For this month’s Better Collective Spotlight, we take a look at the weather. Yes, you read that right. The weather is one of the ‘nerdy’ aspects of the sports analysis on RotoGrinders.com, which helps its community to identify the right fantasy sports picks and place winning sports bets. RotoGrinders.com is known for presenting a wealth of information to both die-hard and …
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Gilbert Wong, AGTech: Expanding lottery business in China and beyond
In supplying 200 games to over 45 million users so far in 2020, Paytm First Games has become a leading gaming destination in India, headlined by games dedicated to Fantasy cricket, Rummy and Trivia. Paytm First Games is a joint venture (JV) in India between One97 Communications, which offers services including payments to mobile consumers under the Paytm brand, and …
Read More »New sales managers explore African opportunities for NSoft
Patrick Alike and Aluwani Mukhudwana are two of the new dedicated sales managers exploring new opportunities for NSoft in the African market. Both South African Republic (SAR) based Alike and Mukhudwana, who is working out of Nigeria, were added to the company’s team in 2019. “The African emerging market has been in NSoft’s focus for quite some time,” confirmed Ivan …
Read More »Neel Davda, Bold360: Delivering the “best of bots” to boost human support
Bold360 delivers an artificial intelligence (AI) based digital engagement solution designed to marry the “best of bots” with a company’s existing human support agents. We spoke to Bold360’s Head of Gaming Accounts Neel Davda about bringing “fast time to value” for customer service, how a propensity for messaging amongst the younger generation is a help to the gaming operators adopting …
Read More »Golden Race targets new reign in Spain after online certification
Virtual sports and betting solutions provider Golden Race has received the certification to supply its online virtual games in Spain. The company’s online platform includes the successful product Virtual Football League – the most played virtual football in the world. “We are very happy to start offering our engaging virtual games to the Spanish market,” said Javier Cicciomessere, Golden Race Sales Director …
Read More »Oddschecker: Cheltenham data to dispel ante post perception?
The Cheltenham Festival 2020 has attracted almost 40% more ante-post punting in comparison to last year’s event, according to numbers released by Oddschecker. The figures showed an increase of 39.6% in the total staked from 2019 to 2020 across the same period of 1 January to 18 February. Similarly, the number of ante-post bets went up by 9.7%. This represents …
Read More »Keeping it real: Golden Race takes basketball game online
Golden Race CEO Martin Wachter said that 3×3 Basketball can become the “big game for 2020” after it was launched for the online market at this month’s ICE London. Formerly intended solely for the retail market, 3×3 Basketball was the first virtual to come with a cashout function when it was launched in December 2018. However, as Wachter told SBC …
Read More »Better Collective defies low sports win margins to post record Q4 revenues
Stockholm-listed Better Collective A/S has posted Q4 revenues of €19.6 million, up 61% from the €12.1 million in the corresponding period of 2018. The igaming affiliate’s record revenue performance was helped by in excess of 118,000 new depositing customers (NDC’s) during the period (55% growth, most of which was organic). EBITA before special items increased by 32% from €5.4 million to …
Read More »The end of the one-stop solution for sports betting?
The preference for a ‘one stop shop’ solution amongst operators is a thing of the past says Altenar COO Dinos Stranomitis, who added that it is now modern practice for B2C betting and gaming businesses to choose specific elements from different B2B providers. Speaking to SBC News at ICE London, he said that Altenar will continue to specialise in providing …
Read More »WATCH: Scientific Games delivers sports betting aggregation first with OpenMarket
Scientific Games is now ready to deliver “rapid innovation” to its customers through OpenMarket, a first aggregation platform for sports betting “anywhere on the planet”. Launched at this month’s ICE London (see video above), OpenMarket has become the sixth component of the OpenSports sportsbook solution for the online arm of Scientific Games. Keith O’Loughlin, SVP for Sportsbook, Digital for Scientific …
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