Gambling business data on gambling during Covid-19 [Updated September 2020]

Data tables for operator data[1]

Table 1: Total number of active player accounts

Data from the biggest operators, covering approximately 80% of the online gambling market showing the number of active accounts. Please note that some of the previously published data has been revised based on a corrected submission made by one operator after we queried their data. This table will be updated with July data next month.

Note: a player may have accounts with more than one operator.

	Total Actives (as of 31 March 2019)	Total Actives (as of 31 March 2020)	Total Actives (as of 30 April 2020)	Total Actives (as of 28 May 2020)	Total Actives (as of 25 June 2020)	% y-o-y change March	% change from March 2020 to April 2020	% change from April 2020 to May 2020	% change from May 2020 to June 2020
Total	15,955,960	15,618,569	14,834,583	14,661,935	14,834,112	-2.1%	-5%	-1.2%	1.2%

Table 2: Total number of active players per vertical

Data from the biggest operators, covering approximately 80% of the online gambling market showing the number of active players on each vertical.

Note: a player may be active in more than one product, so these columns must not be summarised to give an overall total number of players.

	March 2019	March 2020	April 2020	May 2020	June 2020	July 2020	% y-o-y change March	% change from March 2020 to April 2020	% change from April 2020 to May 2020	% change from May 2020 to June 2020	% change from June 2020 to July 2020
Slots	2,095,824	2,618,165	2,559,242	2,443,130	2,458,305	2,473,813	25%	-2%	-5%	1%	1%
Other gaming (incl. casino)	1,712,986	1,930,885	2,032,685	1,946,024	1,807,668	1,790,054	13%	5%	-4%	-7%	-1%
Betting (Real event)	5,200,165	4,635,552	2,073,998	2,237,619	4,041,427	4,193,052	-11%	-55%	8%	81%	4%
Betting (Virtual)	206,664	388,786	558,067	287,777	244,219	224,054	88%	44%	-48%	-15%	-8%
Poker	266,294	408,316	626,304	557,317	418,260	350,541	53%	53%	-11%	-25%	-16%

Table 3: Total number of bets placed per vertical

Data from the biggest operators, covering approximately 80% of the online gambling market showing the number of bets placed on each vertical.

	March 2019	March 2020	April 2020	May 2020	June 2020	July 2020	% y-o-y change March	% change from March 2020 to April 2020	% change from April 2020 to May 2020	% change from May 2020 to June 2020	% change from June 2020 to July 2020
Slots	3,855,521,261	4,476,762,381	5,169,466,187	5,301,752,620	5,025,562,135	4,956,440,942	16%	15%	3%	-5%	-1%
Other gaming (incl. casino)	250,562,248	257,311,436	322,283,690	314,964,935	282,817,505	282,947,938	3%	25%	-2%	-10%	0
Betting (Real event)	276,386,174	191,807,193	78,101,454	104,043,293	255,476,612	267,219,421	-31%	-59%	33%	146%	5%
Betting (Virtual)	14,813,552	20,758,180	28,493,528	24,397,134	19,383,209	16,784,887	40%	37%	-14%	-21%	-13%
Poker	96,202,170	133,078,469	226,548,896	202,073,092	138,712,018	108,472,238	38%	70%	-11%	-31%	-22%

Table 4: Session length

Data from the biggest operators, covering approximately 80% of the online gambling market showing average session length in minutes and the number of sessions that lasted an hour or longer.

	March 2019	March 2020	April 2020	May 2020	June 2020	July 2020	y-o-y change March	change from March 2020 to April 2020	change from April 2020 to May 2020	change from May 2020 to June 2020	change from June 2020 to July 2020
Av. session length (minutes)	26	22	22	22	21	21	-4	0	0	-1	0
Sessions >1hr	1,573,926	1,923,646	2,274,521	2,327,818*	2,215,931*	2,181,919	22%	18%	2%	-5%	-2%

*resubmission by an operator

Table 5: Gross Gambling Yield[1]

Data from the biggest operators, covering approximately 80% of the online gambling market showing the GGY from each vertical.

Note: March data includes the Cheltenham Festival

	March 2019	March 2020	April 2020	May 2020	June 2020	July 2020	% y-o-y change March	% change from March 2020 to April 2020	% change from April 2020 to May 2020	% change from May 2020 to June 2020	% change from June 2020 to July 2020
Slots	£162,345,550	£186,659,624	£169,033,423	£184,276,776	£166,468,891	£162,877,179	15%	-9%	9%	-10%	-2%
Other gaming (incl. casino)	£60,749,253	£57,829,567	£76,952,429	£77,891,649	£68,527,685	£66,048,564	-5%	33%	1%	-12%	-4%
Betting (Real Event)	£85,516,233	£160,950,242	£61,938,466	£101,352,941	£217,468,648	£209,302,808	88%	-62%	64%	115%	-4%
Betting (Virtual)	£6,618,687	£9,063,796	£12,818,108	£11,276,994	£9,560,200	£7,963,419	37%	41%	-12%	-15%	-17%
Betting (eSports)	£50,223	£1,517,548	£3,393,637	£4,616,610	£3,472,951	£2,591,106	2922%	124%	36%	-25%	-25%
Poker	£8,070,102	£12,069,504	£20,068,939	£18,335,269	£11,675,197	£9,023,180	50%	66%	-9%	-36%	-23%
Other	£4,965,236	£4,684,760	£1,783,987	£1,815,272	£1,760,994	£1,351,716	-6%	-62%	2%	-3%	-23%

Licensed betting operator data

Absolute values are not directly comparable between these periods for several reasons including:

Retail not in operation for a full month in March and June
Phased openings; times and premises
Local restrictions
Impact of restrictions on other retail gambling sectors

Please be mindful of the date ranges in the tables below, where the 2020 periods cover a different number of days each time to reflect times premises were open.

Table 6: Number of bets/spins

Data from the biggest operators, covering approximately 85% of the retail betting market showing the number of bets/slips across available products.

	15-30 June 2019	1-23 March 2020	15-30 June 2020	1-31 July 2020
Over the counter	35,272,619	37,441,423	15,475,557	57,115,911
SSBT	3,887,440	5,604,738	2,630,472	7,155,888
Machines	627,616,390	771,662,386	490,568,791	981,232,162

Table 7: GGY

Data from the biggest operators, covering approximately 85% of the retail betting market showing GGY across available products.

	15-30 June 2019	1-23 March 2020	15-30 June 2020	1-31 July 2020
Over the counter	£45,627,400	£48,830,471	£21,458,870	£62,491,387
SSBT	£9,531,445	£15,971,095	£9,632,832	£23,150,370
Machines	£45,067,634	£59,453,732	£41,571,866	£81,635,461

Table 8: Machine sessions

Data from the biggest operators, covering approximately 85% of the retail betting market showing machines data.

	15-30 June 2019	1-23 March 2020	15-30 June 2020	1-31 July 2020
Total number of sessions	5,915,334	6,815,675	3,462,297	7,762,246
# sessions >1hr	160,694	168,911	121,497	247,394

[1] Changes in data could be due to a variety of factors impacting the market since Mar 2019.

[2] This should not be directly compared to GGY published in our Industry Statistics because this data is taken from a sample of approximately 80% of the online market.