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Sports
February 4, 2022
Unibet Renews #AuCoeurDuFootball Sponsorship Program in France
For the fourth consecutive season, Unibet, one of the leading sports betting, bingo, online casino, and online poker operators in Europe will sponsor 300 amateur soccer clubs in France as part of its #AuCoeurDuFootball program. 2022 #AuCoeurDuFootball Program Will Include Digital Tools Unibet belongs to Kindred, a powerful international gambling group that first saw the […]
Industry
January 31, 2022
France Seeks to Protect Minors from Gambling and Identify Addicts
French gambling regulator L’Autorité Nationale des Jeux (ANJ) updated the instructions to operators related to the Action Plan they submit annually to outline strengthening player protection measures. Focusing on Underage and Problem Gambling The action plan submitted as part of operators’ license obligations seeks to prevent excessive gambling and gambling by minors and to promote […]
Sports
January 17, 2022
Winamax Will No Longer Sponsor Bordeaux over Mockery Tweets
To tweet or not to tweet? This could have been the million-dollar question that may have salvaged the agreement between sports betting site Winamax and Ligue 1 soccer club Girondins de Bordeaux. Their lucrative sponsorship contract that was signed last summer put $1.48 million in the club’s treasury every season. Now, the deal is off […]
Industry
January 5, 2022
French Gambler Turns Pocket Change into $3 Million On Slot Machine
Walk in with a €2 coin, walk out with €2.6 million. That is what a gambler was able to do this past Sunday, welcoming 2022 as a new millionaire. Instant Fortune From a Minimal Bet An unidentified Frenchman in his thirties took a trip to the Pasino Saint Amand Les Eaux casino in northern France […]
Casino
December 27, 2021
Barrière Group Adds Zitro’s Most Popular Games to More Venues
Zitro, the leading video slot and video bingo developer, announced Monday that it introduced its highly-successful slots Link King and Link Me to more Barrière Group venues. 8 Barrière Group Casinos Offer Zitro’s Highly Popular Games Link King and Link Me proved to be highly popular in casinos around Europe. As a result, Zitro’s most […]
Industry
December 17, 2021
Poker, Sports Betting Drive Gaming Growth in France
L’Autorite Nationale des Jeux (ANJ), France’s gambling regulator, has reported gross gaming revenues (GGR) of €444.0 million ($502.2 million) in the country’s online casino sector for the third quarter of the year. This is 9.6% more than the Q3 2020 results when performance was severely affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. Sports, Poker the Big Winners […]
Sports
December 9, 2021
France Horseracing and Training Elite Faces Doping Scandals and Arrests
Members of France’s biggest racehorse-training family and over a dozen other persons of interest have been arrested after the police found possible evidence that they may have been involved in doping and fraud. The news comes from daily media, Le Parisien, which details the case and investigation. The arrests were conducted by the country’s Service […]
Sports
October 25, 2021
The French Authority Warns Operators Who Block Bets
L’Autorité Nationale des Jeux (the National Gaming Authority (ANJ) of France has issued a warning to operators in the country. The regulator is unhappy with the unjustified limits that they have been putting on responsible players. The French Authority Appealed to the Code of Consumption This comes in the wake of numerous complaints from bettors […]
Sports
August 31, 2021
BetClick Is the Next Sponsor of French Soccer National Teams
An online gambling operator enters into a partnership with a national sports governing organization, according to a report in L’Équipe, which revealed BetClick Group signed a deal with the French Football Federation (FFF). We are delighted that Betclic is joining the circle of our partners. This new collaboration with a dynamic French company, a historical […]
Sports
August 17, 2021
The Portuguese Basketball League Is Now the Betclic League
Sports-related activity has always been a great landing spot for brands looking to gain greater exposure. From Little League baseball to UEFA, associating a company name with a team or a league is guaranteed to bring an increase in traffic. Become a sponsor and that increase jumps substantially. Betclic, the France-based online sports betting operator, […]