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Shared responsibility: Restrictions on winning bettors belong alongside regulatory friction in the debate over what drives consumers towards illegal gambling, according to former Gambling Commission executive director Tim Miller. Speaking to C+M, Miller, now a consultant focused on working with governments and regulators, acknowledged that regulation can displace customers from the licensed market. But operators…
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Fright night: The Budget comes three days before Halloween but the UK retail gaming sector is already frightened about the future, with Entain CEO Stella David warning yesterday that doubling machine games duty to 40% would close shops, destroy jobs and leave the Treasury collecting less. Her intervention comes as the biggest UK retail and…
Read MoreFrom SBC to G2E: Looking Back on a Big Week!
Last week was a busy one for the BettingJobs team, with members of our team spread across two continents as we headed to SBC Lisbon and G2E Las Vegas. From packed days of meetings and conversations to industry events, team activities and plenty of time catching up with familiar faces, it was a brilliant week…
Read MoreRaven courts investment from Coinbase Ventures, CMCC Global at $90M pre-money valuation
The news: Raven, a trading firm that makes markets on prediction markets and crypto, raised a strategic round from Coinbase Ventures and CMCC Global at a $90M pre-money valuation. The amount wasn’t disclosed. CMCC co-founder Charlie Morris has joined Raven’s board and will work with the company on its institutional expansion. Zoom in: Raven…
Read MoreTopdog raises $2.5M to scale real-time multiplayer skill games
The news: Topdog, the Toast-owned B2C skill-gaming brand, raised $2.5M in seed funding to scale real-time, head-to-head multiplayer games for sports fans. Boston Seed Capital led the round, with Raine Group, Bullpen, Versus VC, Spoondrift Capital, and Permit Ventures participating—bringing Topdog’s total raised to $4.1M. Backers include FanDuel co-founder Nigel Eccles, Revenant VC’s Ryan Moore,…
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My invoice gon’ be a million-dollar fee: Genius Sports has laid down a marker in the prediction market affiliate land grab with the launch of Prediction.com, a consumer-facing site designed to compare probabilities, pricing and event contracts across multiple platforms. The site combines Genius’ live sports data with the consumer technology acquired through Legend, the…
Read MoreDiary of an iGaming Exec – Paul Dolman-Darrall
Paul Dolman-Darrall, CEO of g.games is the latest to sit down with Robin Hutchison to tell all on Diary of an iGaming Exec. In this candid conversation on innovation and resilience, Paul explains the ambition behind 99 Royale and the uncomfortable truth of the “trough of death” that follows a launch. The two also discuss…
Read MoreMeet the five startups pitching at SBC Summit 2026 in Lisbon
The news: First Pitch returns at SBC Summit in Lisbon on October 1, with five early-stage founders getting three minutes each to make their case to a panel of industry judges. The competition, co-organized with BettingStartups, sends its winner home with a prize package valued at more than €100,000. This year’s finalists (Betsy, GMonitor, InsightPlay.ai,…
Read More‘Tolerated, not promoted’
War is peace: The UK House of Lords Liaison Committee has called on the government to implement a comprehensive ban on gambling advertising “as soon as practicable,” in a follow-up report that pushes the public health approach to regulation towards outright prohibition. The committee said a ban covering gambling advertising, marketing and sponsorship represented “the…
Read MoreTwo Continents, One Week: BettingJobs at G2E and SBC Lisbon
We are now less than three weeks away from a monumental week at BettingJobs. With two fantastic conferences taking place just over 5,400 miles apart, members of the BettingJobs team will be heading across the globe to attend both events, and we couldn’t be more excited! With SBC in Lisbon and G2E in Las Vegas,…
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