This publication provides information about young people’s participation in different types of gambling and the prevalence of problem gambling. It includes statistics about those forms of gambling that children and young people can legally take part in along with gambling on age restricted products. The findings are taken from the annual Young People and Gambling…
In 2019 the UK Gambling Commission published the 2019 Young People & Gambling survey which looks at gambling trends of 11 – 16-year-olds in Great Britain. The survey looks at those forms of gambling and gambling style games that young people legally take part in along with gambling on age restricted products. Key takeaways Source:…
Andrea McGeachin, CEO at Neosurf, takes control of hosting duties on the latest episode of iGaming Daily, sponsored by SBC Summit Rio, as she is joined by Bill Pascrell, III, Partner, Princeton Public Affairs Group, to discuss how the two met and their RG passion and a call to action for payment firms to ‘come…
Blackpool FC, with its principal partner LeoVegas, are demonstrating solidarity for Safer Gambling Week.
During this Saturday’s (18 November) home fixture against Shrewsbury Town, the operator’s regular branding on the front of all home shirts will be replaced by key messaging and logos surrounding safe betting practices.
Sam Behar, LeoVegas Group Director of UK and Ireland, commented: “Responsible gaming is at the heart of our offering at LeoVegas.
“We are incredibly proud to work with Blackpool and to make sure all fans understand the range of tools we have on offer to ensure our players keep their play safe.”
Taking place 13-19 November, the annual campaign returns to promote safer betting practices across the UK and Ireland with the support of a wide range of partners.
“Safer Gambling Week is an important time of the year and, as such, ensuring that we replace our logo on the front of shirts to promote the week was crucial to us at LeoVegas,” added Behar.
“We thank Blackpoo..
GamCare is making good progress on delivery of its youth training and outreach initiatives this year, according to an update from the charity.
The group explained that over 100,000 young people have now attended its training sessions, with the 100,000th person stepping through the doors this week.
On top of this, over 25,000 professionals such as teachers and youth workers have also been trained by the group, as part of a plan to ensure those working with and in positions of influence with young people have skills in dealing with gambling-related issues.
Alexa Roseblade, Head of Youth at GamCare, said: “We are incredibly proud of the work the Young People’s Gambling Harm Prevention Programme has accomplished in raising awareness about the risk and prevalence of gambling for young people.
“Equipping 100,000 young people with the facts about gambling, supporting them to make informed decisions and giving them the knowledge of where to go if they need help is a significant achievemen..
Bulgaria’s National Revenue Agency (NRA) has confirmed that the country’s self-exclusion scheme has seen more than 24,000 newly registered people since December 2022.
After being brought to a halt with a series of regulatory changes back in 2020, the scheme was reactivated again on 12 December 2022 by the NRA to encourage consumers who believe they could or have been influenced by gambling harm to sign up for the self-exclusion scheme.
The registry itself is not in the public domain, with only a limited number of employees being given access by the General Director of the NRA, which was designated in 2020 as the supreme legislative authority overseeing gambling activity in the country after the abolition of the State Gambling Commission.
To ensure that they stay in line with local laws, gambling operators can request access to the registry so that they can monitor their customer base and flag down any person who has self-excluded.
Recent regulatory shifts also saw the NRA imple..
As Penn Entertainment gets ready to push the launch button on ESPN BET, the network is ensuring that it becomes a thought leader in responsible gaming by partnering with UNLV on RG research.
Under the terms of the agreement, ESPN will be the founding donor of a new body of UNLV research that will leverage the knowledge of the International Gaming Institute to develop a program to support responsible gaming policies.
The study seeks to develop a program dedicated to researching, educating people and advising companies on sports betting and the intersection that it has with media companies. This is particularly important as ESPN’s brand is the face of Penn Entertainment’s re-launched sportsbook.
“We are thrilled to have ESPN’s support for research, education, and innovation in the responsible, sustainable representation of sports betting in the media,” commented Brett Abarbanel, IGI Executive Director.
“The growth of betting and gambling subjects in US media have exploded in the ..
Drogenbeauftragter, the Federal Drug Commissioner of the Bundestag, has published the ‘Gambling Atlas of Germany’, providing comprehensive statistics and data on the harms and addiction associated with problem gambling.
The Atlas is the first ‘scientifically grounded report’ to measure problem gambling in Germany following the launch of the Fourth Interstate Treaty on Gambling (GlüNeuRStv), which came into effect on 1 July 2021. The law regulates online gambling activities across Germany’s 16 federal states.
The report was co-authored by academic stakeholders from the Institute for Interdisciplinary Addiction and Drug Research of ISD Hamburg and the Gambling Research Unit at the University of Bremen, with the support of the German Centre for Addiction Issues (DHS).
As stated by the report’s authors, “published today, the ‘Glücksspielatlas Deutschland 2023: Numbers, Data, Facts‘ offers a comprehensive and clear representation of all relevant impacts of the cross-sectional topic of ga..
The Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario (AGCO) is not the only group putting tremendous thought and taking tremendous care with player protection.
The Canadian Gaming Association is taking the initiative and launching a new program called the CGA Commitment and Strategy to Promote Player Health and Wellbeing. The effort aims to produce responsible gambling guiding principles for the association. The group will also promulgate an advertising and marketing code of conduct.
Part of that process includes involving Ad Standards Canada, which will help CGA develop the advertising code. The group is a non-profit group that has spent more than 60 years self-regulating advertisements in the country to ensure fair and honest practices in the industry.
Dec. 5, the CGA will host a day-long event at the offices of the accounting firm MNP in downtown Toronto. The day will include the following:
A workshop led by the Responsible Gambling Council (RGC) to develop guidelines around RG
A presen..
Betting and gaming media publisher XLMedia (XLM) has entered into a partnership with safer gambling organisation Better Change.
The agreement commences at the start of the UK’s Safer Gambling Week, a seven-day initiative focused on prompting responsible gaming across the country’s betting and gambling sector.
Initially, the partnership will focus on XLM’s whichbingo.co.uk brand, with the wider arrangement encompassing delivery of Better Change’s training programmes to XLM staff around safer gambling best practices.
Karen Tyrrell, Chief People and Operations Officer, commented: “WhichBingo.co.uk exists to provide our audiences with hours of entertainment and fun, key to protecting that entertainment is for us to ensure that wherever we can, we act in a safe and responsible way.
“Partnering with Better Change will give us direct access to a dedicated and knowledgeable team of experts who will help us in that endeavour. We are proud to be able to further educate our teams to deliver s..