UK and Italy Get New Gambling Sites
The UK and Italy feature most prominently this week as both see new sites being launched that cater for their players. The UK get a new online casino, licensed in the UK and Pokerstars are moving into Italy with their own site. In addition, Google has finally opened up for gambling advertisers to promote their products in the UK.
First UK Licensed Online Casino to be Powered by Chartwell Technologies
The IG Group – a top UK company - and Chartwell Technologies are ready to launch their joint online casino, the first licensed UK Casino site. The site has been created as a sister operation to the IG Group’s successful sportsbetting brand and has gone through rigorous testing and examination by the UK Gambling Commission to obtain its license.
“We're delighted to add Chartwell's casino to our online sportsbetting portfolio”, said Stuart Lane for IG Sport. “While we're continuing to see growth with both fixed odds and sports spread betting, we also recognize the appetites for other modes of online gaming and thus the benefits of increasing the offerings on our sports platforms.”
New Italian Poker Site Launched
Poker Stars has become the latest online poker site to enter the fast growing Italian online poker market. With research showing that half a million new poker accounts will be opened within a year of regulation, Poker Stars does not want to miss out on the opportunity and potential of this market.
"Poker Stars is proud to be entering a flourishing market with this new product," said the Italian Manager of Poker Stars. “This is ground breaking time for the online poker industry, and it's very exciting that the Italian market is pioneering this move. This is the start of a global template that could potentially be adopted in other markets internationally in the next few years.”
UK Citizens to Enjoy Google Gambling Ads Again
The internet search engine, Google, has decided to relax a four year ban on internet gambling advertising and allow EEA licensed online gambling companies, who are registered with the UK Gambling Commission, to market to users in England, Wales and Scotland. “Over the last few months, we've been reviewing our gambling advertising policy to allow text ads to appear against search queries related to gambling in Great Britain,” said James Cashmore from Google (UK). “Following the review, we've decided to amend our policy to allow text ads to appear against search queries related gambling in Great Britain.”
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