Fanslide, an in-play fantasy football game, has decided to close its app on Sunday in a bid to encourage players to enjoy the EURO 2020 final between England and Italy. The company’s founder, Joe Cocozza, believes that closing the app will allow players to enjoy England’s first major tournament final for 55 years without any distractions. “We created Fanslide to …
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Betfred Limited has filed its 2020 corporate accounts (period reported up to 27 September), disclosing the impact of last year’s COVID-19 pandemic on its business units. The Done family-owned betting group saw its group wagers shrink from £10-to-£6.5 billion, a result of the enforced closure of its UK betting estates and further COVID-19 adjustments. Trading with an impaired retail unit, …
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Better Collective AS will host its new ‘Bookmaker Awards’ on September 28 in Amsterdam, recognising the best performing and most rewarding betting brands operating across five European markets. The revamped awards show will reward Europe’s best performing bookmakers, according to the customer feedback collected by Better Collective’s player communities of Betarades (Greece), Speltips.se (Sweden), SpilXperten (Denmark), Zagranie (Poland) and PariuriX …
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National Lottery operator Camelot Group has launched the ‘lottery’s largest-ever brand campaign’– a summer-long, fully integrated multi-channel push to remind players that they’re supporting Team GB and ParalympicsGB athletes in Tokyo every time they play a National Lottery game. Adverts for the campaign will run across TV, Radio, Digital and high-impact OOH, as well as on all owned National Lottery channels and in 44,000 National …
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Groupe FDJ has joined wider business organisations in supporting France’s Plug and Play ecommerce accelerator programme. As the operating firm of France’s National Lottery, maintained by its Française des Jeux unit– Groupe FDJ will provide its expert guidance on French retail and e-commerce disciplines to new start-ups. Recognised as one of global tech’s most successful investment platforms, Plug and Play’s …
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KKCG Group owner Karel Komarek is interested in launching an Initial Public Offering (IPO) of the Sazka Group gambling asset, with London touted as a potential listing location, According to Bloomberg. KKCG, the holding group behind Sazka, is allegedly working with advisers on an IPO of the international lottery operator, which could take place in the second half of 2021 …
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Stats Perform has secured a four-year extension of its long-term agreement with the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB). As part of the renewal, Stats Perform will exclusively collect and manage Opta data for all home England International cricket, LV= Insurance County Championship, Royal London One-Day Cup, Vitality T20 Blast, the Rachael Heyhoe-Flint Trophy and the Charlotte Edwards Cup, as …
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Boston-based private equity fund Advent International has been cited as a new suitor vying to purchase William Hill’s UK and European assets. As reported by The Times, Advent joins a raft of companies who have stated their interest in acquiring William Hill UK and European offcuts, made expendable by new owner Caesars Entertainment in its pursuit to become the US …
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Selecting a name which fully encompasses the content of a show can sometimes be tricky, however in this month’s Better Collective Spotlight, Martin Huber explained that the name Beidfüßig was a perfect reflection of what bettors can expect. Speaking to SBC News, Huber – who is the head of the DACH region at Better Collective – discusses the way in …
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In a recent interview with RTE’s Prime Time program, Stewart Kenny, one of the co-founders of international bookmaker Paddy Power, labelled gambling a ‘massive social problem’ due to increased mobilisation and regulatory shortcomings. Kenny helped establish Paddy Power in 1988, having been a long-time fan of gambling as a pastime since placing a bet on Richard Nixon’s resignation in 1974, …
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