Cazé TV have just smashed a record even India couldn't keep | OneFootball

Cazé TV made YouTube history. During the Brazil vs. Morocco broadcast, in Brazil’s debut at the 2026 World Cup, Casimiro Miguel’s channel surpassed 12 million simultaneous viewers — and broke a record that had seemed unlikely to fall: that of India’s Chandrayaan-3 space mission.

The record that came from space

Until last Saturday (13), the biggest simultaneous audience ever recorded for a YouTube live stream had nothing to do with football. In 2023, India broadcast live the landing of the Chandrayaan-3 probe at the Moon’s south pole, an achievement that made the country the fourth nation in the world to carry out this type of controlled landing. The live stream by ISRO, India’s space agency, reached around 8 million simultaneous viewers and became the biggest live broadcast in the platform’s history.

That number stood untouched for nearly three years. Until Cazé TV came along.

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Brazil vs. Morocco: the match that broke the internet and helped put Cazé TV in the history books

In Brazil’s debut at the 2026 World Cup, with a goal by Vini Jr. in the 1-1 draw against Morocco, Cazé TV’s broadcast surpassed 12 million devices connected simultaneously, with measurements showing peaks close to 12.7 million. The figure not only topped Chandrayaan-3 but also surpassed the channel’s own sports record, set during the 2022 World Cup final.

According to a survey by Playboard, a South Korean platform specializing in YouTube live stream metrics, the peak was 12.2 million simultaneous views, enough to secure the top spot in the global ranking.

Most curious of all: even with about a 30-second delay compared to free-to-air TV — an issue that sparked controversy before the World Cup began — it did not affect the channel’s audience result.

How the ranking of the biggest live streams in YouTube history now stands

With the achievement, Cazé TV now dominates much of the platform’s all-time top 10 for simultaneous audience:

In other words: of the ten biggest live broadcasts ever recorded on YouTube, most belong to Cazé TV itself — nearly all of them tied to the 2026 World Cup.

Why this matters

The achievement confirms a shift that has been taking shape since 2022: Brazilian audiences are moving their football viewing from free-to-air TV to streaming. Cazé TV holds the broadcast rights to all 104 matches of the 2026 World Cup in Brazil — something no traditional broadcaster has managed to do on its own — and has used that exclusivity to establish Casimiro Miguel’s channel as the biggest sports phenomenon on the Brazilian internet.

It is worth noting that internet and TV metrics are not directly comparable: while YouTube measures simultaneous access across the entire national territory without external auditing, free-to-air TV figures follow Ibope’s methodology in specific markets. Even so, the world record is unquestionable within Google’s own platform — and shows that, for the first time, a Brazilian sports broadcast has surpassed a historic milestone that not even major global events had reached before.

The question now is: with 104 matches still ahead and Brazil still in the title race, how far can Cazé TV push this number?

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This article was translated into English by Artificial Intelligence. You can read the original version in 🇧🇷 here.