Sportsbook

US gambling operator Bally’s Corporation has acquired B2B free-to-play (F2P) games provider SportCaller in a bid to expand its international presence. Bally’s is hopeful that the acquisition of SportCaller will assist with international expansion plans, having strengthened its position in the US market via its takeovers of Bet.Works and Monkey Knife Fight as well as its partnership with Sinclair Broadcast …

UK football clubs have received a letter from a group of ‘50 former gambling addicts’, warning of the dangers of promoting betting websites through their social media channels. A total of 11 clubs across the Premier League, English Football League (EFL) and Scottish Premiership were subject to a letter which informed how addicts might feel ‘distressed’ to see links to …

Sportradar has launched a new Social Media Integrity Education Service offering athletes and sports stakeholders the tools to identify integrity risks from social media platforms. The Penny Del, Germany’s Ice Hockey League, is among the first organisations to sign up to the new service.  The programme will comprise a series of webinars and workshops, in addition to tutorials which will …

Asian operator Just Bet Online (JBO) has chosen former Premier League ace Dimitar Berbatov as the firm’s first ever brand ambassador whilst it undergoes a rebrand. JBO has continued to develop its offering for football fans around the world, implementing an expansion plan over the past 12 months to grow its global footprint into more emerging markets and empowering the …

Lord of the Pot (LOTP), an online sportsbook aimed at esports and sports fans, has been granted a B2C licence by the Isle of Man Gambling Supervision Commission. After receiving the necessary approval from the regulator, LOTP has now entered the ‘final stages of preparation’ to launch its offering.  Prior to launch, LOTP will integrate live fantasy and pari-mutuel games …

Kindred Group Plc has become the first industry incumbent to publish its share of corporate revenues ‘derived from harmful gambling’. The Stockholm-listed online gambling group will publish its new ‘transparency metric’ as part of its safer gambling mandate, in which the company seeks to achieve – ‘zero per cent of revenues from harmful gambling by 2023’. Updating its corporate stakeholders, …

Undertaking its review of the 2005 Gambling Act, the government has been presented with a further report underlining the potential financial consequences and societal risks of problem gambling and addiction on the UK public. The report, undertaken by the University of Oxford’s Department of Social Policy and Intervention, was developed to research ‘the association between gambling and financial social and …

GRAJ Legalnie, Poland’s sports betting trade association, has warned the government that the performance and tax earnings of licensed incumbents is being impacted by ‘grey zone operators’. Publishing its 2020 market report tracking the activities of Poland’s regulated sports betting incumbents, GRAJ has revealed that ‘grey zone activities account for several dozen percentage points from the licensed market’. The association …

Sports tech provider Stats Perform has expanded its presence in the German Bundesliga following an agreement with Bayer 04 Leverkusen. The partnership will see Bayer utilise the firm’s Edge Analysis match preparation tool, which applies unique AI models to unlock, dynamic, predictive and objective insights – powered by tracking and event data – to improve pre and post-match analysis. Several …

Kaizen Gaming has strengthened its board with the appointment of Julio Iglesias Hernando as Chief Commercial Officer. Hernando will bring considerable executive experience to the role, having held the position of Chief Marketing Officer for William Hill and Mr Green, where he was responsible for 12 international markets outside of the US and UK. In addition to his bookmaking and …