Interviews

The experience of going to a stadium on a match day is one which has yet to be really altered by technological leaps and the digital age. Granted, everybody has a smartphone now, and so fewer than ever listen to the scores read out on the loudspeaker at halftime, but few clubs have fully embraced the digital age in terms …

Youbetme is a social betting app which allows you to ‘bet on anything’. This is social betting and so whilst Youbetme facilitates and tracks the bets, it does not handle money. Players can play for whatever they choose amongst themselves, whether this is money, dinner, a drink or something a little more embarrassing. Player profiles keep a tally of wins, …

Changes to worldwide regulatory requirements combined with new technology and consumer demands are set to deeply  impact the gambling industry’s convoluted value chain. The upcoming ICE 2015 (London Execl Arena 3-5 February) conference will play an important role in setting up the gambling industry’s 2015  key agenda and dicussions The dedicated gambling/igaming conference will look to bring a board range of …

Team SBC catches up with Peter Gough, Founder of Fenway Games, an igaming industry start-up which has recently gone live on the GamCrowd.com equity crowdfunding platform. Fenway Games.is a developer of real-time, mobile and social products that operate during live sporting events and offer a high turnover of wagering opportunities. Its flagship title, SwitchPlayed, allows small-stakes bets to be placed in-play, to …

SBC caught up with Jörn Anhalt, Managing Director of Media Rights for the Sportradar Group, to discuss the impact of live-channel features on both digital and retail sports betting operations and consumer habits. Sportradar Group are European market leaders at providing syndicated sports content and betting related data and insight technology and provisions. Anhalt who leads strategic sales activities and …

SBC begins this week by speaking to Tapcentive Inc Founder and CEO David Wentker on In-location marketing and Near Field Communication (NFC) technology. Wentker details to SBCNews why gambling retailers and online operators must pay attention to dynamics which will likely come into play through in-location marketing technologies. San Francisco based Tapcentive is a technology provider looking to transform how …

As SBCNews continues its series of interviews from the recent EiG Start-Up Launch Pad, one of the most intriguing presentations was offered by Virtual Reality provider Lucky VR. With video gaming and e-sports commanding tens of millions of users, could a virtual reality casino be the next seismic leap in i-gaming? SBC Business Correspondent Mark McGuinness spoke with Lucky VR’s …

SBC Business Correspondent Mark McGuinness continues his series of interviews with innovative start-up’s looking to take the igaming industry by storm. Today he speaks with EiG Start-Up Launch Pad runners up, DiscountIF and their CEO Lewis Holland about innovation by creating and engaging customers in new ways to shop for products. _________________ MM: Lewis can you tell us a bit about …

Business Correspondent Mark McGuinness caught up with EiG 2014 Pitch Winner  Levbet.net CEO and co-founder Jacob List for an update on developing sports betting in the image of financial market trading, especially Leveraged sports betting. Jake List is the founder of LevBet, a startup platform for trading sports betting odds with leveraged financial products.  Trained in equal parts across betting, …