Safer Gambling Weekly Round-Up by Dam Mad Media
GambleAware Annual Conference GambleAware’s annual conference took place this week, with Interim Chief Executive of the UK Gambling Commission, Andrew Rhodes, saying…
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With Cordish, GLPI Do The REIT Thing
The deal for the Live! Casino Maryland and two Live! Casinos in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, which together welcome over 55 million punters…
Florida’s Online Sports Betting: Between a Rock and a Hard Place
Online sports betting in Florida, forgive the pun, has been caught between a rock and a hard place — for the moment…
Newly Regulated US States to Outperform Established Markets in 2022 Predicts BonusFinder.com Research
The success of these new states, including New York – which will become the number one state for US sports betting despite…
The Future of Sports Betting – by Vladislav Artemyev, CEO at SportGamesTV
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Scary Compliance Company or Valued Growth Agent? – with Gaming Laboratories International
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Safer Gambling Weekly Round-Up by Dam Mad Media
GambleAware In the UK, GambleAware published the National Gambling Treatment Service (NGTS) Annual Statistics for 2020/21 on Tuesday, which highlighted that 92%…
Finding The iGaming Balance in LatAm: Speed to Market vs Product Quality
As new opportunities for digital growth continue to emerge around the world, Latin America has quickly established itself as an iGaming hotbed….
(Almost) Over the Hill – 888 Remains Perfect Number for WHI
It’s full-steam ahead for the proposed £2.2 billion (US$2.9bn/€2.6bn), debt-laden, acquisition, 888’s CEO Itai Pazner has confirmed. “[We] are excited about the…
Sisal Reports 23 Point Revenue Sweetener
Sisal’s revenue thus surged 23.2 per cent over the period, compared to the same three-quarters of Covid pandemic-hammered 2020. “[Last year was]…
The State of Crypto in Gaming: Guest Post From SiGMA
Cryptocurrencies have been grabbing headlines regularly for the last few years. While the price of coins has traditionally held our attention, its…
SBC Summit North America – Session Preview: The Future of the Payments Journey with Entain
Considering the history this market has with PASPA laws and the Wire Act, it’s easy to understand why payments are at the…
Don’t Flog the Dead Donkey: BGO Sells Database
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It’s a Rollover as Camelot Post Record H1
Citing a strong digital performance and branding boost from their sponsorship of British athletes at the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games, total…
iGaming Compliance Tech: The end for internal compliance teams? – with Chris Oltyan, CEO of Compliable
This is enough to keep the compliance teams of ambitious operators very busy but with new compliance technology available in the market,…
iGaming Payments 2021: The Next Frontier – with Isabelle Delisle, Head of Group Payments at Pinnacle
We are currently experiencing a digital revolution that has catalysed the emergence of new technology such as AI, new territories such as…
Flutter’s Empire State of Mind
Announcing the acquisition, Flutter’s Chief Executive Peter Jackson said: “Tombola is a business we have long admired for its product expertise, highly…
Safer Gambling Weekly Round Up by Dam Mad Media
Safer Gambling Week With Safer Gambling Week having concluded, the fallout is now being analysed, with the Betting and Gaming Council releasing…
First Movers Will Unlock Italy’s eSports Betting Growth by Oliver Niner, Head of Sales at PandaScore
Obviously one of the big steps in firing up an Italian venture is the amount an operator needs to pony up to…
iGF Wins Top Gaming Media Award
The awards gala, organised and held at the Hilton Convention Centre in St. Julian’s by SiGMA, the leading international gaming events organisers…
Online Sports Betting: To Buy or To Build? with Lloyd Danzig, Managing Partner at Sharp Alpha Advisors
Building a brand from scratch takes a lot of resources, especially time, some industry commentators believe that it may be more efficient…
Safer Gambling Weekly Round-Up by Dam Mad Media
Netherlands In the Netherlands, a new safer gambling slogan has been suggested. Over the last few months, the Dutch Ministry of Justice…
LeoVegas Tames Q3 Turbulence
Take Germany out of the fiscal equation and growth would have been an even more impressive 31 per cent — underlined by…
SBC Betting On Sports Europe – Session Preview: Integrity Challenges – How Have Things Moved On?
Bill is one of our sectors’ leading strategists in the battle for industry integrity. During his panel session this week, he will…
iGaming 2021: Taking the Next Step with Technamin, Suren Khachatryan, CEO of Technamin
Now, in 2021 he has drawn upon his expert network and wealth of industry experience to spawn Technamin, iGaming’s latest forward-thinking, intuitive…
iGaming Europe: The Rise of the Corporate Affiliate with Tero Päivärinta, Head of Accounts for CashMagnet
We caught up with Tero Päivärinta, Head of Accounts for CashMagnet to hear his perspective on the growing market, brand development and…
Safer Gambling Weekly Round Up by Dam Mad Media – Part 2
YGAM To celebrate Safer Gambling Week, Clarion Gaming announced that the Young Gamers and Gamblers Education Trust (YGAM) will become their first…
Portnoy’s Complaint – PNG Hoping to Weather Sex Storm and Poor Q3
Overall, PNG shares are now down by over 20 per cent – wiping out all the company’s post peak Covid-19 gains of…
Covid Mirage Over for MGM, Reports Strong Q3
The US gaming giant recorded net income of US$1.35 billion (£1bn/€1.17bn) for the quarter, compared to a loss of US$535 million (£396.4m/€462.7m)…
Safer Gambling Weekly Round Up by Dam Mad Media – Part 1
Betting and Gaming Council On Monday, the chief executive of the Betting and Gaming Council, Michael Dugher, stressed the body’s commitment to…
Sportsbook 2021: The Path to Scaling Up
Robin Jakobsson, Managing Director at OddsCraft AB insists that the solution lays within utilising intuitive UI systems, but what does this mean…
Safer Gambling Weekly Round-Up, by Dam Mad Media
GamCare On Tuesday, GamCare published their Annual Review for 2020/21, which covers the final 12 months of their current three-year strategy. Highlighting…
Esports: What’s Coming Next? – Mario Ovcharov, CEO of UltraPlay
We caught up with Mario Ovcharov, CEO of leading esports provider, UltraPlay to hear his thoughts on the future of this exciting…
Here Today, Heir Tomorrow, We’ll Always Have Camelot
Call it what you will, déjà vu; Groundhog Day; same old, same old; it seems there will always be a Camelot. As…
And They’re Off! – Dutch Renewing Racecourse Betting Licence
The current licence, held by French firm ZEturf, expires on 30 June next year. Covering the four national racetracks at Drafcentrum Alkmaar,…
Episode Two with Rasmus Sojmark, CEO of SBC
This Leadership Series will be the perfect opportunity for you to catch up on the latest hot topics influencing our sector, gaining…
For Oz’s Tabcorp Doubling Down, Less is More
The move comes despite the Ozzie giant returning to a net profit after tax of AUD$269 million (£146.25m/US$202.1m/€173.55m)–on revenue of AUD$5.68 billion…
Top of the Hill, 888 Reports Sweet Q3
And the good news is underlined with an assertion by the online gaming giant that it is now on stream to hit…
Born to Rule – Aristocrat and Playtech Make a Move, Big Time
In a perfect synergy of hardware and software, Australian slot machine manufacturer Aristocrat today (October 18) confirmed it has bought gaming software…
Vive La France: FDJ Revenue Up, Again, in Q3
FDJ, also reputedly the fourth largest lotto operator in the world—its name in English translates as “The French Company of Games”—has experienced…
Data Is Power – with Sven Lund and Ashley Washington from Bayes Esports
Where once ideas and services, including our very own gambling industry, were driven by physical, earth-bound entities, today—supercharged by the hard lessons…
Safer Gambling Weekly Round-Up, by Dam Mad Media
GambleAware As part of their ‘policy of open data’, through the Consumer Data Research Centre (CDRC), GambleAware have released their data records…
Penn National Knows theScore
Following its January 2020 acquisition of a 36 per cent stake in sports media publisher Barstool Sports for US$163 million (£119m/€140.6m), the…
US iGaming: Growth in the New Era – with Jonathan Doubilet, US Managing Director at Playtech
But with so many states already opened up and major brands already taking a foothold, where is the potential for future growth?…
Get Me To The Entain Online – Positive Q3 for UK Gaming Giant
The FTSE100 gambling Omni-channel has just posted its 23rd consecutive quarter of online growth, is well on target to hit its projected…
Connecting Connecticut – State Launches iGaming
The softly-softly launch has strict riders. Initially, only 750 punters will be able to bet on the new Internet platforms. And, for…
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…
MGM Entertain Full BetMGM Buy-out
“We’d have to come to some resolve,” said MGM Resorts CEO Bill Hornbuckle, referring to DraftKings’ bid for Entain. “We have 50…
Swiss Add 50 More Sites to Badlist
With 26 fiercely independent cantons, three official languages and two, technically over-arching, often-competing, regulatory authorities, it’s little surprise that iGaming operators often…
Facebook Has Got Game – by Dan Kustelski, CEO of Chalkline
Facebook’s decision to enter the free-to-play sports betting space with the launch of Facebook Fantasy Games should have come as no surprise….