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Italy still prints the largest Italy iGaming CEB in continental Europe. The 2025 concession rewrite removed the spare brands. The 2026 question is whether that thinner field stays onshore. The market is bigger, but there’s a few brands here For January–August 2026 Blask’s Competitive Earning Baseline for Italy is $4.42B ($3.25B–$7.94B range), 10.2% above the […]
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, […]
Europe's six largest regulated iGaming markets generated over $27 billion in estimated revenue in 2025. But the growth stories couldn't be more different. Blask data maps where player demand is actually expanding — and where regulation is decoupling acquisition from revenue.
Where player demand grew the fastest in 2025 — and what the data says about why. The global gambling industry generated $643.74 billion in revenue in 2025, continuing a five-year growth streak. But that growth was far from evenly distributed. While mature markets in Western Europe and North America moved incrementally, four markets — the […]
Spain's iGaming market follows a clear seasonal rhythm — here's what Blask Index data reveals about its peaks, troughs, and timing.
A 58.4 percentage-point gap separated the strongest and weakest demand shifts in this five-market benchmark. Revenue potential followed a wider range. There was no single iGaming industry growth rate in H1 2026. Blask data for the United Kingdom, United States, Nigeria, Brazil and Germany shows three paths: demand expansion, demand contraction and revenue potential moving […]
