Gaming Intelligence unveils the Supplier of the Year winners in this year’s North America edition of the Gaming Intelligence Awards.
While North American operators routinely dominate the headlines with their fierce market-share battles and omnipresent ad campaigns, the true engine of the region’s betting and gaming boom lies beneath the surface.
Today, we turn our attention to the architects of the digital floor and the sports betting betslip: the B2B suppliers.
This year’s battles for Supplier of the Year highlight the undisputed heavyweights of B2B gaming – the studios, data providers and platform architectures that fundamentally shape the North American player experience.
Here, we reveal the winners of our North America iGaming Supplier of the Year as Evolution, Play’n GO, and Playtech go head-to-head.
The iGaming Innovation of the Year category sees Evolution fight it out with IGT PlayDigital and MGM Live, while the iGaming Player Engagement Solution of the Year is a battle between Evolution, Games Global and IGT PlayDigital.
The Sports Betting Supplier of the Year is between Kambi, OpenBet and Sportradar, while the Sportsbook Player Engagement Solution & Innovation of the Year sees BETER go up against Genius Sports and Sportradar.
Congratulations to all our Gaming Intelligence Awards 2026 | North America winners!
The winners of the GIA North America Rising Star of the Year awards were announced Tuesday, while the GIA North America Operators of the Year were announced on Monday. Tomorrow we will announce our GIA North America Game of the Year across five product categories.
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| iGaming Supplier of the Year |
| EVOLUTION |
Evolution takes the top honours in this hotly contested category after yet another outstanding year of expansion and live dealer innovation. In a year which has seen the supplier celebrate two decades in the industry, Evolution has firmly established the gold standard for live casino across North America. Its portfolio has grown from a handful of live tables to more than 2,000 live tables globally, a number that has doubled over the past five years alone, which is backed up by strong regional distribution.
Evolution’s North America revenue grew by nearly 10 per cent to €159.7 million in the first half of 2026, and with a seventh live casino studio recently opening in the US, the company has come a long way from its beginnings in 2006 from a single studio in Latvia. The exclusive Hasbro partnership added new global IP for live casino and slot, highlighted by the success of MONOPOLY Live’s launch in New Jersey, Delaware, Connecticut, and Michigan. Evolution hasn’t just supplied the North American market, it has actively shaped its trajectory and is a deserved winner this year. The first 20 years is just the beginning.
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| iGaming Player Engagement Solution of the Year |
| IGT PLAYDIGITAL’s Engagement Platform |
As North American operators face escalating customer acquisition costs, maximizing player lifetime value has become a critical commercial imperative. IGT PlayDigital’s Engagement Platform isn’t just a retention tool, but redefines player engagement by giving operators a powerful solution to attract, reward and retain players across their entire gaming journey. In a market where retention is the ultimate battleground, operators can deploy a suite of promotional tools, including jackpots, prize drops, leaderboards, missions, tournaments, and network promotions, across both proprietary and third-party content.
The launch of MEGA VAULT, combining multiple engagement mechanics into a turnkey promotional experience, helped drive the platform’s exceptional performance across IGT PlayDigital’s operator network in the past year, as Engagement Platform promotions delivered a 193.1x increase in handle, an 11.94x increase in active players, and a 1.23x increase in average spins per user across 228 promotions. An engagement ecosystem that helps operators build deeper player relationships while delivering measurable commercial outcomes, it is a worthy winner of our iGaming Player Engagement Solution of the Year.
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| iGaming Innovation of the Year |
| EVOLUTION’s Dream Creator |
Evolution takes the 2026 iGaming Innovation award for Dream Creator, a platform that allows operators to build their own custom slots using established game math models such as Megaways, 777 Strike, Cash Volt, and Cash Goddess. Operators simply choose the model that fits their concept and then customize the game with their own logos, backgrounds, symbols, animations, reel layout, and soundtrack.
Since September 2025, Dream Creator has delivered strong results across all metrics, including active players, wagers and gross gaming revenue. By offering a fast and efficient way to produce custom games featuring some of the best math models in the industry, Evolution is delivering greater engagement for operators and a steady supply of entertaining new games for players, a win-win combination that fully justifies this award.
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| Sportsbook Supplier of the Year |
| OPENBET |
OpenBet maintains its position as North America’s leading sports betting technology provider, powering more operators than any competing third-party platform. Over the past year, it supported 22 WLA member lotteries and provided its technology to more than 200 customers, helping to deliver the sports betting ambitions of the region’s leading operators. Operationally, the OpenBet sportsbook platform continued to deliver record performance with 100% uptime during marquee US events such as the Super Bowl and March Madness, and processed $3 billion in stakes and 175 million bets during the 2026 FIFA World Cup.
OpenBet’s acquisition of SportCast brought modern same game parlays to sports fans, while the OpenLocator and Neccton geolocation and responsible gambling solutions help to ensure regulatory compliance in fragmented North American markets. It is no surprise that OpenBet is the partner of choice for commercial, state and tribal gaming operators alike.
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| Sportsbook Player Engagement Solution & Innovation |
| SPORTRADAR’s 4SIGHT |
Sportradar’s game-changing AI platform 4Sight transforms live sports viewing into an immersive, high-value betting experience for the player. 4Sight combines real-time data, predictive analytics, and slick visual storytelling to deliver actionable context precisely when fan excitement peaks. Supercharging coverage for major operators including DraftKings, as well as streaming service Peacock’s tailored NBA Performance View, 4Sight translates complex match metrics into clear insights on momentum, player performance, and scoring probability across sports content.
The business impact is undeniable: during ATP broadcasts, 4Sight drove a 22 per cent surge in betting activity while extending total watch time by 35 per cent. Sportradar’s 4Sight is winner of our Sportsbook Player Engagement Solution & Innovation award for bringing together official data, cutting-edge AI, and real-time betting context within live video streams to make in-play wagering more accessible and compelling.
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Tomorrow we will announce the 2026 North America Games of the Year across five product categories