This year’s Betting on Football Conference, being held on 21st April, has relocated to Stamford Bridge, the home of Premier League Champions Chelsea FC. Two years after #bofcon was launched at Stamford Bridge, the dedicated betting conference will now return to the football ground, setting up home in the Harris, Drake and Vialli suites. The one day conference was originally planned …
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Thanks to the new Virtuals Connect platform SBTech will become the first to offer Inspired’s range of Virtual Sports to third party operators. Virtuals Connect is a turnkey solution designed by Inspired to allow simple integration into all betting systems. This deal will see SBTech license the use of Inspired’s Virtual Sports platform and provide it to its third party operators …
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Specialist supplier A Bet A has teamed up with Kiron Interactive to offer a new, low-cost virtual games service in the UK and Ireland. The service, called Betty VC, allows bookmakers to integrate 10 virtual sports including horse racing, dogs, and football in-shop with customised branding. In addition to the fixed-odds betting markets, it also includes a progressive jackpot pool …
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Virtual sports provider Inspired has welcomed changes to betting legislation in Italy, which will extend the current limit of 500 virtual events per day to 2,000 across land-based and digital channels. Opening times have also been lengthened by an additional 2 hours, enabling operators to keep players entertained for longer. The Inspired software has supported the development of a €1 billion …
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European betting and gaming operator SKS365 Group has selected Global Bet to provide its Virtual Sports products to the portfolio of 1,000 planetwin365 betting shops throughout Italy. The expanding international bookmaker from Austria also plans to roll out the Virtual Sports games across its Italian website and mobile platforms later in the year. Daniel Grabher, CEO of Global Bet, stated: …
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Malta’s land-based industry is to feature virtual games for the first time following a deal between Kiron Interactive and its biggest operator, Gaming Operations Limited. A selection of Kiron’s most popular sports will be rolled out in 30 IZIBET retail betting outlets around the island, as well as the world famous Dragonara Casino in St Julians. The games will be made …
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Daniel Graetzer of Mediatech Solutions takes a look at what omni-channel actually means for the gambling industry, and where it can make the most impact. While omni-channel is definitely one of the biggest buzzwords in today’s gaming world, don’t let it distract you from the opportunities it presents. 2015 brought us a constant stream of stories in the M&A columns …
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London Baby 2016 is set to be the social evening highlight of ICE week once again, with the event returning to Leicester Square’s glamorous Cafe de Paris. Golden Race, cross platform gaming provider and betting solutions provider, is one of this year’s sponsors and will be at ICE on Stand S2 340. SBC spoke to Jimmy Bone, Marketing and Client …
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Golden Race will premiere its Virtual Sports betting product Real Fighting with a live exhibition at ICE 2016. This MMA-based, real video action fighting game features 16 professional fighters in intense five round fights, staged across 3 fantasy themed fighting arenas. Nothing else combines real action from expert fighters with real odds from expert bookmakers – Golden Race expects to lead the way with this exciting …
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Rasmus Sojmark is the CEO of Oddslife, a fast growing social sports and gaming network operated in partnership with leading sports media brands around the world. Clients of Oddslife include media brands such as Marca.com in Spain, Gazzetta.gr in Greece, LiveSport.cz in Czech Republic, Bold.dk in Denmark, Sportal.bg in Bulgaria and Football.ua in Ukraine. Formerly of BetBrain and EveryMatrix, Rasmus …
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