A Peak into the Future

This in depth report examined a total of 11 years of historical and forecast data starting from 2000 and leading to 2010. The report goes to great detail and will no doubt invite a considerable amount of interest from various operators and the online gaming industry as a whole.

The report predicts that a very different bread of gamblers will lead online gambling towards 2010. The more "hard core" gamblers that characterized the scene from the beginning of the millennium, as cited in the report, will be accompanied by players who join in games at their leisure. That change will be encouraged by much simpler gambling formats targeted to a mass market. Gambling products will be offered as alternative entertainment for consumer attention and spending.

The UK consumer spending on online gambling is expected to rise from GBP 660 million in 2005 to an amazing GBP1.6 billion GBP. Growth in numbers of active gambling consumers is expected to double, leading to 2.1 million in 2010. These results represent trends specific to the UK. The participants are either based or listed in the UK with predictions targeting UK based gamblers. However, the operators studied here constitute a large percentage of the global online gambling scene, claiming this report to be more than the specific analysis of one country.