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LeoVegas launches home campaign against the black market

SBC News LeoVegas launches home campaign against the black market

LeoVegas AB has launched a Swedish public awareness campaign promoting safe play with licensed online gambling incumbents.  The Stockholm-listed online gambling group said it has chosen to launch the campaign to defend the industry against common misconceptions and falsehoods. LeoVegas wants to drive awareness of licensed online gambling incumbents, after independent reports highlighted that the Swedish government has failed in …

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Snack Media boosts global audience with GIVEMESPORT acquisition

SBC News Snack Media boosts global audience with GIVEMESPORT acquisition

Snack Media has strengthened its offering to advertisers, rights holders and independent media owners after acquiring GIVEMESPORT. The combined business will have an audience of over 210 million unique users across all platforms, and will offer coverage from football, Formula 1, tennis, golf, combat sports and esports. Niall Coen, CEO of Snack Media, commented: “We are delighted to have acquired …

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GVC doubles down on LeanConvert’s optimisation capacity

SBC News GVC doubles down on LeanConvert's optimisation capacity

GVC Holdings has confirmed that it will expand its existing relationship with customer conversion and campaign optimisation specialist LeanConvert. The FTSE250 online gambling group has worked with LeanConvert teams for the past two years, with the optimisation outfit becoming a key stakeholder in the firm’s strategic alignment of its marketing divisions, post-GVC 2018 acquisition of Ladbrokes Coral. LeanConvert will work …

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SBC Digital Summit: SEO trends and the importance of preparation

SBC News SBC Digital Summit: SEO trends and the importance of preparation

On the final day of SBC’s Digital Summit, a panel of Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) experts analysed why SEO is integral to driving new and existing customers on to a user webpage.  Lee Beirne, Ladbrokes Coral’s Head of SEO, highlighted the importance of following some of the latest trends which relate to the betting industry. Beirne explained: “What we have …

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Sportal365 to power efbet’s multi-market content strategy

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CMS platform provider Sportal365 has expanded its partnership with efbet, Bulgaria’s largest sportsbook and casino operator, to engage a wider set of sports audiences and increase player conversion through editorial content. Already deployed in Bulgaria, efbet CEO and founder Tzvetomir Naydenov confirmed that it is planning to use the Sportal365 platform as a lead generation tool in markets where there …

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Superbet boosts content muscle with Sportal365

SBC News Superbet boosts content muscle with Sportal365

Superbet, Romania’s leading bookmaker, has expanded its content capacity by entering a publishing partnership with Sportal365.  The agreement will see Superbet integrate Sportal365’s publishing platform across its key market domains of Romania and Poland, developing deeper sports led content for its customers. In its statement, Superbet detailed that it seeks to ‘power-up’ its content capabilities by utilising Sportal365 publishing platform, …

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SBC Digital Summit: Esports betting can complement traditional sports – Parimatch

SBC News SBC Digital Summit: Esports betting can complement traditional sports - Parimatch

The esports betting industry has risen to prominence amid the COVID-19 outbreak. However, Parimatch CEO Sergey Portnov has said that for the sector’s long-term potential growth it should look to complement traditional sports, not compete against it.  Speaking at SBC’s Digital Summit, Portnov stated: “I don’t think esports can carry success on its own. Esports is strong, I agree, and …

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CAP sanctions esports marketing review in response to GambleAware concerns

SBC News CAP sanctions esports marketing review in response to GambleAware concerns

The Committee of Advertising Practice (CAP) has started research assessing the dynamics attached to betting-related esports marketing across UK advertising channels. Updating industry and esports stakeholders, CAP explained that its research is being undertaken in response to safer gambling charity GambleAware’s recent publication on esports betting advertising being promoted through social media verticals. The standards agency explained that ‘comprehensive work’ …

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Betclic launches first interactive show keeping Portugal busy

SBC News Betclic launches first interactive show keeping Portugal busy

Betclic has launched its first interactive live streaming event ‘Betclic Game Changer’, seeking to maintain and further expand its Portuguese market profile during lockdown. The bookmaker’s interactive series has been co-developed by Lisbon-based ‘live engagement’ agency New Collective, organisers of Portugal’s popular ‘Revenge of 90s’ youth culture events. The interactive series will debut this weekend, live-streamed across Betclic Portugal’s social …

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Regulatory headwinds contribute to XLMedia 2019 losses

SBC News Regulatory headwinds contribute to XLMedia 2019 losses

Affiliate marketing publisher XLMedia has reported that 2019 was a year of ‘limited financial progress’ for the group as it sought to ‘mitigate a number of operationally frustrating scenarios and global sector headwinds’. Publishing its results for the year ended 31 December 2019, XLMedia reported a full-year loss after it wrote down the value of its assets, reporting revenues of …

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