Last week the 3rd annual iGaming Idol took place in Malta, a unique “Oscars-style” awards celebration highlighting incredible iGaming industry talent. We have a number of iGaming industry awards ceremonies taking place throughout the year and iGaming Idol always been extra special to me for two reasons in particular.

First of all, the focus of the awards is on people (as opposed to companies) and my greatest love on this planet is people and seeing people happy. Second of all, I’ve had the pleasure of hosting the awards each year with Michael Caselli and therefore have a first-hand understanding of just how much work goes into this one particular evening of recognition.

If we start from the beginning, the concept of iGaming Idol is the brainchild of Michael Pedersen and Ramona Mifsud, an idea that was conceived in 2016 and born four months later.

“iGaming Idol was originally my idea and came about as my wife and I were flicking through the TV channels and coincidentally came across a program on BBC called ‘Phone Idol’, which was an award show for phone sales people in the UK. I told my wife, ‘I think this concept would be fantastic for the iGaming industry’, she agreed and that’s how it all began”, shared iGaming Idol’s CEO Michael Pedersen.