Online betting exchange Matchbook (Matchbook.com) has expanded its presence within UK racing by agreeing a multi-race title sponsorship with British racecourse operaor The Jockey Club. Announcing the partnership, Matchbook marketing detailed that the exchange had secured title sponsorship of 16 fixtures at Sandown Park and Kempton Park racecourses. Furthermore, Matchbook will sponsor a number of Jockey Club syndicated races at Kempton …
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Paysafe governance confident of outperforming 2016 revenue & earnings guidance
Issuing an ‘unaudited’ full-year trading update, FTSE 250 listed payment provider Paysafe Group stated that combined momentum of its enlarged group would see the firm exceed $1 billion in corporate revenues. Updating investors, Paysafe governance stated that a strong second half to FY 2016 would see the company report top-line metric guidance towards the upper end of its corporate guidance. …
Read More »Betting on transfers in January – Rumour has it…
Will Rooney be joining Oscar in China? Is Depay set to depart Old Trafford too? Has Gerard Deulofeu had enough of life at Goodison Park? Rumours, rumours, rumours. We’ve no idea but if you think you do, whether it’s gut feeling or you know something we don’t, you can be rest assured you bet on it. With rumours and transfer …
Read More »Ladbrokes’ Donohue takes fifth place in the Tipster Challenge
Alex Donohue, PR Manager at Ladbrokes, landed his second winner in the final race of the day at Hereford to enter the Tipster Challenge in 5th place. The 4.11 points he collected from Long Call (3/1) and Lady Karina (11/10) put him between Coral’s John Hill and Sky Bet’s Michael Shinners in the latest standings. This meant that Stephen Harris …
Read More »Betting industry asks…How long can President Trump last?
With President-Elect Donald Trump taking full US Presidential duties on 20 January (inauguration date), bookmakers are wondering whether ‘The Donald’ will survive a full four-year term as leader of the United States of America. Trump who yesterday gave his first official press conference as President-Elect, having won the US Election on 8 November reemphasized to the world’s media that …
Read More »Sky Betting & Gaming partners with Qubit to build out personalisation strategy across all brands
Independent bookmaker Sky Betting & Gaming (SB&G) has become the latest industry operator to partner with digital data and customisation specialist Qubit, as the firm seeks to boost its personalisation and player targeting capabilities. Confirming the partnership, SB&G development teams detailed that Qubit’s ‘Visitor Cloud’ technology was needed in order to optimise growing customer demand across its nine established brands. …
Read More »Ladbrokes’ Donohue takes the Tipster Challenge at Hereford
Alex Donohue, Head of Ladbrokes News and PR Manager for the bookmaker, has provided expert tips for today’s six-race Tipster Challenge at Hereford. Donohue, who has been at Ladbrokes since joining the PR team in 2010, will be going up against bettingexpert’s 10th placed Stephen Harris, and the experts from Timeform. He is the latest industry expert to challenge Alan Alger’s …
Read More »BtoBet will showcase A.I. for players at ICE 2017
ICE 2017 is always an excellent opportunity for suppliers to show off their latest innovations and BtoBet is aiming to be the talk of the show with its ‘A.I. for the players’ campaign. BtoBet will be giving exclusive live demos of a number of products including its artificial intelligence tool, marketing tools such as its virtual assistant and augmented reality …
Read More »David Clifton: Licensing Expert – Not only changed licensing fees but also a new type of licence
In his January 3rd posting “Gambling Commission justifies remote licence fee increases” Andy McCarron MD of SBC referred to the changes to the Commission’s annual fee structure that will come into effect from April this year. Those changes were announced in the DCMS “Proposals for Gambling Commission fees from April 2017 – consultation response” document that was published just prior …
Read More »Martin Wachter – Golden Race – My ICE 2017
Martin Wachter, the CEO at Golden Race, is getting ready for the biggest industry event of the year. However, he took some time out of his busy schedule to speak to SBC News about his preparation for ICE 2017 (February 7-9), where to find him in the London ExCeL and his excitement over sharing details of the company’s new online …
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