Asian-focused live fantasy sports operator Ballr, has confirmed that it has reached a commercial agreement with Italian Serie A champions Juventus FC, becoming the Turin football club’s official ‘Regional Games Partner for Asia’. The regional marketing deal, will see the Ballr brand promoted throughout Juventus’ Asian assets and initiatives, including the ‘Bianconeri’ future tours of Vietnam, Indonesia, Singapore, Thailand …
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BetStars launches $1 million fantasy sports promotion
The BetStars Sports Jackpot is the latest by way of promotion from BetStars and it’s putting $1 million (£815,000) into it. Following the ‘Spin & Bet’ feature last year, it’s the latest attempt at trying something different from Amaya, the company behind BetStars, and this time it focuses on fantasy sports. The new game is described as: “A reimagined sports …
Read More »PMU expands PSG partnership into esports
PMU and PSG have enjoyed a partnership which has now spanned over six years. The latest news is that it is to be extended into the Parisian club’s new esports arm. PMU is one of the most established French betting companies and it recently launched its esports brand, PMU eSport. The aim of this is to be involved with the statistics …
Read More »UltraPlay signs deals with Betinvest and Golden Race
Esports betting supplier UltraPlay has announced that it has signed deals with both Betinvest and Golden Race. UltraPlay CEO Dariy Margaritov commented: “With the company’s core ambition to offer a wide variety of winning products to its customers, UltraPlay has successfully started another fruitful partnership with two of the best sports product providers Betinvest and Golden Race.” Betinvest’s VP of Business …
Read More »Scout DFS announces major governance appointments in Blom & Ternström
New industry daily fantasy sports software supplier Scout Gaming Group (Scout) has announced the executive appointments of Rolf Blom as Chairman of the Board and Andreas Ternström as company Chief Executive. Seeking significant growth in the coming months, Scout has recruited former NetEnt Chairman and serial igaming/betting industry investor Rolf Blom as its first Chairman of the Board. Blom commented …
Read More »Sportito launches Under-21 Fan’s Favourite award
Daily fantasy sports operator Sportito has launched a monthly Under-21 Fan’s Favourite award for the qualifying Premier League player who has garners the most mentions on social media within the past month. The award highlights the young players that have excited the fans of each club the most within the period with the winner decided by the most total mentions …
Read More »Paf to launch DFS product with Scout Gaming Group
Updating the market Finnish state-owned gambling operator Paf is set to launch a Daily Fantasy Sports (DFS) product powered by Malta-based Scout Gaming Group (Scout Gaming). The Åland Islands licensed operator will move to incorporate the Scout Gaming DFS platform within its online betting services, boosting its current product inventory which includes; online casino, poker and bingo. The Scout Gaming …
Read More »Pinnacle has taken its 5 millionth esports wager
Esports betting has come a long way in the past year and Pinnacle announced today that it has now taken five million bets on esports markets. The first esports wager was taken by the bookmaker back in 2010 and it was only last year that it hit the three millionth wager mark. Two million bets in less than six months demonstrates …
Read More »RTSmunity and Sporting Solutions partner for new esports in-play service
Sporting Solutions has today announced a partnership with esports supplier RTSmunity to provide an in-play service for sportsbooks. The terms of the agreement means Sporting Solutions’ partners will be able to access RTSmunity’s real-time prices on over 9000 events per year on all the big esports titles. William Hill, which so far has been relatively quiet when it comes to …
Read More »Long live the DraftKings of Europe
DraftKings recently became one of the first DFS operators to secure a Maltese Controlled Skill Gaming licence. It didn’t take long for the company to reveal its European plans for 2017 either with a German launch planned for Q1. The operator entered the UK space around a year ago and the mega merger with FanDuel is expected to be fully …
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