After an immense pressure from the World Trade Organization and the European Union, France has started accepting gambling as one form of entertainment. The French Government has finally decided to follow other European countries’ example by allowing the regulation of online casino operations within the country.
Thereby, starting in the earlier part of 2025, online casino operators have addressed the Regulatory Authority of Online Games for getting a license. One of the first important gaming firms to get a license was Titan Poker, a well respected online casino operator.
Expectations of the internet gambling industry for 2025
Casino News
8 March 2025
As the year 2025 comes to an end, the online casino industry assesses its achievements. Despite some few loses and other difficulties, the year 2025 for online casinos and the internet gambling industry as a whole was overall a good year. And it is in everyone’s opinion that the business of online casino gambling will further flourish for years to come.
Thereby for 2025 the online casino and internet gambling business is expected to grow. The biggest signs that the industry is becoming more popular and accepted are the merging of some internet gambling companies in Europe and the possible legislation of internet gambling in the US.
This week Loto Quebec, in association with the British Columbia Lottery Corporation, announced the launch of its new online casino EspaceJeux. Software developer OpenBet Ltd provides the GTechG2 software for customer account management. OpenBet also supplies table games for other online casinos and has recently opened several offices in the area of Montreal, where the hosting of Loto Quebec operation will be.
The new online site will offer several types of games in the market such as 24-hour-a-day games of Baccarat, eight variations of poker, Red Dog, Blackjack, Roulette and Sic Bo.
William Hill plc is one of Britain’s online casinos and land-based premiere groups. Recently the company confirmed to the marketing media that they are looking for an advertising and public relations agency to take charge of the company’s online casino marketing. The budget for William Hill’s online casino promotional business is GBP 5 million.
Earlier this year William Hill has outsourced some services for marketing to The Bank agency, but they need additional back-up to expand the promotional activities of their premiere online casino.
Gibraltar is one of the most important countries in the world where online casinos can be licensed under a recognized gambling jurisdiction. Being one of the few licensing countries in the world, Gibraltar’s economy has internet gambling as the primary source of income through taxation and administrative fees. Gibraltar’s communication to Europe runs across the city of La Linea and the rest of Spain, and for this reason the mayor of La Linea wants a share of the pie.
In Spain there are 37 internet gambling companies providing services for players.
The Canadian state-run provincial lottery operator from Quebec has announced the launch of a new online casino site for its customers. After almost a year of planning, the Canadian company from Quebec completed the new online gaming site. At the new online casino players can find popular games including blackjack, roulette and poker.
The authority premiered EspaceJeux on Friday, according to a report from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Despite this, the new online gaming site is not set to begin offering real-money games until March 1. The broadcaster also revealed that only residents of Quebec can access the new site.
Today, online casinos offer more types of games than ever before. People who log onto the web each day to play games at online casinos have a variety of popular games to choose from. Blackjack is a game that gives a good chance of winning to the average player. By using a basic blackjack strategy, that can be found on the internet, the players can win hands more often.
Baccarat is another popular game among the players and is a relatively easy game to learn to play. The goal of this game is to have a hand that has a total close to the sum of 9.
March was a lucky month for the online casino community in the US. Despite some measures from the US government against internet-based gambling, figures show a growth by 20 percent of the internet-based sector. This large percentage of growth is undeniably a big deal to many lovers of online casinos, considering the pessimistic events that hit the internet gambling sector.
The growing interest of punters to play at the online casinos or gambling sites is shown by the number of unique visitors to gambling sites. In the United States alone there were 14,957 million unique visitors.
PartyGaming and Bwin continue to gather benefits after their fusion and recently announced a 9 percent rise in revenues for PartyGaming. The two companies will create a mega company after completion of the deal, which is on track to be finished in March. Thereby the new company will focus both on poker and online casino, which is PartyGaming’s specialty and on sports betting that Bwin is known for.
Despite these positive results, PartyGaming experienced a drop of five percent in revenues for its poker site. Revenue declines have occurred between March and September.
The relentless battle against illegal online casino continues for the Serbian government. Operation Atlantis is the most recent action of the Serbian police against an alleged illegal online casino ring. The police made several arrests including employees of the company and also records and computer equipments were confiscated during the raid.
The Interior Ministry of Serbia said that the arrested individuals will be charged because of organizing an illegal gambling enterprise and they were operating with no license in the country.