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Where games sit vs what players search: a deep dive into Spain’s casino lobbies. Spain today is one of Western Europe’s most mature and tightly regulated online-casino markets. Roughly 9,300 games are shown across approximately 75 licensed operators. Yet sheer breadth does not translate into even attention. The “front screen” — the first grid 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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

Blask’s view of a mature Western European market where football remains the primary demand engine. Spain’s regulated online gambling market hit $1.7B GGR in 2024 (+17.6% YoY) — its best year since Law 13/2011 launched the regime. Blask ranks the country #22 globally by CEB ($1.6B), with 114 active brands and Blask Index that climbed […]

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, […]