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Licensed betting sites in Brazil lost 74% of visitors in six days

Licensed betting sites in Brazil emptied within days of President Lula signing the measure that bans them, before they were even switched off. By Thursday, October 1, the share of Blask’s Brazilian panel visiting a licensed .bet.br site was 74% below normal, six days after Provisional Measure 1.394 was published. Over the same week, reach […]

Ethiopia prepares a betting relaunch after a $170.8M audit gap

December’s licence revocation left the revenue baseline intact. The Ethiopian Lottery Service (ELS) is preparing to relaunch sports betting and digital lotteries under stricter oversight. Chief executive Beza Girma confirmed a Fana Media Corporation account of the draft audit behind that plan.  The review covers July 2023, when operators first received licences, through December 2025. […]

A São Paulo court lets Stake Brazil stay online until 25 October

Only Stake is back online, because it took this case to court. On 8 October 2026, the 9th Federal Civil Court in São Paulo ordered the block on stake.bet.br lifted until 25 October, or until another ruling.  Brazil’s betting ban, measure 1.394/2026, took every licensed site offline on 6 October, but ends licenses only on […]

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