Sarah McGibney has been appointed Brand Director across all Gala gaming labels, including GalaBingo.com, GalaCasino.com and GalaSpins.com.

She joins the company with 18 years of experience working in the gaming industry, moving from IGT where she worked as Marketing and Operations Director for three years. Prior to her time at IGT, Sarah worked at a number of other notable companies, including St Minver and Sportingbet. Sarah replaces Angus Nisbet in the role, who is moving on to Playtech Bingo as Digital Managing Director.

Commenting on her appointment, Alison Digges, Managing Director of Gaming Brands at Ladbrokes Coral, said: “Sarah comes with a long background in the gaming industry and we are very happy to have her on board sharing her wealth of knowledge. Her experience will ensure she is will equipped to embrace any opportunities and challenges for the brands, and make great strides in the marketing this coming year.”

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New Solution Enables In-Play Messaging At Scale For Every Match

Tuesday 6th February 2018: Leading multi-channel messaging platform OtherLevels has revealed its new innovative in-play messaging module, designed to provide a more personalised live sports betting experience and boost revenues for operators.

Launched ahead of this year’s World Cup in Russia, the platform allows online sportsbooks to dynamically deliver messages promoting their latest in-play odds during live football or other sporting fixtures.

The real-time solution automatically sends out messages, triggered by a live event such as a goal or red card, to a target audience based on betting behaviour and those more likely to respond to its content. In addition, it removes the process where marketing executives and traders manually set up the delivery of such messages.

First title in spectacular new slots suite gallops onto Playtech’s extensive gaming portfolio with unique guaranteed jackpots

London: February 6th, 2018 – Playtech, the world’s leading Omni-channel gaming software, systems and services supplier, has launched Frankie Dettori Sporting Legends – the first title in its cutting-edge Sporting Legends suite. These action-packed casino games are linked to a series of industry-first, guaranteed jackpots that must be won every day.

Frankie Dettori Sporting Legends is a follow-up to the best-performing Playtech game Frankie Dettori Magic Sevens that has topped the slot charts for more than five years, and sees players ride to glory with a host of thrilling features, including galloping respins with a shifting stacked wild, and a rising win multiplier.

Have a flutter and back a filly in the free games feature and win a multiplier based on where it finishes in the Derby.

Supplier’s casino content joins existing poker and bingo provision

Malta, February 06 2017 – Multi-brand operator Kindred Group has gone live with Relax Gaming’s table games, with further casino content to be integrated in the coming months.

The innovative supplier’s premium, cost-effective Roulette and Blackjack titles have been made available to the group’s brands, including Unibet, MariaCasino, and 32Red.

Relax’s roulette sits on a proprietary RNG engine, and showcases accurate ball movement, while Blackjack players will be able to play three hands simultaneously using the same random draw mechanism.

Introducing Triple Edge Studios

6 February 2018

ISLE OF MAN – Microgaming is celebrating day one of ICE Totally Gaming 2018 by announcing it is working with Triple Edge Studios, an independent global game studio that will be supplying exclusive content to the online gaming giant.

It is the first of a new generation of independent game builders to be announced which will enable Microgaming to offer the market even greater choice and innovation, and deliver the very best gaming experience to its operators and their players.

Event-based jackpots need seeding only once

London, 6 February: Leander Games is forging ahead in the race to innovate gaming with a new set of linked jackpot games that work across a set of themes with a jackpot that pays before the featured event.

The games pick up on events such as Christmas, Halloween, St Patrick’s Day and the upcoming World Cup and present new event-based graphics but with the same features and proven maths model. It means players have both the thrill of the new along with the familiarity of a great game, enhancing player engagement and loyalty.

A particular new feature is that the jackpot balance is passed from one game to the next meaning it does not need a new jackpot seed from the casino operator for each event. The game is designed so the jackpot will be won before the themed event, creating tension and drama.

Paddy Power has signed up to take BAGS (“Bookmakers Afternoon Greyhound Service”) greyhound content on their own TV channel across their 631 shops.

Director of The Racing Partnership, Mark Kingston, said “We are delighted that Paddy Power has joined other betting shop operators in being able to show BAGS greyhound fixtures on their channels. The BAGS schedule comprises over 1,600 fixtures per year from well-known tracks with a proven record of integrity and welfare. This is a further vindication of the value of the BAGS brand and all it stands for.”

Manging Director for Retail at Paddy Power Betfair, David Newton said: “Paddy Power is delighted to have entered into this agreement to ensure that customers have access to a broader range of quality greyhound racing content.”

The Racing Partnership (“TRP”) compiled its greyhound fixture list compiled in close collaboration with BAGS. The 1,619 fixtures are televised from 12 greyhound tracks: Belle Vue, Kinsley, Newcastle, Nottingham, Perry Barr, Peterborough, Poole, Sheffield, Sunderland, Swindon, Towcester and Yarmouth. These tracks currently make up the majority of the current BAGS schedule and so are both familiar to, and trusted by, bookmakers and their customers. The TRP service also includes fixtures from Towcester, home to the sport’s highest profile event, the Star Sports Greyhound Derby held each summer.

London – Takara Gaming Group (“TGG”) is set to bring the Asian hottest titles for casino gaming to the London ICE Totally Gaming Technology Expo 2018. With over 30,000 attendees from more than 150 countries, ICE Totally Gaming brings together international online and offline sectors. Featuring world-leading innovators drawn from the betting, bingo, casino, lottery, mobile, online, social and street sectors ICE provides a sensational, global perspective on all forms of latest casino gaming technology.

With the aim of bridging the gap between casino operators and Asian real-money gaming players, TGG has created the world’s first open-source gaming platform to provide significant freedom and flexibility for casino operators to build games with designers that meet global regulation requirements at only a fraction of time and cost.  By doing that, casino operators are now able to have a direct influence on the product creations with the game designers. This is a significant win-win result for the industry because for the first time the distance between game creators and operators are narrowing in all stages of game development, rather than waiting until the final product is created for the market.

Come and visit us at London ICE to learn more about the open-source gaming platform – Our team are looking forward in meeting you at Booth # N1-424.

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Stunning new slot game series linked to industry-first timed jackpots guaranteed to be won every day

London: February 6th, 2018 – Playtech, the world’s leading Omni-channel gaming software, systems and services supplier, has launched Sporting Legends, its latest action-packed suite of cutting-edge casino games linked to a series of timed jackpots guaranteed to be won every day.

The suite, created to celebrate the champions of the global sporting world, could not come at a better time and will be launched alongside some of the biggest events in sport including The Cheltenham Festival (March 2018), The Grand National (April) and The World Cup (June).

In an industry first, each game in the suite is linked to a series of three, timed Sporting Legends jackpots; daily, weekly and a Mega Jackpot. This incredible new feature presents players with huge cash prizes that must be won by the end of the day, week, plus a Mega progressive jackpot that offers a gigantic pay out.

World’s Strongest Man 2017 helps provide a test of industry’s muscle

Glasgow, 6 February, 2018: Specialist online gambling industry recruitment firm BettingJobs is once again bringing strongman Eddie Hall to its stand at ICE this year to  help launch the company’s new FindMyExpert offering.

Eddie won the World’s Strongest Man crown in May last year having been the UK’s strongest man for the past six years. He is the current world record holder in the dead lift category having heaved up 500kg or over 1,100 lbs

Hall is set to appear at the BettingJobs and FindMyExpert stand S1/202 on Wednesday 7 February between 12-4pm where he will be providing exhibition attendees with the opportunity to get a selfie or record an inspirational message on their phones.

The report recommends implementing digital identity verification tools to better meet the challenge of balancing a smooth user experience, compliance with security mandates, and operational efficiency

London, UK – February 6th, 2018 – An exclusive new report from identity verification expert Jumio has revealed that over 25% of online gambling customers have abandoned the account opening process because the process was too long or too complicated. In fact, the survey highlights that for more than 40% of respondents, opening an account takes at least 10 minutes and, for 10% of respondents, the process takes more than one hour.

Released today, The Balancing Act of Account Opening in the Online Gaming Industry highlights that, while online gambling operators understand that their customers expect a smooth, swift user experience and strong security measures, they are still failing to deliver to these often-conflicting criteria when onboarding new customers, particularly via mobile devices.

Specifically, the report reveals four key opportunities for operators to deliver a positive customer experience and streamline account opening across device types, while maintaining operational efficiency and adhering to strict KYC/AML compliance mandates: