Prediction markets enjoyed a big weekend with the first week of NFL action and some high-profile college football games. But how does its volume compare to handle? Also: August was actually slow for state betting handle.
With football season upon us and a holiday weekend ahead, we bring you our annual “GIANT SIZE SPECIAL SEASON OPENING DOUBLE ISSUE”, dutifully poly-bagged to protect against rain and probing non-subscriber fingers.
The first of the latest DraftKings spots featuring Kevin Hart and Nick Jonas debuted Monday, highlighting DraftKings recent rollout of a unified app that brings its new prediction markets to states that don't yet allow sportsbooks. The battle for California and Texas is on.
In this SBJ Betting newsletter: A pair of recent advisories from the CFTC will change the way sports betting looks – literally – in newly opened states such as California and Texas. More sportsbook deals likely still to come for NFL. And what we know about how big World Cup betting really was.
Fanatics has signed on as an official sportsbook of the NFL, breaking a logjam that left the sponsor category vacant for the league since multi-year deals with FanDuel, DraftKings and Caesars expired at the end of March.
The World Cup has sportsbooks on pace to reverse six consecutive months of year-on-year decline, with June handle tracking 26% higher than last June in the 24 states that have reported results for that month.
From NBA cut to Hall of Fame broadcaster, James Brown shares how Harvard, Xerox sales and faith shaped his NFL Today career, relentless preparation and leadership in sports media.
Fanatics Predicts has landed US rights to offer the official prediction markets of the World Cup, combining with global FIFA rights-holder ADI PredictStreet on a co-branded digital hub that will include tournament news, stats and other in-app content.
