Last year the Gambling Commission only showed annual figures rather than a six-month analysis. Overall the Gambling Commission reported gross gambling yield (GGY) for the six months to September 2020 of £5.89bn, while GGY for April 2019 – September 2020 was £14.12bn.
Online gaming generated £3.08bn in the six months, an increase 9.6 percent year-on-year from £2.81bn during the same six months in 2019 with online casino accounting for £1.94bn, followed by sports betting with £1.04bn.
Online bingo generated £98.1m compared to £92m. Land-based bingo brought in £575.2m. The National Lottery brought in £1.61bn, while other lotteries brought in £310.5m.
The Gambling Commission detailed that 15.3m new online gaming accounts were registered during the six months whilst the number of operators fell. Betting outlets were down 12.3 percent at 6,735 betting premises; there were 1,390 adult gaming centres, falling 4.2 percent; 179 family entertainment centres, a drop of 5.8 percent; 131 casinos, a fall of 16 percent; and 601 bingo halls, a decrease of 6.3 percent.
The number of land-based gaming machines dropped by 37.7 percent from 186,832 between April 2019 and March 2020, to 116,333 between April and September 2020.
Source: G3 Newswire
