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California and Texas, the two most populous states in the United States, together represent an estimated $9.7 billion in online gambling activity — all of it flowing to offshore, unlicensed operators and none of it generating state tax revenue or consumer protection.
Despite years of state-by-state legalization and record revenues from licensed operators, approximately two-thirds of American online gambling spending flowed to offshore, unlicensed platforms in 2025, according to new research from Blask that quantifies, the full scope of both the regulated and unregulated U.S. gambling market.
Blask has released a new North America report: “USA and Canada iGaming Landscape 2025: The Offshore Reality”. It’s a data-driven view of a simple but critical question: where does online gambling value actually flow in North America — into licensed operators, or offshore — and how does that change state by state? What’s inside the […]
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.
Blask is heading to NEXT Summit New York, where Ilya Batcherikov (CPO) and Jeffrey Haas (Chairman) will present key findings from our upcoming report: “USA and Canada iGaming Landscape 2025: The Offshore Reality”. The report examines market scale, offshore vs domestic dynamics, and state-level competitive shifts across North America, with a strong focus on the […]
The UK Blask Index dropped sharply between December 1, 2025 and February 1, 2026. Mean daily market interest fell from 51.48 million to 43.50 million — a 15.5% contraction in six weeks. Median interest moved from 51.64 million to 46.92 million.
The operator holds naming rights to AFCON 2025, a CAF partnership stretching back to 2019, and active registrations in 57 African markets. By actual player demand, it generates less Blask Index than a single-market operator in Mali. When Senegal lifted the AFCON trophy in Rabat in February 2026, 1xBet’s branding was everywhere — on the […]
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.
