What’s new in Blask: January 2026

This month, we shipped a major “context layer” for Blask Index, published the official Blask Awards 2025 results, and expanded Market Overview coverage with new countries and deeper brand detection in key markets.

Market Explanation

Blask Index makes market moves easy to spot. Market Explanation adds the missing piece: why a market is rising, falling, or flat — in a structured narrative backed by real-world events and sources.

When Blask detects a market cycle, Market Explanation generates a concise breakdown with:

• An overview of what happened
• Key drivers behind the move
• Notable events during the cycle window
• Sources used for the explanation

How to use it

Open any market, scroll to the Blask Index chart, and click inside the trend window — the Market Explanation panel will open with the full breakdown.

Availability notes (Beta): Market Explanation is currently shown in markets where the detected trend period lasts longer than one month, and the explanations are updated monthly.

Blask Awards 2025: results are live

Blask Awards 2025 results are now published, recognizing the operators, providers, and games that dominated iGaming demand across global, regional, and local markets.

Blask Awards are determined entirely by market performance data (no panels, votes, or subjective scoring). Winners are grounded in Blask analytics signals like Blask Index, CEB, BAP, and other metrics, with eligibility limited to regulated markets and licensed operators.

Where to find the winners

The results are organized across three levels:

• Providers & Games — distribution, catalog depth, and demand leaders
• Global & Regional — worldwide leaders + regional champions
• Local — country-level winners where Blask tracks regulated competition at scale

Market Overview coverage updates

New countries added

Blask Market Overview now includes:

• Botswana
• Namibia
• Jamaica

Brand detection expanded

We also added newly detected brands to improve leaderboards and competitive context in:

• India: +54
• Japan: +19
• Argentina: +24
• Israel: +9
• Greece: +11
• Ireland: +16
• Estonia: +15
• Brazil: +26

Explore the update

• Open Market Overview and compare the newly added countries with your existing priority markets.
• Use Market Explanation to quickly validate whether a spike (or drop) is event-driven, seasonal, regulatory, or competitive — and align teams on the same “why.”
• Explore Blask Awards 2025 results to benchmark category leaders and spot who truly dominated demand in 2025.