Industry News
VizExplorer Wins Prestigious Gaming and Hospitality Industry Award
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VizExplorer, a leading provider of operational intelligence solutions for casinos, announced that its VizExplorer® Golden Record™ solution has won the annual Gaming & Hospitality Industry Awards’ Platinum Award––the highest honor in the gaming industry.
VizExplorer Golden Record helps casino operators assess total player worth using gaming data combined with non-gaming transactions from across the property, including hotel, F&B, spa, retail, golf and other sources. Armed with accurate player worth insights, operators can ensure an appropriate reinvestment strategy that includes offers to which players are most likely to respond.
“On behalf of the G&L Board, we are thrilled to present the Platinum Award to the multiple award winning VizExplorer for its innovative new Golden Record solution. The judges were particularly impressed that the solution solves the challenge of identifying patrons’ activity for non-traditionally linked transactions. This augmentation to VizExplorer’s analytics offerings represents a leap forward in intelligent use of data to calculate player worth beyond gaming. Congratulations to VizExplorer for setting a high bar for innovation, and for enhancing how our industry uses data to optimize revenues,” said Jeannie Caruso, CEO, Gaming & Leisure Organization.
“With the ability to integrate outside data sources and match it to a player profile, the VizExplorer Golden Record gives operators a better idea of player preferences and overall value across the entire property, to enable more customized offers. Being recognized by the G&L Board with the Platinum Award for this solution validates our direction and dedication to product innovation,” said VizExplorer CTO & Founder Andrew Cardno.
The annual awards program is administered by Gaming & Leisure, the preeminent gaming and hospitality industry organization. An esteemed judging panel of property owners and operators in the gaming and hospitality industry defines the award categories, reviews the entrants and selects the award recipients.
About VizExplorer:
VizExplorer offers operational intelligence (OI) solutions to the gaming industry. The next generation in data-driven decision making, OI lets businesses analyze live, fast-changing data and take immediate action using a single toolset. VizExplorer’s tools help enterprises address smart space and profit optimization, marketing campaign management, CRM and customer service, and service and dispatch management. VizExplorer is led by a team of distinguished OI experts, seasoned industry veterans and world class software developers devoted to building the very best products backed by extraordinary support. VizExplorer is headquartered in San Diego, with offices in Las Vegas and Wellington, New Zealand. www.vizexplorer.com
Industry News
Playtech Live Launches Exclusive Bespoke Game with Kaizen Gaming
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Playtech announced the launch of a new bespoke game, Pig Champions, developed exclusively for Kaizen Gaming, one of the biggest GameTech companies in the world. This launch marks the first Live Casino bespoke title for the leading sports betting & gaming operator and strengthens the strategic partnership between the two companies.
The game, designed to appeal to all audience types and player types across all markets, is a sporty animated universe in a Money Wheel Game show format, where 3 Pig Champions characters compete with each other to reach the highest multipliers within 3 exciting Bonus rounds. The studio is located in Playtech’s Romanian facility (PTR), offering a unique, immersive, animated experience made with fresh Unreal engine technology, featuring unique gameplay built from the ground up using advanced real-time animation.
Kevin Kilminster, Chief Product Innovation Officer at Playtech Live: “We are delighted to partner with one of the leading sports betting & gaming operators in the world to launch their bespoke Live Game Show, Pig Champions to their extensive player base. After being selected by Kaizen Gaming as the leading developer of bespoke live content, collaborating on Pig Champions has enabled the team to showcase their passion and experience by exploring new innovative ways of bringing live casino games to life that offer a fresh, safe gaming experience for players. Our partnership with Kaizen Gaming continues to evolve and we look forward to our next collaboration in bringing further exciting games to market.”
Christos Mavridis, Head of Live Casino of Kaizen Gaming: “Our content offering is some of the most exciting on the market and working with an established partner like Playtech will assist in enhancing our current portfolio even more. Pig Champions stands as evidence of Playtech’s expertise and extensive experience, elevating our live casino offering and emphasising our commitment to creating top-quality innovative game experiences for our players.”
Industry News
Amusnet Ranks Among Italy’s Top Casino Providers
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Amusnet Italy is the fourth-best casino provider in the country for June 2024, according to iGaming Tracker. The company has made a significant leap in the rankings, advancing three positions to secure the fourth spot. The achievement is underscored by a 1.1% increase in market share, reflecting a substantial gain in visibility and preference among online casino operators and players. This rise reflects Amusnet’s growing influence and effectiveness in the Italian market, demonstrating the company’s leading place among the industry’s top providers.
Several notable accomplishments have bolstered Amusnet Italy’s presence in the country. The company’s commitment to excellence was recognised with the prestigious Gold Award for Casino Content Supplier 2023 from EGR Italy last November. Furthermore, Amusnet has added six new partnerships with operators since January, bringing the total number to over 30, and has maintained a robust portfolio with over 100 certified games. Additionally, Amusnet Italy has released 14 new games since the beginning of the year, with more games planned for release by the end of 2024.
Polina Nedyalkova, Director at Amusnet Italy, said: “We are incredibly proud of our progress and the milestones we have reached. This ranking highlights our leading position in the industry and our dedication to delivering high-quality, engaging gaming experiences to local players. Our advancement to the top position underscores our growing influence and effectiveness in the Italian market, and we look forward to continuing this momentum and bringing even more top-notch games to our audience.”
Affiliate Industry
Getting Sticky with It: Why Affiliate Traffic Should be About Quality Not Quantity
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In a highly competitive “bonus blitzing” affiliate market, the only real winner is the bonus hunter. These affiliates may be sending traffic through to their partners in volume, but many of their users are just looking to play through a good deal, never to return.
At Slots Temple, we believe the “stack ‘em high, watch ‘em fly” approach to aggressive bonus-driven traffic no longer flies. We wanted to focus on improving the quality of the traffic and that meant doing things differently.
We began life as a site that offered free demo games and slots tournaments, and this helped to build a highly engaged base of players that genuinely loved playing slots. But we wanted to take this to the next level.
When we were awarded a UKGC gambling license in 2022, it meant we could offer cash prizes for our free tournaments. And then the next logical step was real-money tournaments in the UK with juiced-up prize pools, and ultimately real-money slots.
To create better quality traffic, you need to engage with your customers to better understand them and foster loyalty. It helps if you have a unique value proposition to increase the stickiness of your brand and engage audiences more effectively.
Our real money tournaments are a real UVP and are proving wildly popular with our users. The stakes we offer are low. You can play a slots tournament for as little as 1p, and the free-play model remains a large part of what we do – exclusively so outside the UK.
Ultimately, we want to be a safe place for players, which is why offering low stakes games is important. It’s about fostering a player base that trusts us and feels comfortable playing with us.
Yes, we’re blurring the lines between affiliate and operator, but our players know we’re not just chasing profits at the expense of everything else. Ultimately, our players see us primarily as a destination for fun play and prizes, and it’s important that we maintain that balance. If they thought we were simply out to rinse them, we’d lose their trust, and they wouldn’t come back.
Instead, it’s about offering more choice and increasing that stickiness. It also helps us better understand what games our players like to play so that we can offer more personalized recommendations.
And this is how real-money slots tournaments can really increase the quality of traffic. If a player has been playing a certain slot in a real-money tournament, for example, and wants to play at a partner site, we can guarantee that we are referring a player who is already highly engaged with the game and is ready to transition to higher stakes.
Of course, within the framework of real-money tournaments, it’s important to continue diversifying offerings by devising new formats. We have turbo tournaments, risk tournaments — a multitude of formats and price points so everyone can play the way they want to.
Our real-money tournaments are further enhanced by what was always a highly gamified platform. So, we have leaderboards, Xpoints, rewards chests, and challenges.
Continuous challenges, incentives and rewards keep users engaged over the long term. These elements can appeal to users’ competitive nature and desire for achievement, as they play for bragging rights. This enhances social elements and encourages them to engage frequently with the product
Adding fun and playful elements enhances the user experience beyond the tournaments themselves. Regular rewards and recognition prevent burnout and keep users motivated. And engaged and motivated players are more likely to become passionate about the brand.
Creating a player base that produces true value to your affiliate partners requires a number of the right ingredients, plus a lot of care and attention. But the affiliate landscape is changing, and affiliates need to get creative to get sticky.
Author: Fraser Linkleter, CEO at Slots Temple
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