Esports data and odds provider PandaScore has published a comprehensive whitepaper this week that sets out to provide operators with everything they need to know about capturing betting’s greatest emerging market, esports. Titled “How to build a successful esports betting product”, the whitepaper walks operators through the critical components of esports betting, starting with the opportunity the vertical presents before …
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PandaScore secures ‘largest yet’ Sporting Solutions data deal
Esports data and odds provider, PandaScore, has formed a partnership with sports data supplier Sporting Solutions in a bid to boost both companies’ services. Sporting Solution will utilise PandaScore’s odds and data services through its connect platform which aims to build ease of integration for the customers of the firms. Flavien Guillocheau, CEO at PandaScore, commented: “Sporting Solutions is a …
Read More »Entain leadership places innovation at forefront of 2022 duties
Entain Plc’s leadership duo of Group Chief Executive Jette Nygaard-Andersen and Deputy-CEO Rob Wood have outlined their shared objective to showcase the FTSE100 business’ innovation capabilities during 2022. Innovation and organic growth were marked as ‘capital allocation priorities’ by Andersen and Wood, hosting yesterday’s Entain leadership conference call with investors and market analysts. The start of 2022 saw Entain maintain …
Read More »Amir Mirzaee, Bayes Esports: there is endless opportunity in the esports data market
“This year, I wont say that things can’t get any crazier. Because the last time I did, it was at the end of 2020, and then we got 2021 served”. That was a statement made by Amir Mirzaee, Bayes Esports’ COO & Managing Director, as he set out plans to ‘go in hard’ to grow the business. Speaking to SBC …
Read More »Oddin.gg makes first foray into Russia with BetBoom deal
Oddin.gg has agreed to supply its esports betting solution to BetBoom after the Russian bookmaker laid out plans to capitalise on the “growing interest in esports in its home country”. The agreement marks Oddin.gg’s first partnership with an operator in Russia, with the solutions provider underlining its plans for further international expansion. “BetBoom is already one of the most successful …
Read More »Betinvest: Embracing new challenges in 2022
As the new year gets underway, Kateryna Tkachenko, Head of Marketing at Betinvest, explains why the company’s focus has shifted towards delivering betting content and how this strategic change will allow the company to welcome new challenges in a post-COVID era. For more than 20 years now, Betinvest Ltd. has been delivering industry-wide programming, up-to-date functionalities, efficient end-to-end software development, …
Read More »David Clifton: Licensing Expert – Those were the forecasts that were
It’s always interesting to look back at my industry forecasts of a year ago to see if I got anything right at all. So, why don’t you come with me back to my December 2020 article for SBC News entitled “Ten forecasts and a hope for 2021” so we can go through my ten forecasts of a year ago and …
Read More »Darina Goldin, Bayes Esports: Why is it so hard to create good betting odds?
Esports is data-driven like no other sport. Given a good data source, it is possible to have full information about a match at any given second, yet creating good reliable betting odds for esports remains a challenge in the industry, writes Darina Goldin, Director of Data Science at Bayes Esports. Some of that can be attributed to the relative novelty …
Read More »Gal Ehrlich, BETER: A step towards our long game
A significant upgrade for its data services, a new product to transform the Live Casino space and a doubling of the sports events covered by the Setka Cup. It’s all part of the repositioning at BETER, led by CEO Gal Ehrlich, as it looks to become a content ‘powerhouse’- particularly for esports – in the new era of betting. SBC: Talk …
Read More »Alex Iaroshenko: New look Betbazar ready for digital evolution
The sports betting industry ‘sales house’ Betbazar is now ready for the next 10 years of digital evolution following a recent rebrand. But for a company whose services touch both operator and supplier, where should the product development process start – with the buyer or the seller? Will esports remain a key part of the puzzle in 2022 and beyond? …
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