Sports Betting Archive

MGM & AGA team up for Responsible Gambling Education Week. If there’s one thing the global betting community needs to improve as a whole, it’s the rate of responsible gambling behavior; not just by bettors, but by the operators who proffer wagering opportunities to them. Gambling harm prevention is a primary goal of gaming...

New season of English football betting incites Bet Regret ads in UK. The English Premier League is back! I know, I know – it was hardly even gone. Following an unavoidable delay in the 2019/20 schedule, the previous season just wrapped up seven weeks ago. Congratulations go to Liverpool for taking home their first...

CGA Confident Single-Event Sports Law will Pass – CGA President Paul Burns says Canada single bet sports Law is a matter of “when, not if”....

Shocker! Paddy Power apologizes for inappropriate sports gambling ad. If you’ve followed the sports betting community, or the online gambling industry as a whole, for any notable length of time, you’ve surely come across at least one instance where Irish bookmaker Paddy Power shocked society. It’s a regular occurrence from their marketing team, who’s...

Industry First: A virtual conference will be held to discuss the future of gambling post-coronavirus outbreak. Every year, a number of conventions and conferences are held in various part of the world to discuss the present and future state of the gambling industry. They talk about all forms of land-based gambling, online gambling, AR...

Will snide remarks against regulators ensure Stakers Sportsbook never returns to the UK market? When a subjacent is chastised by its superior, the typical response is one of capitulation and acquiescence. An admonished child hangs its head apologetically. An employee ensures the boss that their work will improve. But sometimes – on rare head-turning,...

Flutter+Stars 40% share of UK sports betting market raises CMA flag. Mergers and acquisitions are nothing new to the online gambling industry, especially in this day and age. Consistently tighter regulations are market saturation are sending even the largest operators shuffling for more profitable business models. For two of the UK’s absolute largest brands,...

The Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation has recently released its annual revenue report for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2019. Within that verbose document of numerical wonders lies the tale of a blossoming gambling industry. All facets of gaming saw an increase in overall revenue, but none so impressive as a digital market...

Who better to explicate the situation than Paul Burns, President and CEO of the Canadian Gaming Association (CGA)? He and his organization have been there all along, supporting legislative expansion, lobbying parliament, and contributing documented evidence that legalization is far more beneficial to society as a whole than prohibition has been, especially since the...

Normally, when two candidates debate an issue, they hop on opposing sides of the argument. That's not the case with Pupatello and Masse, who are both supporting the legalization of single-event betting. Their controvert revolves around who supported it first, and who will work the hardest to get the law passed....