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World Cup: Azzurri absence forces natives to diversify

SBC News World Cup: Azzurri absence forces natives to diversify

Following the Italian national team’s failure to qualify for a second successive football World Cup, we examine the Italian sports betting market and ask what impact the shock non-participation will have on betting revenues in the country that is famed for its football fanaticism. SBC:The World Cup is the biggest sporting event on the global calendar and a key period …

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bet365’s World Cup Fan Nation Survey finds England supporters in confident mood

bet365 Fan World Cup Survey

bet365 has put together a comprehensive customer engagement strategy for the Qatar World Cup, including a free-to-play game with big cash prizes, exclusive video content and a fan survey that found 47.79% of England supporters are confident that Gareth Southgate’s men will bring the trophy home. The F2P Tournament Predictor game, which is powered by Incentive Games, will see the …

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SBC appoints Aidan Brain as VP Conference Production for the Americas

Aidan Brain

SBC Events has strengthened its conference team with the appointment of Aidan Brain in the newly-created VP Conference Production (Americas) role. Brain has been recruited by SBC following a series of record-breaking industry events and the development of exciting expansion plans heading into 2023.  Reporting to the CEO and Founder Rasmus Sojmark and the Director of Conference Production Jonathan Whelan, …

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Bayes Esports: what does the next five years hold for esports?

Bayes Esports Engineering Team

The esports space has gone through tremendous changes over the last five years, but what lies ahead in the next five? Ben ‘Noxville’ Steenhuisen (pictured, right), Senior Software Architect at Bayes Esports, looks into his crystal ball and offers his predictions as to what we can expect. Predicting how esports will look in six months is challenging, but looking forward …

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OpenBet’s SportCast: the advantages of cutting-edge deep data

SBC News OpenBet’s SportCast: the advantages of cutting-edge deep data

Following the recent OpenBet partnership with deep data specialists StatsBomb, SBC News spoke to Luke Saunders, Commercial Director at SportCast, for an exclusive interview regarding the deal and how it will shape the pioneering BetBuilder, pre-built BetBuilder and singles product offering.  SBC: How important is cutting-edge deep data for operators’ trading and predictive modelling in an increasingly competitive market?  LS: …

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Josip Vrbić, NSoft: offering a ‘Boost’ to player engagement

Josip Vrbić, NSoft: offering a ‘Boost’ to player engagement

Player engagement has long been a focus for betting and gaming companies, but how difficult is it to come up with new and innovative ways to keep players entertained? Josip Vrbić, MD Seven Games, walks us through NSoft’s new Boost gamification tool and the ways this is bringing a unified experience to the company’s entire platform. Through its years of …

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SBC Summit Latinoamérica a groundbreaking success to wrap-up 2022 events calendar

SBC News SBC Summit Latinoamérica a groundbreaking success to wrap-up 2022 events calendar

SBC Summit Latinoamérica 2022, the exhibition and conference connecting Latin America’s sports betting and iGaming markets, gathered over 1,000 senior industry executives at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino, Hollywood, Florida, to discuss business opportunities and the immense potential of the region. The event on 1-3 November featured a trade show with over 40 booths, a busy program of …

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Łukasz Żaguń, iGamingNuts: creative activations are key to World Cup engagement

SBC News Łukasz Żaguń, iGamingNuts: creative activations are key to World Cup engagement

The World Cup is one of those incredible sporting events that never fails to unite and capture the attention of fans from across the world. And as bookmakers get ready for nearly four weeks of football action in Qatar, many of them have been intensely focused on channeling that enthusiasm, creating new ways to engage with their players in a creative, …

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Armenia: Creating a new Silicon Valley

Armenia - Yerevan, Northern Avenue

Armenia has established a reputation as a centre of excellence for product development in the sportsbook and igaming industry, but gambling is just one element of the nation’s increasingly strong technology sector.  The country may not yet enjoy the same kind of global profile as the more established IT powerhouses, but the number of Armenian tech success stories is growing. …

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