How young is too young to be playing the lottery? That's a question that UK gambling operators are facing this week after UK Sport Minister Mims Davies announced her desire to raise the minimum age for purchasing lottery tickets and scratch cards from 16 to 18. Davies made her comments in an interview with House…
Lottoland, the Australian digital lottery operator, just can’t seem to catch a break in the Land Down Under. Ever since a bruising legal battle halted Lottoland from offering wagering on Aussie lotteries, the company has tweaked its business model to emphasize wagering on financial markets instead. That tweak has spawned not one, but three separate…
Digital lottery operators got a rare, and much-needed, boost from a University College Dublin economist Jim Power who says that their business model presents, "no meaningful threat" to national lotteries. Power presented his findings in a report titled, An Assessment of the Online Gambling Market in Ireland, which was funded by the the European Lotto…
A German judge ruled late last week that Lottoland, the digital lottery operator, does not have a legal right to offer its services in Germany. It's just the latest big legal challenge for a company that's seen its business model vigorously challenged by governmental entities across the globe. The latest setback for Lottoland came when…
The United Kingdom Gambling Commission (UKGC) has been turning the screw on gambling operators for more than a year and now their efforts are causing other operators to reconsider whether or not doing business in the UK is worth the effort. Late last week, Czech lottery operator Sazka announced that it was scuttling plans to…
Officials at Lottoland Australia are promising to soldier on in Australia's digital lottery wars, despite a recent government ban on their services. While they're striking a defiant tone in the face of a dark situation, is there really much that Lottoland can do now that the ban is the law of the land? Lottoland's battle…
Lottoland likes to bill itself as a disruptive market force that's shaking up the worldwide lottery market. While that may be true on a global level, it's certainly true on a local level for a German building cleaner known only as, "Christine." On June 1, as she was wrapping up an evening's work, Christine pulled…
Australian newspaper vendors have been waging war against online lottery betting operators like Lottoland for several years and are, seemingly, close to vanquishing their foes with government sponsored ban on digital lotteries. During this battle the news vendors have positioned themselves as small, local businesses who are under assault from predatory gaming companies hell bent…
In the Land Down Under, the battle between synthetic lottery operator Lottoland and the Australian Lottery and Newsagents Association (ALNA) is, once again, heating up. Over the past week, Lottoland has threatened to take its fight to Australia's highest courts, while also accusing its arch-rival of seriously over representing its numbers. Here's where the fight…
Lottoland is begging for its life in a series of full-page ads that appeared in Australian newspapers yesterday. The controversial operator, which allows players to wager on the outcome of international lotteries, is facing a ban in the Land Down Under and is desperately trying to turn the very newsagents responsible its demise into allies…
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