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Statistics and research release

Gambling business data on gambling to December 2022 (published February 2023)

A collection of data provided by gambling businesses during and following the coronavirus pandemic.

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The gambling market

Series
Market impact of Covid 19

Published on
23 February 2023

Summary

Additional data sets in this series

Details

The full dataset from the earlier months of the pandemic is available in the Excel document.

This data should not be compared with data from industry statistics1.

Online operator data

The following data tables cover online gambling activity2.

Table 1: Total number of active players per vertical

Data from the biggest operators, covering approximately 80 percent 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.

Total number of active players per vertical
Actives per vertical Quarter 3 2021 Quarter 3 2022
October 2021 November 2021 December 2021 October 2022 November 2022 December 2022
Slots 3,219,525 3,190,757 3,423,140 3,566,260 3,706,157 3,881,858
Other gaming (including casino) 2,263,187 2,211,877 2,401,391 2,219,210 2,327,774 2,558,225
Betting (Real event) 4,923,936 4,699,434 4,881,497 5,515,230 5,967,172 5,868,664
Betting (Virtual) 251,537 230,137 244,864 212,368 212,610 234,851
Poker 262,251 248,470 273,112 238,593 236,290 238,756

Table 2: Total number of bets placed per vertical

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

Total number of bets placed per vertical
Bets per vertical Quarter 3 2021 Quarter 3 2022
October 2021 November 2021 December 2021 October 2022 November 2022 December 2022
Slots 6,120,476,686 5,672,738,710 6,412,977,218 6,301,538,520 6,435,903,422 6,977,321,970
Other gaming (including casino) 335,585,894 300,142,049 324,600,766 330,660,051 341,705,130 354,908,528
Betting (Real event) 275,480,062 249,659,453 259,128,098 339,108,866 311,770,077 294,741,797
Betting (Virtual) 13,627,726 12,846,306 14,436,745 10,699,072 10,698,656 12,219,998
Poker 80,664,453 79,780,506 84,190,432 71,032,564 69,949,202 72,935,486

Table 3: Slots session length

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

Slots session length
Session length Quarter 3 2021 Quarter 3 2022
October 2021 November 2021 December 2021 October 2022 November 2022 December 2022
Average session length (minutes) 19 19 18 17 17 17
Sessions over 1 hour 2,762,397 2,541,310 2,836,813 2,890,861 2,962,126 3,147,912
Total number of sessions 37,187,666 35,499,030 41,527,216 43,988,523 44,634,433 49,062,132

Table 4: Gross Gambling Yield3

Data from the biggest operators, covering approximately 80 percent of the online gambling market showing the Gross Gambling Yield (GGY) from each vertical.

Gross Gambling Yield
GGY by vertical Quarter 3 2021 Quarter 3 2022
October 2021 November 2021 December 2021 October 2022 November 2022 December 2022
Slots £189,963,814 £177,900,355 £200,186,689 £184,801,586 £188,678,488 £208,614,145
Other gaming (including casino) £58,639,978 £51,959,821 £62,707,725 £50,598,082 £51,449,167 £57,654,430
Betting (Real event) £94,197,386 £224,459,234 £141,985,160 £160,257,618 £195,862,812 £90,197,112
Betting (Virtual) £5,819,079 £5,311,675 £6,125,645 £3,819,028 £4,157,739 £3,975,023
Betting (eSports) £1,061,177 £780,976 £1,531,662 £784,230 £1,109,130 £520,232
Poker £6,563,409 £6,348,420 £6,962,644 £5,928,500 £5,839,300 £5,919,340
Other £1,177,844 £1,023,542 £996,520 £791,890 £650,192 £546,390

Licensed betting operator data

Table 5: Number of bets and or spins

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

Number of bets and or spins
Available products Quarter 3 2021 Quarter 3 2022
October 2021 November 2021 December 2021 October 2022 November 2022 December 2022
Over the counter 53,071,002 47,230,768 45,680,029 50,808,750 45,848,106 42,904,780
Self-service betting terminals (SSBT) 10,035,819 9,168,759 8,937,954 12,742,462 11,782,443 10,610,034
Machines 1,094,992,385 1,052,680,332 996,137,836 1,094,186,386 1,085,073,955 1,038,555,540

Table 6: GGY

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

GGY
Available products Quarter 3 2021 Quarter 3 2022
October 2021 November 2021 December 2021 October 2022 November 2022 December 2022
Over the counter £61,129,368 £54,679,516 £50,613,897 £53,860,085 £59,410,931 £44,619,961
Self-service betting terminals (SSBT) £18,481,765 £37,635,859 £26,694,523 £38,537,037 £38,648,179 £22,341,163
Machines £99,266,591 £94,779,707 £90,080,535 £102,665,899 £102,379,058 £97,357,501

Table 7: Machine sessions

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

Machine sessions
Sessions Quarter 3 2021 Quarter 3 2022
October 2021 November 2021 December 2021 October 2022 November 2022 December 2022
Total number of sessions 8,551,222 8,174,543 7,807,418 8,328,102 8,146,409 7,768,512
Sessions over 1 hour 242,120 235,022 221,712 230,371 231,743 220,811

Notes

1This data should not be compared to Industry Statistics as the market impact data may contain free bets and bonuses.

2Changes in data could be due to a variety of factors.

3This should not be directly compared to GGY published in our Industry Statistics because this data is taken from a sample of approximately 80 percent of the online market.

Data and downloads

Files

Operator data - March 2020 to December 2022 (published February 2023)

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