The American Gaming Association (AGA) has launched a new Responsible Gaming Intervention Effectiveness Scale to evaluate responsible gambling messages. This scale provides academics, industry members and others interested in positive play with a research-based tool they can use to evaluate responsible gaming messages and serves as a stepping-stone to further research on how to best…
Yesterday, the Player Protection Hub teamed up with Affiliate Leaders for the SBC Digital – Affiliate Marketing day. Player Protection Hub Editor Steve Hoare hosted a fascinating conversation with four responsible affiliates debating how to adapt to the increasingly arduous regulatory rules around responsible gambling and advertising. With European countries increasingly turning to advertising bans…
The National Centre for Social Research has published a mostly positive review of Great Britain’s ban on credit card for gambling. Great Britain was the first country to pass a credit card ban when it introduced the regulation in April 2020. The Gambling Commission’s Executive Director of Research and Policy commented: “We are pleased that…
Researchers highlighted the lack of robust methodologies, a lack of consistent terminology for gambling outcomes, and a lack of studies that compared problem gamblers and non-problem gamblers, when studying the literature around the effects of near-wins on the brain. The study carried out at the University of Porto, Neurophysiological Correlates of Near-Wins in Gambling: A…
New research into the use of loot boxes on the popular Steam platform has shed new light on their legality and gambling regulators’ failure to prosecute supposedly illegal operators. The paper from video gaming law specialist Leon Xiao of the Center for Digital Play, IT University of Copenhagen, concludes that paid loot boxes with random…
A group of experts concluded that there is a pressing need to conduct joint screening at all points of interaction around harmful gambling and neurodiversity, during a webinar hosted by the Gambling Lived Experience Network (GLEN). International studies have found that in groups of individuals screening positive for gambling disorder, a quarter or more also…
We are heading down under for the latest episode of iGaming Daily, supported by Optimove. In Australia pressure mounts on the Labor government to stick to its principles and enforce a blanket ban on gambling advertising across all media platforms as the media reports that Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and his party are in favour…
The Provincial Institute of Lottery and Casinos ( IPLyC ) of the province of Buenos Aires led a meeting to prevent online gambling among minors. The head of the IPLyC, Gonzalo Atanasof , participated together with the Undersecretary of Mental Health, Problematic Consumption and Violence, Julieta Calmels , and the mayor of Florencio Varela, Andres Watson , in the first meeting within the framework of…
The Ombudsman of the Argentine province of Córdoba has shared a survey carried out with teenagers between 14 and 17-years-old from public and private schools, which highlighted that 18.7 percent have gambled on online sites in the last six months. The report published this week, “Online Gambling”, shared by the Deputy Ombudsman, Carlos Galoppo , was based on data collected…
A new study from the University of Barcelona in partnership with Professor Mark Griffiths of Nottingham Trent University reveals a mixed picture on the influence of gambling advertising on patients with gambling disorder. On the one hand, a statistically significant association was found between higher gambling advertising impact and higher scores on gambling severity. On…