Denis Skorobogatko

Blask findings reveal the Winter Games had almost no impact on player activity — with rare exceptions tied to nationally significant moments.

One of the world’s largest regulated markets closed 2025 with half the brands gone. Italy is the largest iGaming market in continental Europe and it keeps expanding year after year. The pace is steady rather than explosive, but concentration is rising. Blask data shows that four operator groups account for about 72% of total digital […]

Payment service providers use Blask to standardize two core screening workflows: evaluating new markets and assessing potential operator clients. PSPs (Payment Service Providers) that want to scale in iGaming often face the same bottleneck: deciding which countries to prioritise and which operators justify integration effort, with limited time and imperfect information. Both workflows can be […]

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 […]