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Our League, the membership platform created by fan marketing company InCrowd in partnership with the Rugby Football League (RFL), has reached 84,000 members, produced 32 live match streams and given out over 13,000 prizes in its inaugural year. The platform has also successfully integrated ticketing and reward schemes as well as live streaming, predictor games and polls such as the …

SIS and Tote Media have confirmed an extension to the deal to distribute live pictures and data from the Latin American Racing Channel’s (LARC) racecourses, to operators globally. The two-year rights extension expands SIS’s Latin American racing portfolio to over 4,500 races per year, with races from Chile, Argentina, Brazil, and Peru, and includes some of the top racecourses in …

Nasdaq-listed gambling and leisure group Caesars Entertainment Corporation has confirmed that President & Chief Executive Mark Frissora will depart the company in February 2019. Updating investors, Caesars governance details that it has begun its executive search for Frissora’s leadership replacement. Frissora took charge of an embattled Caesars Entertainment in February 2015, guiding the company through its Chapter 11 bankruptcy process …

UK Sports Minister Tracey Crouch has resigned from the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sports (DCMS), in relation to the government’s delay in implementing its £2 FOBTs stake reduction. Crouch had served as Sports Minister since 2015, leading the government’s relations with the UK betting and gambling sectors. Monday’s 2018 Budget announcement saw the Treasury confirm that it would implement …

Gaming innovation Group (GiG) strengthens its UK provisions, confirming that it has been approved a UK Gambling Commission ‘B2B licence’ allowing the firm to supply its proprietary online casino content. Updating the market, GiG informs that it’s in-house games development studio – ‘GiG Games’ has been approved as games provider by the UKGC, allowing the firm to service its UK-licensed …

Seeking to enhance its NBA season 2018/19 inventory and engagement, sportsbook platform and betting services provider SBTech announces that it has expanded its ‘Yourbet Betbuilder’ tool to incorporate basketball markets. As an industry stakeholder, SBTech declares a ‘market first’, extending popular Betbuilder provisions to incorporate basketball betting, a tool which to date has focused its engagement on football markets. Greg …

Some of the biggest names in sports betting have snapped up exhibition space for the inaugural Betting on Sports America conference, to be held from 23-25 April 2019. The Meadowlands Exposition Center in New Jersey, just a short trip from New York, has been chosen as the venue for both the conference and exhibition. It is ready to house 1,500 …

Cash out functionality, feed unification and bet builders are just three of the key components of the modern day sportsbook. OPTIMA CEO Jacob Lopez talks moving with the market in 2018, why differentiation has become a buzzword for the company, and how the technology behind its beefed up sportsbook stood up to the performance challenge presented by this year’s football World …

The governance of Rank Group Plc has this morning disclosed the pending appointment of William ‘Bill’ Floydd as new Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Joining the company on 12 November, Floydd is set to replace Clive Jennings as group Financial lead. Floydd joins Rank’s executive team from FTSE100 financial information/data provider Experian Plc, where he served as CFO for the UK …

Industry workplace diversity, inclusion and equality program ‘The All-in Diversity Project’ (All-in) has announced its latest strategic partnership with the Sports Trading Network (STN). STN is regarded as sports betting’s largest professional network of traders, offering sports modelling, data and insights for all global sports markets. Updating the market, STN and All-in have partnered to launch a new industry-wide Sports …