{"id":7356,"date":"2020-06-17T20:24:43","date_gmt":"2020-06-17T20:24:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=7356"},"modified":"2026-04-24T04:22:51","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T07:22:51","slug":"australians-seek-online-casinos-during-shutdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/australians-seek-online-casinos-during-shutdown","title":{"rendered":"Australians seek online casinos during shutdown"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Steep increase in internet searches for \u201conline pokies\u201d and the phrase \u201conline casino Australia real money.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Australia.- Despite federal government attempts to block unlicensed online gambling sites, Australia has seen a surge in internet searches for illegal offshore casinos during the coronavirus lockdown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Internet traffic analytics platform SEMrush has said that web searches for \u201conline pokies\u201d in rose from 12,000 in February 2020 to 40,500 in April 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Online searches for the phrase \u201conline casino Australia real money\u201d increased by 540 per cent, and there was a ten-fold increase in searches for \u201cAustralian online casino reviews.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It also detected an increase in traffic<\/strong><\/em><\/a>, with JokaRoom seeing a 100 increase in visits, from 606,407 visits in February to 1.2 million in April. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA)<\/strong><\/em> has ordered Internet service providers (ISPs) to block access to 52 illegal online casinos since November last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Steep increase in internet searches for \u201conline pokies\u201d and the phrase \u201conline casino Australia real money.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7358,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"This analysis highlights a significant challenge to regulatory compliance in Australia, where internet searches and traffic to unlicensed online casinos surged during the COVID-19 lockdown, despite proactive blocking efforts by the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA). The data from SEMrush underscores the persistent demand for iGaming verticals and the operational complexities of enforcing prohibitions against offshore operators.","focusai_entities":"SEMrush, JokaRoom, Australian Communications and Media Authority, ACMA","focusai_location":"Australia","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.7), regulator (1.0), compliance_legal (0.9), operator_casino (0.8), affiliate_publisher (0.7), investor_analyst (0.8), supplier_vendor (0.7), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Regulatory Framework Impact?","query":"What are the long-term implications of this surge in illegal online gambling for Australia's regulatory framework and potential market liberalization?"},{"label":"Enforcement Strategy Update?","query":"How are Australian regulators planning to enhance enforcement mechanisms to counter the persistent demand for unlicensed iGaming services?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[16336,153],"tags":[289,4138,15256],"class_list":["post-7356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australasia-news","category-igaming-news","tag-australia","tag-online-gambling","tag-pokies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7356","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7356"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777008678,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7356\/revisions\/777008678"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}