Denmark Gaming Revenue Rises

The Gambling Authority has revealed that gross gaming Denmark gaming revenue increased from DKK2.045 billion (€273 million/$375 million) in 2012 to DKK2.375 billion in 2013 despite a sharp fall in online poker revenue. Full-year online poker revenue dropped from DKK220 million in 2012 to DKK195 million in 2013, but increases in all other metrics secured an overall increase in gross gaming revenue. SKAT said that betting revenue increased from DKK1.175 billion to DKK1.385 billion, while gambling on games shifted up from DKK870 million to DKK990 million. In the fourth quarter of 2013, through to December 31, betting increased from DKK355…

Gaming Revenue Boost for Sky Bet as Bale Joins

Sky Bet, the sports betting division of TV conglomerate Sky, has posted a 20% year-on-year rise in gaming revenue to £32 million (€37.9 million/$51.9 million) for the three months until the end of September 2013. In an interim financial report for the first quarter of the new financial year, Sky Bet said that the figures had been achieved despite unfavorable results at the start of the 2013-14 football season. “Net revenue growth was 20% as the sports results weren’t favorable,” Sky Bet managing director Richard Flint told the Yorkshire Post newspaper. “We grew our user numbers by more than 20…