Blask: Top 5 iGaming Markets by Growth and Decline

The analytics platform Blask shared a new weekly report with the iGN editorial team on week-over-week iGaming market dynamics based on the Blask Index. The iGN editorial team highlights the key data for the period from January 26 to February 1.

Highest Growth

• +40.1% — Singapore (record end-of-period results at the Marina Bay Sands integrated resort casino)
• +37.3% — Panama (monthly national lottery draw)
• +32.2% — Turkey (raids on a network laundering money for illegal bookmakers)
• +28.6% — Botswana (matches of the national football Premier League on January 31)
• +24.3% — Zimbabwe (U-19 World Cup Super Six international cricket tournament)

Largest Decline

• −11.9% — Czech Republic (no identified cause)
• −11.9% — Poland (reports of tougher criminal penalties in the gambling sector)
• −11.8% — Bulgaria (no identified cause)
• −7.3% — Bangladesh (end of the Bangladesh Premier League cricket season on January 23)
• −6.6% — Finland (announcement of licensing fees for iGaming operators as part of market reform)

Blask analysts forecast increased activity in the US market ahead of the Super Bowl in American football, as well as in Northern European countries following the start of the Winter Olympic Games on February 6.