iGaming Leadership Roundtable Part 1: Is There a Digital Skills Shortage?
As the digital revolution continues to transform industries across a spectrum of markets, demand for talent in this sector is higher than…
Featured
Browse by month
- February 2026
- January 2026
- December 2025
- November 2025
- October 2025
- September 2025
- August 2025
- July 2025
- June 2025
- May 2025
- April 2025
- March 2025
- February 2025
- January 2025
- December 2024
- November 2024
- October 2024
- September 2024
- August 2024
- July 2024
- June 2024
- May 2024
- April 2024
- March 2024
- February 2024
- January 2024
- December 2023
- November 2023
- October 2023
- September 2023
- August 2023
- July 2023
- June 2023
- May 2023
- April 2023
- March 2023
- February 2023
- January 2023
- December 2022
- November 2022
- October 2022
- September 2022
- August 2022
- July 2022
- June 2022
- May 2022
- April 2022
- March 2022
- February 2022
- January 2022
- December 2021
- November 2021
- October 2021
- September 2021
- August 2021
- July 2021
- June 2021
- May 2021
- April 2021
- March 2021
- February 2021
- January 2021
- December 2020
- November 2020
- October 2020
- September 2020
- August 2020
- July 2020
- June 2020
Episode Five with Jesper Svensson, CEO at Betsson Operations
In the latest episode of our Back to the Future Podcast, we have an Exclusive Preview of iGaming Next New York City…
Anyone seen the Lesser-spotted White Paper Tiger?
As the big gaming hunters of the betting world roamed the exhibition floor at the recent ICE London 2022 in search of…
Affiliates in the States: Achieving the American Dream
It’s no surprise that affiliates pursuing international expansion will be looking toward the US as fertile ground to potentially build on. However,…
One Tough Hill to Climb, 888 Holdings Report Poor Q1
The trouble with walking to the top of a hill is having to walk all the way down again, once the elation…
All’s Well, That Starts Well, Entain Reports 30 Per Cent Kick in Q1
FTSE 100 gaming giant Entain is claiming a handsome start to the year, with a reported 31 per cent rise in Net…
Better Collective Acquires Esports Brand Futbin for up to £87 Million
Better Collective, a leading digital sports media group, continues to expand within esports by acquiring Futbin and related domains, constituting world-leading esports…
Esports Latency and Delay: What Operators NEED to know!
The issues associated with latency and delay in esports betting are almost impossible to avoid. However, there are ways of mitigating your…
iGF Shorts 6.0
The Truth Will Out. In a battle for survival, the truth’s not much good if no one believes it. That’s been a…
Sportsbook 2022: How to Stay Ahead of the Curve
As the Sportsbook sector continues to flourish and recover from the economic downturn of 2020, the industry is now looking ahead to…
UltraPlay at ICE: Driving Esports Growth in Real-Time
As we look ahead to the upcoming ICE event, one of the main attractions is sure to be the interactive esports arena….
Shahriar’s Law: Da Do Run Ron, Icons Banned from Promoting Gambling
In a move designed to have maximum impact on the eve of the world’s biggest sporting tournament, licensed gambling operators in the…
Omnichannel Gaming: Land-based Operators, don’t get left behind!
Catalysed by the impact of the Pandemic, land-based operators are steadily coming around to the idea of engaging their customer base online….
Mixed Fortunes in iGaming’s Race Across America
As the host of the world-famous Kentucky Derby horse race, a two-minute sprint that generates around US$150 million (£114.44m/€135.8m) in bets each…
XLMedia Goes Large in FY21
Just as its name implies; iGaming Affiliate XLMedia has had a super-sized FY2021, with net profit rocketing by an astonishing 610 per…
Lightning Strikes Twice, Usain Bolt Electrifies Esports
No one could accuse Usain Bolt, the world’s fastest man, of being a couch potato. The sprinting superstar, winner of eight Olympic…
All On Board Entain’s Equality Express
Following soon on the heels of appointing a female chief executive, Jette Nygaard-Andersen, Omni-channel Entain continues its ground-breaking bid to bring gender…
Road to iGaming NEXT New York: Why You Can’t Miss This FanDuel Session!
In a little over a month’s time, from May 12th – 13th, global industry leaders from the iGaming and Finance communities will…
Playtech FY/21: Steady as She Grows, But Who Will Marry Swooning Bride?
Jilted at the altar of acquisition by successive suitors, beating back the fiscal impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, and now with over…
Betsson Launches in Colorado
Earlier today, Betsson launched its mobile app sportsbook product under the Betsafe brand in the state of Colorado, in partnership with Dostal Alley…
Lost in Translation: On a Boom and a Roll, Esports Looks to Avoid a Bust for Cheating
By some credible accounts, esports will be worth around US$2 billion (£1.51bn/€1.81bn) this year alone — almost double its value in 2021….
Puck’s Off: Canucks, Kambi and Counting All Set for Ontario iGaming Launch
At two weeks and counting, the world’s top online gambling companies are jostling hard for prime position at the launch of Canada’s…
iGF Shorts 5.0
It’s all-in for Microsoft, Sony, Amazon, Meta, Apple–and now Netflix–as the digital lords of media, data and entertainment seek to integrate the secrets and lure of video gaming into their fast-approaching virtual reality metaverse….
Ukraine War Fall-out: Parimatch Kick Rumours of Chelski Split Into Touch
Parimatch, the Ukraine-origin iGaming heavy-hitter–who have been leading the gambling industry’s humanitarian response for its embattled homeland–has denied widespread media reports that…
Lindwall Retains Grip on Betsson: Unveils Magnificent Seven, Boosts Equality
Swedish iGaming giant Betsson AB will unveil a new look Board at its upcoming AGM this May 10, one that underlines the…
Allwyn or All Lose, Ukraine-Russia Conflict Stalks UK Lottery
As it ponders its response to losing its 28-year grip on the UK National Lottery, Camelot may have to go back to…
Road to Casino Beats: Future of iGaming Advertising
SBC is set to deliver us, yet another, exciting live event. The next instalment comes in the shape of the Casino Beats…
Down Home Alabama has a Change Of Heart, Warms to Lottery, iGaming
Alabama, the holdout deep southern state once known as “The Heart of Dixie, is moving towards legal gambling, sports betting and a…
Can 888.com Square The Magic Circle?
With the Covid-19 pandemic still bubbling away, Russia’s brutal invasion of Ukraine fast unravelling and unprecedented economic headwinds storming towards us, few…
Malta’s Road to Redemption: Turns Screw on Russia, Dirty Money
Following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine–and the retaliatory wave of international economic sanctions against president Putin and his cronies–Malta has double-downed on its…
iGaming Growth: Could an Isle of Man License be your USP?
As new jurisdictions continue to open up and regulate around the globe, operators are keen to take full advantage of the growth…
Closing Sports Book, Less is More at Mansion Group
With Bristol City scraping the lower reaches of the Championship, the second tier of English football, it’s perhaps not surprising that their…
Africa and the French-Speaking Market Opportunity
Christophe Casanova, Chief Operating Officer at Honore Gaming, says that French-speaking African markets have their challenges but offer tremendous potential for operators…
Bet365’s Denise Coates, Always a Good Place to Hang a Story
It’s that special time of year, as the financial results of Britain’s top gambling companies come tumbling forth; the face of Bet365…
Punters Delight, Entain Posts Top FY21
Powered by the strength-to-strength performance of its BetMGM sports betting and iGaming joint venture in the USA, and a retail bounce-back to…
In a Whole New World of Light and Wonder, Scientific Games Rebrands, Returns to Profit
As it decides to shed its lottery and sports betting verticals and rebrand as Light & Wonder, Scientific Games (SG) returned to…
Gaming Industry Joins Together to Raise Funds for Ukrainian Refugees
Organisations within the gaming industry have been working together to launch a major fundraising push to help people displaced by the current…
Together Stronger: Better Collective Posts Record €177m FY21
Powered by a flurry of acquisitions and a big push in American action, super Affiliate Better Collective has reported a near doubling…
In-Play Sports Betting: How to Raise Your Game in 2022?
The rise of in-play betting and micro-markets, to many, seems a natural outcome when coupled with the meteoric rise of mobile gaming…
Sports Book Marketing 2022: The Art of Scaling Up
As the industry steps further forward into the post Pandemic era, opportunities for growth remain abundant. However, scaling up comes with its…
iGaming’s Road to World Cup 2022: How to Leverage Peak Traffic Periods
Regardless of the long-standing popularity of land-based gaming, it’s almost impossible for operators to ignore the importance of developing online channels and providing an omnichannel experience for their customers….
iGF Shorts 4.0
He Who Laughs Last Laughs Longest When leader of the UK Liberal Democrat Party, and Deputy Prime Minister in the coalition government…
iGaming 2022: A Rare Insight into the Future of Live Casino
Live Casino is widely considered to be one of the biggest sector success stories to come out of the Pandemic. Limitations placed…
Legendary Trainer Baffert Guilty of Doping, Medina Spirit Stripped of Derby Victory
Medina Spirit has been posthumously stripped of his Kentucky Derby crown—and his Hall of Fame Trainer Bob Baffert fined and banned—after a…
World’s Biggest Gaming Companies Collaborate on Ground-Breaking Women’s Day Project
Flutter, Kindred and DraftKings are among the giants of the global betting and gaming industry that are working together on a major campaign for International Women’s Day…
California Bettin’ on iGaming Gold Rush
With the spectacular success of recently launched online sports betting in New York, all eyes are now turned to California, the Golden…
Safer Gambling Weekly Round-up by Dam Mad Media
NHS As reported in this newsletter a few weeks ago, it has been confirmed that the NHS will cut all funding from…
Playtech Concert Party Plays a Merry Tune
Mor Weizer, the embattled Chief Executive of Playtech—the iGaming company, who are in the midst of a take-over duel of operatic proportions–was…
iGaming 2022: How to Bridge the Gap Between Sportsbook and Native Esports
There’s no doubt that the destiny of esports lies firmly in the hands of the gaming publishers and tournament organisers. As the…
Cleaning House or Cutting Off One’s Nose to Spite One’s Face: NHS Rejects Gaming Sector Funding
In a controversial move that could be likened to cleaning house—or cutting of its nose to spite its face—the NHS has confirmed that…
