Across the European Union and Great Britain, gambling regulators are clamping down on operator marketing techniques, calling for fewer gambling ads and a very limited message from those ads that actually make it to market. The most recent example of this phenomenon came this week in France where the L'Autorité Nationale des Jeux (ANJ) gaming…
Is online the poker the cure for online casino's catastrophic quarantine revenue losses? While poker may not be the savior of all online gambling operators, it's certainly helping out the French-facing online gambling business. According to a new report from the French gambling regulator Autorité Nationale des Jeux (ANJ), the French online poker business has…
French gambling regulators were singularly unimpressed with a recent tweet from the French operator Winamax which was perceived by some to be homophobic. Though the regulators ultimately found the company had done nothing wrong in the matter, it stirred up an unwelcome flurry of social media activity that is the stuff of nightmares. Winamax's social…
A recent report from the French Government about Franco gambling habits is chock full of bad news for operators. The report, titled, LES PROBLEMES LIES AUX JEUX D’ARGENT EN FRANCE, EN 2019 (Problems Related to Games of Money in France 2019) suggests that, overall, gambling is down in France, but problem gambling is increasing. Even…
French online gambling operators were something of an anomaly during the recent COVID-19 lockdown. In fact, they might have even transcended into the category of unicorn. They were, in fact, some of the only businesses on the planet that actually saw revenue gains as their countrymen hunkered down in quarantine. According to a report on…
L’Autorité de régulation des jeux en ligne (ARJEL), the French gambling regulator is ordering online operators to put an end to bonus offers on online poker sites for at least the duration of the COVID-19 crisis. The move comes as housebound Frenchmen (and women) flock to poker as a means to relieve boredom. It's also…
A cash-strapped French government is looking to sell off half of the Française des Jeux FDJ lottery via an initial public offering (IPO). It's part of a major privatization move that could put as much as $10 billion Euros ($12.8 billion) back in government coffers and constitutes a major shift in Euro government policy towards…
Winamax, a French operator, has broken ground on the French daily fantasy sports market with the launch of Le Jeu de l’Entraineur (JDE) (the Coach's Game) game. Could this the beginning of something tres grand? The company is the first and, as of this writing, the only operator with its hooks in this totally unproven…
2015 was a very good year for the French gambling with major revenue gains driven by a solid performance from the sports betting sector. According to a report on CalvinAyre.com, the Franco online gambling that translates into €756 million Euro ($819.2 million USD). As mentioned, the key driver behind the solid earnings report was a…
New Jersey Loses Sports Betting Battle Despite the support of the entire gambling industry, New Jersey lost its righteous battle to end the sports betting ban in America. A Federal judge bought the NFL's argument that legal, regulated sports betting represented an immediate threat to professional sports and blocked the will of the people of…
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