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Online sports betting will be allowed in international waters, other places where it's legal.
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Your upcoming vacation doesn’t mean you can’t keep up with your favorite sports.
Princess Cruises is adding onboard sports betting for guests using its "MedallionClass" service.
Travelers will be able to place bets through Princess’ Ocean Sportsbook in its MedallionClass app while in international waters or places where it’s legal, the cruise line announced this week. The service will accept wagers on professional and college baseball, basketball, football and hockey, as well as other domestic and international events.
Princess Cruises is adding onboard sports betting for guests using its "MedallionClass" service. (Princess Cruises)
Because it’s run through an app, Princess guests will be able to place wagers from anywhere on the ship.
"Taking a cruise vacation no longer means being disconnected from a big game, an iconic event or friends and family," Jan Swartz, president of Princess Cruises, said in a press release.
Because it’s run through an app, Princess guests will be able to place wagers from anywhere on the ship. (Princess Cruises)
Guests on the cruises will even be able to place bets for competitions after their voyage has ended, according to the cruise line.
There is one team that Princess guests won’t be able to bet on. Miami Heat games are off-limits because team owner Micky Arison is also the chairman of the board of Carnival Corporation, Princess Cruises’ parent company.
Travelers will be able to place bets through Princess’ Ocean Sportsbook in its MedallionClass app while in international waters or places where it’s legal. (Princess Cruises)
Princess Cruises has canceled all its voyages that were set to sail through May 14 as it works to meet Centers for Disease Control and Prevention requirements amid the coronavirus pandemic. The sports betting service will be available on all of Princess’ MedallionClass ships when they return to service.
10 Stocks To Watch After Sports Betting Is Legalized In Louisiana, Maryland, South Dakota.
The 2020 election saw proposals for sports betting pass in the three state ballots it was on. Louisiana, Maryland and South Dakota represent 4% of the U.S. adult population and will allow sports betting as early as 2021.
Here is a look at the companies that could benefit from the three additional states passing sports betting.
Penn National Gaming (NASDAQ: PENN): In an October presentation, Penn National listed upcoming ballot initiatives as a growth plan.
The company has the option to acquire the Hollywood Casino Perryville in Maryland. Penn National also has five casinos in Louisiana.
Penn National saw success with its Barstool Sportsbook in Pennsylvania and is converting its physical sports betting properties to coincide with the Barstool brand name.
MGM Resorts International (NYSE: MGM): The MGM National Harbor is one of six casinos open in Maryland. The physical casino could give MGM’s joint venture BetMGM an inside track to launch online sports betting in the state.
Caesars Entertainment (NASDAQ: CZR): The Horseshoe Casino in downtown Baltimore is owned by Caesars. The casino is located in close proximity to the sports stadiums of the Baltimore Ravens and Baltimore Orioles.
Churchill Downs Inc (NASDAQ: CHDN): The Ocean Downs casino in Maryland is owned by Churchill Downs. The Fair Grounds Race Course in Louisiana is another Churchill Downs property.
The company’s Bet America sports betting brand is available in New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Indiana. The legalization in these two states could help the company diversify from its live horse racing revenue.
Golden Entertainment (NASDAQ: GDEN): There are 10 casinos in the portfolio of Golden Entertainment. Only one of those properties is located outside of Las Vegas.
The Rocky Gap Casino Resort in Maryland could make Golden Entertainment a way to play the legalization of sports betting in the state.
Boyd Gaming (NYSE: BYD): There are four casinos and a racetrack in Louisiana owned by Boyd Gaming.
The company has 10 properties in the Las Vegas market, but also has a strong presence in the South and Midwest with properties in eight additional states.
Lancadia Holdings II (NASDAQ: LCA): The Golden Nugget online business is going public via the SPAC Lancadia Holdings II.
There is a Golden Nugget casino in Louisiana, giving this new pure play sports betting and online gaming company another state to launch in.
The company has market access to New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Mississippi, Nevada, Louisiana and Michigan, which have all approved sports betting.
DraftKings and FanDuel: The two largest online sports betting companies FanDuel and DraftKings Inc (NASDAQ: DKNG) could also be winners with three additional states approving sports betting.
The companies do not own physical casinos in the three states, but will likely sign deals with physical casinos to gain access to the states.
The two companies contributed $3 million to back the ballot measure in Maryland, which is expected to be a key state in the sports betting market.
FanDuel, owned by Flutter Entertainment (Pink: PDYPY), has an agreement with Boyd Gaming, which could give it access to Louisiana.
The Roundhill Sports Betting and iGaming ETF (NYSE: BETZ) is the only sector-specific sports betting ETF and could be a winner here with the added states.
The ETF has over $128 million in assets. The ETF is up 24% in the last three months.
Benzinga’s Take: The legalization of sports betting in three additional states gets the country closer to 50% of the adult population having access to sports betting.
The three states approved in the 2020 election adds 4% of the adult population.
Tennessee recently launched its efforts on Nov. 1 and Michigan and Virginia are expected to launch by the end of the year. These three states would add 8% of the U.S. adult population to the sports betting market.
In 2018, only 10% of the U.S. adult population lived in states with legalized sports betting. That figure is expected to reach 33% by the end of 2020 and could hit 50% as early as 2021.
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As sports betting looms, Canadian app theScore braces for rivals in the gambling arena.
With single-game sports betting about to go legit in Canada, the troika of DraftKings Inc., FanDuel Inc. and William Hill Plc that dominates the U.S. betting business is preparing to pounce.
But an entrepreneurial father-son team has something their would-be rivals don’t: a legion of fans that have made their mobile app, theScore, among the most popular sports apps in North America.
Shares of Toronto-based Score Media and Gaming Inc. surged after Canada unveiled legislation in November to legalize single-event sports betting, following in the footsteps of multiple U.S. states. The stock ended the year up 111%.
Now, chief executive officer John Levy and his son, Chief Operating Officer Benjie Levy, are making plans to replicate their sports betting service — theScore Bet, already active in Colorado, Indiana and New Jersey — in their home country.
TheScore is among the most actively used free sports apps in Canada, ranking No. 1 in the Google Play store as of Wednesday, according to traffic-tracking firm SimilarWeb. The company says it has about four million daily active users, with more than 1.4 million in Ontario alone.
The company has its roots in television with a cable channel that was also called The Score and showed a range of highlights and events beyond hockey. Segments such as “Cabbie on the Street” were a hit, with TV personality Cabral Richards interviewing sports stars including the late Kobe Bryant.
But the network perpetually trailed two established Canadian sports networks and the elder Levy, now 67, opted to bet the future on digital assets. He sold the TV license and related assets in 2012 to Rogers Communications Inc., operator of the rival Sportsnet network, for $167 million, a deal that allowed Score Media to spin out its website and app into the current publicly traded company.
Advertising has been Score Media’s main source of revenue. Underscoring the difficulties of maintaining a profitable ad business, Score Media has posted losses every year since the TV spinoff.
Sports betting is now legal in 20 U.S. states and the District of Columbia, with 14 of those accounting for $13 billion in 2019 wagers, according to Bloomberg Intelligence. In Canada, aside from horse racing in some provinces, legal betting is limited to parlay wagers through provincial platforms.
So Canadian bettors spend an estimated $10 billion a year on single-event betting through illegal bookies and a further $4 billion on international betting websites, according to Justice Minister David Lametti.
Canadian officials are attracted to sports wagering as an untapped source of tax revenue. In the U.S., online gaming the sports gambling generated almost $160 million in tax revenue in 2019, according to the American Gaming Association.
“Assuming full legalization in Canada, we think this could be a $4 billion revenue opportunity,” Credit Suisse analysts wrote in a Nov. 30 note about DraftKings Inc., referring to industry revenue. The legalization bill has yet to pass in Canada’s Parliament, which is slated to resume later this month. It requires two more “readings” before moving on to the Senate.
Irek Kusmierczyk, a Liberal member of Canada’s Parliament representing Windsor-Tecumseh, said he was optimistic about the legislation’s prospects. “We’re hopeful that we can actually move this process along quickly,” he said. Opposition could always balk, but “it does feel as though there’s support among all three parties,” he said.
Representatives of FanDuel and William Hill declined to comment. DraftKings also declined to comment, though its CEO Jason Robins said on the company’s third quarter conference call he’s “very hopeful that we’ll be able to add both sports betting and iGaming in Ontario” sometime in 2021.
Wagering volume on theScore Bet rose 500% in September compared with a year earlier, “with that momentum continuing into October,” Levy said in the company’s latest quarterly update.
Betting platforms take a cut of each wager and collect fees from leagues that run tournaments on them. For Score Media, the financial benefits have been small so far. But analysts are looking for revenue to double to $41 million in the fiscal year ending Aug. 31.
Darren Chervitz, a portfolio manager at New York-based Jacob Asset Management, which filings show is the 11th largest holder of Score Media shares, says theScore’s brand recognition gives it the best shot at succeeding as a sportsbook platform in Canada.
Chervitz said that while larger players in the betting business will surely challenge theScore Bet, he’s been impressed by how the company has integrated betting into its fan app. “They’ve done a great job at building this little company,” he said.
“Fundamentally, the difference is they’re going to have to come after us, we don’t have to go after them,” John Levy said of his rivals. “Because of our brand, because customers know us here, it really takes on a different dimension than the efforts we have in the States.”
Those rivals, however, are much better capitalized than Score Media. DraftKings, for instance, has a market value of more than $19 billion after its shares soared more than 300% last year. Score Media’s market value is about $604 million.
Penn National Gaming Inc., another industry giant, took an equity stake worth $7.5 million in Score Media in 2019. Under the deal, Penn would have the option to increase its stake in lieu of future market access fees. Penn, which has a market cap of over $14 billion, is known for its minority stake in Dave Portnoy’s Bar stool Sports.
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To Chervitz, one end game for Score Media would be a takeover by a larger competitor. He began buying shares after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled betting would be allowed on a state-by-state basis, though he trimmed some of that position after Canada’s announcement in November.
Any takeover would be up to the CEO. John Levy owns 100% of a special class of voting shares that give him control of the board and a veto over any deal.
“We’re not building this as a shiny new object just to hold it out there to say, come and get me,” Levy said. As a matter of good governance, he said, Score Media would look at any offers, “but the bottom line is, that’s not what we’re building and we’re building to be the best damn sports media company in the betting space.”
Global Sports Betting Market Worth $85 Billion in 2019 - Industry Assessment and Forecasts Throughout 2020-2025.
The sports betting market was valued at US$85.047 billion in 2019.
The sports betting market is projected to witness considerable growth primarily on account of the inclination of the governments of numerous countries towards the legalization of sports betting. Furthermore, the rising penetration of various legal online platforms in some countries is also further supplementing the sports betting market growth in the near future.
The market is also poised to grow on account of the rising popularity of international sports events around the globe coupled with the increasing popularity of high-end sports such as cricket, soccer, baseball has gained a lot of traction in the past years, which has led to a decent increase in the sponsorships for clubs, teams, players.
Additionally, the rising investments by numerous sports organizations in marketing and promotional activities have led to increased investments by major betting companies in providing sponsorships for sports teams around the globe. Thus, the rising commercialization of sports events is considered to be a key factor that is expected to positively impact the market growth during the next five years.
The rising consumer expectations have led to the constant participation of key players of the market in the form of partnerships, collaborations, agreements, and R&D for the launch of various platforms to cater to the rising consumer expectations. For instance, recently in June 2020, Sportech PLC a leading market player in the gaming technology industry of the world announced its strategic partnership with a French gaming operator ZeTurf, the aim of this partnership was to deliver attractive and alternative options for betting on French racing.
Similarly, in May 2020, the company announced a successful launch of Tote Betting services in Moscow for client Pari Engineering Rus. Furthermore, the growing partnerships between high end-resorts and casinos with leading market players for availing their services also shows the potential for the market to grow in the near future.
For example, in February 2020, William Hill, a leading sports betting company entered into a long-term partnership agreement with the Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians (GTB), a federally recognized Indian tribe for exclusively providing online sports betting and online casino gaming throughout Michigan. Also, during the same month, the company also entered into a partnership with CBS Sports with an aim to increase the reach to millions of new sports fans and fantasy players by extending its leadership in sports betting content.
Moreover, in February 2019, Churchill Downs Incorporated entered into a partnership agreement with Golden Nugget Casino for the launch of its BetaAmerica online real-money sports betting and online casino platform in New Jersey.
However, the sports betting market may be restrained by the fact that still sports betting is considered to be an illegal activity in some parts of the world. Also, the recent outbreak of the novel coronavirus is expected to be a major factor inhibiting the market growth during the short run as the intense outbreak has led to enforcement of directives by the WHO such as social distancing and quarantine measure in almost every country of the world.
This has led to the temporary suspension or cancellation of all the major sports events at international, regional, and national levels that include, football, hockey, marathons, cricket, basketball, and more. This is considered to be one of the prime factors that is projected to hamper the market growth for the next ten to eleven months.
Growing legalization is offering lucrative opportunities.
One of the major factors that is propelling the market growth opportunities is the rising government initiatives for the legalization of sports betting with an aim for the generation of revenue. For instance, in 2018 sports betting for the first time was legalized in New Jersey. Furthermore, the inclination of governments of various developing countries such as India and Brazil among others to tap the potential of revenue that the sports betting industry holds is considered to be a prime opportunity for the market to grow in the near future. For example, in 2018, the Law Commission of India stated in its report the recommendations for legalizing sports betting in the country.
The global sports betting market has been segmented on the basis of platform, sport, and geography. By platform the segmentation of the market has been done on the basis of online and offline. By sport the market has been classified into cricket, FIFA, horse racing, and others. Geographically, the segmentation of the sports betting market has been done into North America, South America, Europe, Middle East and Africa, and Asia Pacific.
Online segment to witness a decent growth.
By platform, the online segment is projected to witness a healthy growth during the next five years. The rapid internet and smartphone penetration coupled with the launch of new online betting platforms are some of the key factors bolstering the growth of this segment throughout the forecast period.
Europe to hold a notable share.
Geographically, the European region is anticipated to hold a substantial share in the market throughout the forecast period primarily on account of the legalization of betting in several European countries. Also, investments by players in countries of this region for expansion of services further supplement the market growth in Europe during the next five years.
Competitive Insights.
Prominent key market players in the Sports Betting market the 888 Group, Kindered Group plc, Wiliam Hill PLC, and Churchill Downs Incorporated among others. These companies hold a noteworthy share in the market on account of their good brand image and product offerings. Major players in the Sports Betting market have been covered along with their relative competitive position and strategies. The report also mentions recent deals and investments of different market players over the last two years.
Key Topics Covered.
1. Introduction 1.1. Market Definition 1.2. Market Segmentation.
2. Research Methodology 2.1. Research Data 2.2. Assumptions.
3. Executive Summary 3.1. Research Highlights.
4. Market Dynamics 4.1. Market Drivers 4.2. Market Restraints 4.3. Porters Five Forces Analysis 4.4. Industry Value Chain Analysis.
5. Sports Betting Market Analysis, By Platform 5.1. Introduction 5.2. Online 5.3. Offline.
6. Sports Betting Market Analysis, By Sport 6.1. Introduction 6.2. Cricket 6.3. FIFA 6.4. Horse Racing 6.5. Others.
7. Sports Betting Market Analysis, By Geography 7.1. Introduction 7.2. North America 7.3. South America 7.4. Europe 7.5. Middle East & Africa 7.6. Asia-Pacific.
8. Competitive Environment and Analysis 8.1. Major Players and Strategy Analysis 8.2. Emerging Players and Market Lucrativeness 8.3. Mergers, Acquisitions, Agreements, and Collaborations 8.4. Vendor Competitiveness Matrix.
9. Company Profiles 9.1. the 888 Group 9.2. Kindred Group plc 9.3. William Hill plc 9.4. Churchill Downs Incorporated 9.5. Sportech plc 9.6. The Stars Group Inc. 9.7. Webis Holdings plc 9.8. Flutter Entertainment plc.
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