This is almost a half hour long, but it's worth the watch if you're interested in how/why sports gambling has exploded in the US...
It also talks about the absolute ####show that gambling is in Australia.
Canada isn't mentioned, but we have a lot in common with both countries around sports betting and gambling in general.
Australia really is a ####show. There are pokies (slot machines everywhere). Most national sports teams (AFL, NRL) are only viable from pokies revenue and have huge venues in their home town/suburb.
Getting worse at the amateur sports level too, with now "mates bets" that you joi in with friends.
It is not banned yet but the AFL (biggest national sports competition) is trying to limit it and some teams (North Melbourne) have removed pokies all together
This is what happens when you put a professional sports team in Las Vegas. The game has been sold to a bunch of bookies and they're now trying to milk us of as much money as they can. I'm probably just getting old, but I've had less and less interest in the NHL and hockey lately.
Clearly the gambling market is larger than a lot of us thought. I feel I've been around people that gamble most of my life but I never realized that so many were gambling on these apps. I have to admit it is chipping away at my enthusiasm of the NFL and NHL a smidgen to see the gambling overshadow the actual games.
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it's not as big as it seems. that's a tactic by gambling companies to normalize it.
“The audience doesn’t understand. Their audience will say things like ‘she was so big! Remember how big she was?!’… what they’re saying is ‘she had so much marketing. Remember how big her marketing campaign was?’”
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Clearly the gambling market is larger than a lot of us thought. I feel I've been around people that gamble most of my life but I never realized that so many were gambling on these apps. I have to admit it is chipping away at my enthusiasm of the NFL and NHL a smidgen to see the gambling overshadow the actual games.
It's so inescapable. Every sports analysis show has a betting segment. I'd love to back in time 30 years and tell someone watching Molson Hockey Night in Canada that they'd get rid of the beer commercials and would have dedicated betting segment on HNiC
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Thats why Flames fans make ideal Star Trek fans. We've really been taught to embrace the self-loathing and extreme criticism.
It's so inescapable. Every sports analysis show has a betting segment. I'd love to back in time 30 years and tell someone watching Molson Hockey Night in Canada that they'd get rid of the beer commercials and would have dedicated betting segment on HNiC
I still remember the days when beer commercials were at times funny. There's no redeeming qualities of these gambling commercials.
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What happens when a significant chunk of your male audience 18-50 yrs old become gambling addicts and then seek therapy? How significant of a drop off is the audience 5 years after ads are allowed? Does this pose challenges when Dads that were former sports gambling addicts stop watching sports and choose not to enrol their sons & daughters in those sports?
I’m just a lay person, but I wonder how shortsighted this strategy of allying leagues with bookies is in the long run?
