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Cola.bet Reports 320% Active User Growth During Opening Three Months in Africa
This growth stems from Cola.bet’s curated markets on its mobile-first, proprietary platform for individual countries, a seamless user journey and a wide…
Cola Group to Invest US$14.5M in Cola.bet Expansion Strategy
This substantial investment follows on the back of Cola.bet securing a fourth African gambling license in the continent’s second-largest gambling market, Nigeria….
Safer Gambling Weekly Round-Up by Dam Mad Media
GamCare With universities resuming across the UK, GamCare have launched their Big Deal campaign, aimed at educating students about the risks of…
iGB Live! – Your Official Session Previews from Entain and Golden Key Casino
According to Judith Kiragu, Director at Golden Key Casino, land based casinos in Africa are more ready than ever to go online…
Esports and Sportsbook: Match Made in Heaven? With Zohrab Karapetyan from Digitain
Many of us in the industry will be keen to get a piece of the esports pie. Its experienced fantastic growth and…
The Future of African Gaming
Join us as we speak with some of the sharpest minds in African gaming and dive deep into some of the most pressing challenges facing the future of…
Safer Gambling Weekly Round-Up by Dam Mad Media
After a quiet month, it has been an incredibly busy week in the world of Safer Gambling. GambleAware Over the last 12…
The President and the SportPesa, Kenya Gaming Given Kiss-of-Life
Kenya President Uhuru Kenyatta has brought his country’s sports betting back from the dead by significantly reducing a controversial tax that had…
Next Generation iGaming: The Value of Community
The majority of online betting is still engaged through the traditional channels that have been a reliable source of traffic for so…
Altenar Enhance Esports Offering Through Oddin
Altenar has announced that Oddin esports odds feed will be available to their clients. Oddin is an esports-centric provider that is consolidating…
Live In-Running Race Pricing to be Offered to 40 Operators
Total Performance Data (TPD), has partnered with PA Betting Services, a global supplier of UK and US racing data, in an exciting…
BETDAQ Announces 0% Commission from any Match at Euro 2020
BETDAQ, the global betting exchange, has announced it will go commission-free on all matches at Euro 2020. As part of its Euros…
Less is More for Playtech, As They Streamline Finalto for US$210m
Delivering on a promised strategy of a pivot to core business operations, Israel’s market-leading Playtech has agreed to sell its Finalto financial…
Novomatic Restructure’s Global Operations and Appoints Komnacky as VP
NOVOMATIC, Europe’s leading gaming technology group, strengthens its global operations activities by implementing a new structure and appointing Thomas Komnacky as new…
Global B2C Gaming Revenue up 38% in Q1
Global B2C gaming revenue rose by 38 per cent year-on-year in Q1, according to analysis by H2 Gambling Capital. Despite there being…
Latam Operator Rivalo Selects BetGames.TV
BetGames.TV, the live dealer and betting games supplier, has gone live with leading operator Rivalo, taking its range of content to players…
Hollywoodbets Become Title Sponsor of the Safa National Women’s League
Hollywoodbets have joined hands with the South African Football Association (SAFA) as the title sponsors of the 14-team SAFA National Women’s League….
African iGaming: What’s Next? With Gadi Shoshani, CMO of 10Bet Africa
In the last 5 years, the continent of Africa has made great steps forward in realising its true online potential. A region…
Genius Sports to Become Basketball Africa League Official Stats Provider
The Basketball Africa League (BAL) and Genius Sports today announced a data partnership that makes Genius Sports the Official Provider of Real-Time…
New Ghana iGaming Laws, Attitudes Finally Changing? Conversation with Ghana Gaming Commission
Ghana has long since been a pioneer in the African gaming scene, with its first gambling regulations dating back to 1960. Although,…
Will the Drive to Local Regulation Impact Payment Friction? By Matthew Harrod, CEO, Payments Company
Payment Acceptance in the Gaming sector has always been a challenge, at times almost looking like a standoff between the regulated financial…
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…
Tanzanian iGaming Spotlight: 2021 and Beyond, with Jimmy Keneth Masaoe, Chairman, Tanzanian Sports Betting Association
The East African iGaming market has been a major hub of growth in recent years, spurred on by its advancements in mobile…
AfricaWinner Selects Delasport for Sports Betting Platform
The major African sports betting market player AfricaWinner has decided to join the iGaming business choosing Delasport as its sports betting platform…
SISAL Enhances Partnership with Scientific Games in Morocco
Scientific Games Corporation will supply and deploy lottery instant games, e-instant digital games, and WAVE lottery retailer terminals to SISAL S.p.A. in Morocco beginning this…
Africa: The Race to Online, with Dolan Beuthin, CEO, BetMonsta
There is little doubt that the transformation to online for African gaming is picking up significant pace. However, as demand grows there…
Betsafe Officially Launches in Kenya
Bet High Kenya Ltd. is pleased has announced the official launch of its online sports betting brand, Betsafe, with a demonstrable commitment…
Time to play the (free) game, by John Gordon, CEO, Incentive Games
John Gordon, CEO at Incentive Games, says that Free-to-Play (F2P) games are a powerful acquisition and retention tool for operators in emerging…
African Affiliate Spotlight Part 2, Trust and Regulation, Interview with Charles Herisson, CEO, Betadvisor
After speaking with Charles Herisson, CEO of Betadvisor in part 1 of this extended Q&A its clear that there is a great…
African Affiliate Spotlight, Interview with Charles Herisson, CEO, Betadvisor
The iGaming industry in many African regions is blossoming and continues to exhibit massive potential for growth opportunities. Affiliate marketing, as you…
SportPesa’s Game of Clones
SportPesa, Kenya’s iconic sports betting brand, set to re-launch as a bright new avatar this week, has been blocked in an 11th…
Sunbet and BetGames.TV strike South Africa deal
Sunbet.co.za has further expanded on its African footprint following a deal with BetGames.TV, the live dealer supplier. The partnership will see Sunbet’s…
Africa Spotlight Part 2: KYC, Localisation and the Players, with Keith Hathaway, CEO AF Gam Elite
In Part Two of our Africa Spotlight, Keith Hathaway, CEO of Af Gam Elite explores KYC, localisation, language and what to expect…
DraftKings and Peermont Launch PalaceBet in South Africa
DraftKings Inc. and Peermont Hotels, Gaming and Resorts, a leading South African gaming and hospitality group, announced the successful recent launch of…
Africa Spotlight Part 1: Markets, Tech and Risks, with Keith Hathaway, CEO, Af Gam Elite
Keith Hathaway, CEO of Af Gam Elite gives his assessment on which markets are most popular, some of the core risks of…
Mobile Billing, Absorbing Data Costs and Sport Popularity, Interview with Dolan Beuthin, CEO, BetMonsta
Africa has long been seen as one of the jewels of the ever-expanding iGaming market. But what are some of the immediate…
All Aboard the GVC Express
Hot on the heels of buying Portuguese online operator Bet.pt and posting better-than-expected Q3 trading stats, British gaming giant GVC Holdings is…
Nigeria: The benchmark for the future of African gaming? Interview with Mr Bashir Are, CEO, Lagos State Lotteries Board
Identifying and capitalising on growth opportunities is a continuous challenge for all business leaders. It’s no secret that land-based gaming has taken…
Disrupting the Status Quo of Virtual Events, Interview with Rafayel Badalyan, Chief Innovation Officer at BetConstruct
As the gaming industry powers through the global crisis and pivots wherever necessary to ensure the stability of revenue, meeting people in…
And Then There Was One, Radical Legislation Proposed for Nigerian Gaming Sector
In a single bold stroke Nigerian lawmakers are planning to solve the “Gordian Knot” of gambling legislation in the nation by consolidating…
Kenny Alexander to step down as GVC CEO
GVC Holdings PLC the FTSE 100 gaming group, has announced that Kenneth Alexander is to retire after 13 years as Chief Executive…
South Africa’s Ray of Sunshine
A ray of gambling sunshine has penetrated the shuttered confines of South African casinos that were shut down because of the pandemic….
Kenya: The Eye Cannot See What the Hand Doesn’t Hold
In Kenya, East Africa’s premier betting market, it’s not so much a U-turn as an S-bend. And the only certainty, it seems,…
Q&A with Tyrone Dobbin, Managing Director at Sportingbet
We caught up with Tyrone to discuss the state of sports betting in South Africa …
Q&A with Lanre Gbajabiamila, Director General at Nigerian National Lottery Commission
We caught up with Lanre to look at the future of the Nigerian lottery market …
A New Online Beast in SA’s Gaming Reserves
In a major business shift that may transform South Africa’s gaming landscape, big beast casino operator Tsogo Sun Gaming, TSG, is now…
Boost for Kenya’s Future Gaming
With the arrival of gaming giant Betsson AB into a fractious marketplace it looks as if peace has broken out in Kenya’s…
5 Lottery Licenses issued by NLA
The National Lottery Authority for Ghana has granted 5 licenses to private sector lottery operators. Issued in partnership with Veterans Administration Ghana,…