With none of the Premier League’s big guns playing on the Saturday, punters are turning to the next tier of the division in order to underpin their football accumulators. Data from AccaTracker, the mobile app that helps punters keep on top of their bets, suggests that Swansea City are the new fancied team after last week’s impressive performance against the …

SpiffX AB and Betting Promotion AB have started a cooperation that will add liquidity to SpiffX’s marketplace and that will create new business opportunities for both companies. SpiffX’s CEO Tobias Fagerlund commented: “This is a cooperation that is fully in line with our intention to create an effective market place for odds trading. Betting Promotion has traded very successfully for …

Super affiliate bettingexpert.com has developed a simple new interface that will allow punters to find the bookie bonuses that are relevant to them. Called Bookmaker Finder, the new product allows users to search for the type of bonuses that they want from a database of over 30 bookmakers. It also provides payout comparisons across 9 of the most popular UK …

IG Group Holdings plc, one of the biggest spread betting operators, has announced that Chief Financial Officer Chris Hill is to leave the company in order to take up the role of Chief Financial Officer at Hargreaves Lansdown plc.  It is anticipated Hill will continue in his current role until the end of his notice period and leave IG in …

Unibet has outshone the competition in the first round of Premier League action, according to the users on one of Europe’s biggest tipster networks. Tipsters on bettingexpert.com recommended odds from Unibet for 14.7 per cent of their selections on Premier League football this weekend, putting the bookmaker ahead of rivals bet365 (11.9%) and William Hill (10.6%). Of the 1,044 Premier …

Owner of BettingGods.com and horseracing tipster Darren Moore believes that horseracing can do more to appeal to a wider customer base. SBC: What do you believe horseracing needs to do to appeal to a wider audience? Darren Moore: The large number of people who work during the week and rarely get the chance to go or watch racing should be …

In a week where William Hill and Ladbrokes have been citing poor sporting results in their disappointing interim figures, the start of the football season should have been a fillip for bookmakers. Data from AccaTracker, the leading football betting app developed by Team FA, found that the two most popular matches in people’s accumulators on the first weekend of Premier …

Editorial consultant Scott Longley investigates how innovation is in danger of being left behind in the latest corporate reorganisation. In the fog of war generated by the current spate of sectoral M&A manoeuvrings, the debate about whether online gambling is genuinely engaging its customers is in danger of getting lost in the tumult. Like worrying about the design of the …

Everton versus Watford is the surprise home banker for the first weekend of the new football season according to AccaTracker, the football betting app run by major affiliate group Team FA. Over 14% of people’s football accumulators from this weekend include the match at Goodison Park, as punters suspect that the newly promoted side will be easily toppled by Roberto …

William Hill CEO James Henderson has described the past six months as a period of ‘significant regulatory and taxation change for the industry’ as the bookmaker reported a 30% drop in profits after tax to £69.5m. Despite group net revenue marginally growing, even against 2014 World Cup comparatives, operating profit dropped 12% to £155.7m for the first half. Group net …