Safer Gambling Weekly Round-Up, by Dam Mad Media
This week’s Safer Gambling news has a strong international flavour, with developments happening all across Europe. UK On Monday, the UK Gambling…
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DraftKings Welcomes Baseball Legend as Advisor to the Board of Directors
Today, DraftKings announced the appointment of baseball legend and entrepreneur Cal Ripken Jr as a special advisor to the board of directors. Ripken…
Flutter Makes Board Changes
Flutter Entertainment plc have announced a number of non-executive changes, the outcome of which will enhance the gender balance of the Board….
BGC Pledges to ‘Keep Up The Momentum’ on Safer Gambling
A survey by the Gambling Commission showed that the rate of problem gambling in 2020 was 0.3 per cent – down from…
Mindway AI Wins EGR Nordics Rising Star Award 2021
At the virtual EGR Nordics Award Show 2021, Mindway AI is awarded the EGR Nordics Rising Star Award 2021. All-in-all, 15 awards…
Better Collective Posts 35% Climb in Full-Year Revenue
Better Collective has reported revenue of €91m (£78.6m/$111.3m) for 2020, marking an increase of 35% on the €64.5m it generated in 2019….
Catena Reports Marginal Revenue Increases
Affiliate giant Catena Media has reported a 3% rise in revenue from €102.8m to €106.0m (£88.62m/$125.52m) for 2020. The small amount of…
Carousel Group and Caesars Entertainment Sign Multi-State Market Access Agreement
Carousel Group, the owner and operator of SportsBetting.com, has entered a multi-state, 10-year partnership with Caesars Entertainment, Inc. that will see its online…
Entain Announces Reshuffle
Entain plc, the global sports-betting and gaming group, formerly known as GVC Holdings PLC, have announced that: Stella David is appointed an independent…
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,…
Gamesys and BTG Launch Megaways UK Casino
Gamesys Group plc, a leading international online gaming operator, has partnered with Big Time Gaming (BTG), the thought leader in online slots…
Broadway Gaming Bolsters Offering with Eyecon Deal
Broadway Gaming, operator of one of the largest UK Bingo networks, has agreed a deal to roll out Eyecon’s games, including the…
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,…
Penn National Secures NY Online Access Through River Casinos Partnership
Penn National Gaming, Inc. announced today that it has entered into a 20-year strategic partnership with Capital Region Gaming, LLC d/b/a Rivers…
Flutter Entertainment Announces Safer Gambling Steps in Ireland
Flutter Entertainment have announced the introduction of a range of proactive measures to its operations in Ireland to update its safer gambling…
Irish Labour Party Moves to Ban Gambling Advertising
Ireland’s Labour Party has enacted the Gambling (Prohibition of Advertising) Bill 2021 which, if passed, will ban all gambling advertising, except sponsorship….
BGC Wants Britain’s Betting Industry Opened
The call from the industry standards body, the Betting and Gaming Council (BGC), comes as the Prime Minister is expected to announce…
Safer Gambling Weekly Round-Up, by Dam Mad Media
Entain Entain have launched two new initiatives this week, the first extending their responsible gambling initiatives into the world of video gaming…
888 Selects Playtech in New Live Casino and RNG Partnership
Playtech have announced a new partnership with 888, one of the world’s leading online betting and gaming companies, which will see 888casino…
Tabcorp Makes Up Ground in H1
Australian operator Tabcorp has reported AUS$2.87bn (£1.06bn/€1.85bn/US$2.23bn) total revenue for the six months to 31 December 2020, which is a 1.5% year-on-year…
Entain Extends Behavioural Indicators for Problem Gambling
Entain has completed the initial stage of its pioneering preventative approach to customer protection, known as ARC (Advanced Protection and Care). As…
iGaming Success in Italy: Proposition or Call-to-action? Alessandro Allara, Chief Digital Officer at Gamenet Group
Over the last few months, we amongst the iGaming Future community, have observed how the pandemic has irreversibly impacted markets across the…
NetEnt and Red Tiger CFO Joins Bragg
B2B gaming technology provider Bragg Gaming Group (TSX:BRAG, OTC: BRGGF) (“Bragg” or the “Company“) announced today that gaming industry veteran Lara Falzon has been elected…
Playtech Enhance US Footprint through Parx Casino Deal
Playtech have announced that it has signed strategic agreements with various subsidiaries of Greenwood Racing Inc. (the “Greenwood companies”), which own and…
Growth Through Online Slots, with Levan Kavtaradze, Head of Casino, Pokermatch.com
Although they are rarely the average casino customer’s favourite product, online slots still play a vital role in an operator’s product offering….
Malta Reports Cancellation of Seven Licences
The Malta Gaming Authority (MGA) cancelled seven licences in the first half of 2020 and suspended a further two. Among the operators…
Ken Barton Step Down from Crown Resorts Role
Crown Resorts Limited have announced that Helen Coonan would assume the role of Executive Chairman on an interim basis, effective immediately. Ken…
BonusFinder Granted Affiliate Licence for Virginia
Top affiliate site BonusFinder.com has been given a licence to operate in the US state of Virginia, complementing its suite of licences…
UKGC Issues Revision to Guidance for Casino Operators
The Gambling Commission has published Revision 2 of the 5th Edition of the guidance for non-remote and remote casino operators on the prevention…
BetVictor Selects BF Games
Leading operator, BetVictor has launched BF Games’ best-performing content to its customers across several jurisdictions. Eight of BF Games’ hit releases are…
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…
FDJ Profits Rise 6% in 2020 Despite Tough First Half
French operator La Française des Jeux (FDJ) has swerved profit losses with a strong set of results in the second half of…
Safer Gambling Weekly Round-Up, by Dam Mad Media
It has been another week when the issue of affordability checks has dominated the world of iGaming. UKGC The UK Gambling Commission’s…
CasinoGrounds and AvatarUX Strikes Streaming Deal
Innovative games design studio AvatarUX has signed a deal with CasinoGrounds, which will see the supplier showcase its entire games portfolio to…
iGaming Learning and Development in the ‘New Normal’
Before the pandemic hit, the iGaming industry was already a highly saturated and competitive market to operate in. Now, with the added…
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…
LeoVegas Revenue up 13% in Strongest Q4 to Date
LeoVegas has reported a 13% increase in revenue to €98.4m (£86.3m/$119.4m) for Q4 of 2020, making it the operator’s strongest fourth quarter…
Kindred Smashes Through £1bn GGR Barrier
Kindred Group has reported full-year growth of 23.9% for 2020, taking gross gaming revenue (GGR) to £1.13bn (€1.29bn/$1.56bn) for the year. The…
World-first: Australian Experts set Global Benchmark Guarding Against Gambling Harm
A team of Australian experts has set a new global standard to protect gaming organisations and venues, their customers, and their communities…
Entain Achieves the Carbon Trust Standard for UK Operations
Entain plc, the global sports-betting and gaming group, have announced that it has achieved the Carbon Trust Standard for Carbon, reducing CO2 year…
Better Collective Hires Anders Crillesen as Head of Group PR & Communications
Tpday, Anders Crillesen joins the Danish sports betting media group, where he will be responsible for corporate and product PR globally. Anders…
Prediction: One Step Ahead of the Game, by Kim Mouridsen, Professor and Founder of Mindway AI
It is becoming standard practice to detect problem gambling with automated tools to fulfil regulatory demands. One way to accomplish this is…
Kindred Goes West Towards California and Arizona
Kindred Group continues its expansion in the US market by partnering up with the Quechan Tribe of the Fort Yuma Indian Reservation….
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…
Kindred Open About Revenue from ‘High-Risk’ Players
Kindred Group, the parent company if Unibet and 32Red among others, has revealed that 4.3% of its income was generated by high-risk…
Bally’s Corporation To Acquire Free-To-Play Game Provider
Bally’s Corporation, a leading U.S. provider of land-based gaming and interactive entertainment, today announced that it acquired SportCaller, one of the leading…
Dutch Online Market Primed for Quick Growth
The emerging Dutch online gambling market is set to become one of Europe’s biggest, according to a white paper compiled by Online Casino Ground, with…
Penn National Optimistic Despite Revenue Falling 32% in 2020
Penn National Gaming stocks rose last week despite the operator posting lower than anticipated earnings in the fourth quarter of the year….
Safer Gambling Weekly Round-Up, by Dam Mad Media
The main talking points of the week erupted on Thursday, following the release of a new report by PWC. Views On The…