The Gambling Commission has posted its Q2 report (July to September, that’s historically Q3 however is the Commission’s Q2 period) masking records from each land-primarily based totally and on line operators withinside the United Kingdom.
Notably, concerning the records, the Gambling Commission said: “Comparison ought to now no longer be made with the enterprise data dataset, as this records set may also encompass unfastened bets and bonuses and does now no longer encompass records from all operators.”
The first piece of records turned into the net gross playing yield (GGY), which totalled £1.2bn ($1.46bn) in Q2 2023 and meditated a 0.6% boom whilst as compared 12 months-on-12 months.
Despite on line GGY growing via way of means of most effective 0.6%, the general variety of bets and spins multiplied via way of means of 10% and the quantity of lively customers multiplied via way of means of 7%.
The GGY from certified having a bet operators (LBOs) observed on Britain’s excessive streets reduced via way of means of 0.4% to £539m in Q2 2023, even as the entire bets and spins reduced via way of means of 1% to three.1 billion.
Real occasion having a bet GGY additionally reduced via way of means of 5% to £428m, with overall bets reducing via way of means of 1%.
The having a bet delivered in from slots noticed the GGY boom via way of means of 8% whilst as compared to Q2 2022, to a complete of £589m.
Both the variety of spins on slots and the lively month-to-month customers multiplied via way of means of 11%, with the entire variety of bets positioned on slots attaining 6.7 billion.
In comparison, the variety of bets positioned on digital having a bet turned into nine million.
The period of on line slot periods reduced standard to 17 mins on average – despite the fact that even as most effective 7% of all periods ultimate a couple of hour, this multiplied via way of means of 4% 12 months-on-12 months to nine.three million periods.