Category Archives: Betting

When hefty new taxes on the gambling industry were first announced back in November 2025, operators like Entain, Flutter Entertainment and Evoke all said that marketing would be an early casualty. Gambling PLCs are beginning to make good on this promise, with Entain revealing this week one of its two major sportsbook brands, Coral, has […]

Controversy around price and whether ChatGPT can compete with the likes of Google and Apple in the AI-arms race has got marketers talking in the wake of OpenAI’s announcement. It didn’t come as a surprise when OpenAI announced ads were coming to ChatGPT this month… despite CEO Sam Altman once vowing that ads would be […]

Sports betting solutions firm SOFTSWISS has completed the second of two major tech appointments this month, naming a new Chief Technology Officer. The firm has filled the c-level role with Sergey Kastukevich, who has been working as Deputy Chief Technology Officer at the company for over five years, joining from IT firm ScienceSoft in 2020. […]

In light of Finland’s upcoming new licensing regime, the government has launched a study into the feasibility of scratch cards as gifts. Led by the Ministry of Interior, the study will investigate the possibility of buying a scratch card on behalf of another person and how applicable it would be for that person to claim […]

European and Nordic authorities require an expanded capacity and greater regulatory coordination to understand the black market on online gambling, an academic review claims. This advice leads the findings of a ‘scoping review’ published in PLOS One, noting that current efforts to measure the size and scope of offshore gambling markets across Nordic jurisdictions are […]

Sports data company FeedConstruct is expanding its reach in Latin America, coinciding with the growth of various betting markets across the cultural region. The BetConstruct-owned platform has penned deals with the top tier basketball competitions in Chile and Bolivia, the LNB in the former and Libobásquet in the latter. Also included in the deal is […]

The latest NHS statistics into gambling prevalence state that problem gambling rates in England remain stable, as authorities require a better understood public health view of gambling harm impacts across communities. Data from the NHS Health Survey for England 2024 (HSE 2024) put the number of UK adults at risk of some form of problem […]

A new toolkit has been revealed at the University of Bristol that aims to help students deal with their problem gambling. Designed by Benjamin Parker and Jordan White, graduates from the same university, the ‘From Freshers’ Week to Losing Streak’ toolkit is educational in nature, offering guidance, practical advice and acts as an awareness campaign […]

The wave of financial sanctions being imposed on the industry continues to gather pace. However, one common theme is evident from jurisdiction to jurisdiction. A repetition of failure. Monetary penalties, under many guises, are a consistent theme, with the lessons for such punishments seemingly not being learned. This begs one key question. Why? For eyeDP […]