iGF Podcast Review: iGaming NEXT and Casino By Her
The iGaming NEXT podcast is fast gaining a brilliant rep as one of the leading podcasts for the iGaming professional community. Hosted…
André Dubronski
Gardner, Root and Branch, Growing Better Safeguards for Problem Gamblers
The UK Gambling Commission, the UKGC to you and me, is often accused of being a toothless lion – or is it…
Sir Iain Rides Again, Tilting At Gambling’s Windmills
It must be that time of year. Once again anti-gambling blowhards have wheeled out Conservative Cassandra Sir Iain Duncan Smith who, true…
Behold Catena Delivers Impressive Q1
Catena Media is fast becoming the bible of reference for hybrid Affiliates mining the interface of iGaming and Fintech, following a record…
Cashing Covid Out, Casinos Reopen
Despite fears of the potentially super-infectious Indian variant, the UK government has decided to cash out Covid and push ahead with the…
Bigger, Stronger, Better Collective
Better Collective’s three-pronged corporate strategy of driving down debt, seeking to dominate key segments of the market and a concentration on building…
All on 17 Black, King Casino is Back, American Gaming Breaches US$11 Billion in Q1
According to the American Gaming Association (AGA), commercial gaming revenue in the nation topped US$11 billion in Q1 2021 (£7.79bn/€9.08bn), the joint…
Bally’s Bounces Back, Riding a Raft of Debt and Acquisitions
Buoyed by the relative success of the Covid-19 vaccine rollout and flush with the positive affirmation of its proposed US$2.82 billion (£2bn/€2.32bn)…
Smells Like Mean Spirit, US Horse Racing Rocked by Doping
Medina Spirit, the “bargain basement” winner of this year’s Kentucky Derby has failed a drug test confirming fears of widespread doping in…
Caesars Reports Q1 Loss, But Looks to Bounce Back Stronger
Caused in great part by a near 40 per cent hit to its Las Vegas bricks-and-mortar revenues, Caesars Entertainment has filed a…
Fall of the William Hill Empire, Iconic Bookies on the Butcher’s Block
Render unto Caesars the high-performing online verticals and the rest–the legacy high street betting shops, the Covid-vulnerable bricks and mortar–put it on…
On the Boardwalk, Caesars Plan Mega $400 Million Refurb
Hot on the heels of acquiring Britain’s top William Hill brand for its online expertise, Caesars Entertainment is pumping money into its…
Codere Survives Death by Covid, But Shares Take a Tumble
“Accionistas” on the Bolsa Madrid Spanish stock exchange are not impressed with the half-a-billion-plus euros bailout of the country’s ailing gaming giant,…
Swedish Gaming’s Catch 21; Betting Industry Confronting Dirty Money Allegations
Amid claims that the country’s betting business is under threat from money-laundering and terrorist financing, Sweden’s online gaming industry is facing a…
A Marriage Made in Covid, William Hill and Caesars Finally Unite
Weeks of verbal and financial speculation, which saw City of London hedge funds circling an inert William Hill, like hyenas at a…
Education, Education, Education; Charities Urge Safer Gambling Drive
YGAM, the Young Gamers and Gamblers Education Trust, has stepped up to the plate and demanded that the government embed education and…
Zlatan Ban, A View from the Terrace
The threat to ban legendary Swedish striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic from international football reveals the deep hypocrisy at the heart of the football…
Zlat’s All Folks, Football Legend in Betting Probe
After a long and hitherto distinguished career, Swedish footballer Zlatan Ibrahimovic may be forced, finally, to hang up his boots. Already pushing…
The Good, The Bad and The Furloughed
Arch rivals William Hill (WH) and Ladbrokes have set themselves up as the good and the bad of the furloughed gambling industry….
Don’t Illegalise It: Sweden Extends Online Controls
Sweden’s botched Covid response and its government’s draconian online gaming controls during the pandemic have fuelled illegal gambling in the country, it…
Covid Ate My Lotto, UK in Bidding War
The mid-Covid scramble to gobble up Britain’s hugely successful National Lottery is on — and it threatens to unleash the mother of…
Widespread Racism in Esports
The spectre of growing anti-Asian racism is threatening to overshadow the shining success of esports in the USA. Esports is dominated by…
Betfred Meets Mr Green
After a fraught three years of legal action to claim his fair winnings, Betfred blackjack player Andy Green now has all the…
Beat the Dead Donkey, Khan Gambles on Banning Tube Betting Ads
London’s Labour mayor Sadiq Khan, love him or hate him, is beating a dead donkey in a bid to win re-election. In…
Possibly Cuomo’s Last Throw of the Dice
In possibly his last political act, under fire New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo–currently fighting for his political life amid a raft…
Flutter Minding The Pay Gap
Gaming giant Flutter Entertainment, the FTSE100 listed company that recorded revenues of almost £4.4 billion last year (US$6.11bn/€5.17bn), has just released its…
UKGC Boss Tim Miller’s Headlines
Pandemic haircuts can come in many styles, Tim Miller, the new Executive Director of the UK Gambling Commission (UKGC) has warned the…
UKGC Scores Spectacular Own Goal, Football Index Punters Lose Millions
In what could become the biggest scandal in British betting history, punters stand to lose up to £100m with the crash of…
At Last, Vegas: World’s Top Gaming Hub Walking Back to Happiness
In the clearest indication yet that the United States is finally countering the threat of Covid, Las Vegas, the country’s top gambling…
Good Friends, Bad Neighbours – APPG Calls for Daytime Ad Ban
The British gaming industry’s nemesis, the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Gambling-Related Harm (APPG), has urged commercial television stations to ban daytime betting…
Trickle-Down Gambling, Less is More, says SMF
A newly published report on the economics of gambling by a leading British think-tank, the Social Market Foundation (SMF), has provoked an…
The Gavel Comes Down, Spanish Media Hit by Ban on Gaming Ads
Spanish media barons have suffered a major blow after failing to delay a government ban on gambling advertising. The Association of Information…
You’re The Online That I Want, William Hill 2020 Results
While it waits at the altar for Caesars Entertainment to do the right thing and put a ring on its finger, William…
Back to Black, Entain Posts £100m+ 2020 Profit
There may be no dividends for shareholders this year but Entain plc, now headed by Jette Nygaard-Andersen, is confident that it has…
Starry-Eyed Flutter Doubles 2020 Revenue
FTSE100 gaming giant Flutter Entertainment, now the world’s largest online betting group, more than doubled its revenue to £4.4bn (US$6.13bn/€5.09bn) in 2020,…
Advantage, Gaming Industry, New Boss for 2005 Gambling Act Review
Amid the fiscal carnage wrought by Covid-19, it would appear that the gambling zeitgeist is moving, inexorably, pro-industry and towards the billions…
Caesars Posts Massive 2020 Loss
Caesars Entertainment, the US gaming and entertainment giant formed by the eponymous company’s merger with Eldorado Resorts in July last year, has…
Ethical Advertising: The Future of iGaming Acquisition? With James Burgess, Founder, Ethical Ad Group
As the iGaming universe continues to expand, acquisition strategies will need to evolve along with it. Finding the most efficient and compliant…
UK Online Betting Yield Continues to Grow
Amid the stop-start vagaries of the Covid-19 pandemic–closures of traditional bookies, et al—and, most significantly, the return of an active sporting schedule,…
BGC Introduces New Social Media Restrictions
Standards body the Betting and Gaming Council has drawn up tough new rules aimed at preventing football clubs from using their official…
From Bricks to Slaughter, MGM Posts 2020 Billion-Dollar Loss
In further proof that the world’s gambling axis is moving, incontrovertibly, from bricks-and-mortar to iGaming, US betting and entertainment giant MGM Resorts…
Survival of the Fittest, Evolution Posts an Impressive 2020
Evolution, the crack international B2B business which dominates the Live Casino offering, has recorded a tremendous 2020 financial year of increased revenue…
Paying The iGame, Betsson Posts Top Profit
In defiance of the impact of Covid-19, but powered by a canny acquisitions strategy, multi-national gambling group Betsson AB has posted a…
Big Brother Isn’t Watching, China Announces Illegal Gambling Crackdown
Confess and nearly all will be forgiven — that’s the promise made by China’s Orwellian-named Ministry of Public Security as the country…
Gambling With UK’s iGaming Future, More Control May Only Abet Dark Web
As the campaign to shape the future of the gambling industry intensifies, the big guns of British betting are warning that tougher…
Extra Sensory Protection from UKGC
In what is being heralded as a major boost to safer iGaming, the UK Gambling Commission (UKGC), the body that regulates British…
An App in Time Makes Money, Google Expands Android iGaming Content
The onward march of iGaming continues apace with the announcement that online behemoth Google is to release real-money Android betting apps in…
Top Ranking
Fortified by a £128m (US$176m/€145m) Covid war chest, the UK’s Rank Group is confident that it can ride out the coronavirus storm…
It’s All Triple Dutch for Online Punters
Holland’s long-awaited Online Gambling Act, known by its Dutch acronym KOA, has just been delayed for the third time. The new legislation…
UKGC Say Boo! To the Bogeyman
The UK government’s regulatory Gambling Commission (UKGC) has hit back at industry claims that legal reform could lead to a surge in…