Letter From America 39
Across this vast nation the regulated online and retail gambling industry is under fire, as this week’s Letter From America, featuring sweepstake…
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Paying It Forward and The Art of Latin American Market Growth
As Latin America establishes itself as a high-growth region for iGaming, regulation isn’t the only thing expanding rapidly; so are consumer transactional…
A Bad Day At The Office For Betsson
We’re only a few days into June, but for Swedish gaming giants Betsson it’s already shaping up to be a month to…
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Never has the ancient, back-handed Chinese rejoinder, I hope you live in “interesting” times, been more prescient. For, under the stewardship of…
Brazilian Social Media Influencers Caught Up in Sports Betting Scandal
Virginia Fonseca is Brazil’s top digital influencer with more than 53 million followers on social media. But now she’s been summoned to…
iGX Summit 2025 Exclusive Preview: Welcome To The Casumo Umoverse – How To Successfully Build A Brand
In an increasingly competitive market, brand building has never been more important. Yet, it’s often “pushed aside” with operators focusing on quick…
True Customer Journey Mapping: How to Boost Profitability with Every Player Interaction
In today’s hyper-competitive iGaming landscape, customer retention isn’t just about better bonuses or shinier game lobbies — it’s about understanding every step…
California Kalshi Crisis: Tribal Gaming Threatened By Prediction Markets
EXCLUSIVE: Prediction market sports contracts–branded an existential “California Kalshi Crisis”–have now come to the Golden State in flagrant violation of constitutional Native…
Turkey Money Launderers Roasted Again
Turkey, the site of the biggest money laundering scandal in the history of British gambling, is again the focus of a multi-million-dollar…
Last of the Mohican: Chile’s Iconic Hardman Arturo Vidal Embroiled in Football Match Fixing Scandal
Known in his homeland as “El Rey Arturo”, King Arthur, or simply “El Rey”, Chile’s midfield hardman Arturo Vidal has become embroiled…
Uplatform’s Winning Strategies For Sustainable Sportsbook Growth
Uplatform is one of the world’s leading sportsbook and content providers. Founded in 2020, the award-winning company rejects off-the-shelf products, offering fully…
Letter From America 38
As scrutiny turns to regulatory gambling commissions in Nevada and Texas, we’ve got a bumper edition of Letter from America this week….
Bwloto’s Winning Streak: How To Build A Modern Lottery System
Bwloto is a pioneering force on a mission to modernise lottery products, writes Lauren Harrison. Founded in 2019 as a breakaway from…
The Future Of Gamification with Mobinc: Reaching The Next Frontier
Now almost two decades after the concept was first coined and then applied in iGaming, gamification has moved from a buzzword into…
Retention, AI, Uniqflow, EveryMatrix’s (The) Future of iGaming
Churn-and-burn, bonus abuse and soaring acquisition costs mean iGaming operators–especially those in mature markets–are under increasing pressure to rethink their operational strategies,…
Match-fixing Threatens Soaring Sports Betting In Latin America
Brenda García, captain of Mexican women’s first league soccer team Mazatlán, was banned from the sport for six-years in February for match-fixing…
TGP Fined £3.3m By UKGC For AML Breaches, Nutmegging Top EPL Teams
The UK’s regulatory Gambling Commission (UKGC) has fined TGP Europe, a white label, Asia-focused, betting firm that front-of-shirt sponsors a cluster of…
Flutter Completes US$350m NSX Big Brazil Buy
World iGaming leader Flutter Entertainment has made a major move to dominate Brazil’s booming, newly-regulated, sportsbetting market by buying a controlling US$350…
Power Shift As The Americas Set To Surpass Europe’s iGaming GGR, Says Vixio
A cross-Atlantic iGaming power shift is underway, with regulated online gambling in The Americas set to equal–and surpass–GGR in Europe, predicts forensic…
The Long Goodbye, Macau Appoints Woman as Gambling Boss
Amid ongoing uncertainty over its direction of legislative travel, Macau, the world’s richest-by-far gaming jurisdiction, has appointed Ms. Ng Wai Han as…
Letter From America 37
As the regular legislative sessions in many states come to a close as we write this week’s “Letter From America”, several of…
DraftKings Hits The Jackpocket, But Stumbles, in Q1
DraftKings, the other Big Beast of U.S. online sports betting and iGaming, has reported revenue of US$1.41 billion (£1.06bn) for its first…
Posting Positive Q1, Big Boss Flutter Affirms World iGaming Dominance
Driven by impressive growth across most of its verticals in Q1, which saw an eight percent year-on-year rise in revenue to US$3.67…
What Keeps Players Playing? Gamingtec Explores The Psychology Behind Gamification
From apps and learning platforms, to the fast-evolving world of iGaming, gamification has become a vital tool in digital engagement, writes Lauren…
Italian Supergroup Lottomatica Cuts Bella Figura With Stunning Q1
Italian gambling supergroup Lottomatica has delivered an outstanding Q1, its best ever, with total revenue up 33.1 percent, year-on-year, to €585.7 million…
Papal Heaven Can’t Wait For Kalshi and Prediction Markets
Despite widespread illegality and a traditional disdain for betting on the outcomes of papal conclaves, gambling on who’s going to be the…
The Future of AI and Sportsbook: Level-Up Your Tech
Artificial Intelligence isn’t coming. It’s already here—and it’s changing the sportsbook game. From intelligent odds-making to hyper-personalised content and automated workflows, AI…
101 Days Of Gomorrah Leaving Las Vegas With Major Crisis From Trump Tariffs
Las Vegas, Sin City, the City that Never Sleeps, has been called many things: Gulch City, the Marriage Capital of the World,…
Yoel Zuckerberg On Scaling iGaming In North America | Soft2Bet
The fragmented, state-by-state approach to iGaming regulation, combined with fierce competition in North America, makes it one of the most challenging regions…
Abios Discusses Bet Builder, Always-on Content and the Place of Esports in a Sportsbook in 2025
Esports has been a niche part of the sports betting industry for a long time. In recent years, it has seen an…
Episode 25 with Jeremiah Maangi, Founder & CEO, iGaming Afrika
In this latest episode of the Back To The Future Podcast, we catch up with one of the most prominent thought leaders…
The Future of AI and Automation Tools
As Artificial Intelligence and automation tools become increasingly integrated into iGaming operations, operators face the challenge of distinguishing between genuine innovation and…
Led by LatAm, Betsson Signals Positive Growth In Q1 2025
Betsson AB has released its interim results for the first quarter of 2025, reporting group revenue of €293.7 million (£249.88) representing an…
Cometh The Hour, Cometh The Woman, Entain Stalwart Stella David Appointed Permanent CEO
Shares in troubled UK-origin omnichannel Entain surged by near-eight percent in early morning trading today, Tuesday, on the London Stock Exchange following…
Despite The Sharks, BetMGM Rides The Digital Wave With Outstanding Q1
Despite Daddy–or is it Mummy?–being caught “in flagrante delicto” on historic money laundering breaches, MGM Resorts International-entain joint-venture BetMGM continues to ride…
Letter From America 36
Welcome to our latest Letter From America, featuring a week of high drama in the US gaming world, with fresh lawsuits, high-profile…
Chulo-ji! India Awakes And Moves Toward Legalising Gambling
After decades of obfuscation, clarity is finally emerging in India’s arcane gambling space, the biggest unregulated betting market by population in the…
Shoot-out At The iCasino Fantasy Factory, Crypto Becoming The Real Deal With US$80 Billion GGR
Like it or not, it seems that controversial crypto gambling sites–much like prediction markets–are becoming the future of iGaming. According to latest…
Kenya’s Just Getting Started: AGOK’s Sasa Krneta on Growth, Trust, and Tech
Serbian-born and Kenya-based, Sasa Krneta is one of the most influential figures in East Africa’s gambling scene. From betting shop operator to…
The Key Drivers Behind the Growth of Live Casinos and the Opportunities That Have Followed
Live casinos are amongst the most important things for online operators to get right. They have simply exploded in popularity over the…
Growing Not Us To Thailand’s Proposed Gambling Locus
Despite the keen endorsement of Thai political kingmaker and former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra, the southeast Asia country’s much-touted Entertainment Complex Bill,…
Elaine Wynn, Legendary Co-founder Of Wynn Resorts Dies At 82
Think of the Las Vegas Strip’s fabulous Mirage and its erupting volcano, the Bellagio and its spectacular fountains, marvel at the Wynn’s…
Top-of-the-Tree Evolution Affirms Global iGaming Leadership in Stunning FY24
Top B2B Swedish-origin playmaker Evolution AB published its FY24 results today, showing surging growth in both revenue and profit and asserting its…
15 Booked, Charged With Illegal Betting Over 2024 General Election By UKGC
The UK’s regulatory Gambling Commission (UKGC) has charged 15 people with offences under the Gambling Act 2005, following an investigation into alleged…
McIlroy’s Hollywood Masters Win Drives Major William Hill Payout
Rory McIlroy’s dramatic victory in a play-off at the U.S. Masters has resulted in one of the largest golf-related payouts in William…
Letter From America 35
It was always going to be an eventful second term for President Trump, but few would have predicted such a frenetic pace…
OPEN BOOK: Euro Football Awakes And Begins To Tackle Match-fixing
After years of seeming lethargy, European authorities are finally waking up and tackling the scandal of illegal match-fixing that has besmirched so…
Tumbling Dice As Trump’s Tariffs Hammer World Gambling Stocks
The value of the world’s top betting brands is in freefall this week as the international economic order reels from the arbitrary…
iGF RoundTable: How to Maximise the Power of Segmentation
Recent innovations in personalised and player segmentation tools are reshaping customer onboarding, loyalty marketing, and monitoring, offering operators deeper insights into behaviour…
32Red Integrates Gaming Corps Titles To Boost UK iGaming Offer
32Red has partnered with Sweden-based game developer Gaming Corps to enhance its content portfolio and further strengthen its position in the UK…