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Live at Scale: The World Cup Exposed Advertising's Infrastructure Gap

With 104 matches, 48 teams, and three host countries, the 2026 World Cup would challenge any campaign plan. But this tournament poses even more structural complexity than ever before: for the first time, a single sporting event of this magnitude is simultaneously airing across broadcast television, multiple streaming services, smart TV homescreens, and social feeds, often within the same household, sometimes on the same couch. And most advertising infrastructure was not built for that.