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<p>The Gambling Commission publishes Industry Statistics twice a year. These demonstrate
an upward trend for remote betting on football, where gross gambling yield (GGY, the
amount retained by operators after the payment of winnings but before the deduction
of the costs of the operation) increased from £578 million to a little over £1 billion
between 2015 and 2018. In the same period, offline betting on football fell by roughly
one fifth, from £331 million to £265 million. This data can be found here: https://www.gamblingcommission.gov.uk/news-action-and-statistics/Statistics-and-research/Statistics/Industry-statistics.aspx</p><p>
</p><p>The Commission also tracks gambling participation rates and data for 2017 showed
that football and horse racing were the most popular activities to place a bet on,
with 5% of respondents having bet on football in the past four weeks, and 4% having
done so for horse racing. This report also includes data on in-play betting, and found
that 26% of online gamblers had made a bet in-play during the past four weeks, a figure
relatively consistent with the previous years. The most recent report can be found
here: https://www.gamblingcommission.gov.uk/pdf/survey-data/gambling-participation-in-2017-behaviour-awareness-and-attitudes.pdf.</p><p>
</p><p>Strict controls apply to the content of all gambling advertisements, including
broadcast adverts and online, and adverts for gambling must not be broadcast in or
around children’s TV programmes.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>The Review of Gaming
Machines and Social Responsibility Measures set out a package of measures to strengthen
protections around advertising further. These include significantly strengthened guidance
from the Committees of Advertising Practice (CAP) on protecting vulnerable people
which restricted urgent calls-to-action, such as ‘bet now’ adverts, tougher sanctions
for operators who breach advertising codes and a multi-million pound safer gambling
advertising campaign, which will include responsible gambling messages around sports.
More recently, the gambling industry has announced that it will introduce a whistle
to whistle ban on adverts during sporting events. We will continue to monitor issues
around advertising and consider any new evidence carefully.</p><p> </p>
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