The Sunday Times has this weekend published extracts of a letter written by Paddy Power Betfair (PPB) Executive Chairman Gary McGann to Paschal Donohoe, Ireland’s Finance Minister pleading for Fine Gael not to pursue with a new betting tax regime. The letter published under ‘the freedom of legislation’ act, sees McGann state that the Dáil approved/pending doubling of the Irish …
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Low margin sportsbook Pinnacle has detailed that it has ‘significantly accelerated its position as the leading esports bookmaker’, partnering with real-time data provider GameScorekeeper. Pinnacle has moved to integrate GameScorekeeper’s ‘live score API’, which will extensively amplify its esports betting proposition, as GameScorekeeper monitors 85% of all pro-sanctioned esports tournaments/matches. Updating stakeholders, Pinnacle Trading Director Marco Blume states that GameScorekeeper …
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FTSE250 bookmaker William Hill Plc is set to review its UK media planning and buying advertising account, as the betting industry faces-up to a new marketing landscape forthcoming in 2019. UK marketing news source CampaignLive has revealed that William Hill governance will call for an evaluation of the firm’s media planning and buying strategy, currently managed by long-term incumbent Vizeum UK. …
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Fast-growing online betting exchange Smarkets has confirmed the departure of Todd Johnson as Chief Operations Officer (COO). Johnson, who has served as Smarkets COO since 2016, revealed via LinkedIn that he had departed the London-based online betting exchange, returning to the financial services sector as operations lead for brokerage and wealth management firm GPP Group. Smarkets’ communications team has confirmed …
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Online gambling group 138.com (138) has moved to revamp its UK sportsbook and casino profile, utilising new industry software incumbent Dench turnkey platform solutions. The extensive partnership sees 138 migrate its 138.co.uk domain, services and customers to the Dench Core platform, seeking to revitalise its product proposition for the saturated UK online gambling marketplace. The 138 executive team details that …
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Global Lottery Monitoring System (GLMS) has announced its first major initiative of 2019, officially launching its ‘IntegriSport Project’, co-developed in partnership with the EU ERASMUS European-wide education and training programme. The project aims to raise awareness and improve training standards among European-wide law enforcement authorities/stakeholders with regards to identifying sport manipulations/corruptions Launching IntegriSport, the GLMS has split the project into two …
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Playtech BGT Sports has announced the launch of its ‘Level-Up’ gamification program, seeking to enhance its partner customer engagements, loyalty and retention dynamics through real-time rewards. Updating the market, Playtech BGT details that it has delivered the best-in-class gamification program for its clients, who moving forward will be able to enhance their market offerings with ‘Level-Up engagements’ including – time-sensitive incentives, …
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The end of a long and ultimately successful road towards gambling market liberalisation in Sweden has put one of its own – Stockholm-listed LeoVegas AB – on target to break the 50 per cent barrier for revenues derived from regulated markets. ________________ LeoVegas has told SBC Magazine that it expects to derive more than 50 per cent of its revenues …
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Stockholm-listed industry affiliate marketing network Catena Media has this morning published its full-year 2018 results (12-month period ending 31 January), citing strong progress on its ‘2020 Vision’ corporate guidance strategy. Catena assets closed year-end trading strongly, reporting Q4 2018 increased revenues of €27 million (Q4 2017: €20m), supporting a 17% EBITDA increase of €12 million (Q4 2017: €10m). Updating investors, …
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Global payments and e-merchant services provider Paysafe Group has stated its corporate intent to lead transactional services within the liberalised US sports betting market in 2019 and beyond. Yesterday at the ICE London 2019 conference, Paysafe leadership announced the launch of its industry-specific ‘single point API’, which will deliver a unified payment platform/solution for all igaming/betting incumbents. Launching its new vertical, …
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