Dizplai has announced its 100% acquisition of social gaming platform, PickGuru. The purchase sees the launch of a new division, Dizplai Gaming, which will expand the firm’s end-to-end offering and drive greater experiences for fans across both first and second screens. Ed Abis, CEO Dizplai, stated: “We fundamentally believe that when audiences are compelled, through a gamified approach, to interact, …
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With global betting and gaming markets becoming increasingly competitive, igaming operators are finding that they have to go above and beyond the traditional advertising strategies in the hope of attracting bettors to their website. With the competition hotting up, we’ve seen more creative player engagement campaigns emerge, but alongside that, there has been an exponential rise in the costs of …
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LSports has significantly strengthened its data collection capabilities by acquiring Poland-based sports data company STATSCORE. By adding STATSCORE to its portfolio, LSports has set out plans to create “unique and personalised content” for its partners. This, LSports explained, will also offer a wider range of granular play-by-play data, as well as aggregated player and team stats. Dotan Lazar (pictured, above), …
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US casino giant MGM Resorts is attempting to acquire the Entain Group, the new name for the recently rebranded GVC Holdings, according to the Wall Street Journal. Entain operates several global gaming brands, including Ladbrokes, Coral, Bwin, PartyPoker , SportingBet, Gala Bingo, Eurobet and Betboo, but is already a partner with MGM in the burgeoning US sports betting and gaming …
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Evolution’s acquisition of NetEnt has been given the green light from the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) almost two months after an investigation was launched to analyse if the transaction would lessen the competition in the region’s igaming market. Launching its investigation in September, the competition watchdog announced that it would be launching an inquiry in response to merger …
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William Hill has laid out some of the rationale behind its £245m offer to acquire online casino group MRG, the parent company of Mr Green in its offer document to shareholders. The company believes that the acquisition will give William Hill access to an international hub in the shape of Malta from which to drive international growth together with deeper …
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Henrik Tjärnström, CEO of Kindred Group, has said that his firm’s £175.6m acquisition of 32Red is consistent with the firm’s ‘multi-brand strategy and stated desire to grow our business in regulated and soon to be regulated markets’. 32Red will now join Kindred’s stable of brands which includes Unibet, Stan James, Maria Casino and Bingo.com. Commenting on the deal, announced this morning, …
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A Betting on Sports conference speaker (15-16 September), Pinnacle Marketing Director Harry Lang details to SBCNews the changing dynamics of marketing leadership amid new industry values focusing on data, knowledge-sharing and intelligence. Lang tells SBCNews, that the future industry marketing winners will ultimately test industry legacy values in what is now a more accountable marketplace… __________________________ SBC: Harry, great to catch …
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Consolidation in the gaming industry has spread into the events and media arena with Clarion Events in advanced talks to acquire iGaming Business from Electric Word Plc. Clarion has agreed to purchase Electric Word’s 70% share of the business and will also buy a further 5.1% from founder Michael Caselli, who will retain the remainder of the shares, in a …
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OpenBet, leading software provider to the sports betting and gaming industry, has significantly expanded its global presence through the acquisition of its previously outsourced Greek operation from Athens Technology Center S.A (ATC). The acquisition initially increases headcount at OpenBet by 25%, with the additional employees focused on development. It will allow the business to continue to improve its ability to …
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