GamCrowd, the gambling-focused crowdfunding and crowdsourcing company, has launched an infographic to allow users of the site to quickly assess the quality of the site’s ‘crowd’. The new infographic, which updates once a week, shows users various statistics around the investors and start-ups in the crowdfunding area of the site as well as details of the buyers and seller within …
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Coral are the latest sports betting operator to have their advertisement pulled by the UK Advertising Standards Authority (ASA), after it was found guilty of linking gambling with sexual content and seduction. The TV advertisement shows two men at a barber shop reading debating placing a bet on their mobile phones, before a woman, wearing a jockey’s outfit that left …
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Specialist EPOS supplier A Bet A is offering free trials of its SMS betting service following a successful pilot scheme. The firm, which services operators in the UK and Ireland as well as 22 global territories, has been working on the system with leading rails bookmaker Geoff Banks. Banks benefitted from an increase in turnover after customers were able to …
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Totepool’s Scoop6 bet was landed last weekend with eight lucky tickets predicting the six race winners and earning £1.3 million apiece. 122 tickets were still live on the final leg at 3.45 race at Haydock Park, with only one horse, the outsider Grevillea, not covered. The race was won by the Alan King-trained Chatez, ridden by Ferguson Sweeney. The successful …
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Ladbrokes new advertising campaign – Ladbrokes Life, has come under fire from the UK Advertising Standards Authority (ASA). The authority has criticised the operators campaign as irresponsible and harmful, since it links gambling with social and sexual success. Furthermore ASA claimed the UK wide campaign exploited younger viewers by glamourising betting culture, by trying to portray gambling as a social …
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The English Football Association (FA) has announced a the implementation of a worldwide ban on betting on football, by professional individuals registered with the top seven divisions of the English football leagues. The set of measures have been approved by FA shareholders, in last Wednesdays general meeting at Wembley Stadium. The prohibition of betting on football matches, will include all …
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Social sports betting operator Bodugi has confirmed that it has placed its operations under voluntary liquidation. In a general meeting held last month between creditors and investors in the company, it was decided that Bodugi would seek liquidation and wind up its assets. Robert Cundy of insolvency practitioner RJC Financial Management was appointed liquidator of the operator. Reports from Companies …
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Struggling igaming operator Canbet has surrendered its UK operating licence in the face of mounting financial concerns. The UK Gambling Commission stated that Canbet’s operator licence had been removed on the 7th of May 2014. The operator had been struggling since the closing months of 2013, at the end of January 2014 a number of the operators customers had made …
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Sky Betting and Gaming has appointed mcgarrybowen as its new creative marketing agency, as the operator seeks to bring in new marketing and branding initiatives for its online gambling portfolio. International marketing agency mcgarrybowen , with offices in New York, Chicago and London, won a three way pitch, against Brothers and Sisters and FCB Inferno last April. Sky Betting and …
Read More »More than a quarter of Brits will have a flutter on the final. When it comes to betting, the FA Cup is the UK’s football competition of choice, according to a survey of 2,000 adults commissioned by online payments company Skrill. According to the survey, more than one in four (26%) people will attempt to pick the winner of the …
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