Bookmakers in the United Kingdom will adopt a voluntary ban on TV advertising around daytime sporting events from next year.
The change is expected to be introduced in the summer of 2019 and bans all TV betting adverts during pre-watershed live sport, starting five minutes before the event begins, and ending five minutes after it finishes.
The revised Gambling Industry Code for Socially Responsible Advertising, developed by the Industry Group for Responsible Gambling (IGRG), will also end [...]