Totally Gaming delivered the World Regulatory Briefing (#WrBriefing) in London’s iconic OXO tower yesterday with a packed out agenda of speakers both endemic and non. An impressive line up included Sarah Harrison, CEO of the UK Gambling Commission, as Keynote Speaker. Harrison delivered a pinpoint 45 minute talk which was refreshingly frank. Discussing the new National Responsible Gambling Strategy developed …

Following its UK launch last month, fantasy sports operator FanDuel has introduced a late swap feature to its one-day fantasy football contests. This gives players the opportunity to make last minute edits to their fantasy teams. FanDuel’s late swap feature is live for this weekend’s Premier League matches and will apply to all of its one-day and weekend contests that cover matches …

Vahe Baloulian is the CEO at BetConstruct. He’ll be speaking at the two day Betting on Sports Conference late next week at London’s prestigious Grange Tower Bridge Hotel. Vahe will be speaking on marketing and customer acquisition strategies alongside Pinnacle’s Harry Lang, Richard Hayler of IBAS, Jacob Lopez Curciel of Optima with Rebecca Jennings of Global Reviews as chair. SBC: …

It has been revealed that TriStar Pictures has acquired the film rights to produce the picture for the book The Big Game.  The book itself is being written by Albert Chen and has not yet been released itself though it’s expected to hit the shelves next year via Houghton-Mifflin. Chen is a staff writer at Sports Illustrated and covers baseball, college …

Adam Roland is the Founder and Director of Heavyweight Sports, a marketing PR agency focused on sports based in both London and Manchester. Adam will be speaking on the panel ‘Personality Profile – How bookmakers use the ambassadorial role to reach an audience’ at Betting on Sports this month (15th-16th) alongside Stuart Tilly of Argyll Entertainment and BetonBrazil, and the …

DFS operator MondoGoal has agreed a partnership with Italian firm Microgame.  The Microgame Group is one of the the leading service providers in Italy. The intention now is to add DFS, courtesy of MondoGoal, to its list of successful igaming products it has offered clients since 1999. Microgame is responsible for over 120 million transactions per year with over 130 brands …

Following the International in early August of this year, for which the victorious team Wings Gaming came away with $9.1m (£7m) as a prize, esports betting experienced a notable surge.  Danish operator Danske Spil started out in esports in 2014. It also operates eOddset TV to accompany this with regular guests to analyse competitions and drive interest. We spoke to …

Newzoo has released its latest quarterly update of its assessment of the esports industry, the ‘Global Esports Market Report’. The report shows that esports revenues for 2016 will grow towards a projected $493m (£371.5 m) in 2016. This is up a significant 7% from the $463m (£348.8 m) projected at the beginning of the year. This puts the year-on-year growth at a …

Both fantasy and esports are very much buzzwords in the igaming world right now.  Scott Burton is the CEO of a company which is a major player in both; eSportsPools. The community centred site is also partnered with Na’Vi, or Natus Vincere, a popular team with over 355,000 Twitter followers. For those whose Latin is getting a bit rusty it …

If you haven’t yet taken the #bettingonsports Big Betting Ambassadors quiz then for goodness sakes do so now, and ensure you’re in with a chance of winning a prize at the ‘Personality Profile: How Bookmakers use the Ambassadorial Role to Reach an Audience’ panel on Friday 16th September.  On that panel will be Stuart Tilly, CEO of Argyll Entertainment, the …