Horse and greyhound racing returned to the UK this week after a 76-day shutdown due to the Covid-19 pandemic. With masks, social distancing and empty grandstands on the face of it, it is a very different product to the one we left behind in a pre-coronavirus world. AllSported, the expert trading solution from the Racing […]
Kwiff this week announced it has begun a long-term partnership with the Racing Post which will see the horseracing specialists provide a full package of horseracing content, data and analysis across their racing product. The new-look data-filled racecards went live on June 1 with the return of British racing. The package not only focuses on […]
High street bookmakers have received a major boost with the news that they can potentially reopen betting shops in England in time for Royal Ascot, nearly three weeks earlier than first thought. Prime minister Boris Johnson announced on Monday evening that “non-essential retail” outlets will be expected to be able to open from June 15 if the […]
The Racing Post, the daily newspaper dedicated to horseracing and part of Spotlight Sports Group, will resume publication of its print edition on Monday, June 1, to coincide with the resumption of British racing. The daily title will return for sale across Britain and Ireland as racing becomes the first mainstream professional sport to return […]
CLARION Gaming’s Ice North America Digital has kicked off with an array of speakers and guest panels dissecting the industries biggest topics with the number of attendees having passed the 2,000 mark earlier this week. The event, which replaces the exhibition which had been due to take place in New Orleans but was postponed until […]
Punters woke up to a new landscape on Tuesday morning with the birth of a global betting giant worth more than £10billion. The merger of Flutter, the owner of Paddy Power and Betfair, and The Stars Group, a Canadian-based online betting and gaming group which bought Sky Bet in 2018, was first proposed last October and was given […]
Big data, trends and AI have been buzz terms that have been heard around conferences halls during gaming exhibitions over the past number of years. Automated pricing has been around for a while now but how customers use it is beginning to change. Since AllSported, the trading solution from Racing Post, involving TXODDS and Banach […]
AllSported, the trading solution from Racing Post, has expanded it’s made to measure pricing offering to greyhound racing. Greyhound racing was one of the last surviving sports during the recent global shutdown due to the COVID-19 outbreak worldwide and has the shown ability to operate behind closed doors as it returned in both the UK […]
Shares in GVC Holdings, the parent company of Ladbrokes and Coral, surged on Monday despite it revealing it expects to lose £50 million in earnings per month due to the coronavirus outbreak. The company had previously said that the loss of international sport and retail closures would reduce its monthly ebitda (earnings before interest, taxation, depreciation and […]
More than £2.6 million was raised for NHS charities through betting on Saturday’s Virtual Grand National. And the Betting and Gaming Council (BGC), the standards body for betting and gaming, hopes that total will grow as winning punters donate some or all their payouts. Announcing the betting profit (after winnings and duties are paid) to […]
