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Vertical: every BrandCapitalWorks iGaming signal tagged Suppliers. Each one carries the fact, the enterprise-value read, and the forecast. 8 signals.
JPMorgan puts Brazil at about 9% of Evolution’s sales, and every licensed operator there goes offline on 6 October.
A supplier sells into Brazil through someone else’s licence. When the licence ends, the sale ends the same day. On 25 September Brazil’s president signed a provisional measure, an order with the force of law. It bans online betting and online casino. Deposits stopped that day. Players can withdraw until 5 October. Every licensed site and app goes offline on 6 October. Brazil sold 85 licences at R$30 million each, about R$2.55 billion in fees. Holders get no refund. Congress has 120 days to confirm the measure. The share prices tell a strange story. Flutter fell 11.5% in five days on a market worth about 1% of its revenue. Evolution fell 7%, and JPMorgan puts Brazil at about 9% of its sales. Bragg fell 9.4%, with Brazil at 10% of its 2025 business.
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.
Platform supplier GiG spent €16.4M buying an operator. Its own revenue fell the week before.
GiG agreed to buy 80% of 888AFRICA from evoke on 26 August, eight days after reporting that its platform revenue had fallen again. A supplier on a 9% margin is buying the player relationship. On 26 August 2026 GiG Software agreed to buy 80% of 888AFRICA from Virtual Emerging Entertainment Limited, a subsidiary of evoke plc, for €16.4M. Of that, €6M is due on completion and €10.4M is deferred. The founders keep 20% and stay in management. GiG is funding it with a directed share issue and convertible loans. It forecasts combined full-year revenue of €44M to €48M and adjusted profit (EBITDA) of €5M to €7M. That assumes 888AFRICA contributes for the fourth quarter only. Eight days earlier it reported second-quarter revenue of €8.8M, down 5% on a year ago. Adjusted profit (EBITDA) was €0.8M, a 9% margin.
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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Evolution kept its margins and still got marked down. The story slipped.
Reported revenue fell 1.2%. At constant currency it grew 2.4%, and the Galaxy deal is now in doubt. Evolution reported Q2 2026 revenue of €517.8M. That is down 1.2% on last year as reported, but up 2.4% once you strip out currency swings. It fell just short of the €520M the market expected. Profit (EBITDA) was €341.0M, a 65.9% margin. Its planned Galaxy Gaming purchase, already delayed to 17 July 2026, is now in doubt. Growth in the Americas keeps making up for a soft Europe.
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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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Apollo’s IGT still tells three stories. Buyers pay for one.
The $6.3B take-private closed twelve months ago. The combined company still tells three stories, and the exit clock has started. Apollo closed its $6.3B all-cash deal for IGT’s Gaming and Digital business and Everi on 1 July 2025. Everi shareholders were paid $14.25 a share, a 56% premium, and the stock was taken off the market. The combined company now runs privately as IGT, out of Las Vegas, in three parts: Gaming, Digital and FinTech. Hector Fernandez, formerly of Aristocrat Gaming, became CEO in late 2025.
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Same quarter, opposite results: Playtech rose, Evolution fell. Where you sell decided it.
UK duty doubled to 40% in April. Two suppliers in that environment posted opposite results. Playtech’s half-year update on 13 July came in well ahead of expectations. The US drove it, plus strength in Mexico, Colombia and parts of Europe. It guided first-half profit above €155M and raised the full-year figure toward €270M. This lands in the same period the UK doubled its online gaming tax from 21% to 40% on 1 April 2026. The tax hits about 310 firms.
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