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The UK gambling sector has pledged the highest participation and coverage to promote Safer Gambling Week (#SGWeek23) taking place from 13th – 19th November 2023. Organised by the trade bodies of the Betting and Gaming Council (BGC), bacta and the Bingo Association, Safer Gambling Week is now in its seventh year, which sees “the whole industry coming together to further …

Bet365 has added another layer to its global advertising campaign, titled Never Ordinary, incorporating fan interaction and engagement elements.  Developed with the Stoke-on-Trent bookmaker’s marketing agency partner Hatch, the extension of the campaign utilises ticket offices which function as a ‘fully-branded hub of sporting excitement’. Sports fans who enter the ticket offices must correctly answer a series of questions, with …

Sky Sports is reportedly looking to buy four out of the five available rights packages for the Premier League that are currently up for tender.  With the current television deal for the English top-flight due to close by the 2024-25 season, the battle for domestic broadcasting rights further intensifies ahead of what is set to be a lucrative bidding process.  …

Chekd Media has partnered with bet365 to bring back the ‘I Had Trials Once’ podcast series.  With more than one million downloads, the partnership aims to leverage the podcast’s reach to promote bet365’s free-to-play initiative, the 6 Scores Challenge. Will Tyrrell, UK Media Director at Checkd Media, commented: “I Had Trials Once has been a great success ever since it …

Spain’s Ministry of Consumer Affairs has reported that fines totalling €71m have been imposed on online gambling businesses during the first half of 2023. The Ministry, which oversees federal governance of Spanish gambling, stated that these penalties were imposed on 30 online gambling firms, in which the most ‘serious infractions’ of unlicensed gambling were fined ‘€5m each and suspended for …

Oddschecker Global Media (OGN) has launched a new igaming publisher, Confido Network, seeking to ‘redefine the affiliate network landscape’. Making its market entry, the platform will promote deals from over 200 betting brands, including high-profile names such as bet365, Unibet and BetMGM – the latter recently debuting in the UK market. Confido Network will also feature 70 affiliate platforms, with …

The debate around affordability checks has been an intense conversation throughout the overhaul of Britain’s gambling legislation, which the UK government hopes to update for the digital age. April’s White Paper, which brought an end to an over two year review of the 2005 Gambling Act, recommended ‘finance risk checks’ as the ideal affordability solution. Kindred’s Head of Corporate Affairs UK/Global, Tom Banks, …

Andrew Rhodes, Chief Executive of the UK Gambling Commission, has admitted that “the debate around gambling has not become an easier one. I have found myself saying a number of times how polarised different positions sometimes are”. The statement was made at the Commission’s largest-ever gathering of industry stakeholders’, in which Rhodes addressed the audience on common challenges at a …

EFL Chairman Rick Parry has cited new EFL research that claims there is no evidence of sponsorship leading to an increase in gambling or gambling harm. Speaking to the PA News Agency, Parry backed the rights of EFL clubs to benefit from lucrative deals with betting operators, following the league’s extension of its long-standing partnership with Sky Bet.  The Chairman …

Growth continued for Betway and Spin parent company Super Group across all geographic frontiers except for the Asia-Pacific region during third quarter trading. Overall group-wide revenue from across the company’s global business was recorded at €356.9m at the quarter’s end, up 16% from €307.8m in Q3 2022 although the group noted that growth potential had been offset. Operational EBITDA also …