Esports

Oulala.com, the daily fantasy sports (DFS) operator and B2B provider, has announced the closing of a new funding round of €1.35m (£1.12m), coming from private investors. Oulala will use the raised funds to gain more traction on the B2B landscape, and to confirm its leading position as the first DFS network specialised in European football. Benjamin Carlotti, Managing Director of Oulala …

Loot.bet, a new esports only betting platform, has launched courtesy of UltraPlay and LiveSream Ltd. The website has a custom design made specifically for gamers and esports fans; it offers a wide selection of competitive games, sixteen and counting, including Dota 2, Counter-strike and Overwatch. Loot.bet covers pre-match and live betting events but is focused on the latter. The layout …

Daily fantasy sports operator Champick has let SBC know that is looking for talented developers, graphic and UX designers as it expands its teams in their Liepaja and Riga offices.  Those applying will need to be ” passionate sports fans eager to work in a global setting”. The new Latvian daily fantasy football platform Champick has entered Georgian, Hungarian and South African markets …

A new study from Juniper Research has predicted that consumer spend on daily fantasy sports (DFS) will double from $2.6 billion in 2016 to $5.3 billion by 2021. Juniper also anticipates that FanDuel and DraftKings, two companies that were referenced in the study and represent a combined 90% market share, will merge imminently to consolidate their dominance. North America continues …

Expanding its product portfolio and services within the European online betting sector, sports data and insights provider Sportradar has announced that it has entered a strategic joint-venture with ASAP Italia, the operator of leading Italian betting player portal Superscommesse.it. Updating the market Sportradar informs that partnership will aim to develop a ‘new frontier’ for sports betting in the form of …

Premier Punt, the Aberdeen based DFS (Daily Fantasy Sports) challenger, has turned to the crowdfunding site Seedrs in a bid to raise £200,000 in funding for product development. The firm, which has been shortlisted for next month’s SBC Awards in the category of Best Fantasy Sports Product, made the jump from a web-based game to a soft launch of its …

(Correction: This article previously stated that this deal meant Betradar were the first in the industry to offer live odds across multiple esports titles. This is not the case.)  Sports betting data and insights provider Betradar (subsidiary of Sportradar AG) has become the latest supplier to offer live-odds across multiple esports for online and live competitions, enhancing bookmakers’ current market offerings. …

Tech business news sources are reporting that leading US daily fantasy sports operators FanDuel and DraftKings are reaching a conclusive agreement with regards to a merger. Since October, the governances of the DFS operators have been in ‘fast track’ discussions with regards to creating an outright market-leading enterprise. On Wednesday, former ‘Fortune’ finance editor Dan Primack revealed that according to …

UltraPlay powered GG.Bet has established two deals with esports organisations this week; Luminosity Gaming and Team NP.  The first of these, Luminosity, is an org which has grown fast in its short life and has rosters in a whole range of titles including League of Legends, CSGO, Overwatch, Smash, SMITE and more. Team NP is a newly formed team which …

Sam Guigui is the COO at Draft Fantasy, a Premier League daily fantasy operator which was set up with partner Elie Steinbock, Founder and CEO, who spied a gap in the fantasy market. We caught up with the pair of them to discuss regulation, why they think there’s space to compete and that the scene will keep evolving, Honolulu and marketing …