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India’s Supreme Court confirmed a 28% GST on the full stake value of online bets and restored retrospective tax claims that could reach $30B across the sector.

Italy’s illegal gambling data now points in two directions: illegal site traffic is rising, while Blask data shows offshore brands losing search visibility as users move through closed channels.

Mexico's iGaming market grew for four straight years without a modern regulatory framework. One fiscal decision sent demand down 35% in two months: a GGR tax hike from 30% to 50%. Blask data on the top brands, market size, and offshore share shows what reform should and shouldn't look like.

On April 17, 2026, bet365 went live in Michigan, adding its 17th US state for sports betting and its third for online casino. The British operator is one of the widest-reaching brands in global iGaming, but the US remains a growth market. Blask data shows where it stands.

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 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.

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.

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 […]