Netflix faced brief streaming outage

Streaming giant Netflix's faced a brief disruption in its streaming services across all devices, the company said recently.

At its peak, there were more than 1,300 incidents of people reporting issues with Netflix, according to outage-tracking website Downdetector, which collates status reports from a number of sources in the United States.

The outage lasted for more than an hour, Downdetector said.

Netflix has nearly 221 million global paid subscribers, and remains a dominant streaming service around the world.