Sportsbook

Retail technology giant Amazon has renewed its ‘Thursday Night NFL’ streaming rights contract for a further two seasons, at a cost of $130 million. The NFL’s governance has confirmed that Amazon Prime Video will continue to be its lead streaming OTT platform service for Thursday night games. The deal sees Amazon secure 11 Thursday night NFL matches, which will be …

Betsson AB’s European online betting subsidiary Betsafe has won the ‘BT Sport Industry Award’ for ‘Best use of PR’ for it’s 2017 ‘Notorious – Conor McGregor’  global marketing campaign. The online bookmaker was recognised for executing the most effective and viral marketing campaign, utilising multiple media verticals, content and press coverage to promote its Floyd Mayweather vs Conor McGregor mega-fight promotions …

As the Premier League fizzles out in mundane fashion, British bettors are turning their attention to the dramatic finish in Italy, after Kalidou Koulibaly’s last minute header injected new life into the Serie A title race. Oddschecker revealed that last Sunday’s crunch tie between Napoli and Juventus attracted eight times more betting interest than the Milan derby from earlier in …

This April, the Agenzia delle Dogane e dei Monopoli (ADM), the government body overseeing Italy’s gambling regulatory policy has published the list of new enterprises seeking to join the regulated Italian online gambling market. From a sports betting standpoint, out of the 45 applicants seeking to qualify for Italian online gambling licences, the two stand-out operators are legacy online bookmaker …

Stockholm-listed, betting platform and software provider Kambi Group Plc has detailed a strong opening momentum for 2018. Publishing its Q1 2018 trading update (period ending 31 March), Kambi records a 15% increase in corporate revenues to €16.4 million (Q1 2017: €14.2 million), with the betting platform provider maintaining a high 7.9%  trading margin. Continuing its strong momentum from a record …

Stockholm-listed online gambling firm, Kindred Group Plc has reported a strong opening to 2018, as the multi-brand/ multi-market operator continues to benefit from its expansion strategy, supported by further ‘organic growth’. Publishing its unaudited Q1 2018 results (period ending 31 March), Kindred records a 36% group revenue uplift to £207 million (Q1 2017: £153 million). The positive revenue momentum, sees Kindred …

A coalition of Norwegian political parties has secured a mandate demanding that Parliament and the cultural committee of Storting (Norway’s legislative assembly) move to severely restrict consumer engagement with foreign online gambling/betting operators. Securing the motion, the coalition of Norway’s Labour, Christian Peoples, Socialist Left and Centrist Parties’ have developed a combined mandate, which demands that Storting move to immediately …

Addressing The Stars Group Inc investors, Group Chief Executive Rafi Ashkenazi has detailed his firm’s newly enlarged global gaming vision, having completed three industry-defining acquisitions in under two months. As the global betting sector prepares for a crucial summer of football trading, Ashkenazi states that the Stars Group has acquired ‘the world’s best online sportsbook in Sky Bet’. Combining Sky …

Continuing to place a greater emphasis on its racing product, Kindred Group has developed and launched a new proprietary racing platform for its UK and Irish customers. The new platform will offer customers a 24-hour service across all major racing territories and will serve as a strong complement to the group’s existing sportsbook products. The launch of this new platform …

The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) forwarded proposals for a new 100-ball cricket format last week, which it is fair to say had received very mixed reactions worldwide. Encapsulating fifteen traditional six-ball overs and a final ten-ball over, meaning it will be twenty deliveries shorter than the ever growing Twenty20 (T20) format, plans would see an eight team city …