Monthly Archives: February 2015

Unibet numbers way up in 2014 after Kambi Sports Solutions sale

Online gambling operator Unibet enjoyed healthy gains in 2014, although the numbers were artificially boosted by the sale in May of its Kambi Sports Solutions division. Full-year revenue rose 16% to £312m while earnings and profit after tax doubled to £115.7m and £93.4m respectively, although £35.3m of this came via its Kambi sale.

For the three months ending Dec. 31, revenue was up a more modest 5% to £78m, while earnings fell 6% to £18.9m and profit fell 8% to £13.5m. Unibet cited below average sports betting margins and unfavorable currency exchange rates for the shortfall while insisting revenue would have risen 16% had average currency exchange rates not gone south.

Sports betting accounted for 39% of group revenue in Q4, with revenue rising 7% from Q4 2013. Casino and games garnered a 52% share (revenue +12%). Q4 saw Unibet’s poker product deal its hundred millionth hand since it relaunched as a network-independent standalone site, but the vertical’s revenue fell 28%, representing just 2% of the overall pie.

Nordic markets accounted for 49% of Q4 revenue, with Western Europe contributing 40%, Central, Eastern and Southern Europe adding 8% and ‘Other’ (which includes Australia) responsible for the remaining 3%. The Nordics’ share was basically flat, while Western Europe was up 18%, the rest of Europe fell 3% and Other fell 21%.

Live-betting’s share of total sports betting stakes rose from 43.5% in Q4 2013 to 47.5% last year, while pre-game stakes fell to 52.5%. Overall stakes rose 18% year-on-year to £459.6m. Mobile wagering accounted for 43% of sports betting revenue and Unibet’s active customer ranks grew 10% to 570k in Q4.

Unibet CEO Henrik Tjärnström said trading in the first five weeks of 2015 had seen average daily gross winnings revenue improve by 5% over the same period last year. The company has also assumed full ownership of real-money social casino operator Bonza Gaming after taking a 45% stake in March 2013.

KAMBI ENJOYING LIFE ON ITS OWN

The $122M New Jersey iGaming Tallied in 2014 Is Tip of the Iceberg

In 2014 the online gaming operators in New Jersey generated $122 million in Gross Gaming Revenue, just 1/10th of the foolhardy estimates Governor Chris Christie forecasted, and less than 1/2 of several more conservative estimates.

Of that $122 million, New Jersey’s cut (online gaming is taxed at 15%) was $18.4 million. Not a large amount, but it’s $18.4 million New Jersey’s budget didn’t possess before online gaming came to the state. Still, in the grand scheme of a state’s budget this is a near insignificant amount.

However, this number doesn’t tell the entire story of online gambling’s economic impact on the Garden State. The tax revenue garnered from iGaming operators is just a piece of the pie, and doesn’t take into account the taxable income on the players’ end, the jobs created and marketing dollars spent by iGaming companies, or the licensing fees paid by iGaming operators and their vendors.

The byproducts of regulation

$485 million Powerball jackpot has players dreaming big

Jerome Simmons stood on a Charleston street corner with arms stretched wide, imagining that he was already holding the oversized grand-prize check for Wednesday night’s $485 million Powerball drawing. The jackpot, the third-largest in Powerball history, would mean a $327 million cash payout or $485 million in annual payments spread out over 30 years, officials said.

Powerball pot packs life-changing wallop

The nearly $500 million Powerball jackpot tonight could leave a lone winner with an estimated $327.7 million lump sum payment – enough to buy the most expensive piece of art ever sold and still have $27 million to build a private museum for it. “It is the third-largest Powerball jackpot in the history of the multi-state game,” Lottery officials said in a statement about the estimated prize that stood at $485 million last night.

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ODD GAMBLING FACTS

#1 The Devil’s Game

All of the numbers on a roulette wheel add up to 666, hence why roulette is referred to as “The Devil’s Game.” Well, after all the money we’ve lost on roulette wheels, at least that’s what we call it.

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#4 Gambling addictis

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Approximately 5% of people who gamble will become gambling addicts. For your information, a gambling addict is defined as a person who spends money irresponsibly which impacts both themselves and the people around them.

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#6 Slots jackpot

The largest slots jackpot in Las Vegas history was $39,713,982.25. However, it’s also worth noting that most Vegas machines only give a daily payout of $108.36, so don’t hold your breath on being the lucky winner when the jackpot starts to get up there!

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Overheard: The Lottery's Lesser Fools

Wednesday’s Powerball drawing could result in the third-largest jackpot in U.S. history at $485 million. Cue breathless media speculation about what the lucky winner will do with their newfound wealth and curmudgeons in the financial sphere going tsk-tsk at how silly some people are to waste their hard-earned money on participating in lotteries.

DJ Pauly D becomes Britney Spears' sex slave – onstage at Planet Hollywood

DJ Pauly D hosts his Super Bowl 49 pre-party at Vanity on Saturday, Jan. 31, 2015, in the Hard Rock Hotel. DJ Pauly D, of “Jersey Shore” fame and a headliner DJ here in Las Vegas for years now, has become a full-time Las Vegas resident and watched Britney Spears’ hit resident show “Britney: Piece of Me” on Monday night at Axis at Planet Hollywood.

Social & Mobile Gambling Conference 2015: How to build the business of future?

A modern person spends more and more time on the Internet, and therefore the business is gradually moving to the Web. Gambling is a vivid example. Visiting the Social & Mobile Gambling Conference, you will learn about the current state of social and mobile gambling and the prospects of the industry. This is the first event in the Russian Federation on mobile and social network gambling.

Online gambling is among the most profitable and promising internet business industries. Why? Everything is simple. Gambling is one of the oldest human passions and the Internet is a world of endless possibilities and in addition the best trading platform.

Every day a lot of people spend their free time in the web and they all want to have fun, experience emotions and try their luck. So, provide them with such opportunity, and at the same time earn!

Learn how to put this idea into practice visiting the second in a row, but still the only one in Russia conference on mobile gaming industry Social & Mobile Gambling Conference. The event will be held on March 12, 2015 in Moscow.

Come to the event and you will

learn what trends prevail in the industry of online gambling today and what will be popular tomorrow;

understand how to start business in the industry;

Use Branding to Smash Competitors and Stick Your Voice in Everyone’s Head

“Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising”  –  Mark Twain

I am going to come right out and say that it is crucial to brand well. Like really, really crucial. This might sound trivial, or even stupidly obvious to some, but it has to be said. So many times I have heard ‘that’s just branding’ or ‘branding has no value’ or similar nonsense while negotiating. Folks probably say this because at times, especially to the not so tech savvy, it can be hard to measure.

There is a reason people pay so much to have commercials on TV, or have felt on a poker table. Branding helps sell.

The point of branding is to interact an impression on the customer. This impression is usually based on an interruption but not exclusively.

There is branding and there is re-branding. Both are mission critical to a successful business. Some brands sell themselves, some brands need a little push.

The Brand

For the new business, it is crucial to understand how to brand it. There is a plethora of good advice on the web with a few easy searches. I recommend doing this before jumping in full steam ahead.