video conferencing software options are available to fill the gap.

However, as great as those other services are, it can be hard to get large companies to pivot off the software they’re already using.

2025-04-16T19:26:29.123Z

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Zoom was quick to acknowledge the outage on its status page, which is a good sign that something is wrong. More often than not, we’ll hear about an outage on Down Detector and the company follows up with its own reports later. Because Zoom is used for work, it makes sense for the company to be quick to report the outage.

Now, whether it’s able to fix the outage quickly is another question and we will continue to monitor for any fixes.

2025-04-16T19:15:54.293Z

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Zoom’s outage reports have exploded on Down Detector in a very short time. With more than 67,000 reports, users around the world are hitting the outage reporting website to let everyone now they can’t use Zoom.

Thousands of potentially important meetings are being missed due to the Zoom outage (and perhaps even more frivolous meetings). We’ll continue to monitor the outage and keep you posted as anything happens.