Supplier News
Italy – Inspired’s Virtual Sports approved for Italy
By Phil - 16 October 2013
Inspired Gaming has been certified by AAMS to sell its Virtual Sports platform in Italy with the roll out to operators expected to get underway within approximately six to eight weeks of final testing, before officially going live in the venues.
Inspired has become the supplier of choice for the Italian virtual sports market and already has contracts with nine major operators, spanning 12,000 venues and over 50 websites. Eight Inspired virtual sports will be available in Italy, including football, horse racing, trotting, motor racing and tennis. New sports will also be launching soon.
Vitaliano Casalone, President of Inspired Gaming Italy, said: “Our virtual sports generate 10 per cent of all over the counter bets in the UK and, based on our experience, we are confident that our products will be at least as popular in Italy. There is much anticipation and enthusiasm from operators and players for the launch of virtual sports betting and we’re delighted to be celebrating our imminent launch in Italy. We pride ourselves on supplying a wide range of sports with premium graphics and a range of betting markets for retail, online and mobile channels, which have proven to generate the most income for our customers.”
Inspired is contracted to supply virtual sports to nine Italian operators, including SNAI, Lottomatica, Sisal, Eurobet, Intralot, Cogetech, and Gamenet, which equates to approximately 90 per cent of the virtual sports market it Italy. Inspired is the world’s most trusted supplier of virtual sports; its wide-range of premium virtual products are proven to generate in excess of €5bn of revenue and €700m gross win every year and are trusted by major lottery operators around the world including NSLAC in China and OPAP in Greece. Inspired provides its virtual sports products to over 20,000 venues worldwide and is online with over half of the top 25 operators.
Inspired’s multi-channel virtual sports platform provides a 24/7 stream of real-time generated virtual betting events. Based on commercial trials, Inspired’s products generate over 100 per cent more revenue for operators than competing products and, unlike competing products, the scheduling of events and the RTP levels are wholly operator configurable. The graphics can be customised with branded backgrounds and Inspired offers over 30 product variants including weather variants, event durations and track/stadia variants.
