German lottery provider ZEAL Network has raised its fiscal year guidance after posting better than expected preliminary results for Q3 2020.

Supported, among other things, by the good jackpot development of the German lottery Lotto 6aus49 in Q3 2020, the continued high marketing investments led to a growth in billings, revenue and new registered customers that exceeded expectations.

Due to the increased marketing investments of €25.3m (2019: €17.9m) to acquire new customers, ZEAL was able to gain 787,000 new registered customers in the German segment in the first nine months of 2020 alone, with a preliminary CPL of €27.58.

According to preliminary calculations, billings increased by around 42% to €471.8m in the first nine months of 2020 (2019: €332.6m). The German segment contributed a preliminary €470.9m to this.

In a year-on-year comparison, it should be noted that ZEAL 2019 offered additional products in the secondary lottery business which were discontinued in October 2019 due to the business model change. Moreover, Lotto24’s online lottery brokerage business has only been part of ZEAL Group since 14 May 2019. The Lotto24 billings up to that date were, therefore, not included in the previous year’s figures.

Due to the expected revenue dis-synergies in connection with the business model change, revenue decreased by a preliminary 31% to €63.9m (2019: €93.2m). Similar to billings, revenue in the first nine months of 2019 still included the secondary lottery business, but not Lotto24’s online lottery brokerage business up to 14 May 2019. Revenue in the German segment amounted to a preliminary €57.8m in the first nine months of 2020.

The popular Endorphina game provider proudly announced its compliance with the new German regulations. The German authorities recently stated that German-facing online gambling operators that offer casino and poker products must comply to the new federal gambling treaty.

Operators who comply with these rules by October 15 will be assured they won’t face prosecution by German authorities or barred from applying for a license next year.

Endorphina’s games meet all German requirements such as having a game portfolio in the German language, a minimum 5 second spin, no auto-spin, displaying a win probability and RTP, amongst many others by the re-quired date of October 15, 2020.

A few words from Endorphina’s own CEO, Jan Urbanec:

“We are proud of our collaboration and the fast paced sprint that resulted in us delivering a solution for the Ger-man market. The combined effort of our legal and development team allowed us to quickly extract the details re-quired from the German regulation and to implement them into our games so we do not disrupt the player’s expe-rience.”

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NOVOMATIC subsidiary ADMIRAL Sportwetten GmbH has secured German sports betting licence from the Darmstadt Regional Council. The company is now officially authorised to offer sports betting in the Federal Republic of Germany.

“The granting of this new sports betting licence once again confirms the high product quality and competence of the NOVOMATIC AG Group. This is the first time that the regulator has created a legally secure basis for private sports betting providers. It is an important step in order to be able to further expand our range of services, especially in the online and mobile sectors,” Jürgen Irsigler, Managing Director of ADMIRAL Sportwetten GmbH, said.