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Booming Games: South Africa’s Next Chapter

Solomon, Booming Games has been supplying the South African market for several years, long before it became one of the industry's fastest-growing territories. What has changed most during that time, both in terms of the market itself and player expectations?To begin with, it's important that I emphasise that South Africa is one of the most mature regulated jurisdictions on the African continent. That's really the starting point.Booming Games has been doing business across Africa for a number of years, but prior to 2024 we weren't supplying games to South African operators because our content had not yet been tested and
Lewis Pek

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Ed Moed, CEO Hot Paper Lantern

August 06, 2026

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Standing out in the Prediction Markets Gold Rush

Ed, recent acquisitions have highlighted just how quickly prediction markets are evolving. Beyond the headline deal values, what do they tell us about how investors and major operators now view the sector?The pace of change is extraordinary. There are obvious parallels with the years immediately after PASPA when sports betting
Max Tesla - Blask founder

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Stop looking in the Rear-View Mirror

Max, what gaps convinced you there was room for Blask?The gap wasn't subtle. iGaming is a hundred-billion-dollar industry that makes decisions like it's 2005. Operators were running on gut feel, quarterly reports, and whatever their affiliates told them. The data that did exist was locked inside a handful of large
Darren Small - Sportradar

August 04, 2026

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8 MIN READ

Cracking the World Cup Code

Darren, by the final whistle, Sportradar processed around 350 million betting tickets. What does a dataset of that scale reveal that an individual operator might not see?It gives us a much more holistic view. The 350 million tickets come from numerous jurisdictions, so we can see betting activity and different

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Booming Games on Africa’s Next Phase of iGaming Growth

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Why Marketing Momentum Outperforms Quick Wins

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