{"id":811559,"date":"2024-12-10T21:23:52","date_gmt":"2024-12-11T03:23:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/10\/ontario-online-total-gambling-handle-continued-to-grow-in-q2-though-sports-betting-dropped\/"},"modified":"2024-12-10T21:23:52","modified_gmt":"2024-12-11T03:23:52","slug":"ontario-online-total-gambling-handle-continued-to-grow-in-q2-though-sports-betting-dropped","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/10\/ontario-online-total-gambling-handle-continued-to-grow-in-q2-though-sports-betting-dropped\/","title":{"rendered":"Ontario online total gambling handle continued to grow in Q2, though sports betting dropped"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Digital sports betting handle and online casino revenue grew again in Ontario, according to iGaming Ontario, which reported second-quarter results on Thursday (24 October).<\/strong><\/p>\n\"Playtech<\/p>\n<\/picture>\n

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Gamblers in Ontario wagered CA$18.7 billion ($13.5 billion\/\u00a310.4 billion\/\u20ac12.5 billion) across all platforms, the highest amount bet during any quarter since digital sports betting and online gambling went live in April 2022. Handle in Q1 was CA$18.4 billion. Second-quarter handle for all forms of gambling was up 1.6% over the first quarter and 31.7% against the same period last year<\/a>. <\/p>\n

According to the report<\/a>, handle does not include promotional deductions. iGaming Ontario does not report promotional deductions, hold or individual operator numbers. Fifty-three operators and 83 platforms were live in the province during the quarter. <\/p>\n

Casino games = $16 billion in bets placed<\/h2>\n

On the online casino front, total bets placed were CA$16 billion, and gaming revenue was CA$738 million, up 35.4% against the same period in 2023. Slots, live and digital table games and peer-to-peer bingo comprise casino gaming. Against Q1 2024, the total amount bet was up 1.7% and revenue rose to CA$553 million, compared to $407 million in Q2 2023. <\/p>\n

For sports betting, handle was CA$2.2 billion and operator revenue was CA$167 million. Handle and revenue were both down against the first quarter. <\/p>\n

iGaming Ontario reported that the average spend per player across all categories was CA$308 and that there were 1.32 million active play accounts during the quarter. Also, casino gaming made up 86% of all betting and accounted for 75% of all revenue. <\/p>\n

Peer-to-peer accounted for CA$417 million in bets and CA$18 million in gaming revenue. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n

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Jill R. Dorson
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Digital sports betting handle and online casino revenue grew again in Ontario, according to iGaming Ontario, which reported second-quarter results on Thursday (24 October). Gamblers in Ontario wagered CA$18.7 billion ($13.5 billion\/\u00a310.4 billion\/\u20ac12.5 billion) across all platforms, the highest amount bet during any quarter since digital sports betting and online gambling went live in April<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":811560,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1538,24575],"tags":[5667,9795],"class_list":{"0":"post-811559","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-online","8":"category-ontario","9":"tag-online","10":"tag-ontario"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=811559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811559\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/811560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=811559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=811559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=811559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}