The Gambling Commission in Great Britain releases bi-annual reports on the latest statistics from across the gambling industry. It covers betting shops, arcades, bingo, casinos, gaming machine manufacturers, lotteries and remote gambling. This is the first in a series of mini reports on the latest statistics released, and will give an overview of the gambling industry as a whole. The …

Gaming machines have taken on greater importance for betting shop revenue in recent times with the increase in mobile betting meaning less of the population now head to the bookmakers to place a sporting bet. The fixed odds gaming machines have come under extensive scrutiny at the same time with the mainstream press largely calling for them to be cracked …

With the industry focus on live in-play betting, and the ever increasing focus on mobile betting as a whole, the natural assumption would be that betting shops suffered in 2015. Indeed, one of the latest BetVictor adverts promotes the idea of placing a bet at a shop as an outdated and somewhat horrifying experience. Here’s an analysis of how betting …

The ICE App, one of the most popular information tools used by exhibitors, visitors and ICE Conference delegates alike, is available to download for free from the iTunes App Store and the Google Play Store. The App, which was visited on 38,000 occasions in the lead up to and during the 2015 edition of ICE, enables attendees to the world’s …

A Sky Bet customer, Chris Hughes, is celebrating after cashing out on a £25 bet for a win of £10,000. The bet, a ten fold accumulator, would have become a loser just minutes later. All of the other nine selections had come in but the Newcastle v Everton match, a stalemate until Cleverley’s winner in the 93rd minute, sealed a win for …

Two of the world’s largest daily fantasy sports companies, DraftKings and FanDuel, have agreed a fast tracked court schedule with Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan. This follows a decision by Madigan that daily fantasy sports constitute illegal gambling and as such would no longer be allowed in the state of Illinois. Both DraftKings and FanDuel have filed litigation against this opinion, and as such …

A Sky Vegas customer won the Sky Millions progressive jackpot game and in doing so took home a cool £2.3 million. This was the company’s second largest individual payout in its history. This capped a lucrative week for Sky Vegas customers, with over £7m worth of jackpots paid out. On December 24th, two Sky Vegas customers won jackpots totalling £1.2 million on the Rumble …

Russian government funded news source Russia Today (RT.com) has reported that President Vladimir Putin will seek for licensed bookmakers to fund national sporting events, with new laws set to be introduced by mid-2016. At present Russia has 25 registered bookmakers, President Putin is reported to want gambling operators to contribute further funding to national sporting development as the country prepares …

Enterra Inc., the online gambling software and platform developer, has announced a rebranding. The company will now be known as EvenBet Gaming. Dmitry Starostenkov, Enterra’s CEO, said of the announcement: “After almost ten years of gaming development we have decided to develop and enhance online gaming products under the new EvenBet brand.” The company offers a range of products from …

A NetBet Casino player won just over $4m (£2.6m) on the Gold Rally slot game on December 13th. The win on Gold Rally, a game created by Playtech, was NetBet’s biggest pay-out of in its history and the largest since 2013. NetBet Marketing Manager Alexandre Mangaud said of the news: “We are extremely proud to have paid out this bumper jackpot to one …