888, one of the largest gaming operators on the planet, is looking to expand its market share with a new venture aimed at regulated African markets. 888Africa, as the venture is known, will be run by five industry veterans with the skills to set up 888 in a market that is still primed for plenty…
Operators getting ready for the launch of the regulated Ontario igaming market got a big boost this week as Google announced that it is changing its policies and will accept gambling advertisements. This is a major reversal of fortune for operators who rely on every marketing tool they can grab in the feeding frenzy that…
Across the European Union and Great Britain, gambling regulators are clamping down on operator marketing techniques, calling for fewer gambling ads and a very limited message from those ads that actually make it to market. The most recent example of this phenomenon came this week in France where the L'Autorité Nationale des Jeux (ANJ) gaming…
The Betting and Gaming Council (BGC), a British gaming trade group, is offering its support to its government's new economic recovery plan, but is also offering a word of caution about gaming reform. In a recently posted statement, Michael Dugher, Chief Executive of the Betting and Gaming Council, urged lawmakers to avoid “well-meaning but naive…
March 2022 is turning out to be a pretty lousy month for Camelot, the current operator of the UK National Lottery. Earlier this week, the Great Britain Gambling Commission (GC) fined the operator £3.15 million for multiple regulatory failures in relation to its mobile app. Camelot's big fine came on the heels of even worse…
Gaming operators in the Netherlands have been put on warning by Dutch Minister for Legal Protection Franc Weerwind. Minister Weerwind warned recently that, government officials, “will make every effort to achieve further restrictions on advertising for high-risk games of chance as soon as possible”. These are no mere boasts from a man who both has…
Reports of the death of New Jersey's sports betting market have been greatly exaggerated and were, if nothing else, extremely premature. Despite having to compete with a newly opened regulated market in nearby New York, NJ operators pulled in nearly $1 billion in wagers for the month of February, 2022. According to the New Jersey…
Iowa is not a large state. It's population of about 3.1 million people places it as the 33rd most populous US State. But those three million Iowans placed $215 million worth of sports bets during February, 2022. The state's 18 licensed sportsbooks saw their business in February 2022 leap by an astonishing 50 percent over…
When the regulated Ontario igaming market opens for business on April 4, it's expected to be one of the more robust igaming markets in North America. So it's not surprising that gaming operators are tripping over each other in an effort to get a seat at this table where large servings of profits are sure…
March Madness has always been a busy time for sports betting in the United States, whether sports betting was legal or not. But this year, 30 US States offer regulated sports betting and industry insiders such as the American Gaming Association (AGA) are predicting that as many as 45 million Americans will be wagering as…
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