Exclusively for today’s Betting on Football Conference, Don Best‘s Todd Fuhrman interviews Jay Kornegay, VP of Race & Sports Operations at The LVH, about the role football plays in Las Vegas sportsbooks. Don Best Sports, with offices in Las Vegas, United States and Vancouver, Canada, is the leading provider of US sports information to the sports betting industry. Don Best …
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Ian Wright Managing Director of Rufus Retail Anthropolgy, is a designer with 30 years experience in creating retail commerce stores. Wright has helped redesign many retail bookmakers, with an emphasis on optimizing in-store experiences and improving customer sales. Wright discusses how retail operators can improve customer experience and how they should look to integrate new technologies within their in-store designs. …
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Rob Painter, Marketing Director of SkyBet and Iain Webb, Partnerships Manager of Fulham Football Club discuss Football Club betting sponsorships and marketing. The panel gives insight into brokering football sponsorship agreements with sports betting operators, their concerns on future restrictions of gambling advertisement and mistakes witnessed when negotiating partnerships with English Football Clubs. SBC Session Notes Painter opens the panel …
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David Clifton MD of CliftonDavies opens the Betting on Football (BOF) Conference by telling the BOF audience that change is imminent for UK operators, and that the legal and regulatory landscape for gambling operators will change drastically in the next months. Clifton states that legislation will be implemented by August 2014, currently the new amendments to the Gambling Bill are …
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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The Association of British Bookmakers (ABB) has warned that any changes to betting shop regulations to tackle problem gambling should be ‘based on facts, not scaremongering’. In response to the government’s new plans to impose greater restrictions on gaming machines, gambling advertising and LBO planning laws, the ABB has accused the government of failing to listen to the one million …
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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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Gambling firms who want to open up new betting shops on the high street may find they are stopped from doing so under new plans to give local authorities more control over the make-up of their high streets. Bookies who want to open new shops will have to submit a planning application and local councils will be able to refuse …
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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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