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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 […]
Event gravity dominated the tape, with upside concentrated in football-driven Africa and the first clear Olympics-linked lift in Europe.
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, […]
Week 5 of 2026 split cleanly between headline-driven repricing and calendar-led flow.
Spain's iGaming market follows a clear seasonal rhythm — here's what Blask Index data reveals about its peaks, troughs, and timing.
How player acquisition interest shifted across global betting markets, measured by Blask Index week-over-week (WoW) momentum. Week’s headline Event-driven demand dominated the tape, with upside concentrated in European calendar effects and downside shaped by suppression and post-event decay. Austria (+17.7%) led Europe on Kitzbühel’s Hahnenkamm weekend, while Sweden (+9.9%) and Norway (+8.5%) moved as a […]
