With the recent launch of new financial trading and sports betting programme- Tip TV, Team SBC caught up with the Tip TV founder and CEO Nick ‘The Moose’ Batsford to discuss the programmes format, content and future growth strategy. Nick Batsford has enjoyed a 25-year career in the financial markets, specializing in short-term trading signals. He has applied his skills both …
Read More »SBC’s Ted Menmuir looks at the state of the igaming supply chain and notices one name running through it like a stick of rock. In April Ladbrokes announced that it was on course to fulfil its migration to Playtech’s igaming services. The all-encompassing deal struck with the igaming software provider will see Ladbrokes drop its Microgaming inventory, as the sector …
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Team SBC catches up with Alexandru Teodorescu Senior Sales Manager for EveryMatrix, to discuss the changing role of software providers in igaming. Ahead of the upcoming Betting on Football Conference (8 May Stamford Bridge) Alexandru discusses current impacts, player habits and future trends that will effect software and gaming provisions for the sector. Alexandru Teodorescu has nine years of experience within the …
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Today Helen Grant MP described gambling advertising as ‘pervasive’ while announcing a set of measures clamping down on the betting industry, put together as much for enhanced player protection as they have with one eye on next’s year’s General Election. While it obviously isn’t a good sign for the gambling industry (or indeed the TV companies), the government has actually …
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Minister for gambling Helen Grant MP has made this statement to Parliament: “The 2005 Gambling Act was introduced by the then Government with the aim of liberalising the gambling market in Great Britain. Nearly seven years on from the Act’s implementation, the gambling industry has developed in innovative ways, with new products now marketed and made available on a greater …
Read More »The FIFA World Cup is less than 45 days away; football fans are all abuzz and ready to root for their favorite teams as the world descends on Brazil for what surely promises to be equal parts mayhem and magic. Part of the magic will certainly be the wholesale application of mobile devices, big data and location enabled wizardry that …
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The first few months of 2014 have been awash with predictions on the rise of ‘wearable tech’. This can be anything from watches to glasses to fitness monitors to auto-video diaries to clothing that monitors health/activity to posture sensors to… I could go on but won’t! Whilst I would not suggest that the majority of people will go the whole …
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With the announcement of Manchester United’s record breaking initial £44.75m per year shirt deal with Chevrolet, a time when teams played without commercial association in just their club’s colours seems a world away from the modern game. You needn’t look back far however; it was not until 1977 that the FA lifted their official ban on kit sponsorship and today …
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Thirteen European football clubs are amongst the world’s top 50 sports teams when it comes to multi-million euro salaries, the Global Sports Salaries Survey 2014 reveals. While massive pay-packets entice the globe’s best players and performers, punters love a dreamer and rule breaker. But could the answer to finally cracking stubborn footy accumulators and bets lie in the amount a …
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Ahead of the Betting on Football Conference – Team SBC caught up with Emmie Faust, Business Director of MC&C Media, to discuss igaming and sports betting marketing trends and impacts. Emmie is an igaming marketing veteran, who set up the first dedicated igaming marketing agency in 2005 – Jack Media London. Jack Media recently merged with MC&C to create MC&C …
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