Italy’s Agency of Customs and Monopolies (ADM) has caused uproar in the esports community by shutting down three ‘digital entertainment venues’ located in the North of Italy. The government agency that oversees gambling policies across Italy’s 20 regional provinces shut down the ‘three gaming halls’ that were deemed to have ‘lacked any form of authorisation, licence and concession’. The venues …
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Sports betting and igaming software solutions provider Delasport has published a new report this week detailing the current state of the German gambling market – a sector that is undergoing significant transformation. In recent months, the largest country in the European Union has taken significant strides to open the online gambling market to its population of more than 83 million. …
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Global esports, odds feeds, risk management and iframe solutions provider Oddin.gg has confirmed a new strategic collaboration this week with upcoming North American technology firm SB22. Under the terms of the partnership, SB22 will benefit from implementing Oddin.gg’s iframe solution, described by the latter as a “state-of-the-art product designed to enhance sportsbooks with truly engaging esports betting offerings”. SB22’s mission …
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Ben ‘Noxville’ Steenhuisen (pictured right), Senior Software Architect at Bayes Esports, looks at the overlaps between esports and ‘traditional’ sports before assessing some of the key challenges companies face when marketing the concept of competitive video gaming to new demographics of bettors. For a long time the variety of sports available for traditional sports betting was a mostly stagnant pool. …
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Esports data and odds provider PandaScore has published a comprehensive whitepaper this week that sets out to provide operators with everything they need to know about capturing betting’s greatest emerging market, esports. Titled “How to build a successful esports betting product”, the whitepaper walks operators through the critical components of esports betting, starting with the opportunity the vertical presents before …
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Esports data and odds provider, PandaScore, has formed a partnership with sports data supplier Sporting Solutions in a bid to boost both companies’ services. Sporting Solution will utilise PandaScore’s odds and data services through its connect platform which aims to build ease of integration for the customers of the firms. Flavien Guillocheau, CEO at PandaScore, commented: “Sporting Solutions is a …
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Entain Plc’s leadership duo of Group Chief Executive Jette Nygaard-Andersen and Deputy-CEO Rob Wood have outlined their shared objective to showcase the FTSE100 business’ innovation capabilities during 2022. Innovation and organic growth were marked as ‘capital allocation priorities’ by Andersen and Wood, hosting yesterday’s Entain leadership conference call with investors and market analysts. The start of 2022 saw Entain maintain …
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“This year, I wont say that things can’t get any crazier. Because the last time I did, it was at the end of 2020, and then we got 2021 served”. That was a statement made by Amir Mirzaee, Bayes Esports’ COO & Managing Director, as he set out plans to ‘go in hard’ to grow the business. Speaking to SBC …
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Oddin.gg has agreed to supply its esports betting solution to BetBoom after the Russian bookmaker laid out plans to capitalise on the “growing interest in esports in its home country”. The agreement marks Oddin.gg’s first partnership with an operator in Russia, with the solutions provider underlining its plans for further international expansion. “BetBoom is already one of the most successful …
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As the new year gets underway, Kateryna Tkachenko, Head of Marketing at Betinvest, explains why the company’s focus has shifted towards delivering betting content and how this strategic change will allow the company to welcome new challenges in a post-COVID era. For more than 20 years now, Betinvest Ltd. has been delivering industry-wide programming, up-to-date functionalities, efficient end-to-end software development, …
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