Casino Cabbie: Letter From America 21
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(Don’t) Make Mine A Mafia With Illicit Toppings
On perfect cue; following an authoritative report stating that some three-quarters of online GGR In New York State is generated by nefarious…
Balancing Fun and Safety, Svenska Spel Hits A Top Note With iGamers
For many years Svenska Spel was Sweden’s only gambling company. As a state-owned enterprise, it held a monopoly on the market from its formation in 1997 until 2019, when the latest Gambling Act was enacted, re-regulating and creating the competitive landscape as we know it today, writes Lauren Harrison….
ESPN BET Ripped By Back Investor Revolt At Parent PENN Entertainment
There’s a shoot-out at the U.S. fantasy sports factory today as ESPN BET, putative rival of FanDuel and DraftKings, is ripped by…
Assessing The Social Casino Opportunity, With Silverback Gaming
The online US gambling market has often been hailed as the “gold rush 2.0.” But with 360 iGaming still only legal in…
Bad Company: Illegal Online Gambling Marches On In USA
Even after the 2018 repeal of the contentious Federal PASPA ban, which signalled the start of legal online sports betting; the Bad…
Sportsbook Success in Europe: How to Gain a Competitive Advantage
The online sports betting market in Europe is fiercely competitive, but it’s also brimming with growth opportunities for savvy operators. If you’re…
New York, New York It’s A Wonderful Town, Flutter Forges New American Identity
Last day of the month, first day of a new era, Flutter Entertainment has accelerated its transition to a U.S.-centric Omnichannel by…
The Future of Player Retention
As the iGaming sector continues to flourish, competition online is at an all-time high. Due to this, many operators are now being…
What’s In A Name? 888 Holdings Seeking To Evoke Past Glories
What’s in a name? Not very much, when this rhetorical question was first posed some 400-years-ago. But today, far changed, when image…
Trading Success in LatAm: The Art of Margin Management
Latin America’s online sports betting vertical is heating up, with competition reaching unprecedented levels. As the market evolves, operators must fine-tune their…
Beyond A One-Size-Fits-All Strategy, With Soft2Bet
Soft2Bet is a B2C and B2B iGaming and Sportsbook provider that, according to its Chief Product Officer, Yoel Zuckerberg, has the perfect…
DraftKings Hits The US$750m Jackpocket
Fantasy sports and iGaming royalty DraftKings has hit the jackpot by completing its US$750 million (£589.21m) acquisition of leading US lottery app,…
Forget the Youth and Follow the Money: Marco Trucco of Videoslots
In the fiercely competitive online casino industry, operators are constantly under pressure to set themselves apart, break new ground, and introduce innovative…
Engaging the Esports Audience: GG.BET’s Comprehensive Approach
The global esports betting market is currently valued at US$12.8 billion (£10.8 billion). The industry serves over 500 million bettors annually, and…
SPECIAL REPORT: Gambling’s Odds In India
India has 10,000 Gods. And each one, they say, has 400 avatars. Thus imagine the betting permutations in this amazing world, both…
Casino Cabbie: Letter From America 20
Welcome to our latest Casino Cabbie’s Letter From America, this week featuring a rich cornucopia of news: from record-breaking New York State,…
Slots In The Arm, Ailing Retail Vertical Given Major Debit Card Booster
The retail Slots sector, under growing pressure from its digital avatars, has been given a massive boost by a UK government proposal…
IGT Delivers Steady-as-she-goes Q1
Leading back-end iGaming supplier IGT, International Game Technology, has released its financial results for the first quarter ending March 31, 2024. IGT’s…
Episode 20 with Ian Perrygrove, Chief Risk Officer at kwiff
For the latest installment of our Back to the Future podcast, we had the pleasure of catching up with Ian Perrygrove, Chief…
Playing With Fire, Flutter Gets Burned By Fox Option In Q1
Like his “Lord of The Rings” movie director namesake, Flutter CEO Peter Jackson has built quite an entertainment franchise; but also, like…
Play’n GO turn Wilde with Insane New Game Format
Later this month, on May 30, Play’n GO will be releasing an exciting new game: Rich Wilde and the Tome of Insanity….
Pontus Lindwall Exclusive: Betsson’s Wings Over The Americas
Bouyed by perhaps the best financial quarter in its storied gambling history, Betsson’s long-standing CEO, iGaming legend Pontus Lindwall, graciously offered our…
Brazil and Beyond with Ivan Montik of SOFTSWISS
Ivan Montik, Founder and CEO of SOFTSWISS, is a serial entrepreneur on a seemingly unstoppable winning streak. In the last 15-years, he’s…
‘Get On Yer Bike’…And Follow The Leader, Betsson’s Pontus Lindwall
Arguably there’s only one place that Pontus Lindwall would rather be than in the hotseat at surging Swedish-origin gambling company Betsson and…
Loss Is More For Hard-charging US Sportsbook DraftKings in Q1
Despite ending the quarter with a nominal net loss of US$142.6 million (£114.04m), hard-charging US sportsbook DraftKings has delivered a spectacular Q1…
Episode 19 with Pierre Lindh, Co-founder & Managing Director of NEXT.io
It’s our greatest pleasure to present the latest episode of the Back to The Future Podcast. For this installment we’ve drafted in…
Sportingtech at BiS: Harnessing the Power of Brazil
The iGF team were out in force at the recent edition of BiS, the milestone LatAm event, held in Brazil’s biggest city…
It’s The BiSness: Understanding The Future of Brazil With GR8 Tech
iGF’s top management team were among the set of core visitors at BiS, Brazil’s essential iGaming Summit, held in the South American…
The Language of Truth: Uplatform’s Multi-Dimensional Approach to Localisation
Localisation is crucial when launching gambling products in new jurisdictions, writes Lauren Harrison. But how many operators do the required work to…
Savouring Entain At Bay, MGM’s Hornbuckle Posts Ominous Q1
As Big Bill Hornbuckle, CEO and President of MGM Resorts International, looks out of his penthouse office suite at 3600 Las Vegas…
Future of iGaming: Isabelle Zanzer’s Responsible Gambling Cri de Coeur
Legal eagle and iGaming guru Isabelle Zanzer, former Head of Regulation and Compliance at Omnichannel Entain, has launched an impassioned plea for…
Beyond The Boundary: The Future of Indian Sportsbook With GR8 Tech
With a conservatively-projected market volume of some US$2.7 billion by 2029 and, currently, a user penetration of just one percent, the possibilities…
Women in iGaming — Giant Steps: Diversity, Equality, Leadership, Motherhood
Welcome to the first of an occasional series focussing on the role of women leaders in the iGaming industry. This week in…
Betsson Hits All-time High in Q1
Nordic home markets and volatile Argentina aside, Swedish origin Omnichannel Betsson hit an all-time high in Q1, ending March 31. “[Our] first…
The Future of Compliance in iGaming
It’s a fact, more people are enjoying online gaming responsibly than ever before. But despite its growing popularity across the globe, problem…
Itai Zak: Digicode’s Man with the Midas Touch
Digicode has a new Executive Director of iGaming, and he’s on a mission to generate profit and increase market growth. Welcome, Itai…
Put The Champagne On Ice But Don’t Pour As Kindred Group Release Q1
In what’s promising to be a transformational year, Swedish-origin Kindred Group–currently the target of a €2.5 billion (£2.14bn/US$2.68bn) takeover bid by French…
Play’n GO: Secrets of Success by Creating Winning Strategies In Regulated Markets
Ever since it was founded in Sweden in 2005, Play’n GO has been at the heart of regulated gaming and become a…
Episode 18 with Alessandro Valente, Founder and CEO of the Brazillian iGaming Summit and Super Afiliados
Welcome to another exciting episode of the iGF Back to the Future podcast. In this latest instalment, we catch up with Alessandro…
A Tale Of Two Archipelagos: Philippines Says Hello To iGaming But Indonesia Says No No
It’s a tale of two archipelagos. The iGaming course of ASEAN neighbours The Philippines and Indonesia, the two biggest island nations in…
SPECIAL REPORT: Age-old Tropes of “Cowboys and Indians” Dominate California Online Sports Betting Gold Rush
Sometimes it’s difficult to believe we’re living in 2024; perhaps 1824 or even 1924 would be more apposite, given the nature of…
Bayes Esports Cracks Down on Match Data Scraping and Data Piracy
Continuing our unique and very Special Relationship with Berlin-based Bayes Esports, iGamingFuture is excited to unveil the latest phase of the company’s…
Episode 17 with Andre Gelfi, Managing Partner for Brazil Betsson Group
In this most recent episode of the Back to the Future Podcast, we are tapping in to our LatAm connection. iGamingFuture’s Head…
How to Unlock Brazilian iGaming Success with WA.Technology
Set to be one of the world’s largest hubs for online betting, Brazil has captured the attention of the international gaming community…
Entain Releases Q1 Trading Update: How Much Is That Doggie In The Window?
Almost on cue, as it’s circled by would-be investors and corporate raiders, under-fire UK Omnichannel Entain has released a Q1 Trading Update…
Game On: How Solitics Helps Operators Build Retention with New Gamification Widgets
Online sportsbook and casino operators go to great lengths to stand out from their rivals, but given the fiercely competitive nature of…
Tony Plaskow of Black Cow: Making Mooves In The Multiplayer Gaming Space
The idea of multiplayer games has been around for some time. But the technology required to produce them is very complex and…
Win Some, Lose Some, Record £650m Staked On Grand National World’s Greatest Horse Race
It took less than the proverbial blink of an eye for punters to lose an estimated £20 million (US$25m) in bets, as…
NY FY23: New York Hits It Out Of The Ballpark
In the highest-ever annual sports betting spend of any regulated US state, New York gamers have hit it out of the ballpark…
