iGaming Industry News

Breaking news, analysis, and insights from the global iGaming industry

S&P Says Genting Is One Downgrade From Fallen Angel, a Day After Fitch

3 min read•Sep 8

Regulatory

Two Black-Market Studies Land in a Day: €12bn in Europe, $50bn Worldwide

3 min read•Sep 8

Interviews

Håvard Lehn: Esports Has Been Poorly Run and iGaming Has Paid the Bills

7 min read•Sep 4

Latest News

CorporateAug 27

Allwyn Revenue Hits €1.25bn, but Strip Out PrizePicks and Growth Is 5%

Net revenue rose 27% and EBITDA 29% in the second quarter. The company's own underlying figure, excluding the American acquisition and Austrian tax, is a fifth of the headline.

Antonina Tupikova

2 min read

RegulatoryAug 27

Swedish Gambling Turnover Rises 5.1% With Online Doing All the Work

Spelinspektionen's preliminary Q2 figures put licensed turnover at SEK7.4bn. The headline growth rate understates what is happening in the commercial online segment, which grew at above 7%.

Antonina Tupikova

2 min read

Sports BettingAug 27

bet365 Goes Live in West Virginia With Sportsbook and Online Casino

The operator's own state list now reads 18, and West Virginia is the addition. It is one of only a handful of states where the casino product can travel with the sportsbook.

Antonina Tupikova

2 min read

Prediction MarketsAug 27

DraftKings Lists Five-Minute Bitcoin Contracts as the Clock Keeps Shortening

The sportsbook has gone live with markets that settle in five minutes, through Crypto.com's CFTC self-certification. On Kalshi, short-dated crypto has gone from $643m in April to more than $4bn in July.

Antonina Tupikova

2 min read

Prediction MarketsAug 27

Sportradar Sells Polymarket 300,000 Matches a Year and the NFL Is Not One

Hours after the NFL wrote prediction markets out of its data rights, Sportradar extended official data, streaming and integrity services to Polymarket across more than 20 competitions. One property is conspicuously absent from every one of these deals.

Antonina Tupikova

3 min read

Sports BettingAug 27

The MLB Players Union Says the League Balked at Banning Player Props

Answering three members of Congress, the MLBPA said it proposed a joint lobbying effort against in-game performance props and event contracts, and that Major League Baseball would not join it.

Antonina Tupikova

2 min read

CorporateAug 27

Entain Is Set to Drop Out of the FTSE 100 at the September Review

FTSE Russell's indicative screen has the Ladbrokes owner leaving the index alongside Persimmon, with easyJet and Ithaca Energy replacing them. The confirmation comes on 2 September and the change bites on the 21st.

Antonina Tupikova

2 min read

Sports BettingAug 27

The NFL Brings DraftKings and FanDuel Back and Locks Out Prediction Markets

The league confirmed three multi-year sportsbook deals on Thursday, five months after the category emptied. The most consequential line is the one about who is not in them.

Antonina Tupikova

2 min read

CorporateAug 27

Google Rewrites Its Gambling Ad Certification and Splits It by Country

The revised forms went live on Wednesday. One application per country, no account holding both a gambling and a social casino certification, and affiliates must certify that every outbound link goes to a licensee.

Antonina Tupikova

3 min read

CorporateAug 27

Gentoo Media's Margin Hit 39% and the Shares Still Fell 26%

Record deposits, a wider margin, less debt, and a guidance cut of up to €18m. The market read the affiliate's Q2 as evidence that the World Cup did not convert, and it has €91.5m of bonds due in December.

Antonina Tupikova

3 min read