UK Online Gambling to Grow

A report released by London-based research company Screen Digest predicts online gambling will grow in consumer spending by 2010. The increase will be from the current annual spending amount of 660 million pounds to 1.6 million, and from 1.1 million active gamblers only two years ago to 2.1 million.

The growth from 2000 to 2008 was mainly of hard core gamblers, the report states. The next stage, which the numbers depict, will be of leisure gamblers who will join the wagon, sort of speak.

This has already been the trend since 2006, and is enabled by more friendly and simple to operate platforms. In fact, gambling products are competing with other forms of mass entertainment for consumer attention and spending, the report claims.