BETTIMES RESEARCH · PAPER 01

Who Operates Online Gambling Brands?

What the current BETTIMES operator sample shows about brands, legal entities and the limits of licence labels.

Sample
47 observations
Published
Data checked through
DIRECT ANSWER

23 of 47 operator profiles in the current BETTIMES sample are classified as registry matched. The remaining 24 retain a company-stated, missing, conflicting or review-required status, so a brand name alone is not enough to establish the operator and its permissions.

RESEARCH QUESTION

What we tested

How often can a consumer-facing gambling brand in the current BETTIMES sample be connected to a legal entity and regulator record, and where does the evidence stop?

MEASURED FINDINGS

What the current sample shows

Calculated from the linked dataset at build time. Percentages and counts describe only the published BETTIMES coverage set.

  1. 23/47

    Registry matched

    Measured from the stored profile status; other records keep their weaker or conflicting classification.

  2. 46/47

    Legal entity named

    At least one legal name is recorded in the public evidence pack.

  3. 47/47

    Primary-source support

    The attached source pack includes a regulator, dataset or primary-source record.

Breakdown supporting the measured findings.
ClassificationCountInterpretation
Registry matched2348.9% of the current operator sample
Conflicting source records919.1% of the current operator sample
Review required919.1% of the current operator sample
No licence record found510.6% of the current operator sample
Operator-stated12.1% of the current operator sample
CONCLUSION

What follows from the evidence

The useful unit of analysis is not the logo. It is the dated relationship between brand, legal entity, domain, regulator record and the market being discussed.

METHOD

How we calculated it

  1. Analyse every operator profile in the linked tracker as one observation.
  2. Use the stored profile status as the primary classification and count legal-entity, licence and source fields directly from the records.
  3. Treat registry matches, company statements, missing records, conflicts and review queues as different evidence states.
SOURCE PACK

Reproduce the result

The HTML table and CSV expose the rows, source classes, source URLs and verification dates used here.

Open Operator and Licence Evidence Tracker Download CSV
LIMITS

What this does not prove

  • The sample is the BETTIMES coverage set, not a random sample or a census of the global gambling industry.
  • The analysis describes public evidence located by the stated dates; it does not decide whether an operator is lawful in a particular location.
  • A brand can use several domains or entities, while a single licence record can cover several brands. Those relationships need record-level review.
REVISION RECORD

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