With large-scale esports events capturing the attention of millions across the world, there are growing opportunities for sportsbook operators to educate punters on esports betting products. Abios discusses. Esports is a great way for sportsbooks to combat the seasonality of regular sports, reach new audiences and find new revenue streams. The esports ecosystem is more similar to sports than first …
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Though blighted by chaotic changes to the government, which will likely see no publishing of the Gambling Review White Paper in 2022. Licensing Expert David Clifton observes strategic manoeuvres that indicate which criteria stakeholders want the Review’s remaining proceedings to focus on. Consensus points out that an abandonment of the White Paper would not represent good news for either the …
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Drazan Planinic (pictured, above), COO at NSoft, reflects on some of the biggest challenges that have faced the NSoft sportsbook development team before walking us through the steps taken to overcome these hurdles. As an enormous sports enthusiast, I firmly believe that sports teams would be nothing without their fans, who bring more than just passion to the game. Sports …
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LSports’ biggest tech investments this year were all aimed towards the world’s premier football tournament. And now, the combination of AI-based betting tips generator World Cup widget, and 24/7 real time human support, has created a unique bulletproof football package for the industry, writes LSports CEO Dotan Lazar (pictured, right). I can tell our partners now, with 100% confidence that …
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Once on autopilot, the passage of Brazilian gambling and sports betting was destined to arrive uninterrupted in 2022, bringing South America’s biggest consumer market into play. Under review since 2018, the legislative frameworks for sports betting and online gambling had been approved by congress and senate committees, as two bills were put forward to the office of President Jair Bolsonaro …
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Distinct opinions surrounding the next phase of US online gambling growth and market make-up were voiced during the morning session of day two of the SBC Summit Barcelona last week. While expressing conflicting opinions and insights, the panel comprising current US stakeholders agreed on one underlying principle… “there is no go-to-market strategy” for North American incumbents. “I think it’s pretty …
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Regulus Partners dissects the ‘mini-budget’ statement summoned by new Chancellor of the Exchequer Kwasi Kwarteng, as the closing months of 2022 will reveal the true impact of macro trends on UK gambling as consumers face a winter pinch. For the first time in over a decade, macroeconomic issues are likely to be the dominant drivers of revenue performance in more …
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Player conversion presents a whole host of challenges in and of itself. And with player acquisition costs slowly creeping up as a result of more costly marketing efforts, sportsbook operators need to do everything in their power to optimise their performance and effectively convert players – especially if they want to protect those top-line revenue figures. That’s according to Warren …
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The gambling industry is fond of reminding itself that it operates in the entertainment industry and should think in a similarly ambitious way, but there are many different ways to reach customers, writes Enteractive‘s Chief Business Development Officer Andrew Foster. Indeed we often hear conference panelists saying that as online gambling operators and providers we should aspire to emulate the …
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Parliament returns from its summer recess with a new Prime Minister and senior cabinet, but gambling remains in the dark with regards to its regulatory future, in which an urgent settlement is required on dragged-out affairs for all industry stakeholders. It is two months since publication of my last ‘Licensing Expert’ article, ‘Change will come – eventually’, focusing on the …
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