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Genius Sports has launched its latest suite of free-to-play (F2P) games that will cater to operators’ customer acquisition and loyalty needs.  The games will provide operators with access to light-touch activations for daily retention and weekend predictor tools, together with services that deliver bespoke gamification strategy design and custom game development capabilities – leveraging Genius’s lengthy experience in partnering with …

Tabcorp Holdings has informed markets that Adam Rytenskild has resigned with immediate effect as CEO of the ASX-listed wagering and racing media group. Investors were informed this morning of the immediate departure of Rytenskild who faces “allegations of using ‘inappropriate and offensive’ language in the workplace.” Tabcorp said its board considered the language used by the CEO to be inconsistent …

Bulgaria’s capital Sofia became the host of an important international panel on match-fixing prevention and sport integrity safeguarding, part of the IntegriSport 3.0 project.  The Bulgarian Ministry of Youth and Sports, in collaboration with the CSCF Foundation for Sport Integrity, welcomed representatives from the country’s government, law enforcement, as well as a number of sport federations and player unions to …

The UK Gambling Commission (UKGC) has reminded stakeholders that the consultation on proposed changes to the Licence Conditions and Codes of Practice (LCCP) duties and enforcement policies will close on Friday, 15 March 2024. The UKGC launched the consultation on 15 December 2023, seeking feedback on the transparency of financial penalties and the financial key reporting duties outlined in the …

Superbet has announced a partnership with GamePLAI – a supplier of automated trading products for sportsbooks. The deal sees the modelling specialist provide the Bucharest-headquartered operator with all of its player-props markets for basketball and football, both pre-game and in-play. This aims to meet ‘surging European appetite’ across these sports from the NBA to local domestic action. Ivan Gojic, Head …

The twentieth edition of the Symposium on Gambling held at the University of Hohenheim in Germany presented a look into the gambling regulator Glücksspielbehörde’s (GGL) current and future gambling research practices.  Attending the meeting was GGL Board Member Ronald Benter, who spoke about the importance of well-rounded research into the gambling sector at a time when the State Treaty on …

DGOJ, the Gambling Directorate of Spain, continues to strengthen the sports integrity provisions of the ‘SIGMA programme’ against match-fixing and sports manipulations. As announced this week, the DGOJ has launched a ‘notification portal on sports manipulations’ co-developed with SIGMA partner CONFAD – Spain’s network of pro-sports stakeholders combatting match-fixing and criminality in sports. The notification portal will serve as a …

Checkd Group has announced a new digital PR team to boost its organic search performance across its key sites in the UK and the US.  Firstly, the technology-led sports betting specialist has named James Dixon as the Head of Digital PR of Checkd Media – the company’s content and marketing arm.  Dixon said on his appointment: “This is a key …

Data management and business intelligence have been determined as the vital disciplines for all gambling-related businesses to maximise margins and reduce costs needed to compete in a cutthroat market. Yet, despite AI innovations, gambling’s value-chain has become more convoluted in its data frameworks and processes. Hence incumbents require an intelligent approach beyond data collection, to benefit from a data-driven culture …

The UK’s Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has issued its response to two recent cases of gambling advertising and their potential appeal to under-18s. LeoVegas’ BetUK The first ad was produced by the LeoVegas brand, BetUK, and was heard on the radio in September last year. In it, former English football player of Nigerian descent Adebayo Akinfenwa in his role as …