BetVictor is looking to expand its presence in Canada after becoming the official sports betting partner for the 2023 Canadian Elite Basketball League (CEBL).
The 2023 CEBL season tips-off on Wednesday May 24 as the Ottawa BlackJacks host the defending 2022 Champion Brampton Honey Badgers.
The CEBL, which features 10 teams located [...]
The government of the Australian state of New South Wales (NSW) has reaffirmed plans to ban external gambling-related signage from pubs and clubs by 1 September.
As part of the pledge to reduce problem gambling, pubs and clubs will be formally notified this week that all external gambling-related signs, from fixed [...]
Online betting operator 1xBet has agreed a partnership with the Peruvian Football Federation (FPF) to become the main sponsor of Liga 2, the country’s second-highest football division.
The initial one-year agreement seeks to increase the visibility of Liga2, with FPF president Agustín Lozano stating that the alliance reaffirms the federation’s commitment [...]
The UK Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has ruled against an advertisement for the Kwiff betting and gaming brand for being inappropriately targeted.
The ad appeared on the website of Portsmouth Football Club within a news article about the Junior Blues, the club’s membership program for children aged 4-17.
The featured text stated: [...]
Betsson is being threatened with a multi-million Euro fine by Finnish authorities over the content of its websites.
According to an order dated 7 April and published today by Finland’s National Police Board, Betsson must remove any marketing material that is targeted at people in Finland from its website, or face [...]
British society lottery operator The Health Lottery has appointed Mark Nash to the newly created role of marketing director.
Nash will play an integral part in the introduction of the company’s new brand identity and the planned relaunch of The Health Lottery’s website this summer.
He joins the operator from Aviva where [...]
Brazil will regulate sports betting under a Provisional Measure introduced Thursday by the ministries of planning, management, health, tourism and sport.
The Provisional Measure will establish a secretariat within the ministry of finance that will be responsible for evaluating and authorising sports betting operators in Brazil and regulating the market to [...]
The Norwegian Gaming Authority is recommending that state-owned operator Norsk Tipping reduce its marketing expenditure by 20 per cent this year.
The recommendation follows the authority’s recent successful efforts to clamp down on advertising by unlicensed online gambling operators, which in turn reduces the need to promote the country’s gambling monopoly.
“We [...]
Flutter Entertainment’s Sportsbet brand has been rapped by Australia’s Ad Standards Community Panel.
The self-regulatory authority of the Australian advertising industry found that a recent television ad for Sportsbet breached provisions of the AANA Wagering Advertising and Marketing Communication Code by implying a link between wagering and sexual success.
The ad opens [...]
New Jersey Attorney General Matthew Platkin and Division of Gaming Enforcement (DGE) director David Rebuck have announced a series of new initiatives to expand the office’s responsible gaming efforts.
The initiatives build on DGE’s responsible gaming efforts announced in early February and include new advertising standards for operators, the introduction of a new position [...]
Dutch gambling regulator Kansspelautoriteit (KSA) has imposed a €400,000 fine on BetEnt for breaching advertising regulations.
The company was found to have sent advertising material for its Betcity.nl brand to customers aged 18-24 between October 2021 and March 2022.
This is in breach of Dutch regulations prohibiting the targeting of vulnerable groups, which includes [...]
The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) has issued a formal warning to sports streaming service Kayo for infringing the country’s gambling advertising regulations during the 2022 Australian Football League (AFL) .
An investigation by the ACMA found that gambling promotions were streamed on the Kayo service during the Fremantle vs. Collingwood [...]