Gaming News Canada Show

The breaking news of iGaming Ontario’s Q3 2022-23 facts and figures from the province’s regulated sports betting and igaming industry, along with a shining of the spotlight on women in gaming south of the border made for an hour of many voices and meaningful discussion on the latest Gaming News Canada Show. On Thursday morning, iGaming Ontario released its (rather) long-awaited Market Performance...

To cover a busy 8-10 days in the Canadian sports betting and gaming business, including some not-so-flattering coverage – especially on the frequent flow of advertisements on any and all platforms – we were joined by two veterans of the industry. Sue Schneider, the VP of strategy and growth, Americas for SBC, and Avenue H Capital principal Benjie Cherniak weighed in on both the challenges and oppo...

Kindred Group’s Canadian country manager Amanda Brewer, Responsible Gambling Council CEO Shelley White and Quarter4 co-founder and CEO Kelly Brooks provided their perspective on the progress made to expand the opportunities for women in the sports betting and gaming industry, especially in leadership positions. White also discussed the RGC’s priorities for the coming year in a congested regulated...

This week’s show is highlighted by a lively discussion about both sportsbook operators creating their own media properties, and the still-early days of media companies trying to integrate sports betting information and opinion into their broadcasts of games and highlight shows without incurring further wrath from sports fans who aren’t bettors. Sports Ventures Holdings (owners of Bet99) CEO Jared...

In the final episode of the Gaming News Canada Show podcast for 2022, Canadian Gaming Association president/CEO Paul Burns, Kindred Group/Unibet Canadian country manager Amanda Brewer, Sightline Payments Canadian VP Will Hill and PointsBet Canada Chief Commercial Officer Nic Sulsky discussed a dynamic year in Canada’s sports betting and gaming industry – highlighted by the opening of Ontario’s reg...

Dr. Cheri Bradish, the Director of the Future of Sports Lab at Toronto Metropolitan University, joined The Gaming News Canada Show to discuss the proposed Canadian women’s pro soccer league announcement, girls and women in sport, and the opportunities and challenges faced by sportsbooks as potential corporate partners. Also, we catch up with the latest on the FIFA World Cup, and debate on who...

The Gaming News Canada Show went on the road for the first time, holding court from PointsBet Canada’s new offices in downtown Toronto. Scott Vanderwel, the CEO of PointsBet Canada and Chief Commercial Officer Nic Sulsky spoke about the company’s investment in Ontario’s regulated igaming industry. Amanda Brewer, the Canadian country manager for Kindred Group, joined Sulsky to weigh in on the emplo...

On this episode of The Gaming News Canada Show podcast, Betano’s Canadian country manager Kris Abbott speaks about the Ontario market newcomer’s partnership with Room 4-4-2’s for the soccer show’s Qatar 2022 coverage. Also, podcast regulars Amanda Brewer from Kindred Group, Will Hill of Sightline Payments and Canadian Gaming Association president/CEO Paul Burns spoke about the New York Times’s inv...

In this episode of the Gaming News Canada Show, Rivalry co-founder and CEO Steven Salz talks about the Toronto company’s rise in the esports betting space, its results so far in Ontario’s regulated igaming industry, and its marketing and operational efforts targeted at Gen Z and millennials. Lindsay Slader, the Managing Director – Gaming for GeoComply, joined the show to explain the opening of the...

On the latest Gaming News Canada Show podcast, Paul Burns weighed in on the long-awaited arrival of sports betting at some casinos across Ontario in the latest Gaming News Canada Show podcast. Joining the president and CEO of the Canadian Gaming Association to discuss the topic are the Ontario Lottery & Gaming Commission's director of media relations Tony Bitonti, Sightline Payments executive...

In this episode of The Gaming News Canada Show podcast, Anthem Sports & Entertainment executive Anthony Cicione joined us to talk about the addition of Parleh Media Group’s Room 4-4-2 soccer show to the menu of sports betting and daily fantasy sports programs on Anthem’s Game+ network. Kindred Group’s Amanda Brewer and Will Hill from Sightline Payments, along with Mark Silver and Gavin Roth fr...

On the latest Gaming News Canada Show podcast, Playmaker Capital co-founder and CEO Jordan Gnat provides some insight into the company’s acquisition of Wedge Traffic, and also talks about Playmaker’s plunge into the podcast business. Amanda Brewer, the Canadian country manager for Kindred Group, and TRM Public Affairs president Troy Ross take a look back at a hugely successful Global Gaming Expo (...

On this edition of The Gaming News Canada Show, SBC Americas Editor Jessica Welman and Responsible Gambling Council CEO Shelley White help us set the table for this week’s Global Gaming Expo, which is expected to attract some 18,000 gaming industry types to The Venetian. White also gives the lowdown on the RGC’s new PSA campaign in collaboration with thinkTV to educate the public on the risks invo...

This week, The Gaming News Canada podcast is joined by Kris Abbott, the former Canadian country manager for Coolbet who was recently hired by Kaizen Gaming in the same role for Kaizen’s Betano sportsbook brand. BetSwap founder Brent Winston discussed the latest happenings with the Toronto based startup, and Room 4-4-2 host James Sharman teed up this week’s soccer party at The Rivoli along with the...

On this week’s episode, Roto Wire founder and CEO Peter Schoenke and long-time fantasy sports guru Digger Turnbull spoke about the shutdown of daily fantasy sports in Ontario and the efforts of the Fantasy Sports & Gaming Association to bring back DFS (to give your support, go to  fantasysportsforall.com/Ontario . Amanda Brewer, the Canadian country manager for Kindred Group, and Nic Suls...

This week, Canadian sports betting industry veteran Steve Rapp joined us to talk about his new role as Canadian Country Manager for Pinnacle, and about the company waiting for iGaming Ontario approval after receiving a licence from the Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario. Nic Sulsky, the Chief Commercial Officer for PointsBet Canada, discussed the company’s $1 million bracket challenge and ot...

Amanda Brewer, the Canadian country manager for Kindred Group, and Will Hill, Canadian vice-president of business development for Sightline Payments, provided their insight into the first quarterly report presented by iGaming Ontario on the province’s regulated sports betting and igaming business. Brewer and Hill both call for patience, pointing to a market making the transition from grey to white...

Group founder Mark Silver about the evolution of Canada’s first newsletter dedicated to the new sports betting and gaming landscape in Canada. Beginning with the Parleh newsletter in January 2021 when McAllister chronicled the march of Bill C-218 towards amending the Criminal Code of Canada to open the door for provinces to offer single-event sports betting to covering the early months of Ont...

Spotlight Sports Group hosted a conversation with industry experts in May 2022 to discuss the early weeks of Ontario's online sports betting business. The panel included Rick Wolf from Spotlight Sports Group, Nic Sulsky from PointsBet Canada, and Aubrey Levy from theScore Bet. They covered various aspects, including market opening, customer acquisition and retention strategies, popular betting tre...