{"id":26923,"date":"2022-02-03T07:15:27","date_gmt":"2022-02-03T10:15:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=26923"},"modified":"2026-04-23T11:40:03","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T14:40:03","slug":"bluebet-posts-record-turnover-for-the-three-months-to-december-31","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/bluebet-posts-record-turnover-for-the-three-months-to-december-31","title":{"rendered":"BlueBet posts record turnover for the three months to December 31"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Australian mobile betting operator reported revenue of AUS$13.8m (US$9.9m) for the second quarter of its 2022 financial year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Australia.-\u00a0<strong>BlueBet Holdings<\/strong>, the Australian mobile betting operator, has posted a record turnover of $138.6m for the second quarter of its 2022 financial year. The figure was up 54.8 per cent year-on-year and up 10.1 per cent when compared to the previous quarter. The company attributed its growth to the launch of a new website and mobile apps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The<strong>\u00a0number of active customers was 45,087 for the quarter<\/strong>, up 76.5 per cent when compared to the same quarter in 2021. First-time depositors were up 86.9 per cent year-on-year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BlueBet Holdings&#8217; wholly-owned subsidiary<strong>\u00a0BlueBet Colorado recently signed an agreement with The Wild Card Saloon &amp; Casino in Blackhawk<\/strong>, Colorado, to launch online sports betting in the state.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Positive messages could help manage online gambling, Australian report says<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Researchers at Central Queensland University have completed&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/positive-messages-could-help-manage-online-gambling-australian-report-says\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">a study funded by Gambling Research Australia (GRA)<\/a>&nbsp;to gather evidence on changes in the attitudes and&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/tasmania-reports-record-gambling-losses\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">behaviours of gamblers<\/a>&nbsp;as a result of exposure to safer gambling messages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Over 2,000 regular sports and competition consumers received random messages over five weeks. During this period, the researchers measured how much users bet, how long they bet, and the overall gambling harm they experienced.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the participants<strong>, positive information on how to control gambling money was considered the most helpful&nbsp;<\/strong>and easy to understand.&nbsp;<strong>Study leader Professor Mathew Rockloff<\/strong>&nbsp;said participants spent less money and time gambling during the five-week participation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Australian mobile betting operator reported revenue of AUS$13.8m (US$9.9m) for the second quarter of its 2022 financial year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":25402,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"Australian mobile betting operator BlueBet Holdings reported record Q2 FY22 turnover of A$138.6m, a 54.8% YoY increase, driven by new platform features and significant customer growth. Concurrently, its subsidiary, BlueBet Colorado, secured market access for online sports betting in Colorado via a partnership with The Wild Card Saloon & Casino. Separately, Australian research indicates positive safer gambling messaging effectively reduces gambling expenditure and time.","focusai_entities":"BlueBet Holdings, BlueBet Colorado, The Wild Card Saloon & Casino, Central Queensland University, Gambling Research Australia, Professor Mathew Rockloff","focusai_location":"Australia, Colorado, Blackhawk","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (1.0), regulator (0.9), compliance_legal (0.9), operator_casino (1.0), affiliate_publisher (0.7), product_ux (0.8), tech_data (0.7), marketing_crm (1.0), payments_fraud_aml (0.7), investor_analyst (1.0), supplier_vendor (0.8), journalist_researcher (1.0)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"BlueBet US Market Strategy","query":"What is BlueBet's projected GGR contribution from the Colorado market in its first full year of operation, and what are the anticipated customer acquisition costs given the competitive landscape and B2C licensing requirements?"},{"label":"Safer Gambling Impact","query":"How will the findings from the Central Queensland University study influence the development of new regulatory compliance standards for responsible gambling messaging and product design across Australian gaming verticals, and what are the implications for operator governance frameworks?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[16336,157],"tags":[233],"class_list":["post-26923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australasia-news","category-business-news","tag-sports-betting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/176"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26923"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26933,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26923\/revisions\/26933"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}