Problem gambling is never a good thing, but the prospect of problem gamblers being locked in their houses with nothing else to do was the stuff of nightmares in the early days of the pandemic. Nowhere was this fear more pronounced than in the UK, where anti-gambling forces are keen to point out any perceived…
The UK Gambling Commission (UKGC) is reporting a sizable drop in gambling activity across the country as the COVID-19 quarantine drags on. The August 2020 dip suggests that gambling critics were a bit off base in their predictions about what would happen to locked down punters. Overall, August 2020 gambling activity was down across the…
The UK Gambling Commission (UKGC) has had its eyes on VIP programs for quite a while and had, in recent years, seemed as though they may ax the popular marketing schemes entirely. Fortunately for UK-facing gambling operators, the UKGC has decided that they can retain VIP programs but there are some important restrictions that could…
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson hit the UK horse racing industry with a bit of the old good news/bad news this week. On the good news side, the PM will allow the races to go on (sort of) as planned. But that news was combined with the gut-wrenching news that all proposals to have fans…
The British horse racing industry took another big hit this week when health officials reinstated restrictions on how many in-person attendees can be at tracks for live racing. As it stands today, spectators are allowed at the tracks, but only six at a time. That number is now so small that the tracks might as…
Which industry is worse when it comes to targeting children with online ads - the gambling business or the junk food business? According to a recent report from the UK's Advertising Standards Authority (ASA), gambling operators are actually worse. The findings are part of year-long study that's being conducted by the ASA that monitors more…
The UK Betting and Gaming Council (BGC) is an organization that seems to live by the rule, "If you don't believe in yourself, no one else will." That's likely why they've been so keen touting the results of an analysis done by Enders Analysis that found their "whistle to whistle" ban on gambling advertisements during…
William Hill is shutting the doors on 119 gaming shops in the UK in a move that's meant to mitigate the train-wreck damage of the COVID-19-infected world economy. The company is actually in pretty good shape considering the global pandemic and its impact on any gambling operator with land-based exposure. Part of William Hill's long-term…
UK casino operators were handed a major disappointment this week when Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced that their planned reopening date has been kicked back from August 1 to August 15, "at least". The casino delay comes as part of a larger effort to slow down reopening in the UK in hopes of slowing down…
Any business looking to stay ahead of corona virus-induced financial catastrophe should study the folks running Betsson. The Stockholm-based gambling operator posted record revenue during Q2 2020 - which was arguably one of the worst quarters in recorded financial history. For the three months ending June 30, Betsson raked approximately $172 million (USD). So how…
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