Safer Gambling Weekly Round-up by Dam Mad Media
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Esports: Attracting Tomorrow’s Player! With Slava Zhuk, Advisor to Turbo Games
As esports popularity among punters continues to skyrocket, many of us are now wondering whether it’s possible for this sector to reach…
Off the Charts, Kindred Smashing It, Posts Record H1
Online gambling heavy hitters Kindred Group has smashed it out of the park during its first financial half this year by posting…
Kambi Scores a First Half Double
Powered by a strong performance in the just completed UEFA Euro 2020 Football Championship, Sweden’s Kambi Group Plc–a leading B2B provider of…
Leaving Las Vegas, Sands Shifting East
The company behind the Sands Casino brand–an icon that’s almost synonymous with the Desert Queen itself–is cashing out its chips and moving…
ANJ Launches Five-Part Player Protection Strategy
The French gambling regulator L’Autorité Nationale des Jeux (ANJ) has launched a five-part strategy for 2021-2023, as part of its first activity…
Cutting a Path Through the Tax Jungle, Sports Betting gets a Brazilian
Big gaming outfits eyeing up Brazil’s potentially lush, soon-to-be-launched, online sports betting market have been dealt some clarity if not charity by…
Evolution’s Revolution
Fuelled by its acquisition of fellow Swedish betting supplier NetEnt last year, Evolution gaming has put in a spectacular financial half that…
iGaming Affiliates 2021: Time to Grow Up? With Tara Wilson, COO of Income Access
As the affiliate market continues to flourish and cement itself as an integral part of the iGaming ecosystem, the time has now…
Your House is My House; Netherlands Set to Launch Controversial Cruks Exclusion Register
While much of world gambling is enjoying a boom of legitimation and liberalisation, Dutch authorities are ramping up their safe gambling protocols…
Moving Out Of The Comfort Zone, The Hunt For Fresh Gaming Talent
The talent market for the digitally skilled in iGaming has always been a challenge: a controversial public image alongside and a stubborn…
In Spain’s New Online Order: “Less is More”
Spain is poised to implement new online gaming protocols designed to protect at-risk and so-called intensive players by imposing strict limits on…
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…
Deep Covid Scrambles the Stats
Given the deep impact of Covid-19 on the betting industry, through the suspension of real-world sports events and closures of land sites,…
Superbet to Acquire Napoleon Sports and Casino
Superbet, a pan-European betting and gaming business, has agreed to acquire Belgium’s Napoleon Sports and Casino. The acquisition will see the purchase…
Tweak and Roll: Make Mine a Danish
Denmark’s Gaming Authority, the Spillemyndigheden, has unveiled regulatory tweaks that while minor should nevertheless delight the nation’s punters. First up is a…
Vat’s Very Nice Says Betfred
A little later than anticipated, Betfred has released its 2020 financial report, year ending September 27, and revealed that a hefty VAT…
Bruin Capital To Acquire Oddschecker Global Media
Bruin Capital has reached an agreement with Flutter Entertainment plc to acquire Oddschecker Global Media, operators of the U.K.’s no. 1 online…
Responsible Gambling: Are We Finally Heading in the Right Direction? With Maurizio Savino, CEO of Gambless
The continual battle against problem gambling is an issue that the industry has always struggled with, but according to recent comments by…
German State Lottery Sales Surpass €4bn in H1
Germany’s 16 state lotteries have seen total sales rise by 15.3 per cent, to exceed €4bn (£3.44bn/$4.73bn) in the first half of…
Entain the Dragon, Market Leader Set to Post Online Record
Citing 22 consecutive quarters of double-digit online growth, UK betting powerhouse Entain Group has upped its 2021 full-year earnings forecast to between…
Safer Gambling Weekly Round-Up by Dam Mad Media
Euro 2020 Euro 2020 and advertising has been front and centre this week, with the Big Step calling for a ban on…
Profits Coming Home, Betsson Betting on Bumper Q2
Spurred on by two international football championships, Sweden’s major league online gaming provider Betsson AB is predicting big Q2 financial profits. Soccer’s…
Boom, Boom: Ontario Readies for Online Surge
Following the liberalisation of its betting market, Canada’s Ontario provincial government is preparing for an online betting boom by forming a specialised…
Back to the Future, 888 Hits A Q2 Jackpot
FTSE-250 iGaming giant 888 Holdings has reported a 20 per cent, year-on-year, increase in revenue for its Q2, ending June 30, to…
The Paradigm Shift Towards Sustainable Gaming
Rasmus Kjærgaard, CEO of Mindway AI shares his thoughts on the transformation of sustainable gaming as a discipline. The winds of change…
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…
Riders of the Storm; Malta Keeps the iShip Afloat
In decidedly mixed news, the Malta Gaming Authority (MGA) has reported that the country’s gambling industry, a European powerhouse of online betting,…
German Online Gaming: Don’t Mention the Law
Paraphrasing a famous football dictum, perennial winners Germany thought their hard-fought battle to legalise and legislate online gaming was over but now,…
Italian iGaming 2021: Showing Signs of Sanity? Moreno Marasco, Chairman, Italian Online Gaming Association, LOGiCO
Despite being hit hard by the Lockdown last year, the Italian gaming market has still managed to make great progress down the…
Safer Gambling Weekly Round-Up by Dam Mad Media
Welcome to this week’s Safer Gambling Round-Up, featuring Swedish iGaming regulations, Fakta om spel, UK sports sponsorships, a gambling ad ban in…
Kindred Acquires Relax Gaming
Kindred Group plc has signed an agreement to acquire the remaining 66.6 per cent of the outstanding shares in Relax Gaming. The…
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…
Gambling.com Plans Nasdaq IPO
Affiliate group Gambling.com has filed a registration statement with the US Securities and Exchange Commission to list shares on the Nasdaq Stock…
Malta Battling Financial Action Task Force Greylist
In recent times Malta, home to more than 250 top international betting and iGaming operators, has tried its best to shake off…
Yes We Canada, Single Event Sports Betting Goes Legit
Canada’s decision to legalize single event sports betting has been hailed as a historic victory by the movers and shakers of the…
Get Me To The Altar Online, Codere Shotgun Wedding
In what could presage the break-up of embattled Spanish betting group Codere SA, venture capitalists DD3 have made an offer that can’t…
iGaming Affiliates: From the Bedroom to the Boardroom, with Joonas Karhu, CBO at Bojoko
As the iGaming market continues to flourish, so too does the role of affiliates along with it. Online affiliates were once more…
Esports Industry Partnerships: Route to True Brand Authenticity?
The commercial viability of the esports sector has long since been proven. Especially since the impact of the lockdown, numbers have skyrocketed….
Safer gambling Weekly Round-Up by Dam Mad Media
It has been an incredibly busy week in the world of Safer Gambling so let’s take a look. Advertising Standards Authority (ASA)…
Denmark Hits 90% Channelisation
Spillemyndigheden, the Danish gambling regulator, has revealed that channelisation in the jurisdiction reached a record high of 90 per cent in 2020….
US iGaming: Affiliate’s biggest opportunity in the past 20 years?
The continued saturation of the iGaming market in Europe means that affiliates, similar to other key industry stakeholders, are always on the…
Citing One More Shot, Sweden Turns the Advertising Screw
BOS, the Swedish trade association for online gambling (Branschföreningen för Onlinespe), has reacted with ill-disguised anger to calls that betting in the country…
Self-Regulation: The Key to the Future Success of iGaming?
As the iGaming industry continues to grow and spread in popularity to new markets, responsible gaming has been a continuous issue running…
Top Operators Share Swedish Market Knowledge
Four of Sweden’s largest gambling operators are joining forces to increase awareness about the Swedish gambling market through the launch of the…
UK National Lottery sales break £8bn barrier
Camelot UK Lotteries Limited has reported record National Lottery sales of £8.4bn for the 2020/21 financial year. It is the first time…
Safer Gambling Weekly Round-Up, by Dam Mad Media
With the European Championships beginning later today, focus has understandably been on the connection between gambling and football, with the airing of…
Over 40% of German Players Could be Lost to Offshore Providers
A study into the possible repercussions of the new German State Treaty on gambling has found that draconian player protection measures could…
Crown of Thorns, Top Aussie Group Under Forensic Corruption Heat
Crown Resorts, the largest gaming and entertainment group in Australia, with a market capitalisation of almost AU$9 billion (£4.92bn/US$6.95bn/€5.7bn), is under investigation…
Responsible Gambling in the Era of Individualisation, by Rasmus Kjærgaard, CEO of Mindway AI
Rasmus Kjærgaard, CEO of Mindway AI, talks to iGamingFuture about the importance of an individualised approach to problem gambling. Average is over….