Market overview

UAE launches licensed iGaming: Blask Index surges 44% before Play 971 enters high-income expatriate market.

For years, The International (TI) was the cornerstone of esports, not only as the world’s richest tournament, but also as a magnet for online betting. Each edition triggered a spike in wagers, with operators reporting record handle and engagement across their iGaming verticals. In 2025, however, the picture is shifting. From record-breaking to shrinking stakes […]

India’s game charts in H1 2025 were defined by a single hybrid title. Chicken Road led the entire market at about 43.9% Share of Interest (SOI), outpulling both liveshow formats and the anchor crash titles that have historically dominated the genre landscape.

Thailand sits in an interesting position: no onshore licensing framework yet, a $2.71 B Competitive Earning Baseline, and one challenger brand that doubled its market presence in twelve months. That combination — deep organic demand, limited infrastructure friction from formal competition, and a clear window for differentiation — makes Thailand one of the more compelling […]

✍️ TL;DR A wave of enforcement and licensing in a single market can rapidly shrink offshore supply and concentrate player attention on licensed operators. Peru’s 2024–25 rollout is a recent, clear example: regulators report a ~40% reduction in offshore online offers after licensing and blocking activity, and licensed brands gained visible share as a result. […]

Worldwide iGaming markets have faced several upheavals recently. From youth-led uprisings to economic crises, data from Blask shows that betting interest inevitably rebounds once crises ease.

Or How Blask Index Trends turns motion into meaning, by Max Tesla TL;DR Blask Index Trends turns a single Blask Index chart into decisions. It splits the curve into clear Rise/Fall/Flat segments, shows a clean Trend with mean and median as baselines, and scores the strength of each move with a Growth Index (-100 to […]

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