For the first time in the country, the work of the sports betting and iGaming industry was recognized with the 1st Brazilian iGaming Awards. The ceremony took place during a cocktail party at the Sky Hall Terrace Bar, in São Paulo, as part of BiS.
“Winning the award for Best Digital Magazine in the sector is proof of the hard work we've been doing for more than 25 years. We are all our sector, and I dedicate this award to all of you and my dedicated team,” said Cardama.
In addition to the Best Digital Magazine award, Carlos Cardama was recognized with a special award in honor of his career and personal performance in the gaming industry. "Thank you all very much," he completed excitedly.
In October 1995 Nova Zen Editora was founded, responsible for Games Magazine and the online news portal GMB. In these 26 years, the site has followed the advances and setbacks of the gaming industry in Brazil and the strength of the activity on five continents.
For Cardama, “it is a daily struggle to show the importance of the gaming sector as a tool for the development of society. We do it with love and a lot of professionalism. In these 26 years of history, we have seen the emergence of bingos in Brazil, the decree of its extinction and the struggle of serious and valued businessmen and lawyers defending the sector as an important economic activity that strongly generates jobs and taxes.”
In the almost six thousand pages of Games Magazine Brasil, more than one hundred bingo openings were published, coverage of 300 fairs and events, tourist portrait of 70 national and international destinations and interviews with hundreds of personalities. Here are some of these people: Zico, Pelé, Galvão Bueno, Nelsinho Piquet, Carlos Alberto Parreira, Sorín, Zanetti, Mascherano, Tévis, Helô Pinheiro, Maitê Proença, Lula, Marta Suplicy, Ciro Batelli, Jô Soares, Chitãozinho and Xororó, Bianchi, Washington Olivetto, Nelson Sardelli, Mário Covas, Geraldo Alckmin, Raí, Pat Morita (Mr. Miyagi, from the film Karate Kid), Amauri Jr., Oscar Goodman (former Las Vegas mayor and mobster lawyer in the 1980s) , Lorraine Hunt (vice governor of Nevada), etc.
With the GMB portal, the dream that was born 26 years ago continues to make the eyes of the entire team shine and placing Brazil's gaming sector in the global spotlight as the main frontier to be reached for the country to become one of the main ones in the world. We just hope that the government sees the strength of the activity and consistently regulates an economic sector with a strong social reach.
From paper to the web: Games Magazine Brasil goes online in 2016
In 2016, Games Magazine Brasil launched its digital version as a daily news outlet in Portuguese and English to respond to a local and international market eager to receive quality information and almost in real time on the latest developments in the legalization of this "sleeping giant". Carlos Cardama was joined, as partners and editors, by Sergio Maglio (co-founder of Yogonet and former collaborator of Games Magazine) and Fabian Tetelboim (journalist with extensive experience in the media) to contribute their knowledge of the web and upgrade the media to its new platform.
The role of the physical version gave way to a website that quickly established itself in the industry thanks to rigorous content, independence of opinion, exclusive coverage of events, permanent update and presence on social networks. Along with this, almost 3,000 businessmen, legislators, regulators, associations and specialist lawyers from Brazil and abroad receive our newsletter every day, which has already become mandatory reading for those who want to be updated on the progress of the Brazilian market.
In these years, GMB was the official media for the main industry events organized in the country such as the Brazilian Gaming Congress (BgC), Sao Paulo Affiliate Congress (SPAC) and Online Gaming Summit (OGS).
GMB recently changed its original logo, just the first step of a complete redesign that the site promises to present very soon to enter 2021 with a renewed “face” according to current times. New content, more sections, exclusive columnists, larger spaces for our advertisers and an AMP version of agile reading on mobiles are just some of the changes that are coming in Games Magazine Brasil, the site about the gaming industry leader in audience in the country.
Source: GMB
