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Who’s ads are worse for kids – gambling ops or junk food?

Which industry is worse when it comes to targeting children with online ads - the gambling business or the junk food business? According to a recent report from the UK's Advertising Standards Authority (ASA), gambling operators are actually worse. The findings are part of year-long study that's being conducted by the ASA that monitors more…

Sporttrade to launch US sports betting exchange

Sporttrade, a US-based sports betting exchange startup, is pairing with Twin River Worldwide Holdings, Inc.to launch the first regulated sports betting exchange in the United States market. It's a partnership that's slated to last for several years and involves a healthy wager that Americans will embrace sports betting markets. The project is set to launch…

UK Gaming Council finds UK Gaming Council is doing a great job

The UK Betting and Gaming Council (BGC) is an organization that seems to live by the rule, "If you don't believe in yourself, no one else will." That's likely why they've been so keen touting the results of an analysis done by Enders Analysis that found their "whistle to whistle" ban on gambling advertisements during…

Surprise! Norwegian gambling ad ban unpopular with broadcasters

Gambling operators across Europe and the United Kingdom are under siege from lawmakers who think that certain industries are just too dangerous to be running advertisements to the general public. Their concern, they say, is that operators are enticing and inducing perfectly innocent people into a life of debauched and compulsive gambling. While concern over…

Pandemic coin shortage impacting land-based casinos

Remember when one of the indelible sounds of a casino was the jingle-jangle of piles of coins pouring out of slot machines? That memory may not date you as much as you might think. The COVID-19 pandemic, and its attendant shortage of cash and coins, are sending casino operators scrambling to come up with enough…

EA faces major lawsuit over loot boxes

Are video game loot boxes a form of gambling? Do video game companies deliberately induce compulsive behavior? Those are the questions that may, or may not, be answered as a class-action suit against video game giant Electronic Arts (EA). The lawsuit was brought on by video game player Kevin Ramirez and involves 100 other players.…

French gambling regulators unimpressed by Wimamax tweet

French gambling regulators were singularly unimpressed with a recent tweet from the French operator Winamax which was perceived by some to be homophobic. Though the regulators ultimately found the company had done nothing wrong in the matter, it stirred up an unwelcome flurry of social media activity that is the stuff of nightmares. Winamax's social…

Puerto Rico inches closer towards regulated sports betting and DFS

It's hard to believe that there was a time when the idea of regulated sports betting in the United States seemed about as likely as reality-TV star becoming President, or the whole world shutting down to help mitigate an out-of-control virus, but here we are. Just two years after the Supreme Court put the decision…

Sahara casino sues local blog over false shutdown rumor

The Sahara Las Vegas casino is not making plans for a permanent shutdown. That's the message the company wants the world to know and they're not afraid to back up that assertion in a court of law. It's a message that the Las Vegas blog Vital Vegas is learning the hard way after reporting rumors…

Sports Illustrated ready to move into sports betting

Sports Illustrated, the magazine, is looking to make a move into sports betting, the industry in the very near future. According to a report on LegalSportsBetting.com, the storied magazine has its eyes on getting partnered up with an operator of one kind or another by the end of 2020. It's a move leverages one of…