Sportsbet.io has secured the front-of-shirt sponsorship of Southampton FC – for another three-years, following the Saints renewal of its agreement with Coingaming Group. The extension will allow Sportsbet.io to continue to take advantage of the exposure and advertising during Southampton’s Premier League fixtures, whilst also maintaining a ‘strong relationship’ with the club’s supporters and the local community. Although financial details …

Sportradar Integrity Services has added the Netherlands Olympic Committee*Dutch Sports Federation (NOC*NSF) to its extensive portfolio of sports authority clients. The new partnership will see Sportradar utilise its expertise gained from over 15 years of monitoring global betting markets for irregularities to assist with safeguarding the integrity of over 1500 football, basketball and darts events in the Netherlands over the …

Mayor of London Sadiq Khan has incorporated a pledge to ban gambling advertising on the London Underground into his manifesto ahead of the upcoming mayoral elections. The Labour Party politician previously banned advertisements of junk food on the city’s underground rail service in 2018. He now plans to extend this advertisement ban to betting marketing if re-elected on 6 May. …

Ulrik Bengtsson has been nominated to join Raketech as the gaming performance marketing firm’s new Chairman of the Board, replacing the outgoing Christian Lundberg. Bringing considerable experience to the role, Bengtsson has a bachelor’s degree in management from Dalhousie University in Canada, and has held key positions at several major betting and gaming operators, and media companies, throughout his career. …

Fox Corporation has launched legal proceedings against Flutter Entertainment in relation to the former exercising its option to acquire an 18.6% stake in the FanDuel sportsbook. Flutter has argued that Fox must conduct the transaction at a ‘fair market price’, whilst the American multimedia corporation maintains that it should pay the same amount Flutter paid in December 2020. Through its …

Kane Hester, a striker for Scottish football club Elgin City, has denied involvement in a betting conspiracy to defraud bet365 of £13,583. The footballer is alleged to have participated in a scheme with three men from Montrose in which he agreed to stamp on a Hibernian FC player in order to get booked by referee Willie Collum in a fixture …

Gamstop has reported a 21% increase in the number of bettors utilising the self-exclusion tool during February, as revealed by the Guardian.  The national self-exclusion scheme now has nearly 200,000 sign-ups, with 326 new registrants recorded on 22 February, a single-day record for the organisation. “With the rate of registrants continuing to rise, I would urge anybody putting self-exclusion from …

Oddschecker has released its report of betting trends during the 2021 Cheltenham Festival, revealing positive results for numerous operators with bet365 heading the betslip leaderboard. The Stoke-on-Trent based online bookmaker accumulated the largest share of betslip clicks on the odds comparison website throughout the four-day festival at 19.4%, whilst Flutter Entertainment’s Sky Bet and Paddy Power finished second and third …

Entain’s acquisition of Swedish iGaming operator Enlabs AB and Portuguese online sportsbook Bet.pt has driven a 30% expansion in its international operations. A leading operator in the Baltic region, the Enlabs acquisition has enabled Entain to enter this market for the first time in its operating history via the Optibet brand. Enlabs is a market leader in Latvia, the second …

The betting and gaming market in Nigeria holds many opportunities for both domestic and international operators. Moderating a panel at the SBC Digital – Africa event – sponsored by Pronet Gaming and Zugi – Dan Phillips, CEO of NEL Advisory and host of the Big Betting Balagan Podcast was joined by three guest speakers to discuss the dynamics of this …