Gambling Commission Publish Online Gambling Ddata

The Gambling Commission has published data around online gambling behaviour as a result of the easing of lockdown.

The Commission state as follows:

“The operator data reflects the period between March 2020 and June 2021, inclusive, and covers both online and, where relevant, some offline gambling operator data, noting that land-based premises have only recently been able to open since closing in December.

The Commission stat that the latest online operator data for June 2021 shows:

• overall activity in the online market slowed down in June, with gross gambling yield (GGY) and total bets both decreasing 7% and 10% respectively. Active players 1 did increase 4%, likely to be a result of occasional players’ interest in the Euro 2020 tournament

• slots GGY decreased 14% to £181m during the period from May to June. The number of spins decreased 10% while active players increased 1%

• the number of online slots sessions lasting longer than an hour decreased by 9% (to just above 2.3m). The average session length decreased to 19.3 minutes, with nearly 8% of all sessions lasting more than one hour.”

The Commission further state that they will:

• take steps to permanently strengthen regulatory requirements, encompassing changes to Remote Technical Standards (RTS) and Licence Conditions and Codes of Practice (LCCP) to protect consumers as we have over the last year on ad-tech, game design and high value customer programmes
• monitor operators very closely and conduct our compliance assessments.

A link to the full article published by the Commission can be found here: "June 2021 data shows the impact of COVID-19 on gambling behaviour using operator data"