Another gambling article in the daily mail, dated 5th april, must've been put up last night just in time for the saturday print edition.
some snippets:
"The Britain’s Got Talent and X Factor games websites feature ‘slingo’ – a bingo-style game with prizes of up to £20,000. Customers win ‘VIP’ status if they wager large sums. Rewards can include 10 per cent cashback on losses, birthday gifts, concert tickets, hotel stays and iPads."
Just like their exposé before on bet 365, I'm sure these anti gambling articles are going to attract more people than they put off. That part above reads like an advert.
‘The industry’s ability to normalise and glamorise gambling, which in turn fuels the rise in problem gambling, is indicative of the depths they are prepared to stoop,’ said Labour MP Carolyn Harris, chairman of the all-party parliamentary group on gambling.
‘I’m disappointed such popular shows and personalities are implicated in this dreadful use of popular broadcasting to attract gamblers. I would hope they are unaware rather than complicit with the problems.’
Terry White, a campaigner and ex-addict who lost £250,000 gambling, said: ‘These programmes and the celebrities involved are endorsing gambling, which I find abhorrent. Why in heaven’s name a show like Dancing on Ice needs a gambling website is beyond me.'
Which is a fair point.
The TV gaming sites are run by the Bear Group, a subsidiary of Gaming Realms, which specialises in games for smartphones and tablets. Clients include betting giants such as Betvictor and 888.
I thought 'bear' had an alternative meaning in online parlance
edit: ITV programs seem to be the ones involved, I wonder if that ant and dec saturday takeaway game that Dunover reviewed and seemed to be really fond of, if my memory serves me right
was made by the same firm mentioned in this article??
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some snippets:
"The Britain’s Got Talent and X Factor games websites feature ‘slingo’ – a bingo-style game with prizes of up to £20,000. Customers win ‘VIP’ status if they wager large sums. Rewards can include 10 per cent cashback on losses, birthday gifts, concert tickets, hotel stays and iPads."
Just like their exposé before on bet 365, I'm sure these anti gambling articles are going to attract more people than they put off. That part above reads like an advert.
‘The industry’s ability to normalise and glamorise gambling, which in turn fuels the rise in problem gambling, is indicative of the depths they are prepared to stoop,’ said Labour MP Carolyn Harris, chairman of the all-party parliamentary group on gambling.
‘I’m disappointed such popular shows and personalities are implicated in this dreadful use of popular broadcasting to attract gamblers. I would hope they are unaware rather than complicit with the problems.’
Terry White, a campaigner and ex-addict who lost £250,000 gambling, said: ‘These programmes and the celebrities involved are endorsing gambling, which I find abhorrent. Why in heaven’s name a show like Dancing on Ice needs a gambling website is beyond me.'
Which is a fair point.
The TV gaming sites are run by the Bear Group, a subsidiary of Gaming Realms, which specialises in games for smartphones and tablets. Clients include betting giants such as Betvictor and 888.
I thought 'bear' had an alternative meaning in online parlance
edit: ITV programs seem to be the ones involved, I wonder if that ant and dec saturday takeaway game that Dunover reviewed and seemed to be really fond of, if my memory serves me right
was made by the same firm mentioned in this article??
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he hasn't been mincing around on ice too??
