According to the latest report published by Sweden’s gaming regulator Lotteriinspektionen, 64% of all the country’s TV gambling ad expenditure last year, equivalent to SEK 1bn ($152m), was spent by foreign, unregulated operators. The figure is even more astonishing considering those very same non-Swedish companies were not even licensed to offer online gambling within the […]
On April 14th, France’s independent online gambling regulator (ARJEL) published its report on the state of the country’s online gambling market for the 1st quarter of 2014. According to the latest figures, France’s online poker industry shrunk by 10% to €65 million during the first three months of this year, compared to the €72 million […]
When New Jersey introduced online gambling it was hoping the additional revenues generated would help counteract the continuing decline in its land-based casino industry. Five months on and the state Division of Gaming Enforcement has released its latest figures for March which, despite being up 15.2% compared to the previous month, fell significantly short of […]
New Jersey is in the privileged position of being one of just three states in the whole of the USA offering internet gambling to its residents. With a population of 8.8 million people, more than three times the size of Nevada (2.8m), The Garden State is in a unique position of pioneering the country’s nascent […]
The Mississippi House Gaming Committee (MGC) Chairman, Richard Bennett, has commissioned a task force to study how online gambling is faring in those US states which already have regulated markets. MGC executive director Allen Godfrey is chairman of the eight-member task force, which will take a closer look at internet gaming and make its non-legislative […]
In order to understand the potential of its gambling industry better, the Australian government commissioned Gambling Research Australia to carry out a comprehensive study of online gambling habits across the country. The study entitled “Interactive Gambling” surveyed 19,594 Australians and after three years produced an extensive 432 report designed to help the government decide whether […]
Since U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina) and Representative Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) introduced their identical anti-online gambling bill, the Restoration of America’s Wire Act (RAWA), to both The Senate and The House at the end of March, opposition to the proposed legislation has continued to mount. The latest pro gambling groups attempting to influence lawmakers […]