Sports Betting
Operators, platforms, and the global sportsbook market.
FanDuel, DraftKings and Caesars all walked away from the category this year and it sat vacant through the summer. Fanatics has taken it on a non-exclusive deal, and the reason the others left has not gone anywhere.
The Esports Foundation has pushed its inaugural national-teams tournament back a full year, citing the wider regional situation. Riyadh keeps the event and the development money keeps flowing, but the esports betting calendar has just lost its biggest new fixture of 2026.
A tribal coalition is pressing ahead with a California sports betting ballot initiative aimed at the 2028 election cycle, targeting the world's fifth-largest economy and one of the last major US markets to remain closed to regulated wagering. The campaign would give licensed tribal casinos and four major tracks exclusive control over online and retail sports betting.
Three plaintiffs have filed a federal complaint against DraftKings and affiliated entity Gus III, LLC in the District of Massachusetts, the latest legal challenge to land against a major US operator as prediction markets reshape the competitive landscape. The filing adds to a growing body of litigation testing the legal boundaries of sports-event contracts under US gambling law.
Regulated sports wagering in Ontario climbed 6% to CA$1.03bn in June, breaking the usual summer lull, as the expanded FIFA World Cup drove record activity even while operators' revenue slipped.
A post-tournament review from B2B supplier DATA.BET offers one of the first detailed reads on how the first 48-team World Cup was actually bet: France drew the most interest, in-play held a steady share, and the knockout rounds outweighed a much larger group stage.
A Council of Europe-backed integrity body says it identified seven possible betting irregularities across the 2026 World Cup's 104 matches, days after FIFA's own task force reported finding none. The group cautions that its findings are not proof of match-fixing.
North Carolina's newly signed budget lifts the online sports-betting tax from 18% to 23% of gross wagering revenue and creates a 6% tax on prediction-market operators, the first state levy of its kind. The higher rate makes North Carolina one of the costlier US markets for licensed sportsbooks.
$60 billion in legal wagers, and potentially more flowing through the black market. Flutter International chief executive Dan Taylor has used the eve of the 2026 World Cup to deliver one of the industry's clearest warnings yet about the scale of the offshore threat.
A cross-party group of MPs has gone directly to the Culture Secretary with a stark warning about what proposed affordability checks could do to British horseracing. With the Gambling Commission set to decide this month, the political pressure is intensifying.
A 240% surge in Ontario deposits could not save Rivalry from a leadership crisis that has left its co-founder as the company's sole remaining senior figure. The esports betting pioneer is now fighting for survival in a market its competitors are aggressively expanding into.
Uganda is overhauling its gambling tax structure from July 2026, introducing some of the steepest rates on the African continent. Operators and players alike will feel the impact, and the black market risk is real.