Gaming News Canada Show

Under other circumstances, last week’s announcement about the launch of another awards show in the sports betting and gaming industry would induce a shaking of the eyes and a scratching of the scalp. After all this is an industry which throws out awards like promises during election campaigns.   But. . . when WagerWire co-founder Travis Geiger and gambling startups insider Jesse Learmonth (th...

Gambling industry veteran Amanda Brewer returned to Gaming News Canada Show presented by GBG Plc, having just. . . er returned. . . from last week’s ICE Barcelona conference.   Brewer shared her thoughts on the move of ICE to the Spanish city from London, and some of the many conversations she had with members of the Canadian Gaming Association and stakeholders from other parts of sports bett...

If you’ve been following along with the writings and audio recordings on this (mostly) august media platform, you know all about the still-growing popularity of igaming within the world of gambling.   So, when sports media industry confreres Steve McAllister and Jason Sukrahj reconnected on the latest episode of the Gaming News Canada Show presented by GBG Plc, there was some talk about the c...

The latest episode of the Gaming News Canada Show presented by GBG Plc is one of the two-segment variety.   Paul Burns, the president and CEO of the Canadian Gaming Association, returned to the podcast for a rapid-round conversation including  the impact  of the current turbulence around the Canadian political system on the gambling industry. The proroguing of Parliament by the Libe...

There were some raises of Spockian eyebrows last week when Flutter Entertainment, the owners of FanDuel,  announced an expected drop in revenue  of some $370 million (Amarican bucks) thanks to its NFL customers getting the better of the books this season.   So, as the four-down football league’s postseason got underway with wild card weekend, Gaming News Canada Show regular Phill Gr...

There’s a full-out sprint across the sports industry these days when it comes to exploiting data, technology, and more recently, artificial intelligence.   Late last year, the founder/CEO of Sportradar, Carsten Koerl referred to the “global revolution” happening around sports analytics. The company’s senior vice-president of fan engagement, Patrick Mostboeck joined us from Austria for a new e...

The next 12 months are expected to deliver continuing change when it comes to the business of sports, sports media, and of course, sports betting. That was made clear on the first Gaming News Canada Show presented by GBG Plc. of 2025. Brian Cooper, the long-time Canadian sports sponsorship guru and current frequent board member – including chair of MKTG Canada, and Canada Basketball, and a member...

Back in January, when we were still doing the LinkedIn Audio thing on Thursday afternoons, a Gaming News Canada Show panel covered a lot of real estate over 60 minutes. Mitch Davidson, the chief of staff for iGaming Ontario, joined us to provide some thoughts on the best numbers yet from the regulated business of sports wagering and online gaming in iGO’s latest quarterly market performance report...

In early August iGaming Ontario let it be known that a joint bid by Integrity Compliance 360 and Australian company IXUP had been awarded the contract to develop a centralized self-exclusion system for Ontario’s regulated online sports betting and igaming marketplace.   Catherine Jarmain, the director of industry programs and monitoring for iGaming Ontario, and IC360 president Eric Frank join...

On the roller-coaster that is the current state of sports media in North America, the folks at The GIST are among the ones enjoying the ride.   In October, “the revolutionary and inclusive sports media brand” announced it had reached one million subscribers across its various and sundry platforms. It’s most likely not a coincidence that the milestone was reached in a year highlighted by the o...

Eighteen years ago, a former Microsoft engineer was tuned in to the changing landscape of sports broadcasting rights and the opportunity to guide sports fans through the expanding maze.   That bit of prescience prompted Mark Phillip to create  Are You Watching This?!  which today provides real-time data for professional and U.S. college sports around the world. In 2019, after the ov...

The latest shoe to drop on the current tempest around regulated gambling in North America happened yesterday when the U.S. Senate for the Judiciary announced a America’s High-Stakes Bet on Legalized Sports Gambling hearing for Tuesday, Dec. 16. All of the ruckus south of the border around sports betting and online gaming, including the angst around problem gambling, sports betting advertising – wh...

The  continuing rise  in esports betting – expected to hit $2.5 billion (U.S.) in 2024 – and the partnership between Bet99 and PandaScore which was  announced last week  – prompted us to bring back Steven Salz to the Gaming News Canada Show presented by GBG Plc.   The founder and CEO of Rivalry, which cut its teeth at inception on esports wagering back in 2017, answered ou...

While the snow was flying outside of Gaming News Canada HQ on the shores of Lake Huron earlier this week, your humble host fired up the virtual studio to welcome Dave Briggs, the former managing editor at Catena Editor and editor interim of the Gaming News Canada newsletter, for an unplugged/unvarnished/unfiltered episode of the Gaming News Canada Show presented by GBG Plc.   Instead of openi...

Three days of arguments around the expanding of daily fantasy sports and online poker in Ontario’s regulated gambling industry  were heard  in the province’s court of appeal last week with a decision by the five-judge panel not expected until the new year. The legal beagles piled up the billable hours on behalf of their clients, including the Douglas Ford government, sports betting and g...

These are heady times for the British Columbia Lottery Corporation. Just weeks after hosting its annual  New Horizons in Safer Gambling conference , BCLC was awarded the Best Flagship Responsible Gaming Award – Level 4 in Paris at the World Lottery Association’s annual global summit. So, we invited the corp’s director of player health, Ryan McCarthy to make his return to the Gaming News Canad...

Sporttrade and its CEO are carving their own path through the sports betting business This fall, New Jersey-based online sports wagering business Sporttrade announced the launch of its app in Virginia, the fifth U.S. state where the seven-year-old company is operating. Chief executive officer Alex Kane founded Sporttrade in 2017, one year before the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the Professional a...

The latest episode of the Gaming News Canada Show is one of the breaking news variety. On the eve of next week’s Kioti National in St. John’s, the Grand Slam of Curling getting together with ALT Sports Data on a multi-layered partnership highlighted by growth and innovation around making the sport more wagering-friendly and also supporting the CGOS’ efforts to grow curling internationally. "Our pa...

There’s been a renewed flurry of media coverage lately around the legal gambling industry in the true north, strong and free, including:   ·  An editorial  by The Globe and Mail calling on the Justin Trudeau government to pass Bill S-269 before our elected federal officials head home for the holidays: ·  An interview  by Matt Galloway of CBC’s The Current with a probl...

The latest financial results released over the past week or so by the likes of  Sportradar ,  Genius Sports ,  DraftKings , theScore Bet  and  Flutter Entertainment  all refer to the continued increase in activity by sports bettors when it comes to in-play/live wagering.   From Genius Sports CEO Mark Locke, in his prepared statements in a call with analysts when...

While Swifties  prepare to gather  in Toronto next week for their beloved songstress’s six concerts, the Westin Harbour Castle will be home for three days to leaders in the sports industry from across North America - including NHL commissioner Gary Bettman and MLSE president/CEO Keith Pelley – for the 17th annual  PrimeTime sports management conference .   Among the pletho...

These aren’t the best of times for affiliates in the business of gambling, as reflected by the  recent news  involving XL Media, Catena Media and Better Collective.   Straight to the Point publisher/editor Steve Ruddock returned to the Gaming News Canada Show. Ruddock walked us through his experiences in the affiliates industry over the past 15 years, and discussed with your humble...

The Responsible Gambling Council recently released its  2023-24 annual report , which included 32 igaming sites across 20 operators being accredited through the council’s RG Check program over the past year, and the Ontario government delivering an unprecedented $9 million investment to the Responsible Internet Gambling Fund over three years.   Shelley White, who is leaving the RGC...

Amazon Prime  dropped the puck  on its NHL digital streaming journey across Canada over the past week, first with the debut of NHL Coast to Coast last Thursday followed by  Prime Monday Night Hockey  while we were awakening from our Thanksgiving turkey coma.   Sports Interaction has a segment in the first hour of the Thursday NHL Coast to Coast broadcast. To learn more abo...

It turns out that the road to regulated sports betting and online gaming in Alberta has hit a pothole or two.   Tom Nightingale of Canadian Gaming Business  reported Monday  that more time is needed for the provincial government in the land of the Oilers and Flames to meet with various stakeholders with potential skin in the game of a legal gambling marketplace. For further con...