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Yagmur Canel Yagmur Canel Content Manager
Let’s be honest, running a successful online casino business already comes with a lot on your plate. Between integrating new games, monitoring player activity, balancing promotions, and guaranteeing compliance, it’s simple to miss some of the effective instruments already waiting right there in your aggregation platform. At Groove, we’ve seen it time and time again: operators who just scratch the surface and miss out on easy wins. So, whether you’re already using aggregation services or evaluating the transition, it’s important to understand the strategic advantages it offers in order to fully receive its benefits. From streamlining operations and boosting player […]
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Darko Ilievski Darko Ilievski Lead Editor
Understanding what a social casino is requires players to make a clear distinction between it and sweepstakes or traditional real-money casinos. Social casinos operate in an interesting space between casual gaming, casino-style entertainment, and a monetised digital engagement environment. This article will break down what social casinos are, how they operate, and the key differences between sweepstakes and traditional online casinos.
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Darko Ilievski Darko Ilievski Lead Editor
Seasonal slots take centre stage in this report, examining how Easter overtook St Patrick’s Day in both new releases and operator visibility. Built for operators, product teams, and content strategists, this analysis breaks down saturation levels, provider behaviour, and performance metrics, showing how timing, catalogue size, and differentiation now shape seasonal slot success in 2025.
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Yagmur Canel Yagmur Canel Content Manager
The online casino industry has experienced incredible growth over the past decade. Statistics showed that the global revenue of these platforms has more than doubled. In 2025 alone, the annual revenue was over $100 billion. Online casinos are becoming a driving factor for gambling profitability, and that's why the interest on how to start an online casino is now greater than ever.
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Yagmur Canel Yagmur Canel Content Manager
This responsible gambling guide is designed to help players approach betting as a form of entertainment, not a cause for anxiety. It covers establishing clear boundaries for deposits, time spent, and losses, identifying the red flags of gambling problems, and discovering resources for safer gaming practices.
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Dimitry Völkle Dimitry Völkle Managing Director at Zelda Consulting GmbH
The GGL (Gemeinsame Glücksspielbehörde der Länder, which is the German Joint Gambling Authority of the States) keeps evolving and is becoming more international in the way it works. You can really see that it’s starting to listen to the industry more closely, building expertise through dialogue and using that knowledge to become more effective. That’s a very positive development. It shows a willingness to learn and adapt, which wasn’t always the case in the early stages of regulation. At the same time, the challenges in the German market remain significant. The black market continues to grow, and it’s still far […]
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Wagner Fernandes Wagner Fernandes Chief Marketing Officer at Oddsgate
Somewhere between the dashboards, the funnels, and the “growth hacks”, marketing stopped being about markets. A discipline that once decoded human behaviour and shaped business advantage has been flattened into a noisy execution arm chasing vanity metrics. Today’s marketing is allergic to thinking. It confuses activity for strategy. New jargon arrives weekly: demand-gen this, growth-loop that, while the basics gather dust. The four Ps (Product, Price, Place, and Promotion) aren’t quaint relics; they’re the levers that force real trade-offs. To move beyond the jargon, marketers must ground their decisions in the strategic shifts and market realities of iGaming in 2026, […]
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Richard Dennys Richard Dennys CEO at Game Lounge
Let’s be honest, this isn’t the kind of headline you expect in a serious iGaming article. It sounds more like the start of a Tinder chat than a data strategy piece! But in truth, it’s the perfect metaphor for the future of our industry: because trust in data, in partnerships, in players, is built on one thing above all else: transparency.  Yet, we’re still a little squeamish about it. Everyone talks about sharing data, but when push comes to shove, we often clutch our dashboards like a Victorian dowager clutching her pearls. The irony is that the businesses who lean […]
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Faruk Aydin Faruk Aydin Managing Director at Ace Alliance
I first met Magnus Carlsen at a BETBY corporate event in Riga, and even before the chess talk for the Revpanda LIVE podcast began, it was clear why he’s more than just a chess champion. Between rounds of golf and casual sightseeing, Magnus carries a calm focus and approachable charm, the kind that makes you want to listen to every word he says about the game he’s mastered. Magnus shared a memory from his first visit to Riga, when he and his wife accidentally stumbled upon a restaurant located in the same building once frequented by Mikhail Tal, the legendary […]
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Tiago Aprigio Tiago Aprigio CEO at All-in Global
For over a decade, All-in Global has been a trusted partner to gaming, sports, and entertainment brands seeking to communicate across languages and cultures. Our story began as a traditional Language Service Provider (LSP), focused on translation, localisation, and content creation for a fast-moving global industry. But as technology evolved, and so did our clients’ needs, we realised that being a translation company was no longer enough. We needed to become a Language Solutions Integrator (LSI). The transition from LSP to LSI was not about abandoning the human touch that built our reputation. It was about redefining how technology and […]
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