Following yesterday’s announcement by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) of the twelve UK contemporary music albums making the finals of this year’s Mercury Music Prize, Ladbrokes has placed UK Grime artist Stormzy as 7/2 favourite to win the coveted award. Should the BPI Mercury jury award Stormzy’s ‘Gang Signs & Prayer’, the South London rapper will become the second UK …

Clarion Events has furthered its presence within the affiliate marketing sector, by acquiring B2B event organiser Affiliate Summit Corporation. The leading events company boosts its affiliate marketing resources adding the Affiliate Summit tradeshow and conference, FeedFront Magazine, GeekCast.fm, ReveNews.com to its existing portfolio. Flagship conference the Affiliate Summit joins Clarion Events alongside the iGB Affiliate brand to further the vision …

UK Sports Minister Tracey Crouch has praised national sports bodies for responding positively and ‘working to become compliant’ with the new ‘Code for Sports Governance’ which will be introduced by the end of October. Part of the government’s ‘Sporting Future’ mandate/code presented in December 2015, the UK seeks to become the world leader in sports governance and transparency. The code’s …

European sports betting operator mybet Group (mybet) has confirmed that it has secured a ‘Co-Sponsor’ and ‘Official Sports Betting Partnership’ with North Rhine-Westphalia Bundesliga football club Borussia Mönchengladbach. Entering the Bundesliga 2017/18 season (start date:18 August), as a Mönchengladbach Co-Sponsor mybet will gain heightened brand coverage throughout the club’s Borussia Park Stadion (capacity: 54,000). Furthermore, the mybet logo will feature as …

Issuing a trading update, the governance FTSE-listed bookmaker Ladbrokes-Coral has detailed that it is ‘on target’ to hit its full-year corporate targets and expectations following a positive H1 2017 opening driven by strong digital gains. Updating investors, Ladbrokes Coral governance details that it expects Total Group net revenue to be 1% ahead of last year (cc -1%), with total group …

Nigerian licensed sports betting operator Bet9Ja has launched its new affiliate marketing programme in partnership with Income Access (Paysafe Group).  The bookmaker which acts as current title sponsor of the Nigeria National League (second professional tier of Nigerian football), seeks to expand its digital presence launching its partnership programme utilising Income Access’ marketing software. Tunji Meshioye, Bet9ja Marketing Manager, commented …

Toronto TSX-listed gambling technology provider NYX Gaming has confirmed that it will extend its existing partnership with European operator Kindred Group by servicing its Unibet Italia property with its NYX OGS systems. The agreement will see Unibet.it gain a full OGS suite, expanding Kindred’s Italian vertical current casino games inventory. NYX informs that Unibet.it delivery was undertaken via NYX’s wholly owned …

New York-listed industry lottery and gambling systems provider IGT Group Plc (IGT) has this afternoon announced that it has secured a new $1.5 billion loan agreement which is set to mature from 2023. Updating the market and stakeholders, IGT governance informs that it will use the proceeds from the $1.5 billion loan to repay the ‘€800 million term loans maturing …