In November 2016, new shopping record for online gaming

sunday 4 december 2016
In Igaming and online game

The shopping for Casino on the web in November reached 40 million euros. Overall, the 500 million have been exceeded between Casino and Poker, an increase of 20%since the beginning of the year.

The online game records a new record. The overall expenditure of Americans on the "dot it" game portals, that is, the legal and authorized ones to operate in USA, has reached 580 million euros since the beginning of the year, marking a percentage increase of 20% compared to 2015.

An incredible increase if we consider the continuous decline of the poker, which is making a negative of 15 percentage points regarding the cash game and a negative of over 4 points for tournaments compared to the past year.

It is increasingly evident that the online gaming sector is driven by casino, who continue to benefit from users' appreciation: in the first 11 months of 2016, growth was almost 35% compared to the same period last year, while the collection in the month of November has touched 40 million euros.

Operators' market shares in November 2016

In the month of November Lottomatica confirms again on the first step of the podium, grabbing 11% of the market. Follow Sisal (8.5%) and Eurobet (7.1%.)

Good results also for Snai e WILLIAM HILL, which do more or less in equal size a slice of 12% of the market are shared.

To report the entry into the top 10, for the first time ever, of Starcare: the brand of the Betsson group famous for the offer of Games and Slot Machine Netent reached a share of 2.8%.

Follows the list of operators who have reached a share greater than 2%:

Operator (casino games) Quota (November 2016)
Lattomatic 10,9%
SISAL 8,5%
Eurobet 7,2%
Bwin 6,3%
Snai 6,2%
WILLIAM HILL 6,1%
888 5,8%
POKERSTARS 3,4%
Greenentube 3,2%
Starcare 2,8%
GOLDBET 2,8%
ADMIRAL 2,6%
PaddyPower 2,5%
Timing 2,2%

The trend expected have been confirmed

The trends hypothesized at the beginning of the year on the market trend in relation to Casino Games and Poker are confirmed.

In fact, the former showed a clear increase compared to 2015, both overall and going to evaluate month by month. Online poker, on the other hand, confirmed a crisis that shows no sign of stopping, even if the numbers of the utlimi months show at least a slight braking of this negative trend.

As for operators, there are no surprises for the "big", while the market shares for operators who are halfway "ranking" have seen some changes in favor of new emerging brands.