Planning to expand the gambling laws in Spain
In Spain, the online gambling market is experiencing a real boom. The gambling authority DGOJ (Dirección General del Ordenación del Juego) has confirmed that there has been an increase in sales of 17.7 percent compared to the sales in the second quarter of the previous year. However, Spain is also planning to expand the laws in gambling and make them stricter. Therefore, there has also been a lot of criticism of the state providers in recent times.
Poker and online casino gambling are the rage
The country of Spain is currently experiencing a boom in the online sector. And parallel to this, the country is currently undergoing a reform that brings with it many new regulations. The sales in the II quarter have fallen overall by 4.2 percent but still the growth is 17.7 percent, if you compare that with the previous year 2019.
The online area such as poker and casino gambling can thereby make up for the losses that there are in sports betting. The slump in sports betting revenue was just 68.1 million euros. This represents a decline of 20.8 percent. If one compares to the I. quarter of the previous year are 38.4 per cent.
In conventional sports betting, the stakes fell by 49 percent to an amount of 288.9 million euros. In live betting, the situation is different again, with sales falling to 698.6 million, a drop of 39.6 percent. If one looks at all betting products, then a decrease to 1.05 billion thus whole 40.4 per cent is to be registered. Stricter regulations are now threatening the industry, which may dampen the slight upswing that is currently being experienced.
The range online Casino gambling increased straight in the II. quarter tidily. If one compares the conversions to the previous year these are on 93,5 million increased which makes 36.5 per cent. The stakes of the customers rose on 2.86 billion euro, speak on 23.3 per cent. The DGOJ is thereby the opinion the customers change their play behavior. The development is similar in the area of online poker. Here, too, the increase is very high and has almost doubled. In figures, this is 38.2 million euros, which represents an increase of 97.4 percent.
Which games are the favorites
There are exactly two areas that have stood out particularly positively in terms of growth. These include slot machines, which have increased by 30.4 percent year-on-year, with revenues at 51.9 percent. Comparing the quarter, the increase is 19.9 percent. Also the live roulette is completely at the Boomen the conversions lie with 27,0 million euro which makes an increase of 75,5 per cent.
Although the high growth is present the number of customers in the quarterly comparison goes back. There are also fewer player accounts. If you look at the quarterly figures so is the number in the II quarter in the decline towards 2019. That is still 25.4 percent active customers in the total there were 642,938 per month have registered in the second quarter about 137,930 customers new. Which represents a decline of 41.0 percent.
Online gambling providers licensed in Spain also state that marketing expenses were significantly lower in the second quarter. If one looks at the complete expenditures then these amount to 40.6 million euro. This is 50.6 percent less than in the same period last year. If you look at the first quarter, the figure is 65.7 percent lower. Of course, this is probably also due to the fact that there are a number of new advertising restrictions. First and foremost, the broadcasting times for radio and TV are limited to the times between 01:00 and 05:00.
Sponsorship to be banned
There was also a decline in bonus payments. These fell sharply in the 2nd quarter. These bonuses were banned from March to June due to stricter advertising regulations. Compared to the previous year, the operators paid out 57.3 percent less, which amounts to 12.5 million euros. In affiliate marketing, spending has also decreased, with 6.7 million euros and 23.4 percent.
In the area of sponsorship, the amounts have increased compared to the previous year. The providers spent 4.3 million euros on this in the second quarter. This represents an increase of 16.2 percent. But the issue of sponsorship may soon be dropped, because the government recently submitted a decree to the EU Commission for ratification. And it is precisely this decree that deals with the ban on sponsorship, among other things.
the Podemos leader Pablo Iglesias, Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez (PSOE) and Alberto Garzón the Minister of Consumer Protection signed a cross-party agreement in July and it is precisely on this that the measures now stem. The advertising guidelines for gambling are to be aligned with those of the tobacco industry, or so the decree provides in any case. The EGBA, the responsible industry association in Europe, has called on the government in Spain to make improvements and show moderation.
