Punters Loving It As DraftKings Goes EBITDA-positive in FY24
Supercharged by impressive customer engagement, Fantasy and top U.S. sports book DraftKings is living the dream as it finally goes EBITDA-positive in…
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Big, Bigger, Best, MGM Resorts International Posts Record FY24 Revenue
Boosted by Macau and iGaming, Big Beast MGM Resorts International has posted a record FY 2024 with consolidated net revenue growing by…
What Just Happened Here? Entain Shares Hit The Floor As CEO Isaacs Says Hasta La Vista
Shares in Entain, owners of blue ribbon Ladbrokes Coral and co-owners of coming U.S. iGaming joint-venture BetMGM, hit the floor today, Tuesday,…
Who’s Hurtin’ Now? Sweet Re-peat Not Three-peat As Jalen’s Eagles Crush Chiefs In Super Bowl
It’s still too early to call the figures in, but most punters, indubitably, are hurting after American Football favourites The Kansas City…
Soon Come: EBITDA-Positive Dream Nears For BetMGM
The dream of going EBITDA-positive by year’s end becomes ever more tangible for MGM Resorts-Entain iGaming joint-venture BetMGM, following a successful FY…
Super Bowl’s Big Easy Set To Top US$20 Billion
American Football’s Super Bowl–the biggest betting bonanza in single event world sport–kicks off this Sunday in the “Big Easy” with a stake,…
Betsson Announce Best Ever Full Financial Year
Betsson AB has released its “Best Ever” Full Year financial results, showing notable growth across all key metrics, driven by both its…
Top Rankin’: Iconic Rank Post Dividend, Massive H1 Fiscal Surge
Rank Group, owners of the storied Grosvenor Casino and Mecca Bingo brands, has delivered an exceptional H1, featuring a 228 percent increase…
Show Me The Money: Every Which Way They Paysafe
In an industry driven by celebrity endorsements, glitzy games and catchy advertising, it may be the least sexy aspect of iGaming but…
Super Super Group Promise Record 2024 Fiscals
Super Group, owner of top brands Betway and Spin, has posted an update on its upcoming Q4 and 2024 Full Year results,…
Entain Again Feel The Pain
Fresh off the plane from ICE Barcelona, where he’d been extolling the virtues of his company’s rebuild and renewal after a series…
The iGF Supper Club, Barça: Learnings and Earnings
iGamingFuture’s annual pre-ICE Supper Club, held this year in the singular and storied Catalan capital, Barcelona, encapsulated the “learnings and earnings” buzz…
ESG, Betsson’s Ongoing Battle For A Better iGaming Business World
As our planet prepares for President Trump’s coming New World Order, it’s refreshing to note that not every business is rolling back…
Trump On Trump: Gambling USA 2025, It’s Going To Be A Bigly Year
Before the presidency, before “The Apprentice”, there was gambling and Donald Trump’s controversial Atlantic City casino empire: The Trump Plaza Casino and…
Down The Greentube: Admiral iCasino Torpedoed By £1m AML Fine
Greentube, the Novomatic-owned iGaming division, has been fined £1 million for serious social responsibility and anti-money laundering regulatory failures. Trading as Admiral…
“Sawadi Craps”: Thailand Moves To Legalise Online Gaming
Thailand, the most popular tourist destination and pleasure ground in Asia, is poised to legalise iGaming. The move comes as central China…
Denise Cuts Her Coates According To bet365’s Size
With her company’s annual revenue up by “only” nine percent to £3.7 billion (US$4.64bn), bet365 boss Denise Coates has taken a massive…
Big Guns Open Ukraine’s New Gambling Front
New year. New front. New gambling legislation for Ukraine. As Ukrainian armoured and heavy infantry units seek to expand their pocket, or…
America’s Next Mega Millions Lottery Billionaire
Will America’s next Mega Millions Lottery billionaire please step forward. Someone in California–where else?–is holding the latest US$1.22 billion (£970m) jackpot-winning ticket…
(More) Trouble This Time Down Under For Entain
It’s a year that has seen troubled Entain make significant moves back to respectability but in the immortal words of Michael Corleone…
Brazil: And Then There Were 71
With international gambling industry excitement growing over the imminent launch of fully-regulated sports betting in Brazil, authorities in the South American giant…
Porn-u-Like, UKGC May Pay £200m To Settle National Lottery Legal Dispute
The UK Gambling Commission (UKGC) may pay up to £200 million (US$255.59m) to former porn king Richard Desmond to settle an ongoing…
Troubled Tabcorp Decimates Workforce
Troubled Tabcorp, Australia’s largest gambling operator, has decimated its workforce in a bid to revive its slumping competitiveness against premier Ozzie rivals…
Read My Lips: No New Taxes!
In the age of president Donald Trump 2.0 it seems that contentious word “taxes” has been banned from the Anglo-sphere. Instead we’re…
States Supreme In Nigerian Gaming Ruling
Ending years of judicial struggle between federal and state authorities over who controls gambling in Africa’s richest and most populous country, Nigeria’s…
It Could’ve Been You! UK Lotto Hits 30
As it celebrates its 30th birthday today, the UK Lotto, arguably hitherto the most successful national lottery in the world, faces a…
As POGOs Go No-No In Philippines Online Boom-Booms
Finally some good news for fully regulated gambling in The Philippines as iGaming went stratospheric in Q3 — and helped off-set a…
Better Collective’s Full Lean Ahead Q3
Media Affiliate Better Collective (BC) slashed its workforce, implemented a €50 million (£41.59m) cost-cutting programme and initiated a €20 million (£16.64m) share…
Bring Me Your Rich and Successful, Tomorrow Belongs To Flutter
Buoyed by a US$3.25 billion (£2.55bn/€3.06bn) 27 percent year-over-year surge in Q3 revenue, newly-U.S domiciled Flutter Entertainment launches a US$5 billion (£3.92bn/€4.71bn)…
Brazil: Bringing Order And Progress To The Chaos Of Sportsbetting
Only weeks away from full regulation and already a significant clutch of potential operators, led by Super Group’s Betway, have decided to…
Terrific DraftKings Reports 39-Percent Revenue Growth in Q3
Hard-charging sports betting DraftKings has posted a spectacular Q3 with a near-40 percent increase of revenue, year-on-year, to US$1.095 billion (£848.45m). The…
Super Group Announces Super Q3 Fiscals
Super Group, the parent company of leading iGaming brands Betway and Spin, has reported its third quarter 2024 financial results, marking record…
Is Donald Trump About To Stage The Greatest Comeback in U.S. Political History?
Losing ground but still–by an ultra thin margin–The Favourite, is Donald Trump about to stage the greatest comeback in American political history?…
Betting on UAE, Share Buy-back, Wynn Reports Consolidated Q3
Looking for fiscal boost from its ongoing mega resort project in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and supercharging its US$1 billion buy-back…
Look Ma No New Gambling Taxes!
In the end the much-predicted tax raid on British gambling in yesterday’s swingeing £40 billion (US$51.83bn) budget didn’t materialise. It was a…
Putting Lipstick On A Pig, Caesars Grapples With Near-US$13 Billion Q3 Debt Burden
Down. Down. Down, with only digital pulsing positive light in an otherwise negative Q3 for gambling industry leviathan Caesars Entertainment, Inc., as…
In Greatest Match-up in Baseball History, Freeman Hits Wonder Run. And It Ain’t Even ‘Shotime’
That hit. The hit by Freddie Freeman of the L.A. Dodgers, which won Game 1 in the current baseball World Series against…
Despite Georgia, Cyber Attacks On Its Mind Evolution Keeps Calm And Posts Fine Q3
Despite an ongoing labour dispute in the Republic of Georgia and a flurry of Far Eastern cyber attacks on its mind, live…
Nine Months Fiscal Report: Betsson Goes From Strength-to-Strength
Swedish-origin iGaming big beast Betsson has released its Interim Financial Report for the first nine months of the year that shows solid…
Svenska Spel Reports 94 Percent Healthy Revenue for Q3
Svenska Spel has reported that 94 percent of its SEK1.97 billion revenue (£144m/US$177m) for its third quarter of 2024, ending September 30,…
Bang A Gong: UK Stalwarts evoke Top Rank Memories
Despite the looming threat of tax rises; the outlook for British gambling stalwarts evoke–owner of the storied William Hill brand–and the Rank…
Gambling Taxes Set To Soar Around The World
Leading nations around the world are poised to significantly increase taxes on their gambling and iGaming industries as part of their fix…
Entain Exceeds Q3 Expectations, Raises FY24 Guidance
With Q3 Results just in, finally some good news for beleaguered U.K. gambling giant Entain. The owner of storied Ladbrokes Coral, PartyCasino,…
Biting The Hand That’s Fed It, Labour Plans £3bn Raid On Gambling Industry
You can almost imagine a Blair-Starmer double act, co-opting a favourite catchphrase and delivering in unison: “And not a lot of people…
10bet Enhances Offerings with BETER’s Next-Gen eSports Content
BETER, a leading provider of fast-betting content and data, has entered into a strategic partnership with 10bet, a prominent online gambling operator,…
Steady As They Blow, Millions: Gaming Whales Back In Macau Waters
In the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, which devastated Macau, the whales are finally back playing the tables at the world’s biggest…
The Second Coming: Brazil President Lula Threatens To Ban iGaming
For millions of Brazilians President Lula is up there with the country’s other Gods: Pele, the arbiter of the Beautiful Game, the…
Tout Suite: FDJ Completes €2.45 Billion Kindred Acquisition
France’s dominant lottery and gambling entity FDJ has officially completed its €2.25 billion (£1.88bn/US$2.46bn) acquisition of Swedish-origin Kindred Group. FDJ–La Française des…
Where Angels Fear To Tread: Stella David Faces Entain Challenge
So today’s the day, the day that Stella David takes on scandal-wracked Entain, arguably the toughest and most freighted job in British…
Burn It Down: Brazil Sports Betting Scores Spectacular Own Goal
EXCLUSIVE: Brazil, blessed with its vast Amazonian rainforest, spectacular northern desert of Lençóis Maranhenses and sprawling southern Pantanal wetlands, is known for…