Category Archives: Betting

AstroPay will extend its presence within the esports space after agreeing to sponsor this season’s Pinnacle Cup III. The event, which is the third iteration of Pinnacle’s flagship CS:GO tournament series, has featured a number of CS:GO teams from Latin America, Nordics and Europe. Throughout the Pinnacle Cup III, 32 teams will compete in Pinnacle …

Checkd Dev the betting innovation studio of sports media publisher Checkd Group has announced that its customised ‘Acca Assist’ betting tool will be trialed by Sky Bet for the remainder of the current football season. Acca Assist allows bettors to formulate their own accumulator bets that are informed by statistics supplied by Opta.  The betting …

In this month’s Better Collective Spotlight, Chris David, SVP of Operations & Marketing at Better Collective, talks all things VegasInsider and why the relaunched site will be focusing on users in both the offline and online gambling space. SBC: You recently decided to relaunch VegasInsider. What was the rationale behind this? CD: Due to continued …

Last week, GambleAware grabbed media headlines, publishing its annual YouGov treatment support survey that contradicted Gambling Commission % figures on disorder rates. Critical of GambleAware’s self-selected research, Regulus Partners warns that the charity has deflected from recognising real progress on treating and detecting gambling disorders.  Even by the standards of recent times, this was an …

Sports betting’s growth into a mainstream entertainment product and the industry’s increasingly close relationship with the worlds of professional sports, broadcast and online media, and entertainment are set to be the central theme of SBC Summit North America 2022. The largest conference and tradeshow for the sports betting and igaming industry in the U.S. and Canada returns to …

In what may well be his last conference call as Group CEO of Playtech Plc, Mor Weizer highlighted to investors the firm’s dominance across nascent Latin American markets as the group’s joint-venture partnerships continue to dictate the state of play.  Weizer, who has chosen to freeze his leadership of the FTSE250 technology group to support …

Entain has detailed progress on its diversity and inclusion policies, as the company continues to chip away at the gender pay gap within its own operations.  Publishing its report into the Gender Pay Gap for 2021, the FTSE100 betting and gaming group explained that the median hourly pay gap between male and female employees stood …

Bet365 Group, the owner of Championship side Stoke City FC, has announced that it is reducing the debts of the club’s holding company by £160million. In looking to underline the owner’s continuing long-term commitment to the club and its funding, the firm converted £40million of shareholder loans into equity in Stoke City Holdings Limited and …

The Betting and Gaming Council (BGC) has stated that the UK’s gambling sector is ready to welcome international visitors through its doors after two years of travel and opening restrictions.  With travel restrictions to the UK easing as the country emerges from COVID-19 lockdown and safety conditions, the BGC has reiterated the financial contribution the …