For the first time, participating broadcasters have the option to stream the opening 10 minutes of every World Cup match live on their official YouTube channels.
In the United States, the official media partners participating in this landmark FIFA and YouTube “Preferred Platform” collaboration are the country’s primary World Cup rights holders:
Fox Sports (English-language coverage)
Telemundo Deporte (Spanish-language coverage)
Watching from outside the USA?
To watch the US-exclusive YouTube streams (or full broadcasts on Fox and Telemundo) from outside the United States, you need to bypass geo-blocking. Streaming platforms look at your internet connection’s IP address to determine your physical location. If that IP address isn’t from the US, you get blocked.
A VPN (Virtual Private Network) solves this by securely routing your internet traffic through a server located inside the United States, making it appear to YouTube and other platforms as though you are sitting right there in America.