Bet365 picked up the Best Football Bookmaker title at the inaugural Betting on Football Awards last week, outpacing the competition with 35% of the popular vote. Bet365 took the award, sponsored by BetConstruct, ahead of the four other finalists: BetVictor, Paddy Power, Pinnacle Sports and SkyBet. On behalf of Bet365, James Woods, Head of Performance Marketing, collected the award from …
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Exclusively for today’s Betting on Football Conference, Don Best‘s Todd Fuhrman interviews Jay Kornegay, VP of Race & Sports Operations at The LVH, about the role football plays in Las Vegas sportsbooks. Don Best Sports, with offices in Las Vegas, United States and Vancouver, Canada, is the leading provider of US sports information to the sports betting industry. Don Best …
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Ian Wright Managing Director of Rufus Retail Anthropolgy, is a designer with 30 years experience in creating retail commerce stores. Wright has helped redesign many retail bookmakers, with an emphasis on optimizing in-store experiences and improving customer sales. Wright discusses how retail operators can improve customer experience and how they should look to integrate new technologies within their in-store designs. …
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Rob Painter, Marketing Director of SkyBet and Iain Webb, Partnerships Manager of Fulham Football Club discuss Football Club betting sponsorships and marketing. The panel gives insight into brokering football sponsorship agreements with sports betting operators, their concerns on future restrictions of gambling advertisement and mistakes witnessed when negotiating partnerships with English Football Clubs. SBC Session Notes Painter opens the panel …
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David Clifton MD of CliftonDavies opens the Betting on Football (BOF) Conference by telling the BOF audience that change is imminent for UK operators, and that the legal and regulatory landscape for gambling operators will change drastically in the next months. Clifton states that legislation will be implemented by August 2014, currently the new amendments to the Gambling Bill are …
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Your nominations have been counted, and now the Betting on Football Awards (8 May Octoberfest Pub- Fulham Road) are ready for kick-off. Team SBC invites all friends to attend this special night as we celebrate the best in Football Betting. The awards ceremony will be a casual affair, with free Deutsch beer and snacks provided by Sponsors MC&C Direct Response. …
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Today is the last chance to vote for the Betting on Football Awards, being held at the Octoberfest Pub in Fulham on Thursday evening. The title of Best Football Bookmaker is being duked out between Bet365, BetVictor, Paddy Power, Pinnacle Sports and SkyBet at the Betting on Football Awards on 8 May (click here to view finalists case studies). Voting …
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iGaming software supplier EveryMatrix will bring music to the ears of the gaming industry this week – as it is sponsoring the Oompah Band at the Betting on Football Awards. Held on Thursday evening (8 May) at the Octoberfest Pub on Fulham Road, the Betting on Football Awards is aiming to provide a fun twist on most awards night by …
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Online casino affiliate programme DeckMedia is taking the selfie craze up another notch, giving partners the chance to win an all-expenses paid trip to the Amsterdam Affiliate Conference. Members can secure a ticket by taking a picture of themselves holding up a sign saying ‘Deckmedia is sending me to Amsterdam’, or three tickets if they do so wearing traditional Dutch …
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Operators unsure of how the latest changes to point of consumption licensing and taxation regimes in the UK will affect their ability to advertise are advised to get down to Stamford Bridge on 8 May for the latest news. Yesterday the government added to the uncertainty over the issue by announcing it was re-examining the existing gambling advertising controls via …
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