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The Gambling Commission (UKGC) released its annual industry statistics for Great Britain on 17 September 2026, covering April 2025 to March 2026. The release is built from data that licensed operators report to the regulator, and sets out gross gambling yield (GGY) by sector alongside the numbers of licensed operators and premises.

• Total GGY for the customer-facing industry was £17.5bn.
• The remote casino, betting and bingo (RCBB) sector reported £8.3bn, with online casino games generating £5.7bn and slots alone £4.8bn.
• New account registrations with RCBB operators fell 3.0% over the year, to 32.4 million.
• The number of betting premises declined for a 12th consecutive reporting period, ending at 5,617.

Year-on-year comparisons should be read with the Commission's note that operators' regulatory returns changed in July 2024, which aligned their reporting periods.

The Gambling Commission (UKGC) released the first 2026 wave of participation statistics from the Gambling Survey for Great Britain (GSGB) on 17 September 2026. The National Centre for Social Research surveyed a nationally representative sample of 5,277 adults between 19 January and 26 May 2026.

• 49% of adults had gambled in the past four weeks; leaving out people whose only gambling was a lottery draw, the rate drops to 28%.
• Online participation over the same four weeks was 39%, or 16% once lottery-draw-only players are excluded.
• A significantly higher share of men than women reported betting in the past four weeks (16% against 4%).
• After lottery draws, the most common activities were scratchcards (13%), betting (10%) and online instant win games (8%).

The results are survey estimates with a margin of error, and the Commission says they cannot be compared directly with gambling surveys published before the change of method.

The Gambling Regulatory Authority of Ireland (GRAI) published its first annual report on 31 July 2026, covering 2025. The authority was formally established in March 2025 to licence, supervise and control gambling under the Gambling Regulation Act 2024.

• The authority began taking applications in February 2026 for remote betting, remote betting intermediary and in-person betting licences, and expected to start issuing betting licences from July.
• Processes were developed for its complaints function to go live by 1 July 2026.
• The report counts 684 physical betting shops at the end of 2025, against 1,385 in 2008, and about 91 active remote bookmaker licences as of February 2026.
• It gives an estimated range of €1.17bn to €2.57bn for total gross gambling revenue in Ireland in 2025.

The revenue figure is an estimated range, not a reported total.

The Responsible Gambling Council (RGC), a non-profit focused on preventing gambling harm, released this report on 27 July 2026 as the first in its Sector Signals series. It reviews evidence from the UK, Norway, Sweden and the Australian state of Victoria and groups recent rules under four themes: age-based requirements, financial and credit controls, carded play with pre-commitment, and operator training.

• According to RGC, the UK's statutory levy, which replaced a discretionary contribution system, raised £120m in its first year, with the money reserved for treatment, prevention and research.
• Norway's state monopoly applies monthly loss limits that tighten for players under 25, a step RGC links to internal data on risk among young men.
• Sweden has banned credit-funded gambling outright, including credit obtained through third parties; RGC calls it the first EU member state to do so.
• Victoria is trialling compulsory carded play in 43 venues.

The report draws on existing evidence from the four jurisdictions.

The Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board (PGCB) reported revenue for fiscal year 2025/26 on 17 July 2026, covering casino slot machines and table games, online casino (iGaming), sports wagering, video gaming terminals and fantasy contests. The amounts are stated before any adjustment by the state's Department of Revenue.

• Combined gross revenue from all regulated games was US$7,005,987,435, an all-time high for a fiscal year.
• iGaming revenue was US$2,933,453,989, an 18.42% increase and also a fiscal-year high.
• Sports wagering revenue grew 35.95% to US$662,947,631, even though handle fell from US$8,721,795,533 to US$8,448,101,928.
• Slot machine revenue at casinos was nearly flat at US$2,440,995,939, up 0.02%.
• Taxes and fees returned to the state totalled US$3,098,193,583, a fiscal-year record.

The Danish Gambling Authority (Spillemyndigheden) published its yearly report on unlicensed gambling on 9 July 2026, reviewing its enforcement work during 2025. The report explains when a game needs a Danish licence and then lists the measures taken against operators without one.

• Through the district court, 334 websites offering unlawful gambling were blocked in 2025.
• After contact from the regulator, a further 36 sites removed or changed their offer so that it was no longer offered in Denmark.
• For the 178 sites blocked in June 2025, web-traffic data showed Danish visits down by about 34% over the following six months.
• A new agreement with Teleindustrien, the trade body for Danish internet providers, provides the basis for blocking mirror sites without a prior court order where a court has already found the site's content unlawful.
• The regulator also sees illegal gambling being shared more and more in closed groups on platforms such as Discord and Telegram.

The traffic figures rest on Semrush estimates, which the regulator says vary in precision between websites.

The Swedish Gambling Authority (Spelinspektionen) published its third yearly measurement of channelisation on 15 June 2026, covering 2025. It combines a player survey run by Verian in February and March 2026, with 6,744 adult respondents, with a measurement of internet traffic.

• The authority puts channelisation on the competitive market at 84% for 2025, compared with its estimate of 85% for 2024.
• Net turnover (stakes minus winnings paid) of Swedish licence holders was SEK 28.2bn in 2025, based on gambling tax data.
• By 30 April 2026 it had identified 2,186 websites without a Swedish licence.
• Most visits to unlicensed sites in 2025 went to skin-betting sites, which the authority leaves out of its channelisation indicators.

The report states plainly that every channelisation measure is an estimate, because no complete data exist on how much Swedes gamble outside the licensing system.

The Kansspelautoriteit (Ksa), the Dutch gambling regulator, published its half-yearly monitor of the licensed online market on 16 April 2026, covering the second half of 2025. Player numbers and playing behaviour come from purchased data, mainly a GfK panel of about 6,000 people, of whom 300 gamble online.

• Gross gaming result (BSR) for the half-year was €602m; the regulator puts the fall against 2024 at about 18%.
• Accounts in use averaged 1.38 million a month, while the Ksa estimates that roughly 500,000 people played each month.
• About 91% of Dutch gamblers play only with licensed operators.
• Measured in money rather than players, channelisation is markedly lower, at 53%.

The Ksa itself urges caution with the panel-based figures, since some of them rest on a small number of people.

Brazil's Secretariat of Prizes and Betting (SPA) at the Ministry of Finance issued a report dated 23 January 2026 on the responses to its public consultation SPA No. 03/2025 on a proposed regulatory agenda. It received 37 individual contributions: 35 through the Brasil Participativo portal and two by email from foreign participants.

• The SPA reads the responses as showing significant agreement with the agenda it put forward.
• It proposes a list of themes for 2026-2027, starting with a review of the authorisation procedure for betting operators.
• A new item would revisit the procedures for barring payment transactions with unauthorised fixed-odds operators, tied to Complementary Law No. 224/2025, proposed to be addressed in the first quarter.
• Other proposed themes cover advertising through online affiliates, physical fixed-odds betting terminals, and a tool that would let bettors view and track their own gambling behaviour.

The New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement (DGE) published its December 2025 revenue release on 16 January 2026, which also gives full-year 2025 totals for casinos, racetracks and their partners.

• Total gaming revenue for 2025 was US$6.98bn, which the DGE reports as 10.8% growth on US$6.30bn in 2024.
• Internet gaming win reached US$2.91bn for the year, up 22.0% on US$2.39bn.
• Sports wagering gross revenue was US$1.18bn, a 7.5% increase on US$1.09bn.
• Casino win at the nine casino properties came to US$2.89bn, up 2.7%.
• From 1 July 2025 the internet gaming gross revenue tax rate rose from 15% to 19.75%, and the online sports wagering rate from 13% to 19.75%.

The DGE notes that its gaming tax amounts are unaudited and subject to adjustment.

The Betting and Gaming Council (BGC) published this modelling study, prepared for it by EY, in October 2025 to support its submission to HM Treasury before the Autumn 2025 Budget. It estimates how several excise duty scenarios would change duty receipts, economic output (gross value added, GVA), jobs and black-market stakes, with all results shown for 2026 against a baseline. EY assumes duty rises are passed on to customers in full.

• As a starting point, EY puts the contribution of BGC members and their supply chains at £6.8bn of UK GVA in 2023, supporting 109,000 full-time-equivalent jobs.
• Aligning general betting duty and remote gaming duty at 21% would, in the central case, raise excise revenue by £250m and cut GVA by £240m.
• Under the IPPR proposal (25% betting duty, 50% remote gaming and machine games duty), EY estimates black-market stakes rising by £6.0bn to £8.4bn and GVA falling by £2.5bn to £3.1bn, depending on the elasticity assumed.
• EY says the SMF and IPPR proposals appear to rest on static costings that assume no change in consumer behaviour, whereas its own model allows for a behavioural response.

The study was commissioned by an industry body, and EY calls its black-market estimates illustrative only.

This open-access scoping review, published on 8 October 2025, gathers research on why online gambling is hard to regulate and whether public health legal measures reduce online gambling harm. The authors searched scientific and legal sources against set inclusion criteria and wrote a narrative synthesis of the 27 sources they included.

• Most of the harm-reduction research reviewed targets individual behaviour rather than the system as a whole.
• Where studies do take a system-wide view, they tend to focus on unlicensed gambling and blocking, measures the authors say need a thorough delivery strategy to work.
• There is little evidence on how interventions affect particular groups within the population.
• The authors conclude that weak legal and regulatory frameworks have helped online gambling harm spread, though the studies explain that weakness in different ways.

The European Gaming and Betting Association (EGBA) published its fifth annual sustainability report on 9 July 2025. It aggregates data supplied by its operator members on their online business in the EU and UK for calendar year 2024, and the association notes that the report has not been externally audited.

• Members paid €3.8bn in taxes in 2024, a figure that counts corporate and gaming taxes together.
• They sent 100 million messages promoting safer play, 48% more than a year earlier.
• 69% of customers, or 26.7 million players, used safety tools; half of them did so voluntarily.
• EGBA reports that personalised messages had a positive effect on 42-46% of customers showing high-risk behaviour.
• Members invested €735m in European sport, with streaming rights the largest share, and contributed €148.9m to research, education and treatment services.

This open-access journal article, published on 13 June 2025, measures how Spain's Royal Decree 958/2020, which limits the marketing of gambling products, affected online play and operator marketing spend. The authors applied seasonal ARIMA time-series models to data from Spain's gambling regulator, the Directorate General for Regulation of Gambling.

• The decree's entry into force, applied between November 2020 and August 2021, was followed by a lasting fall in new accounts, estimated at 263,000, and in total money bet, estimated at €216m.
• Spending on advertising fell by an estimated €20m, on bonuses by €2.6m and on sponsorship by €5.3m.
• The effect on active accounts, which the authors treat as regular gamblers, was slight.

The authors suggest their study can serve as a model for countries that have not yet regulated gambling advertising.

iGaming Ontario (iGO) released its market figures for fiscal year 2024-25 on 24 April 2025, covering 1 April 2024 to 31 March 2025, the third full year of the province's regulated online market. The figures cover iGO operators whose gaming websites traded in the period and exclude OLG's own online offering and pari-mutuel horse racing.

• Total wagers were C$82.7bn, which iGO reports as a 31% increase on 2023-24.
• Total gaming revenue reached C$3.2bn, a 32% rise on the agency's figures.
• Casino games produced C$2.4bn of gaming revenue and betting C$724m.
• A third annual Ipsos study, commissioned by iGO and the Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario (AGCO), found that 83.7% of Ontarians continue to play on regulated sites.

All of the figures are unaudited and may be adjusted.

The European Gaming and Betting Association (EGBA) published this market data report on 24 March 2025, with figures from H2 Gambling Capital covering the 27 EU member states and the UK. Its 2024 numbers are provisional and may be revised, and its online figures include both licensed and grey-market activity.

• Provisional data put 2024 gross gaming revenue (GGR) at €123.4bn: €75.5bn land-based and €47.9bn online.
• Online was expected to account for 39% of the total in 2024, up slightly from 37% in 2023.
• Online casino was the largest online product at €21.5bn, ahead of sports and events betting at €13.7bn.
• Mobile devices were expected to generate 58% of online revenue in 2024.
• The online share of each national market in 2023 ranged from 68.3% in Sweden down to 14.2% in Spain.

The report also projects the market to 2029, assuming no significant disruptions, and labels such figures as estimates rather than final values.

Published on 13 February 2025 as an open-access journal article, this policy review compares the legal rules on pre-commitment and limit-setting for online gambling in 30 European countries: the 27 EU member states, Great Britain, Norway and Switzerland. The authors then looked more closely at Finland, Norway and Germany, which run system-level pre-commitment.

• Some form of limit-setting exists in 27 of the 30 countries, but implementation differs.
• Deposit limits feature in 18 countries, loss limits in 15 and wagering limits in 14; most countries offer more than one type.
• Time-based limits are available in ten countries, and 11 make at least some limits mandatory; elsewhere operators must offer limits as an option.
• Few countries set statutory caps on limits, or lower limits for young adults.
• Germany is the only country whose system-level scheme spans several licensed operators.

This open-access journal article, published on 3 January 2025, tests whether lower tax rates help European countries move online gambling onto licensed sites. It uses two cross-sections (2018 and 2021) for 29 European countries, combining estimated channelling rates with tax and blocking data in a regression analysis.

• Average channelling for online betting rose from 42.2% in 2015 to 64.9% in 2021; for online casino it rose from 24.2% to 55.1% over the same period.
• Offshore play lost share mainly because the licensed market grew faster: in real terms the offshore segment still grew, by 4% in betting and 37% in casino.
• Average rates for products taxed on GGR went from 18% to 21.5% by 2021, while rates diverged more between countries.
• The regression found no evidence that higher tax rates go with lower channelling, contrary to earlier industry-funded reports.

The channelling rates rest on estimates from H2 Gambling Capital, a UK-based market intelligence company; its offshore figures come from its own model.