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A year of optimism ends in disappointment as Jair Bolsonaro’s inaction and electoral pandering come at the expense of Brazil taking its best shot to regulate a federal sports betting market… December 12, 2022, marked the last possible day for Brazil to approve it’s federal sports betting regime… A date which passed without a trace of legislative action. On reflection, …

Regulus Partners details year-end frustrations as yet again, UK gambling scrutinises ministerial movements in the absence of no White Paper being published, providing no indication on the Gambling Review’s final outcome. This week offered cause for cautious optimism for those seeking a coherent outcome to the government’s review of gambling legislation, as the minister responsible, Paul Scully (Cons, Sutton & …

Online slots remain the dominant product in online casino, but despite a huge number of titles available to players, there are no guarantees that growth will follow, says Pavlos Sideris, director of Double Up Media. New products such as live casino and innovations such as Megaways have proved very popular with players in recent years, but the volumequantity of content …

The top priority for the esports industry in 2023 will be diversifying its revenue streams to reduce its reliance on sponsorships. Writing for SBC, Warren Tristram, Head of Gaming, Lottery and Esports at Nuvei, asks what role sports betting can play in monetising the esports audience. The esports industry has a problem to solve in the next 12 months. For …

In the second part of a sportsbook deep dive, NSoft Chief Operating Officer Drazan Planinic takes a look at the customisation of a retail pre-match offering and the complexities associated with liability monitoring. Here is the second part of my experiences as the Head of Sportsbook at NSoft. In the first part of the Sportsbook Deep Dive, we discussed the …

Slotegrator Sales Team Lead  Dmytro Kryvorchuk shares his thoughts on the gambling industry’s constant need for new technology solutions. It is, he says, an ‘experimentation’ zone for advances in tech and one that has a significant impact on the digital environment. Driven by high competition and even higher demand, online casinos and sportsbooks have to stay on the cutting edge of …

The 2022 FIFA World Cup has cast a spotlight on the sports industry in several ways outside the main sporting narrative, including betting. Whilst much of the media frenzy around the non-sporting elements of the tournament focused on the controversial decision to name Qatar as host nation, cooperation between bookmakers and sporting figures has also hit the headlines. Yesterday, The …

World Cup-themed betting offers are set to dominate the airwaves in the coming month and Enteractive can help ensure operators get the most out of their marketing and acquisition activity – by keeping the players active well beyond the World Cup Final. Andrew Foster (pictured, right), Chief Business Officer at Enteractive, explains more. Football is the world sport and there …

Warren Russell, CEO at W2, writes for SBC on the long-awaited review of the Gambling Act and the reasons why this presents a new opportunity for the industry to enact real change in the player protection space. Cast your eyes back to 2020. Many of us will remember this as a time when the UK was slowly starting to emerge …