News International, the publisher of The Sun and The Times, is in negotiations with the owners of the Racing Post over a potential acquisition of the UK’s ‘horse racing bible’, SBC and Gaming&Co can reveal. The Racing Post is part of betting media, content and data provider Spotlight Sports Group, which is owned by private equity fund Exponent. Taking over …
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Spotlight Sports Group (SSG) has announced a strategic deal with multiple operator partners for the upcoming 2024 Euros. As the technology, content, and media company – specialising in sports betting – builds on the success of its World Cup Content Hubs, the 2024 Euros will now see the Content Hubs feature add-to-betslip functionality, live odds, match previews and outright previews …
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Alan Pepperell, Retail Director, Spotlight Sports Group, offers some fascinating insight into the changing face of the UK’s retail betting sector and how the industry is focusing on digitising horse racing in betting shops to make them a destination to enjoy live sports events. The betting shop revolution In the past few decades betting shops have seen several potential threats …
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Spotlight Sports Group (SSG), the dedicated provider of technology, content, and media services for sports betting, has developed a brand new race card powered by the Racing Post. Branded ‘Smart View’, SSG’s new race card aims to transform the traditional approach to racing bettors’ experience with race cards, making it more appealing to new and existing audiences. The new race …
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Rob Black, B2B Sales Director at Spotlight Sports Group, provides insight into the company’s content hubs product and how its capabilities help take the strain out of delivering a content-rich experience for bettors. Rob, by way of introduction to the content hubs product, can you provide some background into the capabilities of Spotlight Sports Group’s content hubs? The real beauty …
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Rick Wolf, Senior Vice President of US B2B Partnerships at Spotlight Sports Group, explains how the company’s award-winning custom site build capabilities can help create a “world-class user experience”. For those of our readers who are less familiar with Spotlight Sports Group’s custom site build capabilities can you provide some insight? We specialise in creating custom site builds to empower …
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XLMedia has entered a new partnership with Spotlight Sports Group (SSG) to upgrade its horse racing content and data provisions across its digital media network. The London AIM media group will deploy SSG’s ‘Superfeed content engine’ across its most popular domains, which will gain access to news, data and analysis on over 60,000 racing fixtures annually. SGG’s content engine has …
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Spotlight Sports Group (SSG) will strengthen Sky Betting and Gaming’s Cheltenham Festival coverage after agreeing to develop and manage a new racing content hub for the operator. This builds upon a similar agreement that the pair signed in 2022. The horseracing content hub will be branded with Sky Bet visuals and feature add-to-betslip functionality, live odds, social share capabilities and …
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Spotlight Sports Group will extend its coverage of the World Cup with the launch of 11 content hubs which will be available in seven languages. The content hubs will feature a live odds integration and add-to-betslip functionality too – something that SSG explained will “create a true one-stop-shop experience for all sports bettors”. Rob Black, Spotlight Sports Group B2B Sales …
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Mark Renshaw will step up as the new Chief Executive Officer at Spotlight Sports Group where he will lead the company’s next phase of growth across the UK and US markets. Renshaw, who previously held the position of Chief Operations Officer at Spotlight Sports Group, will take over from Alan Byrne with immediate effect. Renshaw said: “Alan, I and our …
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