Live coverage, June 11 – July 19, 2026

World Cup 2026, watched closely.

Every narrative, sponsor, kit, meme and player moment shaping the tournament, tracked across social in real time.

Trending now · pulled from dig
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Live signal · no keywords required
3,418,792
World Cup posts dig has detected and scored since kickoff. No hashtags, no boolean queries — natural-language understanding of what every clip is about.
284,612
Minutes of video analyzed
1,872,409
Videos parsed since kickoff
94.2M
Reactions tracked (likes, replies, shares)
2,184
Distinct narratives detected
Narrative intelligence

The narratives shaping the tournament.

Phrases, not hashtags. dig reads what every clip is about and groups posts into the stories people are telling. Ranked by momentum, scored by mood.

Trending now · last 24 hours

What people are saying when they're talking about the tournament.

Mention volume

Who the world is talking about.

Mention volume for all 48 teams, mapped in real time. The teams driving the conversation, the ones flying under the radar.

Heatmap · 12 days to kickoff

Tier map by mention volume.

Host nations USA, Mexico, Canada lead. Argentina (defending champs), Brazil, France pacing the contenders. Debutants Cabo Verde, Curaçao, Jordan, Uzbekistan in the rising tier.

Mention volumeleast
most
Sponsor radar

Who's winning the marketing tournament.

Share of voice and sentiment for every brand showing up. Official sponsors, ambush brands, kit war.

Share of voice

The sponsor scoreboard.

Official sponsors vs. ambush brands. Plus the kit war the broadcast won't mention.

Activation sentiment

Which brand moments are landing, which are bombing.

Sentiment per activation, broken out by generation. Gen Z on TikTok pulls in a different direction than Gen X on Reddit.

Player momentum

When a player moves, the brand chatter moves with them.

Halo and reverse-halo per sponsor. Jersey resale chatter, search lift, which brands ride which performances.

Top 4 moments · last 48 hours
TikTok
Mbappé 3rd goal · 12.8M
Reels
Nike kit closeup · 4.2M
Shorts
Goal cam edit · 6.7M
TikTok
Hublot watch flash · 2.1M
Authenticity signal · new for 2026

The AI flood watch.

AI-generated posts and fake engagement are entering World Cup discourse at scale. dig flags what's manufactured.

Authenticity signal · last 24 hours

What's actually real in the conversation right now.

14,208
AI-generated posts flagged
2.1M
Fake engagements from inauthentic accounts
11%
Of viral player content flagged synthetic
Signal quality
22% of positive chatter around Player X is AI-driven. Real fan sentiment is 14pts lower.
Fake engagement
One kit reveal post sits at 380K likes, 41% flagged inauthentic. Real engagement is ~224K.
The power list

Who's actually calling the tournament.

The journalists, athletes and meme accounts whose posts are outrunning the official broadcast feed.

Top 6 · last 7 days
Live chat

Watch the world react, together.

An embedded fan chat running through every match. Real reactions from real accounts, signed in via social.

#worldcup-live 14,208 watching
Under the hood
How dig watches the tournament

Other tools count posts. dig reads them.

Every number on this hub is built from videos dig actually watched, frame by frame.

Step one · one clip, fully parsed
TikTok0:14
Frames
Audio
Caption
"the way he turned that defender inside out, vamos vamos vamos"
Detected
MbappéFrance kitNike swooshSpanishsentiment +94
Step two · across millions of clips

Same process. 1.8M videos. All traceable.

Figure detection. Logo recognition. Sentiment scored frame by frame. Comments parsed for theme. The platform does this for any brand or topic.

See the platform
Mbappé · 99%
Sentiment +94
Nike swoosh detected
Audio: stadium roar
12.8M views