An uproar over the scoring in an NCAA basketball game highlights the issue of the NCAA and gambling but also has implications for the broader question of how data for sports betting purposes is distributed.
New Jersey has earned its reputation as a trailblazer for legal online gambling, and it is certainly reaping the benefits of its far-sightedness in challenging PASPA. Now the state is once again setting the pace with another form of betting. This time it is fixed-odds horse wagering, but this new adventure doesn’t come without its…
The news that Sportradar has listed in New York on Nasdaq means that we now have three sports betting data providers on the public markets, with Genius Sports and IMG Arena, as part of Endeavor being the others. The exposure from listed status means we now have greater insight into one of the most critical…
It’s hardly news to say that FanDuel Sportsbook is doing well in the US market. Just how well is displayed on page 19 of Deutsche Bank’s iGaming Monthly roundup for June of recent gross gaming revenue (GGR) reports from a basket of regulated states.
In the shiny new world of regulated sports betting, horse racing betting can sometimes be seen as an anachronism, a hangover from a long-distant past when a bettor’s only options were to bet on track or at off-track wagering facilities.
A recent note from the gaming sector analysts at Goldman Sachs should give US sports betting operators some pause for thought. Looking at the prospects for recently floated sports data and related services supplier Genius Sports, Goldman’s team boasted the company as a “best-in-class provider of picks-and-shovels” to the sports-betting sector.
It’s no secret promotional spend in some key sports betting states remains at elevated levels. However, what is surprising is not all operators are feeling the impact equally.
Net-zero is all the rage, and it’s not just an aim in the debate around climate change. In the gambling sector, achieving zero harm for consumers from their gambling activities is similarly a goal that has come into vogue.
As the NFL announces a trio of official sponsorship deals with Caesars, DraftKings, and FanDuel, a key phrase in the legislation in four regulated states for official data mandates could yet have a central role in what the sportsbooks end up paying for NFL data.
The rolling effort on the part of the US sports betting and online gambling sector to subsume the UK-listed gambling sector continues after the news that Bally’s Corporation is in the process of acquiring Gamesys in a deal that values the latter at $2.7bn.
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