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On May 19th, the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) published its Annual Report 2021. As part of it, the regulator provided some details regarding the stricter policy on gambling advertising, as well as the recently announced limitations on the use of celebrities and influencers in gambling ads, as part of its efforts to protect younger audiences in the UK. At the time when the advertising watchdog published its annual report for the past year, the Committee on Advertising Practices (CAP) revealed that British children’s viewership of advertising in general over the…

An Irish psychologist recently shared that the proposals for the suspension of gambling advertising until after the watershed came about 20 years too late. Clinical psychologist Mark Smyth, who commented on some recommendations for a gambling advertising ban between 6:00 AM and 9:00 PM made by the Oireachtas Justice Committee, believes that the Irish gambling legislation changes have been proposed too late. According to estimates, about 3,500 children aged 15 and 16 in Ireland can currently be categorised as problem gamblers. In order to tackle the increasing gambling addiction rates…

The UK gambling regulatory body has once again published information regarding the changes in Brits’ gambling behaviour linked to the easing of the Government’s coronavirus lockdown measures and the current environmental factors in the country. The watchdog has noted that such data will be published on a quarterly basis, and so will be the analysis. The latest update in the information about local residents’ gambling behaviour refers to the quarters in the financial year 2021/2022. The operator data provided by the UK Gambling Commission (UKGC) covers the period from March…

Lately, the UK gambling sector has been repeatedly suffering one blow after another, as an increasing number of charity organisations and anti-gambling campaigners have been insisting that the industry should be forced to make larger contributions to tackle the possible negative effects of gambling-related harm. A recent publication by The Guardian claims that the country’s gambling industry has seen its revenue triple its size but that has not resulted in a significant increase in the monetary donations to GambleAware – the largest gambling charity in the UK seeking to actively…

According to a recent study, there is a clear link between gambling and homelessness in Australia, with people over the age of 50 being particularly vulnerable. Data provided by various homelessness services across the country has revealed that older service users have been mostly affected by gambling-related harm because they gamble on a regular basis. Australians over 50 are also the fastest-growing age group of local residents who are affected by homelessness. So far, little attention has been paid to the issue, with no mention of gambling in any current…

The advertising watchdog in the UK has published a report regarding children’s exposure to age-restricted TV adverts over the past decade. This is the first time when statistics have been broken down by nation in order for the regulator to provide a better picture of children’s experiences across the country. The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) shared that it contacts regular monitoring of advertising materials, especially the ones for age-restricted products, as part of its commitment to protecting the most vulnerable people from potential harm by identifying trends and ensuring that…

The Irish bookmaker Paddy Power fired Emma Phillips, a former lower-level manager at the company, in 2020 after finding she had allowed customers to play on credit. She appealed the decision but the court decided not to side with her, ruling that she was the one responsible for the disagreement. The plaintiff started working as an assistant in a Paddy Power brick-and-mortar betting shop in 2015 and was raised to the position of deputy manager. The woman claimed that she and her supervisor had seen other companies use the same…

The UK gambling regulatory body is set to ask a court to enact its decision to award the fourth 10-year National Lottery licence to Allwyn in a move which, according to some experts, would risk reducing the money for good causes by up to £800 million. As reported by Casino Guardian, in mid-March, the UK Gambling Commission (UKGC) announced that the current holder of the National Lottery operating permit – Camelot Group – will lose its licence and the permit will go to the Czech Republic’s gambling and lottery company…

Recently, GambleAware published a list of corporate donors for the year that ended on March 31st, 2022. The largest gambling charity organisation in the UK also revealed that the so-called “Big Four” group of UK operators generated almost 90% of all contributions to good causes. As GambleAware announced, millions of pounds in donations were made by Flutter Entertainment, Entain and William Hill, with the overall amount donated by the three gambling operators worth £34.7 million. The British gambling charity further noted that the continued contributions made by the licensed and…

According to recent reports, some of the largest gambling operators in the UK have reached out to Treasury officials to lobby against the further restrictions that are being proposed to apply to the industry, claiming that such a crackdown will result in lost tax receipts worth millions of pounds. Reportedly, executives of bet365, Ladbrokes and Paddy Power have held a meeting with some HM Revenue and Customs officials to warn that any further crackdown measures on the local gambling sector could scare customers off and encourage them to choose companies…