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February’s calendar disadvantage is obvious, but the weakness goes beyond the missing days. In more than half of 126 markets Blask currently tracks, February ranks among the bottom three for player activity. The weakness is not regional, and it is not simply about brevity. The 2024 leap year produced the worst Blask Index performance of […]
Market leaders in iGaming rarely lose their positions. When they do, regulators are often involved. Leaders in iGaming typically hold their ground. Smaller operators struggle to break through, and top rankings remain stable year after year. Blask data shows that several markets bucked this pattern in 2025. The biggest of such countries are the Philippines, […]
Blask data demonstrates standard patterns persisted even in finalist countries.The AFCON 2025 tournament concluded on 18 January. The competition, with Morocco as host nation, kicked off on 21 December and featured 52 matches across 19 match days. Such an intensive schedule theoretically should have influenced iGaming metrics, especially in markets where favorites competed. However, Blask […]
Often written off as low season, the first month of the year looks far healthier across Europe than its reputation suggests.January is widely treated as iGaJanuary is weak often enough to deserve its reputation. Yet in many markets it sits in the middle of the yearly ranking, and in a smaller group concentrated in Europe, […]
A mature market closed 2025 with a sigh of relief — lawmakers dropped the bonus ban at the last step. In December, lawmakers in Spain removed the iGaming provisions from the customer‑service bill at final passage after months of heated debates. The plan to re-ban welcome bonuses did not make it into law, leaving the […]
Blask data shows Venezuela’s iGaming demand held firm in the first days after the US raid in Caracas. On 3 January, US forces captured Venezuela’s president Nicolás Maduro, flying him out of Caracas to face charges in New York. The operation followed a year of escalating US pressure — maritime deployments, strikes, and late-2025 sanctions. […]
Blask data show that despite increased pressure from Indian authorities, iGaming demand in 2025 followed 2024’s pattern, with operators adapting rather than the market breaking. India started 2025 without a nationwide licensing framework for iGaming, so the policy shift was never a clean “licensed market closes” moment. Parliament passed a ban on online money games […]
Blask data show which countries and brands dominated in 2025, and how the leaderboards shifted compared to 2024. A year comes to an end, and it’s time to look at the global iGaming picture through Blask data. As of December, 18 we are tracking 117 countries, giving a broader view of where demand concentrated and […]
