Having launched a number of applications for Android and Blackberry devices, Betclic Everest Group subsidiary Betclic has introduced a new sports betting app for the Apple iPhone, while the company’s Betclic Poker offering has switched to the Everest Poker network from Boss Media's International Poker Network.
Betclic’s iPhone app allows customers to place bets across the company’s entire sports betting portfolio, including bets on more than fifteen different sports, eighty competitions, as well as up to seventy live betting events.
The app also features updated news and information, allowing customers to bet on live events while on the move.
Meanwhile, Betclic Poker confirmed yesterday that it has joined the Everest Poker network, as it looks to ensure continued growth and improve players’ experience. The poker site has moved from Boss Media's International Poker Network (IPN).
“We are thrilled that BetClic Poker joins the Everest Poker network,” said Tarquin Henderson, head of poker and casino at BetClic Everest. “The growing Everest Poker Network is a popular and trusted place to learn and experience the fun of playing poker online. BetClic Poker will bring poker knowledge, passion and liquidity to our network and this will ensure the best experience for all players involved.”
As part of the Everest Poker network, Betclic Poker players will be able to enjoy overall guaranteed prize pools of more than $1.25m every month, as well as access to the $75,000 Big Prime tournament on October 2nd, $25,000 more than the regular Sunday guarantee.
According to the poker tracking site PokerScout, the Everest Poker network currently ranks sixteenth in the worldwide ranking, below the likes of Bodog, Boss Media’s IPN and Microgaming.
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September 27, 2011
February 18, 2010
Nylander hails mobile at Unibet 2009 year-end
Unibet's active mobile users more than doubled during the fourth quarter of 2009, rising 136% to 5,372, from 2,281 in the previous quarter, chief executive Petter Nylander revealed today, hailing the mobile channel for having finally delivered on its promise.
Nylander credited the growing penetration of smart phones for the increase in mobile take-up, and said: “We really saw a breakthrough during the second half of 2009 after we re-launched our iPhone version during Q3 this year. The customers enjoyed it and used it at numbers we can speak about. We think the mobile channel for ourselves and the industry will become a channel with some prominence for the future.”
Unibet’s mobile product is provided by Swedish mobile specialist Mobenga.
Nylander was speaking at the company’s year-end results presentation in Stockholm, where the company revealed an above-historical gross win margin of 11.9% from pre-game betting, combined with strong growth in active customers, which helped the company achieve a 21% year-on-year increase in gross winnings revenue to £42.1m, from £34.9m for the comparable period a year earlier.
The fourth quarter gross win margin of 11.9% from the traditional sportsbook compared to around 6% in the third quarter of 2009, when European-facing sportsbooks including Unibet were hit hard by an unfavourable run of football results, with just four of the first 66 English Premier League matches ending in draws, compared with a five-year season average of 25%.
The Swedish operator’s record quarterly revenue performance helped full-year gross winnings revenue for 2009 reach £138.3m; 12% up on the £123.4m achieved in 2008, despite there being no major sporting events in 2009.
Unibet chief financial officer Henrik Tjarnstrom said: “Sportsbetting margins need to be looked at over at least over a 12-month cycle. That is what we said when we communicated the Q3 results in November, and we reiterate that now.”
The company’s bottom line was also able to benefit from the “competitive tension between several banks” to undertake its November 2009 refinancing of the bond to purchase bingo operator Maria, said Tjarnstrom, with full-year pre-taxprofit growing 161% to £28.9m, from £8.8m in 2008.
Full-year earnings before interest, tax, debt and amortisation (EBITDA) however fell 10% year-on-year to £41.9m, from £46.3m in 2008, which the company said showed the “investment in marketing ahead of the sporting year coming up.”
Nylander said Unibet also hoped to benefit from the opening of the French market during 2010, given the operator’s strong positioning and the relative underdevelopment of the online portion of its gaming market, representing around 5% of the overall sector compared to Scandinavia and the UK, “where we think the online side of the overall gambling market is maybe 25%-30%.”
Nylander credited the growing penetration of smart phones for the increase in mobile take-up, and said: “We really saw a breakthrough during the second half of 2009 after we re-launched our iPhone version during Q3 this year. The customers enjoyed it and used it at numbers we can speak about. We think the mobile channel for ourselves and the industry will become a channel with some prominence for the future.”
Unibet’s mobile product is provided by Swedish mobile specialist Mobenga.
Nylander was speaking at the company’s year-end results presentation in Stockholm, where the company revealed an above-historical gross win margin of 11.9% from pre-game betting, combined with strong growth in active customers, which helped the company achieve a 21% year-on-year increase in gross winnings revenue to £42.1m, from £34.9m for the comparable period a year earlier.
The fourth quarter gross win margin of 11.9% from the traditional sportsbook compared to around 6% in the third quarter of 2009, when European-facing sportsbooks including Unibet were hit hard by an unfavourable run of football results, with just four of the first 66 English Premier League matches ending in draws, compared with a five-year season average of 25%.
The Swedish operator’s record quarterly revenue performance helped full-year gross winnings revenue for 2009 reach £138.3m; 12% up on the £123.4m achieved in 2008, despite there being no major sporting events in 2009.
Unibet chief financial officer Henrik Tjarnstrom said: “Sportsbetting margins need to be looked at over at least over a 12-month cycle. That is what we said when we communicated the Q3 results in November, and we reiterate that now.”
The company’s bottom line was also able to benefit from the “competitive tension between several banks” to undertake its November 2009 refinancing of the bond to purchase bingo operator Maria, said Tjarnstrom, with full-year pre-taxprofit growing 161% to £28.9m, from £8.8m in 2008.
Full-year earnings before interest, tax, debt and amortisation (EBITDA) however fell 10% year-on-year to £41.9m, from £46.3m in 2008, which the company said showed the “investment in marketing ahead of the sporting year coming up.”
Nylander said Unibet also hoped to benefit from the opening of the French market during 2010, given the operator’s strong positioning and the relative underdevelopment of the online portion of its gaming market, representing around 5% of the overall sector compared to Scandinavia and the UK, “where we think the online side of the overall gambling market is maybe 25%-30%.”
December 11, 2009
Ladbrokes launches iPhone sports betting app
UK bookmaker Ladbrokes has launched a new sports betting application for the Apple iPhone, developed by mobile technology specialist Mfuse, through which the company's complete sports betting service will now be available to the estimated 1.5 million iPhone users in the UK.
The new web app offers a complete betting service over the iPhone’s large touch screen, with Ladbrokes customers able to benefit from a comprehensive range of betting markets including access to an extensive range of in-play betting.
Benefits of the new service include the ability to check the latest odds, including updates in real time, full account management, bet in-play and all the latest results.
Ladbrokes already offers a wide range of casino games and slots on iPhones, recently launching Mega Moolah, the biggest progressive online slot to its mobile service.
"Mobile betting and gaming will be a key driver of growth in the sector in the next few years – the Ladbrokes iPhone application is another step forward in making mobile betting and gaming easier to access," said John O’Reilly, Ladbrokes Managing Director, Remote Gaming.
According to Ladbrokes, the company has already seen over 25,000 active customers on its existing mobile services this year, an increase of more than 50% compared to last year. Turnover on its mobile services is predicted to be up by 60% over the full year.
The new web app offers a complete betting service over the iPhone’s large touch screen, with Ladbrokes customers able to benefit from a comprehensive range of betting markets including access to an extensive range of in-play betting.
Benefits of the new service include the ability to check the latest odds, including updates in real time, full account management, bet in-play and all the latest results.
Ladbrokes already offers a wide range of casino games and slots on iPhones, recently launching Mega Moolah, the biggest progressive online slot to its mobile service.
"Mobile betting and gaming will be a key driver of growth in the sector in the next few years – the Ladbrokes iPhone application is another step forward in making mobile betting and gaming easier to access," said John O’Reilly, Ladbrokes Managing Director, Remote Gaming.
According to Ladbrokes, the company has already seen over 25,000 active customers on its existing mobile services this year, an increase of more than 50% compared to last year. Turnover on its mobile services is predicted to be up by 60% over the full year.
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