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Genius Sports beats FY2023 targets as 2024 focus turns to profitability

SBC News Genius Sports beats FY2023 targets as 2024 focus turns to profitability

Genius Sports Inc celebrates its eighth consecutive quarter of growth, as its yearly revenue and earnings results surpass market expectations. In its full-year 2023 report released today, Genius Sports announces corporate revenues of $412m, marking a 21% increase from FY2022’s comparative results of $341m. The growth in headline revenues exceeds the NYSE betting technology, media, and data group’s expected revenue …

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Tim Kennedy, SUZOHAPP: Transatlantic success and what to expect in 2024

SBC News Tim Kennedy, SUZOHAPP: Transatlantic success and what to expect in 2024

Tim Kennedy, SUZOHAPP’s VP of Sales Europe, reflects on the company’s 2023 performance and the gaming sector as a whole, whilst shedding some light on its ambitions for the coming months. Last year saw more roll-outs in the US and Canadian betting markets, with notable industry names such as Fanatics. Meanwhile, SUZOHAPP also entered the lottery markets – introducing a …

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Hank Couture joins Fanatics’ betting division as COO

Hank Couture joins Fanatics’ betting division as COO

International sports entertainment and apparel company Fanatics has made a major hire in its betting and gaming division, appointing Hank Couture as Chief Operating Officer (COO). Couture will report directly to Fanatics Betting and Gaming (FBG) CEO Matt King as part of the betting brand’s executive team, assisting with strategy development for a planned nationwide US launch in ‘mid-2023’. A …

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‘Major boost in North America’ as IBIA takes in Fanatics Betting and Gaming

SBC News ‘Major boost in North America’ as IBIA takes in Fanatics Betting and Gaming

The International Betting Integrity Association (IBIA) revealed that Fanatics Betting and Gaming is joining the group. The company – which is the online and retail sports betting division of the Fanatics digital sports platform – joins more than 45 companies and 125 sports betting brands in the IBIA. “IBIA is delighted to welcome a major globally recognised brand into our …

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Fanatics appoints new CFO to strengthen oversight of betting ambitions

SBC News Fanatics appoints new CFO to strengthen oversight of betting ambitions

Digital sports platform Fanatics has named Andrea Ellis as Chief Financial Officer of Fanatics Betting and Gaming (FBG), its sports betting division. The international firm – which maintains headquarters in Jacksonville and New York City, US and Manchester, UK – made its ambitions in sports betting clear this year, filing a trademark for BetFanatics in March.  As CFO at FBG, …

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Scott Longley: 2021… Chasing up the Big Mo’

SBC News Scott Longley: 2021... Chasing up the Big Mo’

Providing further year-end perspectives, SBC has enlisted the help of Scott Longley of the Wagers.com Earnings+ More Substack to summarise the M&A, IPOs and boardroom shake-ups that have reformed gambling’s playing field make-up…  When the Earnings+More newsletter (as it was then) launched in April, it was partly as a response to the expansion of the US-listed betting and gaming sector …

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