Online Casino Betting Continues To Grow
The European i-Gaming conference in Nice recently provided some 800 delegates with a wealth of data on the growth of online casino betting. One of the most interesting was a detailed statistical breakdown of the business, presented by Simon Holliday, a partner in the Global Betting and Gaming Consultants firm.
Let’s take a look at just some of the aspects of the industry that Holliday covered, starting with the obvious question “From where do most online casino players gamble?” Most readers would guess North America as the main market, and they would be right, but perhaps not by as big a margin as previously thought.
North American online casino gamblers constitute 48 percent of the overall online casino gambling business…and research indicates that this might shrink to 36 percent by 2010, albeit in a much larger market.
Coming up strongly is Europe which is currently at 28 percent, but will rise to 33 percent in a bigger market by 2010. But the real growth looks as if it will take place in the Asia and Middle East regions – currently 17 percent but set to grow to 25 percent.
Central and South America is likely to stay at 2 percent, with the rest being divided in small percentages in Africa and Oceania.
Although terrestrial gambling still massively dominates the global market, that’s 4.6 percent of all gambling, rising to 7.6 percent by 2010. This industry still has plenty of legs!.