ODDSPEDIA LAUNCHES SPORTS DATA WIDGETS FOR PUBLISHERS & AFFILIATES

Published

4 months ago

23/06/2020

In recent years, iGaming has been getting more and more popular. There is fierce competition not only between publishers, but also between affiliates.

In order for one company to stand out from the rest, they need to be very creative and to provide valuable, outstanding services. Today, we would like to talk about one of these iGaming companies called Oddspedia

Oddspedia is an international iGaming affiliate, and their main project focuses on sports and sport betting data – livescores, sport results, betting odds comparison and betting tools like sure bets finder, dropping odds and others.

Their leading project, Oddspedia.com, has received a product extension in the form of the Oddspedia Widgets. The website focuses on delivering fast live scores data and extensive odds comparison, which is now relayed to the subproduct targeted at publishers. The widgets aim to help webmasters improve user experience, provide useful information and monetize their traffic better.

An instrument to attract sports fans and grow revenue

The idea behind these widgets is to help webmasters all around the world improve their websites by providing real time sports and sports betting data to their users. It is a comprehensive solution which is ready to use, easy to integrate, and at the same time provides an additional option to monetizing traffic. This completely eliminates the hefty requirements, knowledge and expenses needed to develop in-house, which may be impossible for smaller webmasters. All feeds and data provided by the widgets can be implemented free of charge, which makes this compelling offering an excellent choice.

The widgets receive direct benefits of the parent Oddspedia.com website – providing wide sports coverage, a great portfolio of available bookmakers and quick data serving with almost real-time updates on live score and odds information. Webmasters can choose between more than 30 sports and hundreds of leagues in 5 different languages.

It seems clear that by utilizing Oddspedia Widgets, publishers can now easily offer valuable and entertaining information to their customers. But what kind of widgets are available exactly?

Odds comparison widget: As the name suggests, the widget brings full-featured odds comparison. Make your users happy with the help of sport and betting data from more than 70 bookmakers, presented in a very clear, easy to understand way. This is a free tool that lets your users find the best possible odds to maximize their profits from betting.

Match centre widget: Perfect solution If you want to provide live score and live betting information to your users for a specific match. A lot of different sports are available, and you can customize the information until it suits your needs.This widget is great for sharing the excitement of an important match with your users or fans, and you can create dedicated pages or sections in your site for that purpose.

Both of these widgets can be configured to blend seamlessly with the design of any website and webmasters have the opportunity to choose colours, types of data and sports that they want to display. They offer a modern and attractive design combined with clean and fast code. The widgets look good on all devices, resolutions and browsers and are fully responsive. It took us only a couple of minutes to set them up during testing. When you register and configure your widget, you can just grab the embedded code and paste it in your website or platform. There is also geo-targeting available, which can make things even more personalized and relevant for each user – which in turn further enhances the user experience.

With the help of the widget’s API, and Oddspedia’s data feeds, based on JSON/XML, you can even build whole pages dedicated to different sports and show the right information to your users. Effectively making your very own odds comparison service.

What can we expect from Oddspedia in the future?

Oddspedia’s team hinted that they are working on a new version of their website and we can expect more exciting things from their projects. They will continue developing their widgets, introducing a dropping odds and livescore widget and adding new features to existing ones.

Jeton Kodia, one of the founders of Oddspedia said:

“Oddspedia will continue to create the best possible user experience for betting customers. With our pre-match and live odds, we want to make sure that our users are getting the best possible odds on the market. Also, with all our other data, we want to satisfy sports fans in general. Our mission is to provide all the information a sports fan visiting our site might want and need, without mattering which country he is from or what kind of device he is using. We are constantly striving to be the ultimate resource of information for sport and betting fans.”

In conclusion, we can say that it seems like work never stops at the Oddspedia headquarters and their team is constantly working to provide the best possible services.

On the other hand, they are also trying to help webmasters by developing useful widgets for them, which can improve their websites, attract more users and even improve monetization.

If all this interests you and you want to find more information or even register and try these widgets, head out to widgets.oddspedia.com.

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PLAYTECH EXTENDS PARTNERSHIP WITH BOYLESPORTS UNTIL 2025

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6 hours ago

30/10/2020

Oliver Cook

Gambling technology company Playtech has extended its long-term agreement with gambling operator BoyleSports by an additional five years.

The agreement will see Playtech extend its partnership with BoyleSports in the UK and Ireland, with the company continuing to offer a dedicated Casino tab, while also supplying Live Casino on an exclusive basis to BoyleSports, alongside Bingo and Poker content.

Discussing the news Chief Operating Officer at Playtech, Shimon Akad, said:

“BoyleSports is one of Playtech’s key trusted long-term partners. BoyleSports has delivered continued growth and is one of the leading operators in regulated markets.

“We are proud to have grown with them across four key product verticals in its core markets. We’re very much looking forward to working together over the next five years to continue delivering innovative content backed by industry-leading technology.”

While BoyleSports CEO, Conor Gray, added:

“Having had a strong and successful partnership with Playtech for many years now, the extension of our agreement for another five years represents an exciting opportunity to continue growing our business. We’re passionate about creating the best possible player experience across all verticals, and we’re confident that the continued partnership with Playtech will allow us to do exactly that.”

Staying with Playtech, just last week the company announced it was expanding its Greek presence through a live casino and casino content partnership with Novibet.

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ARGENTINA HITS IGAMING WITH MASSIVE TAX HIKE, BEFORE MARKETS HAVE EVEN LAUNCHED

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1 day ago

29/10/2020

Oliver Cook

Despite the fact regulated gambling markets haven’t yet launched in Argentina, the government has already planned a dramatic tax hike.

Though the city and province of Buenos Aires are in the process of rolling out regulating online gambling, the rest of the country still lacks any kind of framework. But, that didn’t stop Minister of Finance Martín Guzmán, pushing for online gambling tax to be more than doubled from 2% to 5% in the draft budget.

Guzmán’s proposal is for 95% of revenue generated by online gambling tax will be shared out among the country’s provinces, with the remaining 5% invested in Arsat, the state-owned telecoms company.

As things stand, the Argentine online gambling sector is believed to generate around $2.4B USD in annual revenue (according to Política Online), but because it is still almost entirely unregulated, it generates virtually no tax.

The original online gambling tax was passed into law in 2016, and includes a higher tax rate of 10% for offshore gambling companies – though this is obviously unworkable. However, the authorities are promising to get tough for 2021, claiming they will be able to track online bets through mobile phone SIM cards or IP addresses, and bank and billing data.

Staying with Argentine online gaming, in September, authorities in Buenos Aires amended the proposed online gambling framework, opening licenses to local land-based operators. Original plans had excluded them in order to “avoid monopolistic practices,” and attracted more experienced international operators.

AYO.NEWS says:

More than doubling the tax rate before you’ve even launched your regulated online gambling markets probably isn’t the best way of attracting investment!

It just goes to show two things are the same in almost every country right now, 1) the gambling industry is seen as a cash cow, 2) politicians are desperate to raise tax revenues because of the economic crisis of their own making.

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PAGCOR CONSIDERS LEGALISING DOMESTIC ONLINE GAMBLING IN FACE OF COVID-19 CRASH

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1 day ago

29/10/2020

Oliver Cook

Manila, Philippines. Image credit: JC Gellidon

The Philippines Amusement and Gaming Corp (PAGCOR) has confirmed it is considering allowing casinos to offer online gambling domestically.

Though many online gambling operators are based in the Philippines, they are not permitted to offer services to Philippine residents. However, PAGCOR says it has received several requests from casino operators to allow locals to gamble online, in order to mitigate the financial impact of the ongoing COVID-19 crisis.

Local land-based casinos were ordered to close in March, and were not permitted to re-open until the end of August, but are only allowed to operate at 30% capacity and are subject to numerous other restrictions. Now, the Philippines, like other countries globally, is battling a resurgence of COVID-19 recently, and tourist numbers have plummeted, meaning operators are struggling to stay afloat.

The regulator says its various departments are currently studying the viability of the proposals, and it is already in the process of evaluating the legalisation of streaming sabong (cockfighting) events in authorised arenas.

Sources close to PAGCOR say that if anything is going to change it will likely happen soon. However, it is thought that the country’s president, Rodrigo Duterte, is opposed to an expansion of gambling in the country, and may block any attempts to allow casinos to offer online gambling to Philippine residents.

AYO.NEWS says:

Will Duterte block any move to legalise online gambling for Philippine residents, or will the growing economic crisis override his moral objection to online gambling? Though Duterte isn’t exactly known for softening his stance or changing his mind, we have seen politicians in other countries change their mind on gambling for the sake of tax revenues and jobs.

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KINDRED TO ACQUIRE RANK GROUP’S BELGIAN SUBSIDIARY FOR €27.6M

Published

1 day ago

29/10/2020

Oliver Cook

Image credit: Kindred Group

Kindred Group has reached an agreement to acquire Rank Group’s Belgian subsidiary, Casino Blankenberge.

Kindred is set to purchase 100% of shares in Casino Blankenberge’s Belgian operator, Blankenberge Casino-Kursaal (Blancas) NV, for £25M GBP (approx. €27.64M), on a cash and debt free basis.

The two parties have a long relationship, with Kindred working with Blancas since 2012 to offer online casino and poker to Belgian customers through its Unibet brand.

Belgium’s “A+ license,” that allows an operator to offer online casino and poker to Belgian customers, is only available to licensed land-based casino operators – and the acquisition will give Kindred access to one of the country’s nine land-based casino licenses.

UK-based Rank Group acquired Blancas in 1998, and in the 12 months up to June 2020, the subsidiary generated €10M in revenue, and an operating profit of €3M. Blancas NV recently renewed its concession agreement with the city of Blankenberge for another 15 years.

In a statement, Kindred said:

“The acquisition will solidify Kindred’s long-term operations and commitments in Belgium and will allow Kindred to continue to offer an attractive broad offering to Belgian customers.”

While Rank Group CEO, John O’Reilly, added:

“Today’s announcement of the sale of the Blankenberge casino secures the next chapter for a great venue in Belgium and a team that deliver an excellent customer experience to the local community.

“As a standalone casino, the business was non-core to Rank’s international growth plans and the £25m sale proceeds supports the Group’s liquidity and future growth initiatives.”

Subject to regulatory approval, the acquisition is expected to be complete before the end of the year, and will see the company operate as a separate entity within the Kindred Group. The current management team, led by Dominique De Wilde, is expected to remain in place.

AYO.NEWS says:

Given the impact the worsening COVID-19 crisis is having on land-based gambling, this move may seem surprising at first glance. But, as explained, Belgian authorities only grant A+ licenses, allowing online gaming, to licensed land-based operators, so there’s a logic in the move. Looking at the long-term, assuming things do ever get back to the ‘old normal’, it will also give Kindred a valuable land-based asset in a very convenient location.

Staying with the Belgian gambling market, earlier this week 777.be revealed a new campaign featuring Jean-Claude Van Damme.

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“PANDEMIC-PROOF” GOLDEN NUGGET ONLINE GAMING SEES REVENUE SURGE 92% IN Q3

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1 day ago

29/10/2020

Oliver Cook

Golden Nugget Online Gaming (GNOG) has reported net revenue of $25.9M USD for Q3 2020 – up a massive 92% year-on-year.

The selected financial results, which cover the company’s New Jersey operations, reveal GNOG’s gross gaming revenue for the quarter rocketed 93% year-on-year, coming in at $28.9M, while operating income also surged 92% year-on-year, to $8.2M.

The company is now working to expand into new states, with its mobile sports betting and casino slated to launch in Michigan before the end of the year, subject to regulatory approval, and the process of securing a Pennsylvania license well underway.

Reflecting on the results, owner of GNOG Tilman J. Fertitta, said:

“Our pandemic-proof business model keeps showing its resilience in New Jersey and we look forward to expanding operations in Michigan.”

While President of GNOG, Thomas Winter, added:

“Our third quarter confirmed and amplified our momentum in New Jersey, with record revenues supported by all-time-high player activity, sustained marketing investments and 64 new casino games, 20 of which we launched on an exclusive basis.”

In June 2020, GNOG entered a purchase agreement with special purpose acquisition company Landcadia Holdings II, in a process which, subject to regulatory approval from the Securities and Exchange Commission, should result in the operator going public on Nasdaq.

AYO.NEWS says:

Though calling any business model “pandemic-proof” is perhaps tempting fate, GNOG’s performance in New Jersey is nothing if not impressive, and hints at future success in Michigan and Pennsylvania.

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PUSH GAMING GROWS UK FOOTPRINT WITH GAMESYS CONTENT DEAL

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1 day ago

29/10/2020

Oliver Cook

B2B gaming supplier, Push Gaming, has announced a content partnership with UK operator Gamesys Group plc.

The agreement will see Push Gaming’s entire suite of titles, including Joker Troupe, Jammin’ Jars and its latest release, Mystery Museum, integrated into Gamesys’ network via the supplier’s UKGC-licensed platform, and made available to players at casinos including JackpotJoy, Monopoly, and Virgin.

Commenting on the partnership Head of Sales at Push Gaming, Fiona Hickey, said:

“Partnering with companies that share our values is of the upmost importance to us, and Gamesys’ reputation for delivering high quality entertainment makes its brands the perfect home for our cutting-edge games portfolio.

“Our slots are designed to entertain players, and striking deals with top-tier partners, such as Gamesys, is testament to our ever-increasing popularity with players from all around the globe.”

While Commercial Relationship Manager at Gamesys Group plc, Christel Marioni, added:

“Offering the ultimate gaming experience to our customers is what has kept us in the vanguard of the UK gambling industry, and we’re thrilled to be joining forces with Push Gaming.

“With a such a diverse and innovative slots portfolio, we know our customers will be delighted with the latest addition to our top-tier offering.”

Since being founded in 2010, Malta-based Push Gaming has grown to be a popular developer, and its games are now live across the majority of tier one operators in the UK, including GVC, The Rank Group, and William Hill.

Staying with Push Gaming, just last week the company announced a partnership with Malta-based iGaming platform and aggregator, Ichiban, significantly extending its global reach.