The United Kingdom Gambling Commission (UKGC) has a message for UK-facing operators: marketing your products to children is not all right, especially if that marketing takes place on their youth league soccer jerseys. It's yet another reminder of the challenges that gambling operators face in the marketplace and how easy it is to slide into…
Earlier this week, Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones broke some new ground in the world of NFL sponsorships and marketing, he picked up an official team casino. The move marks the first time that an NFL team has entered into the types of sponsorship deals that are extremely common in the rest of the world.…
The UK Gambling Commission (UKGC) is considering some pretty significant changes to the way that UK-facing operators interact with their players and is seeking the public's opinion on how they should take on this massive endeavor. Earlier this week, the UKGC posted a link on its site that allows UK citizens to give their input…
Australian advertising regulators are banning gambling advertisements from streamed sporting events during certain times of day. The ban is the latest move from the Aussie government to tackle what it sees as a gaming industry that's completely out of control and enticing minors into a life of gambling and despair. Under the new regulations, which…
Earlier this week the UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) announced that it is taking a hard line when it comes to online casinos that make withdrawing deposits tough for consumers. The CMA singled out two UK-facing operators, Jumpman Gaming and Progress Play for making changes to their policies to make them more consumer-friendly. Word…
As the American gaming market moves into the modern era with the introduction of regulated sports betting, some anti-gambling foes are looking to the past with an effort to ban online poker. Former US Senator Blanche Lincoln (R-Arkansas) took to the pages of the Financial Times (subscription required) with a plea to stop the scourge…
Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) is none too pleased with the current status of regulated sports betting in America and wants to the federal government to do something about it. Hatch made his beef with sports betting known in a speech to the US Senate late last week. During his oration, the Senator from the Beehive…
Regulated sports betting has only been legal in the state of New Jersey for a few weeks and Garden State operators are already facing the scourge of legal sportsbooks across the planet, competing with offshore bookies. But New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement Director David Rebuck has a plan for dealing with these unauthorized competitors,…
The Italian government declared war on the online gambling industry and LeoVegas is fighting back, with dignity. That's the title of the operator's bold new ad campaign that challenges both the government advertising ban, as well as the personal choices every gambler must make to keep their fun from turning destructive. It's an innovative move…
Nigel Eccles is the co-founder of daily fantasy sports (DFS) giant FanDuel, but didn't receive a single penny when the company was sold to Paddy Power earlier this year. FanDuel's $465 million valuation didn't, according to Eccles, take into account the possibility of legal sports betting in America and that resulted in a lower value…
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