UK bookmaker Coral will deploy dynamic video advertising across Facebook and Youtube through its partnership with Fresh8 Gaming. Personalised, automatically generated video advertising real time offers and odds will enable the operator to deliver relevant, timeous content to its digital audience using Fresh8 Gaming technology. “The automation and simplification of the video production process is …
The UK Gambling Commission’s new report on overall gambling participation and perceptions in 2016 provides a “more detailed snapshot of online behaviors” and makes for interesting reading. The survey comprised 1000 respondents who were interviewed either telephonically or online with headline findings identified by the UKGC as: A 3 percent increase over 2015 in respondents …
Following a partnership with Grupo Caliente (see previous reports), Spanish operator Codere has launched online sports betting in the Mexican market through Codere.mx. The company seeks to expand away from its home market as it eyes further penetration in the Latin American markets and Italy.
GVC Holding’s bwin brand has entered into three high profile sponsorship deals with Spanish professional football clubs Club Atlético de Madrid, Valencia and Sevilla FC. The company’s relationship with all three clubs will run until June 2018, with Club Atlético de Madrid offering an option to extend the partnership for a further year. bwin will …
A report by online poker legalisation action group Play Pennsylvania and the respected independent online poker information site Online Poker Report released Monday claims that the state could realise around $400 million in tax revenues by 2022 from the legalisation of online gambling The 14-page white paper’s author, analyst Robert DellaFave, projects that the state …
The presidentially-driven initiative against illegal online gambling operators in the Philippines continued Monday with the arrest in a police raid in Pasig of 15 Chinese and one Filipino national. Philippine National Police spokesman Senior Superintendent Dionardo Carlos said agents of the Anti-Cybercrime Group served a search warrant on YD International Inc., at the 18th floor …
Persistent industry rumours that MGM Resorts is planning a new online poker and casino brand launch in New Jersey (see previous reports) have been confirmed by the group’s business development exec, Tom Mikulich, albeit without disclosing a lot of detail or a timeline. The move follows MGM’s assumption last August of full ownership of the …
Alan Turner has resigned from his non-executive directorship at Nektan PLC to focus on private business interests. Turner’s involvement with Nektan began shortly after its inception and he was an integral part of the company’s flotation on AIM in 2014, the company said.
Playson has rolled out its “Dancing Dragon Spring Festival” HTML5-built slot to a wider audience. This Chinese New Year-themed, 5-reel, 30-payline game offers simple mechanics with an opportunity for a maximum win of 5000x the players bet if the whole game field is covered with the Dragon symbol. The demo can be watched here: https://playson.com/games/run/dancing-dragon-spring-festival
LuckyNiki.com is a new online casino powered by SkillonNet’s mobile and desktop platforms. On entering the website, players are greeted by anime-illustrated hostess Niki who invites live casino play from Evolution Gaming, XPro and Novomatic; table games and slots from NetEnt, WMS, Microgaming, NextGen and GVG; as well as scratch cards and jackpot games. The …
Hot on the heels of Kindred Group’s (formerly Unibet) acquisition of 32Red, Danish newspaper Børsen reports the company’s continued interest in acquiring elements of State-owned gaming company Danske Spil. According to Børsen, Kindred Group is ready to buy Danske Spil’s casino, poker, tips, Zezam and oddset assets for around Krone 4 billion (approx. GBP 458 …
American actress Heather Graham is the new face of GVC Holding’s Foxy Casino and Bingo brands forming an integral part of the company’s GBP 10 million product revamp (see previous report). The first in a series of six tongue-in-cheek commercials will see Graham donning the iconic purple Foxy suit while offering the director suggestions for …
Instant Win Games (IWG) has announced the appointment of Leon Thomas as chief commercial officer. Thomas joins IWG from Mecca Digital where he served as chief operating officer, prior to which he was managing director for both Tombola and NYX Gaming Group’s US Operations. Working out of IWG’s London base, Thomas will be responsible for …
Sports betting exchange Matchbook will expand its Live Casino offer with Evolution Gaming’s complete Live Casino portfolio for desktop, tablet and smartphone during the second quarter of this year. Evolution Live Casino content will complement Matchbook’s existing proprietary casino table games and third party slots, video poker and live dealer content. “Having recently completed the …
iSoftBet’s latest omni-channel release is a 100-line, double reel game set to a forest theme. “Forest Mania” offers Free Spins, Wild Reels and Extra Wilds across two reel sets accompanied by a perky soundtrack and cartoon-style graphics. The game went live across desktop and mobile channels last week. Watch the demo here:
UK-based mobile and social sports games developer Fenway Games is set to launch SnapPlay on China’s social media sports platform HQ Sports following a deal with Haiqiu Technology. Fenway Games’ SnapPlay, an in-play betting app where users make their predictions on the next 60 seconds of live English Premier League match play, will be launched …
Nicola ‘Rocco’ Femia, an Italian entrepreneur allegedly linked to organised crime, has been found guilty in a Bologna court and sentenced to almost 27 years in jail following a three-year judicial process arising from his involvement in illegal online gambling operations in the Emilia-Romagna region. The original tax and judicial police action resulted in the …
Gambling game developers L2W Limited (Link2Win) and Sigma Games have announced a long term strategic game development agreement for the next generation of ‘Linka’ games, with BingoLinka and SpinLinka currently in the production pipeline. SpinLinka has particular application in the casino/slot segment of the market. John Reid, CEO of Link2Win, said in a company statement …
The much debated and delayed changes to the Swedish gambling industry, and in particular the online sector, will hopefully be made clearer at the end of next (March) month, when the government’s review of the industry and its recommendations for change will be published. Anticipating this development, the independent consultancy firm Mediavision published a statement …
After months of work and the investment of significant capital, Millennial Esports has opened its new eSports live tournament arena in the Neonopolis shopping mall in Downtown Las Vegas, giving the massive millennial demographic a new reason to visit the nation’s gambling capital. The 15,000 square foot facility features a 200-seat arena with stadium-style seating …
Maria Hedengren, a former chief financial officer for NetEnt, has been proposed for a directorship of the company by the nomination committee of the board. Hedengren was CFO of NetEnt during the period 2011 to 2016. Since December 2016, she has been CFO of iZettle AB. The nominee has extensive experience from several previous senior …
UK online and land gambling group Ladbrokes has been hit with an expensive GBP 70 million tax bill following a ruling by the UK Tax Tribunal that the company and its auditor Deloitte intentionally avoided taxation by exploiting a 2008 regulatory loophole concerning loans between companies and third parties, thus minimising the gambling group’s full-year …
A new record for Bitcoin-related domain sales has been claimed by Sedo, which has reported that the domain Bitcoin.Casino has been bought by Florida-based Casino Holdings Inc., for $28,000. That’s a record for the new domain extensions sector, although way behind more traditional .com domain sales like Gambling.com, which back in 2011 went for $2.5 …
Playtech BGT Sports has issued a statement advising that the company is set to launch its innovative BetTracker product, an app that allows punters to transfer their sports bets to their mobile devices after placing them in-shop. Gamblers are then able to watch their bets progress and when appropriate cash them out on the system, …