Sportingbet Chooses Fun For Its Skill Games
Published: Friday, August 19, 2005 Online-Casinos.com
SPORTINGBET CHOOSES FUN FOR ITS SKILL GAMES
Pay for play skill games to be provided by subsidiary SkillJam
Lorne Abory's FUN Technologies plc started the week with the positive news that subsidiary SkillJam had closed a lucrative deal to supply skill games to the giant British gambling group Sportingbet.com.
The multi-year agreement calls for SkillJam to develop, host and manage a private-label, pay-for-play, customised skill-gaming platform for Sportingbet, which is a publicly listed company on the London Stock Exchange AIM.
Operating under fully regulated licences in the UK, Australia, Antigua and Curacao, Sportingbet provides services to over 2.5 million customers in over 200 countries, who place over 1 million bets (casino, poker, sports and virtual games) per day via its 30 brands across the world. Total bet volumes show the group now takes 14 bets per second, and deals over a million games of poker every day on the Paradise Poker site.
FUN Tech subsidiary SkillJam is enjoying significant success in the skill gaming sector and this year alone has signed up over 15 deals with leading global brands, including Virgin Games and eBay. It develops and distributes private-label gaming solutions for a broad network of partner destination sites in the US and abroad, including AOL, MSN's Zone.com and Disney's Go.com.
Sportingbet's Director of Strategic Marketing, Andrew May said, "The addition of skill gaming further facilitates our strategy of innovative product development and excellence in marketing to existing and new customer groups."
