Media's still a bad bet, Luke Willson hits a father-son parlay and a former Queen's soccer star joins Low6
The Washington Post's shutting down of Launcher caps a lousy week in the journalism biz, the former NFL tight end spoke about his TSN/FanDuel gig, and Brittany Almeida discussed her new job.
BREAKING NEWS: Not too long after we hit the Publish button this morning, iGaming Ontario issued its Q3 2022-23 Performance Marketing Report.
The highlights:
Total wagers of $11.53 billion represents a 91% increase over Q2 (July 1 to September 30, 2022) and does not include promotional wagers (bonuses).
Total gaming revenue of $457 million shows a 71% increase over Q2. This figure represents total cash wagers, including rake fees, tournament fees and other fees, across all Operators from October 1 to December 31, 2022 minus player winnings derived from cash wagers and does not take into account operating costs or other liabilities.
36 Operators (a 50% increase over Q2) and 68 gaming websites (a 62% increase over Q2) are as of December 31, 2022. See the up-to-date list of Operators and gaming sites on iGO’s website.
910,000 active player accounts represents a 45% increase over Q2. These are accounts with cash and/or promotional wagering activity and do not represent unique players as individuals may have accounts with multiple Operators.
Average monthly spend per active player account of $167 in Q3 is 18% higher than in Q2.
We will discuss the numbers on LinkedIn Audio this afternoon between 2-3 p.m.
In this issue:
Launcher staff among latest cuts in media biz
Luke Willson on wagering, and Gronk
From soccer star to sales and strategy director
Teeing up Gaming News Canada Show on LinkedIn Audio
Latest bad news on media business includes Launcher
It’s an all-too-familiar feeling/mindset/waiting on pins and needles in the business of media today. Waiting for that Town Hall, or watching a sombre HR type take over a meeting room with a file folder in their hands, or simply trying to hang on so you’re able to walk away from a job with a severance package.
The past week has been pretty much an all-of-the-above ordeal. First, news broke quietly that Bart Yabsley (one of the most gentlemanly people in a sports media biz with so many of them) was out as president of Rogers Sportsnet. Last Friday, Vox Media announced that it was laying off seven per cent of its workforce and that included gutting the soccer and hockey editorial teams at SB Nation.
On Tuesday, it was announced at a Town Hall that Postmedia was letting go 11 per cent of its already-thin editorial staff and is moving 12 Alberta newspapers to digital only. The owners of the National Post (we only just discovered yesterday that there’s no longer a Sports vertical on its website; a curious decision to say the least) and daily newspapers in most of Canada’s major cities also announced the sale of the Calgary Herald building, and is instructing its employees in Saskatchewan to work remotely. On the same day, the Washington Post announced it was making cuts to its newsroom, and shutting down Launcher, its online gaming vertical.
Why pay attention to this in a newsletter on the gambling industry? Well, given the investment being made by sportsbook operators and other stakeholders in the biz, there are suddenly some talented people seeking employment and a significant number of our subscribers have ties to the media industry.
We’ll get into this more on LinkedIn Audio this afternoon, but we extend our best wishes to everyone whose lives have been turned upside down over the past 7-8 days.
Willson on wagering, hitting a father-son parlay. . . and Gronk
Luke Willson will be the first to admit he’s not ready to be the “Mystic Mike” of TSN’s NFL coverage. So, for now, no “Willie the Wagering Wonder”.
“I’m learning (how to bet) on the fly,” the retired NFL tight end from Lasalle, ON (right next door to Windsor) told us via video call Monday morning. “I had never bet on anything sports related in my life until this year.
“I’ve gone to the casino with my buddies, and I may have taken a casino gambling class in college.”
Willson and former CFL/NFL cornerback Davis Sanchez have provided the players’ viewpoints to TSN’s FanDuel Sundays covering the National Football League. For Willson, who played his eight pro seasons of four-down football in Seattle, Detroit and Baltimore, he draws on that experience as an analyst.
“For me, I’m trying to script a game,” said the man with the dark mane, making your friendly neighbourhood editor-in-chief and his thinning grey hair follicles wish we had held this interview sans video. “If I’m sitting in a meeting Wednesday I’m thinking ‘how will (Miami Dolphins offensive coordinator) Darrell Bevell approach this game? Will he spread the ball around?’ ”
When it comes to betting, Willson said he enjoys having fun with it around his buddies.
“Getting a group of pals together, and we cheer for the same things. I like it when I’m betting with people. Or yesterday (Sunday), I was on the phone with my dad chatting between SportsCentre hits. My dad’s not a big gambler, but we put together a father-son parlay around Josh Allen scoring a touchdown and me saying ‘Dad, I think Joe Mixon’s going to score a touchdown’.
“Hey, that was a nice little hit!”
As a newcomer to betting, Willson has suddenly found himself more aware of the tweets, posts, videos and articles from the “experts”.
“There’s a number of them who state the obvious. I’m not going to go on and tell you to take the Niners, Bills and Bengals on a parlay. That’s insulting. You don’t need an ex-NFL player to tell you what’s happening.”
We did want Willson to put on his prognosticator’s beret, however, on Rob Gronkowski’s “Kick of Destiny” which will be attempted during a live commercial at next month’s Super Bowl (Terry Lefton did a deep dive into FanDuel’s first Super Bowl ad initiative in his Sports Business Journal Marketing newsletter).
"To be honest if kickers can play ping pong all week then go out and hit 40 yarders on Sunday, I don't see why Gronk can't make this kick,” Willson answered. “Give me Gronk on the moneyline!"
From soccer star to sales and strategy director: Brittany Almeida’s journey to Low6
During last week’s Gaming News Canada Show on LinkedIn Audio, industry vet Benjie Cherniak spoke about the shifting culture around gambling thanks to an expanded regulated betting industry across North America.
“The overall perception of sports betting, led in part by the positioning of the leagues now, is that it’s a form of sports engagement,” Cherniak said. “We’re seeing it now in the U.S., university programs are geared towards careers in this industry. The same way now that you can graduate from U of T and go work for a marketing company or one of the big banks, you can now work for a legislated gaming company and it offers a real career opportunity whether you want to work on the analytics side, or the marketing side or become a trader.
“And they’re going to become more and more culturally accepted.”
Listening to Cherniak had your humble scribe thinking immediately about our conversation last week with Brittany Almeida. Six years ago, the daughter of Portuguese immigrants was a star forward for the Queen’s Gaels who led the Ontario University Athletics women’s soccer league in game-winning goals while studying her way onto the Dean’s List. Since then, she’s been a journalist for the Queen’s Journal, worked in the university’s athletics department, been the marketing manager for Toronto High Park FC, and a brand partnerships coordinator at TSN.
Almeida showed the same panache at the sports network as she did around the goal on the soccer pitch, getting promoted to the account executive of sports betting strategy and partnerships in November 2021 following the passing of Bill C-218 to open the floodgates for single-event sports betting in Canada.
“I was an active sports bettor, and engaged in the grey market,” Almeida told us over Google Meet. “Having that foresight of creative play, I wanted to position myself to jump into that world.
“With the April (2022) launch on the horizon, TSN formed a sports betting and brand strategy team to launch the (partnership) deal with FanDuel. Last year, I was learning everything I could and understanding how brands like sportsbooks can engage audiences.”
Her work, and work ethic, caught the attention of Low6, which announced Jan. 18 that Almeida was joining the sports gaming tech company as its director of sales and strategy.
“Brittany’s leadership comes at a crucial and exciting time, as Low6 enters a significant growth year ahead – providing operators with innovative gamification technology across sports and online casino,” said Josh Turk, the company’s chief strategy officer. “We are excited to onboard an athlete into the sales team, bringing a wealth of team leadership, competitiveness and an athlete’s drive to maximise each day.”
Almeida joins a company which lists the NFL, PGA Tour, UFC, the LA Chargers and Cincinnati Bengals as partners. On this side of the border, Low6 has done deals with Rivalry (around the League of Legends World Championship) and Bet99 on free-to-play pick’em games for the NFL and NHL.
“I’ve been tasked with growing that list,” Almeida said. “Low6 is demonstrating the value of free-to-play to engage fans in the digital space. This year will be transformative and provide the opportunity to solidify our place as the go-to destination for betting operators, sports leagues and franchises, media organizations, and major brands to help engage and monetize their digital fan bases.”
Almeida believes that Low6’s focus on gamification provides another avenue for teams and leagues to engage fans, while also serving as a way to ease sports fans into wagering.
“You can be super engaged around brackets, and leader boards where you can compete with your friends, but at a lower risk (than betting). An NHL free-to-play game is an effective way to attract new customers.”
“10 Women Rising in Gaming” to be featured on today’s live Gaming News Canada Show
One of our New Year’s resolutions (in addition to putting the cellphone away a little earlier in the evening, and leaving the ice cream in the grocery store freezer even when it’s on sale) was to bring some new voices to our Thursday afternoon coffee klatches on LinkedIn Audio.
Mission accomplished last week when Sue Schneider joined us along with Cherniak (who hadn’t been on the show for a while).
And we continue a mini-roll this week, as veteran journalist Rege Behe of CDC Gaming Reports will be with us along with SBC Americas editor Jessica Welman and Cassie Stratford - Senior VP of Legal and Compliance at Boyd Gaming - who both made CDC’s inaugural “10 Women Rising in Gaming” list. We’re also hoping Welman will stick around to provide her thoughts from covering the Massachusetts Gambling Commission hearings in advance of Tuesday’s launch of legal sports betting in the Bay State.
We start the conversation on LinkedIn Audio a second or two after 2 p.m. ET.
On the Home Front
Jamie Shea, the chief marketing officer for Strive Gaming, has some advice for operators in the regulated Ontario market. Not surprisingly, it includes spending smart over spending big.
Jake Evans at iGaming Next reported yesterday that Vancouver-based GeoComply will receive funding from two U.S. private equity firms that will allow the company to broaden its horizons.
Speaking of which, GeoComply co-founder and CEO Anna Sainsbury appeared on The Street yesterday:
PlayCanada’s Robyn McNeil weighed in - and in a big way - on The Fifth Estate’s recent look at the sports betting industry in our home and native land.
Well Played Media is now legally operating its Casino Days brand in Ontari-ari-ari-o.
PointsBet Canada, with a helping hand from SALT XC, launched its new ad campaign last weekend.
The OLG has doled out third-quarter shares of gaming revenue to Windsor and Chatham around the hosting of casinos in the two southwestern Ontario municipalities.
Speaking of OLG, Jose Colorado of Play Canada had the deets on the lottery corp’s third-quarter community payments.
In case you missed our interview with SIGA’s Michael Bellegarde last week, the CBC’s Kelly Provost wrote about Saskatchewan’s new online sports wagering market.
Xpoint will be the official geolocation provider for Casino Days in Ontario.
A markets analyst gave “buy” billing to Toronto-based Playmaker Capital ahead of releasing its fourth-quarter financials.
From the Dept. of Slipping Between The Cracks, Vancouver-based FansUnite released some good news last week around its McBookie business in the United Kingdom.
If you’re interested in a history of sorts as it relates to gambling scandals in pro sports, we direct you to this Toronto Star column.
It’ll be uppercuts instead of ribbon cutting for the debut event at the new Pickering Casino Resort Arena. A hint on what that’ll take place:
Let’s Get Together
DraftKings announced yesterday a partnership with Ottawa-based Gamres, which will support DK’s responsible gambling program through its Positive Play Scale tool.
SimWin Sports and Bidstack announced this a.m. a multi-year technology partnership.
Push Gaming, which we profiled in The Company Line in Tuesday’s newsletter, made it known this morning that its partnership with Belgian operator Circus is now live.
The PGA Tour announced Tuesday that U.S. Integrity is joining forces with Genius Sports to give a boost to the tour’s integrity monitoring program.
Rivalry’s latest partner in the Brazilian esports market is RED Canids.
Enthusiast Gaming is getting together with iconic brand Campbell Soup for a presenting sponsorship around NFL’s Tuesday Night Gaming.
There’s also an NFL connection with Enthusiast Gaming also getting together with Sour Patch Kids.
Swintt and Bragg Gaming will be doing the collaboration thing with a focus on the Netherlands.
Low6 believes its new partnership with Xtremepush will give it a . . . . er. . . push when it comes to engaging with its players.
Simplebet is the latest gaming business to get together with the International Betting Integrity Association.
The NBA is joining the American Gaming Association’s Have A Game Plan. Bet Responsibly. public service campaign.
High Games will be doing the collaboration thing with BetMGM in Pennsylvania.
Esports entity FaZe Clan is getting together with Porsche to help drive (see what we did there?) its content game.
LeoVegas Group will be able to offer more casino games on a global basis from its new partnership with OnAir Entertainment.
Beasley Esports has an agreement to collaborate with the military academy at West Point.
Betsson is becoming the title sponsor of the Chilean first division soccer league.
Fantasy sports company SimWin Sports has a new strategic partnership with Sports Illustrated.
French company Groupe FDJ will be working with the Paris Saint-Germain soccer club on a responsible gambling campaign.
North American esports company OpTic Gaming is cooking up something with Wingstop around Call of Duty League Major.
Activision Blizzard games went offline in China, as of Monday after it failed to reach a deal extension with its distributor.
Bayes Esports has a new data partnership with BLAST Premier.
Global Payments will provide Saracen Casino with its product and expertise.
MetaQuest has extended its partnership with the NBA to include a VR component.
Finally, we read the release on the renewal of Gamesquare’s partnership with Miller Lite and we simply couldn’t help ourselves:
Quarter(s) Pole
Sonja Lindenberg of iGaming Next reported that Kambi expects to see a significant bump in revenue between now and 2027.
The folks at Real Luck Group felt pretty damn good about the company’s financial successes last year, and are bullish about the future.
Sportech released this week a pre-close trading update, and Conor Mulheir has the deets.
States Side Stories
Matt Ford writes for The New Republic this morning that you can blame former New Jersey governor Chris Christie for the tsunami of sports betting ads on NFL broadcasts.
Members of the Players Association - which represent the NHLPA, MLBPA and other professional sports unions - expressed their concerns about athlete safety when meeting with the Massachusetts Gambling Commission earlier this week.
The MGC has also landed on the catalogue of events for which wagers can be offered, and the Oscars and pro sports drafts, made the cut. If you’re someone who likes to place a dollar or two on esports or cornhole or the Olympics, however, you’re split out of luck.
Speaking of the Bay State, lawmaker John Keenan introduced a bill this week on deceptive advertising.
And, the state treasurer is raising a Spockian eyebrow about the revenue projections for legal sports betting in Mass.
Also, Caesars has itself a partner for a retail sportsbook about 65 kilometres south of Boston.
Bet365 confirmed to Geoff Zochodne at Covers yesterday that it has withdrawn its application to join the Massachusetts market.
We lied. Steve Ruddock of Gambling.com wrote about the expected impact on the legal market in Massachusetts on neighbouring states.
Dallas Stars owner Tom Gagliardi is on board with online sports wagering being legalized in Texas, but is sitting on the fence when it comes to bricks-and-mortar gambling venues.
Officials in Minnesota are looking into a gambling scene involving TikTok and casinos.
For the first time, typed Howard Stutz of the Nevada Independent, the Super Bowl will be played in a state with legal sports betting.
The Ohio Casino Control Commission is considering a ban on sports bettors who harass student-athletes.
Speaking of the Buckeye States, bar and restaurant owners are feeling like Stefon Diggs last Sunday about the slow rollout of sports betting kiosks.
A bill to legalize online poker in New York has been introduced in the state legislature. Lawmakers in the Empire State, wrote Mike Mazzeo of Legal Sports Report, are also looking to put more meat on the responsible gambling bone.
Drew Ellis has a two-part series on the first two years of Michigan’s legal online sports betting industry.
The Michigan Gaming Control Board, Chris Altruda at MILive.com reported, has unveiled a multi-point plan for bettors to be responsible with wagering on next month’s Super Bowl.
The Wolverine State saw a rise in revenue last year, thanks to the igaming sector.
Betting revenue and handle had a nice YOY rise in New Hampshire for the month of December.
In Mississippi, there was a meteoric rise in revenue both month over month and year over year.
PointsBet has opened the doors to its third off-track betting retail sportsbook in Illinois.
The aforementioned Ruddock ranked the states offering legal online casino.
The legalization of sports betting in Texas is once again on the docket for state legislators.
And the governor of Oklahoma is pushing hard for legal wagering to home to the Sooner State.
Ryan Butler, sporting the postseason facial hair before we even hit the NHL trade deadline, spoke with GeoComply’s John Pappas for iGaming Next’s new Americas podcast.
Mike Seely tells the story of an imprisoned gambling addict who’s suing BetMGM and Borgata.
Robert Collins of Gaming America weighed in on the illegal gambling market in the U.S. of A.
Jeff Edelstein interviewed a New Jersey sports bettor who’s banging the drum on sportsbooks placing limits.
BetMGM handed out more than $100 million in online casino jackpots last year.
Nevada regulators were scheduled to meet yesterday with Betfred Sportsbook, according to Buck Wargo at CDC Gaming Reports.
SBC’s Jessica Welman interviewed Spotlight Sports Group CEO Mark Renshaw about the company’s U.S. expansion initiative.
Wargo was also busy on the laptop chronicling a record revenue year - thanks to sleeping, eating and drinking - for Nevada casinos according to the Gaming Control Board.
A former chief justice in Georgia believes sports betting can be legalized in the Peach State without a constitutional amendment.
A former gaming industry executive makes some predictions for 2023.
Indoor smoking areas . . . . cough, cough. . . . have returned to two Detroit casinos.
Across the Ponds
Liechtensteinians. . . er. . . . Liechensteinites. . . aw forget it. The fine citizens of Lichtensteins will vote Sunday on a referendum to ban casinos.
The Premier League is being asked to explain its partnership with a business tied to a jailed Macau tycoon.
“Persons of interest” have been under the scrutiny of international crime experts at the Australian Open around match-fixing and doping.
A member of the UK Parliament is concerned that the soon-to-come Gambling White Paper will push gamblers to the black market.
A survey of European sports fans revealed that 43 per cent watch more sports on social media than on the telly.
A petition to ban advertising and sponsorship in British soccer by the gambling industry is close to reaching its goal of 75,000 signatures.
The Finnish Police Board’s new social media ad campaign on the marketing of young gamblers by the igaming industry is raising eyebrows.
Josimar’s Steve Menary that despite having filed for bankruptcy, 1XBet continues to sign partnership deals with the international soccer community.
The Kathmandu Post reported on a brouhaha involving a cricket league, two national-level players and six foreigners.
Speaking of Suomi, there’s increasing political will to follow Ontario’s lead and open up the sports betting and gaming market.
Kindred Group has released new data from Swedish customers about problem gambling that shows trending in the right direction.
The British Horseracing Authority has banned a jockey for 15 years.
The Dutch Gaming Authority came down hard on Shark77 for offering a “games of chance” service without a licence.
Three Australian sportsbook operators are facing flak for offering wagers around the Under-19 Women’s T20 World Cup cricket tournament.
Horse racing in the UK isn’t what it used to be.
ESA Gaming has taken its betBonanza platform into Nigeria.
Slots company Aruze Gaming has opened its first European office in the Netherlands.
Esports Reports
Sports Information Services (SIS) has unveiled its esports product in Colorado via its partnership with Bet365.
Count Nerd Street Gaming in Pennsylvania as among the esports businesses starting the year by trimming jobs.
In his farewell column for Esports Insider, Victor Frascarelli wrote about the clash between the esports biz and politicians in Brazil.
The Philippine Basketball Association is launching an Esports Bakbakan competition.
A group of former employees at X7 Esports have set up their own shop in the UK.
The participants in the Chess Champions Tour will be competing for a $2 million purse this year.
Moist, the esports business, not the band, has a new lead sponsor. And, oh yes, it also has a new co-owner.
Beter has added Dota 2 tournaments, along with live data, streaming and odds, to give its esports portfolio a boost.
Leagues.gg and Riot Games have announced a collaboration for the Northern League Championship.
LEC Winter Split experienced a decrease in viewership for opening week compared to a year ago.
Media Musings
We give a tip of the GNC chapeau to FOTP Scott Longley, Steve Ruddock and Mark Taylor on the launch of the Compliance+More newsletter on Tuesday.
Good reading from public affairs guru Caroline Ponseti with her 2023 resolutions for the business of gambling in the U.S. of A.
A tres cool profile of the NBA superfan who became a content creator for The Score.
Rob Miech of the Chicago Sun-Times has a fascinating read on spending time with a former bookmaker who once worked for the mob in the Windy City, and was able to escape that life.
Bloomberg Quicktake delivered an Online Sports Wagering 101 feature over the YouTube.
We’ve devoted a fair bit of space and oxygen to diversity and inclusion in this newsletter and on LinkedIn Audio this month. That being the case, we point you to NHL D&I executive Kim Davis doing the Q and A thing with Arun Srinivasan of Yahoo Sports.
Finally, the man who’ll forever be remembered by your congenial correspondent as Mistah Kotter is calling it a career as the commentator of High Stakes Poker.
Quick Hits
Worldpay from FIS has released its sixth annual Global Gaming Payments Report for your reading pleasure.
The International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction has published Cooling Off and the Effects of Mandatory Breaks in Online Gambling: A Large-Scale, Real-World Study.
Entain is moving swiftly in taking leave of unregulated gaming markets.
Speaking of Entain, it’s receiving another look from MGM as an acquisition.
Sportico’s Jacob Feldman reported that Courtside Ventures has raised $100 million (U.S.) and is looking at betting-related businesses among others.
Growing interest in betting on soccer by Americans is among four takeaways from the ties between wagering and the 2022 FIFA World Cup, explains the chief product officer for OpenBet.
Eilers & Krejcik Gaming announced Tuesday the nominees for its fifth annual EKG Slot Awards, with the winners to be named at the Feb. 23 awards ceremony.
Kambi CEO Kristian Nylen did the Q and A thing with SBC’s Martyn Elliott about the evolution of the company’s product strategy.
Spotlight Sports Group executive did some keyboarding for Sports Business Journal on the opportunities for Major League Baseball and the sports betting industry.
Fandom has made job cuts around the TV Guide, GameSpot, Giant Bomb and Metacritic entertainment and gaming businesses it recently acquired.
Software solutions provider SoftSwiss unveiled some numbers around the sharp increase in sports betting activity.
The Betting Startups Podcast and host Jesse Learmonth welcomed Drew Tabor, the co-founder and CEO of BetsBooster.
Conor Mulheir at iGaming Next reported on a new incentive plan that’s been proposed for Evolution’s executive and key staff.
The CEO of Play’n GO makes the case for investing in online casino.
Everi president/CEO Randy Taylor appeared on the GGB Podcast to talk about the payments side of the gambling biz, and other topics.
People on the Move
DraftKings last week introduced Cristina Ackas as the Vice President of Inclusion, Equity & Belonging.
Kindred Group has promoted Rachel Randle-Williams to Chief Human Resource Officer and Soren Thornlund has been hired as its new Chief Technology Officer.
Debra Kuprinski is the new Vice President, Commercial at OpenBet.
Industry vet Viktor Hoffmann has been brought in by LeoVegas Group as its first Head of Business Development.
Cheryl Jones, the former chief legal and compliance officer at Lady Luck, has been appointed president of Odds On Compliance’s European division.
Former Flutter UK & Ireland CEO Conor Grant is the new Chairman of Racecourse Media Group.
Former Genius Sports exec Andy Phillips is SportingRisk’s new Chief Commercial Officer.
Kristine Bill has been promoted to Chief Operations Officer at Playmaker while Taz Patel joined the company at the end of last year as Chief Business Officer.
Mark Thomas is the new CEO of KeyStar Corp.
Alban Dechelotte has been appointed permanent CEO of G2 Esports.
Elizabeth Smits has also received a promotion to Marketing Executive with iGaming Next.
Kelly Huston is joining Wondr Nation as Director of Social & Casual Gaming.
Jaeden Lawson, formerly of Bleacher Report, has joined The Score as an Account Executive while Kevin Hsiao and Alex Vachon are both coming on board as data analysts. Nicolas Brent has also been hired as a Risk and Trading Insights Analyst.
Ashley Stephenson, a former player with the Canadian national women’s baseball team, has been hired as a minor-league coach by the Blue Jays of Toronto.
Coming soon to a screen/town near you
A reminder that today’s the day for the latest virtual Gaming Americas Quarterly Meetup.
Sportradar and iGaming Business got together to produce a webinar on technology, AI, and the like.
Entain’s Martin Lycka and GBG’s Rebekah Jackson are among the panellists for an SBC Webinar on Jan. 31 around the growing Latin American gaming market.
There’s still time to sign up for next month’s Fantasy Sports & Gaming Association winter conference in Vegas.
Hayley Wickenheiser will be the keynote speaker at the Empire Club of Canada’s latest event on Monday (Jan. 30) with both in-person and virtual registration available.
Early registration is available for the June 26-29 Collision Conference at Toronto’s Enercare Centre.
‘Tis also the case for the March 6-10 Regulating The Game conference in Sydney, Australia.
By the way, nominations are now open for the SBC Awards North America.
Classified (Jobs) Information
GeoComply is hiring a Senior Fraud Analyst for its Toronto office along with an Incident Management Intern for its Montreal location.
FanDuel is on a seek-and-employ mission for a Finance Senior Analyst at its New York office.
Kaizen Gaming is on the lookout for an Affiliates Manager in Toronto.
The Score has an opening for a Release Manager.
ALT Sports Data is seeking a Senior Sports Trader for its San Diego location.
SportLogiq is on the search for a DevOps Engineer.
Boom Entertainment is in the market for a Software Engineer.
Wanted by IGT at its Las Vegas location: a Project Manager, PlaySports.
McCarthy-Tetrault, which does business in the gambling industry, has an opening for a Marketing and Communications Specialist.
There are a whole lotta opportunities right now to work at Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment, including several internship openings.
The Canadian Olympic Committee is seeking an Account Executive, Marketing Partnerships.
Ontario University Athletics (better known as the OUA) is hiring a Finance & Business Manager.
About the Numbers
A second member of the Canadian women’s national team has joined Manchester United, as 22-year-old Markham, Ont., native Jayde Riviere signed a contract running until the end of the 2024/25 season.
Manchester United, who are currently in first place in the Women’s Super League (WSL), now sport two Canadians, with Adriana Leon, of Mississauga, Ont., having joined the Red Devils last summer.
Riviere became the sixth member of the CanWNT to currently play in the WSL – a growing trend as more and more top soccer clubs and countries recognize the plethora of talent that exists in our own backyard.
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