NORTH AMERICA

Ontario

Regulated

Ontario's competitive iGaming market combines AGCO operator registration with an operating agreement under iGaming Ontario's conduct-and-manage model.

Market brief

Province

Ontario uses two linked gates rather than a conventional standalone operator-licence label. AGCO handles registration and regulatory standards; iGaming Ontario enters operating agreements and conducts and manages the provincial scheme.

The market is unusually useful for evidence-led monitoring because iGO publishes a current directory of operators and sites plus a monthly machine-readable performance report. Product totals should still preserve the report's exclusions and unaudited-data notice.

Open official operator register

Operating model

5 product groups
Market model
Registration plus operating agreement
Framework
Private-operator market launched 4 April 2022; iGaming Ontario became a standalone agency in 2025
Licensing route
A private operator must register with AGCO and execute an operating agreement with iGaming Ontario before offering games in the province. The official iGO directory resolves the approved operator, site and product relationship.

Product scope

  • Online casino
  • Sports and event betting
  • Peer-to-peer poker
  • Peer-to-peer bingo
  • Betting exchange

Compliance watch

3 monitoring points

Consumer protection

AGCO's outcomes-based standards require registered operators to identify players who may be at risk of harm and intervene in a timely, proportionate way.

Market access

Regulated private-operator sites serve eligible players who are physically located in Ontario. iGO's market reports exclude OLG.ca and pari-mutuel horse-race wagering from their defined dataset.

  1. Refresh the operator and site count from the live iGO directory instead of storing it as a permanent fact.

  2. Ingest the monthly market-performance workbook with its extraction date and revision warning.

  3. Track changes to AGCO standards and iGO operating requirements separately.

Market relationships

1 linked record

Companies

No linked records in the current dataset.

Licences

No linked records in the current dataset.

Authority

  • Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario (AGCO)Named regulator in this market record