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Twenty-one operators sit on this board. One of them publishes a number for the position it holds.
The rest report revenue, total bets and monthly users. Every one of those can rise in a year when a company is losing ground. Flutter tells the SEC it holds 39% of US online sports betting and 27% of US iGaming across the states where FanDuel is live. In Italy it claims 30.9% of the online market. Each figure carries a footnote naming the regulator data it was built from. It is the only figure of its kind on this board. BetMGM states 13%, and its own footnote does the damage. The figure blends online with retail and the United States with Ontario. It also admits that “internal estimates are used where operator-specific results are unavailable”. DraftKings reports the share of the US population it is licensed to serve, which is a measure of reach. Caesars reports revenue and the total amount bet (handle). Rush Street reports monthly active users and average revenue per user. Entain, Kindred, LeoVegas, Evoke, Kaizen, Super Group, Parimatch and Lottoland say nothing about position at all. Tipico once claimed more than half of Germany. That was its 2022 report, on 2021 data. The 2024 report dropped the number and put nothing in its place.
Bragg told the SEC that certain Brazilian operators have moved to direct supplier integrations. Brazil went flat that quarter, while the games it owns outright grew 44%.
What went was the layer in the middle, taken out by customers who had no complaint about it. Being built around leaves nothing to win back. One sentence in Bragg’s second-quarter filing does the work of the whole report. In Brazil, it says, certain operators moved to direct supplier integrations. Brazil came in flat. The Netherlands fell 14% for a plainer reason, legacy contracts rolling off after migrations the company had already flagged. The numbers sit underneath. Group revenue was €22.9M, down 12% from €26.1M. Proprietary content in Canada and the United States grew 44% year on year. Adjusted profit (EBITDA) held at €3.5M. Margin widened to 15% from 13%, on lower revenue. Read at the filing, not from trade coverage. Bragg has been shrinking that middle layer on purpose. It cut about 12% of its people on 8 January, worth €4.5M a year. It cut about 19% more on 9 July, worth €6M. Close to a third of the staff, gone in seven months. Its chief executive called the result “a leaner, more focused organization”. Then on 14 August it withdrew its full-year forecast, citing limited visibility after the Drayton deal.
BetMGM’s casino now carries 70% of its revenue while the sportsbook sits flat.
Revenue went up and profit went down. The casino and its database did the earning, while the sportsbook took the hits from prediction markets and player-friendly results. BetMGM reported Q2 on 28 July. Net revenue rose 3% to $711M, but adjusted profit fell 14% to $74M. The split tells the story. iGaming grew 8% to $483M and is now about 70% of the business. Online sports was flat at $228M and gave back most of its retail margin to customer-friendly results.
Kambi doubled its profit on an AI trading engine, and investors repriced the capability.
A record World Cup ran through Kambi’s automated trading at an 18% margin. Profit doubled, the forecast rose, and the share price followed the capability. Kambi reported Q2 on 22 July. Revenue rose 13.5% to €45.9M and adjusted profit more than doubled to €7.6M. The engine did the work. Its AI trading system handled over 100 million World Cup bets at an 18% operator margin. The Americas supplied 57% of that World Cup turnover, up from 38% four years ago.
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Why is private capital buying the thing you book as overhead?
Three moves in one month repriced regulated trust: a private-equity rollup, an Ohio mandate, and $50B cleared without it. The spend you file as overhead is the asset in play. Read three stories from one week as a single move. Visualize Group agreed to buy eCOGRA on 30 June, its second deal for a testing house after BMM Testlabs. Ohio moved to make a voluntary credit-card rule official, one most operators already follow. And prediction markets cleared $50B on the World Cup. They carried none of the player protection that licensed operators spent a decade building.
A top-ten supplier rebranded to charge more. Now it has to make it stick.
SOFTSWISS moved from software provider to growth partner on 1 July. The claim is made. Whether operators pay for it is a different question. SOFTSWISS changed its pitch and its look on 1 July 2026. It went from calling itself a software provider to a growth partner. It also named a Chief AI Officer so that reliability and AI move together. It showed the new identity to partners in person at iGB L!VE London on 6 July. That event is built around operators wanting suppliers who improve their results as well as supplying a service.
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A famous bear just bought the sportsbooks. Is the story finally too cheap?
Flutter sits 65% below its August peak on a belief about the future, with revenue nowhere near that decline. On 10 July 2026 investor Michael Burry revealed bets on Flutter near $107 and DraftKings in the low $26s, weighted about 60/40 toward Flutter. His view is that regulators will crack down on CFTC event contracts. Flutter trades about 65% below its August high and DraftKings about 45% off its own high. Both are also building their own prediction-market products.
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Leaders are hiring 3 people to keep players for every 1 hired to win them
Leaders are quietly repricing customer value as the growth engine. Top-quartile operators shifted open roles decisively toward lifecycle and database marketing this quarter. The ratio of hires for keeping players to hires for winning them reached 3.1:1, up from 1.2:1 a year ago. Acquisition-marketing requisitions fell for the second quarter running. Titles that barely existed two years ago now appear across leader job boards: lifecycle architects, CRM data scientists, player-journey designers. Mid-tier and laggard operators show no equivalent shift.
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Why is mid-tier CMO tenure collapsing to a three-year low?
Marketing instability is a value leak and a structural signal. Average mid-tier CMO tenure fell below 18 months, from 31 months three years ago. Three operators are running marketing without a seated leader this quarter. Exit interviews and trade coverage repeat the same pattern. Boards demand short-term acquisition numbers, marketing leaders argue for brand and retention investment, and the impasse ends in a departure. Leader-tier operators show no equivalent turnover.
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Sport sponsorship inflation prices out mid-tier operators
Culture reach without brand architecture burns cash twice. Front-of-shirt and league sponsorship benchmarks rose again. The cost index for tier-1 football properties is up 89% over three seasons, led by crypto-native entrants outbidding incumbents. Two mid-tier operators exited renewals this cycle, citing unworkable economics. The entrants signing at record levels show little evidence of the systems for keeping players that they need to convert the exposure.
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