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GAMSTOP has expressed full commitment to supporting the shifting UK gambling landscape in the wake of a successful 2024. The gambling self-exclusion scheme reported a 75% success rate with users who have stopped gambling online after registering with the service between April and June 2024. This was backed by an independent evaluation from Ipsos.  Within the same evaluation, “almost half” …

GamStop has raised concerns about the increasing rate of problem gambling and addiction among British students. The warning follows the publication of the Fourth Annual Student Gambling Survey, co-commissioned by GamStop and its partner, YGAM. Conducted by Censuswide, the survey is the most comprehensive of its kind, involving 2,000 students from universities across 17 UK cities, with 49% reporting they …

GAMSTOP has alerted its partners of a “surge in self-exclusion of under-25s”, identifying this demographic as carrying the most significant risk of developing problem gambling harms. The steward of the UK’s national self-exclusion scheme for online gambling, GAMSTOP, has reported a 31% year-on-year increase in under-25s registering with the service during the second half of 2024. Of concern, GAMSTOP notes …

GAMSTOP has announced that a record number of people signed up to the national self-exclusion scheme at the start of 2025. In the biggest daily figures since its inception in 2018, the company saw 415 people signing up on 1 January, followed by 413 new registrants on 2 January and 396 on 6 January – the 3 highest daily registration …

GAMSTOP has reached the milestone of recording more than 500,000 registrations for its self-exclusion scheme for online gambling. This morning, GAMSTOP, which operates the national self-exclusion scheme across all UK-licensed online gambling operators, stated that “half a million vulnerable consumers have registered with GAMSTOP since 2018.” The milestone follows a record-breaking April, which saw GAMSTOP register 8,686 users, marking its …

GamStop has recorded a period of record engagement with its national self-exclusion scheme for online gambling during the first half of 2024. The non-profit organisation reports that more than 49,000 people have self-excluded from online gambling sites in 2024 so far. In April, GamStop recorded its highest-ever month for self-exclusion registrations since its inception in April 2018, with 8,686 new …

There has been an increase in people self-excluding from online gambling, a report by GAMSTOP has shown.  The national self-exclusion scheme revealed that new registrations between 2022 and 2023 have grown by 9.5% year-on-year.  In fact, 2023 was a record year for self-exclusions, with more than 92,000 vulnerable consumers registering with GAMSTOP. May in that year also proved to be …

GAMSTOP has reported a 12% year-on-year increase in sign-ups to its self-exclusion service, publishing its figures for the first half of 2023. The UK organisation revealed that around 48,000 consumers registered in the first six months of the year, barring themselves from all licensed online gambling sites.  In March, GAMSTOP recorded its biggest month so far for sign-ups and a …

A feeling of optimism, calls for more work to be done and a sense of relief – the reaction to the Gambling Act review White Paper from the UK’s research, education and treatment (RET) community has been eclectic to say the least. Issuing statements to the regulatory proposals, three of the UK’s most prominent RET organisations outlined viewpoints on what …

UK national online self-exclusion registry GAMSTOP has published its figures for March, revealing a record number of sign-ups for a single month. The service reported 8,504 registrations for March 2023, not only marking its ‘highest-ever’ monthly figure but also a year-on-year increase of 24% on 2022. GAMSTOP has earmarked the March betting activity generated by the Cheltenham Festival as a …