So here we are on the first day of the new year. One of the big trends among bookmakers in 2009 was the growth in betting on celebrity culture. While some people may find the idea of betting on the events in the lives, personal or otherwise, of celebrities distasteful, the massive growth in the [...]

It would be fair to suggest that of all the problems that the online casino industry has experienced over the last couple of years that the shifting sands of the regulatory environment in various different jurisdictions has been the largest. There is no doubt that it has been a massive problem. The coming year certainly [...]

Ladbrokes is in the process of getting ready to enter the Italian online poker market in a serious way in the new year. The Amministrazione Autonoma dei Monopoli di Stato is the state regulation authority in Italy and has granted a license to Ladbrokes to operate in the domestic online poker market. The market in [...]

We have heard a lot of talk about various different deals in the online casino industry recently and the latest news of this nature is that Cryptologic seems to be on the brink of doing a deal with Betclic the well known sports betting service provider. This is likely to involve Cryptologic providing a range [...]

One of the things that all business sectors have in common is a desire to guess where trends might be going in the immediate future. The online casino industry is no different in this regard and we have now entered a time where the industry as a whole is trying to do this on two [...]

One thing that has expanded immensely over the last few years in the online casino industry is the number of games available. There has been a massive explosion in the number of different games that people can play. Granted, a lot of these games are either variations on traditional games or simply rebranded versions but [...]

Many bookmakers are reporting stronger that normal numbers on the back of the English Premiership’s weekend fixtures. Saturday’s games saw higher than average action across the board and the two big games from today also generated some very healthy numbers. In particular, the Liverpool V. Everton derby game at Goodison Park saw a lot of [...]

After some of the more volatile type of trading that we have seen in the online casino sector, today was relatively quiet by comparison. The numbers for most of the major players were a little on the lethargic side but not hugely damaging. Monday November 23rd 2009 saw PartyGaming get a lift. At the start [...]

888 Holdings PLC gained ground on Tuesday November 17th 2009. After the slow start to the trading week for the online casino sector that we outlined here yesterday, 888 Holdings was one of the companies that did that bit better than the average numbers from across the board today. Th company price had held up [...]

The online gambling ban in the United States is a very well publicized problem for the online casino industry. One of the difficulties that the sector has suffered with but that is not publicized in the wider media is the fact that many of the most used advertising routes online are also not available for [...]