Resources

Trends

California Runs the U.S. iGaming Map — Without a Single Legal Operator cover
California runs the U.S. iGaming map without a single legal operator

In every ranking that matters for online gambling, California sits at the top. By Blask Index — the measure of aggregated player demand across all operators in a market — the state outpaced every other in the country through 2025. California has no regulated online gambling market. Not a single licensed domestic operator takes a wager there.

italy betting market cover
Italy’s €21.5bn market runs on football time — and the data proves It

Italy has crossed a threshold that would have seemed improbable a decade ago. In 2025, it overtook the United Kingdom to become Europe's largest regulated gambling market by total revenue, recording €21.5 billion in gross gambling revenue and accounting for 41.4 percent of the entire European online casino market.

Blask × SiGMA: there’s no universal “prime time” for iGaming

SiGMA News featured Blask’s latest analysis of hourly and daily iGaming engagement across 110 countries—and the conclusion is blunt: there’s no universal “prime time.” Local workweeks, cultural routines, and time-zone effects shape when players show up, meaning campaigns, CRM triggers, and staffing need market-specific timing—not inherited global defaults.

What’s new in Blask? August & September 2025 🚀

This summer has been full of product updates and fresh features in Blask. Here’s a look at what we rolled out in August and September 2025: 📈 Trends on Blask Index charts You can now track market dynamics even more clearly. We’ve added trend visualization to Blask Index charts. Depending on the selected period, trends […]

Blask Trends — the new way of analysing the market

Blask introduces Trends, a new view inside the Blask Index that smooths short-term spikes on the graphs to reveal the underlying direction of a market and label its current state as Growth, Stagnation, or Decline. Built for volatile periods, it lets teams read momentum at a glance and act faster. Why it matters Major events, […]

Get your daily iGaming
insights to your mail

    Thank you!

    Enjoy new articles
    every week