This article was published by EGR North America Paddy McDermott, SportCaller’s Performance Director, assesses the evolving landscape stateside where Fox Bet’s recent free-to-play success has raised the bar for a well-aligned F2P strategy Nearly 17 months on from PASPA’s landmark repeal, and there are just five US states currently offering both physical and online sportsbooks...
No-Deal Brexit: UK Government’s checklist for operators and gambling businesses
With only three weeks until the UK is scheduled to leave the EU, the UK Government has issued an eight-point checklist to help those who work in the gambling industry prepare for the possibility (likelihood?) of a hard exit. With the initial October 31st deadline looming large, a principal area of concern for UK...
EGR’s take on the role of the Influencer in online gambling
SportCaller’s Performance Director, Paddy McDermott, is quoted in this EGR article that examines the role of the social media influencer in online gambling. This long-form article assesses the merits and potential pitfalls of operators engaging influencers to promote gambling products, gives good insights into the future role of influencers in the industry – and...
On-air broadcast video to promote Free-to-Play: TVG horse racing network
California-based horse racing network, TVG, offered a bumper prize of $1 million prize for this year’s Kentucky Derby special edition of their Super 8 game (the usual weekly jackpot is $100,000). Here TVG makes good use of its TV network to promote the souped-up Kentucky Derby version of their weekly Super 8 Free-to-Play game:...
Small prizes catching big player numbers: Coral’s new Premier League Correct 4 game already a hit
To coincide with the start of this year’s English Premier League (EPL) season, leading UK operator Coral launched a new EPL-specific Free-to-Play game, Correct 4. And it is already returning great player numbers, only three weeks since its launch. Of course, EPL predictor games are not new. But Coral’s newly launched Correct 4 has...
Content is King: promoting Free-to-Play games with video
Many of SportCaller’s client-operators have been putting together some nice video content to promote some of their Free-to-Play (FTP) offerings. Over the next few weeks, we’ll be featuring some of that video content in a series of posts. As a picture paints a thousand words, we’ll be keeping these video-focused posts short and sweet. ...
Free-to-Play games leverage Premier League club sponsorship deals for UK operator MansionBet
The 2019/20 English Premier League (EPL) season is now back in full swing. While fans spent the summer break counting down the days to the restart (and closely monitoring the transfer window activity), some operators used the time devising innovative ways to leverage new sponsorship opportunities with clubs. Leading UK online sports betting operator,...
The versatility of Free-to-Play: Fanduel’s move into eSports with their Quakecon 2019 tournament FTP game
The long-running Quakecon gaming convention and eSports tournament is often described as the ‘Woodstock of Gaming’ because it is free to attend and generates a festival-like atmosphere. But eSports is big business. It generated revenues of more than $1 billion globally in 2018, and it presents a significant opportunity for sports betting operators to acquire...
New York launches first sportsbook but with considerable restrictions – and no online or mobile betting
The 1960s French Prime Minister, Charles de Gaulle, once said “How can you govern a country that has 246 varieties of cheese?” There are only 50 US states, but their legislative procedures are so complex, that the tiered delivery of sports betting legalisation by-state almost makes Mr. de Gaulle’s challenges seem quaint – and...
SportCaller wins big at EGR B2B Awards: Acquisition & Retention Partner – and Innovation Award for Paddy Power Betfair’s Beat the Drop game
It’s great to get industry recognition as Acquisition and Retention partner of the year for a range of high-performing Free-to-Play (FTP) games, delivered through our best-in-class SCore platform. And we are equally delighted to scoop up the Innovation in Sports Betting Software award for the Paddy Power Betfair group’s game, Beat the Drop. What...
Harnessing the potential of Free-to-Play for the USA: a proven success story from established markets
A recent partnership with the Stars Group sees media giant Fox Sports making a move into the sports betting market, through the creation of Fox Bet. The news that Fox Bet will be also be delivering a Free-to-Play (FTP) game in their launch – to coincide with the forthcoming NFL and NBA seasons – suggests...
SportCaller joins RISQ’s industry-standard Integrated Partnership programme
RISQ is the leading iGaming insurance platform. Through their best-in-class iGIP platform, they provide prize coverage (of up to £150 million) for betting-on-lottery platforms as well as Free-to-Play (FTP) sports predictor games for event-based competitions. Like all healthy partnerships, this one is mutually beneficial: RISQ don’t develop any iGaming or FTP game content, and...
SportCaller announces major new partnership with Kindred Group
Stockholm enterprise recruits free-to-play specialist to improve retention and help capitalise on Q1 all-time high in active customers 12th June, 2019 – SportCaller, the free-to-play (FTP) sports-game specialist, has announced a landmark long-term partnership with Kindred Group. The new deal sees SportCaller roll out free-to-play games across multiple sporting events and in multiple countries...
How SportCaller’s bespoke innovations can make your Free-to-Play game stand out from the crowd
Almost nowhere is the ever-increasing appetite for real-time data more evident than in the world of sports – and this is also true in the world of Free-to-Play (FTP) games. In building a bespoke Broadcast Application Programming Interface (API) for one of our newest clients, BetEasy – for their horse racing prediction game Pick...