DGOJ releases Q3 2023 report, Spanish revenue down 3%
The data comes from the 78 licensed operators in the country, including 50 online casinos.
The Dirección General de Ordenación del Juego (DJON), the Spanish Directorate General for the Regulation of Gambling, has released its Q3 2023 statistics.
Total Q3 gross gambling revenue (GGR) totalled €304.3m ($332.3m), a decrease of 3% when compared to last quarter but an increase of 24% when compared year-on-year.
As for specific divisions, the casinos accounted for the largest contribution to GGR with €160m.
This meant it was 52% of overall GGR, a quarterly rise of 7% and yearly increase of 23%.
Live roulette increased 5% quarter-on-quarter and 28% year-on-year, while slots increased 8% quarterly and 26% annually, and blackjack increased 11% quarter-on-quarter.
Sports betting wasn’t too far behind with a GGR of €113m, signifying a decrease of 15% but an increase of 23% year-on-year.
Most individual markets also saw a decrease; pre-match betting fell 32% quarter-on-quarter, while in-play betting fell 0.3% and fixed odds horseracing fell 10%.
The only market that increased quarterly was general fixed-odds betting, which rose 46%. The next highest GGR was poker with €27m, which was an increase of 4% quarter-on-quarter and 22% annually.
Both poker tournaments and cash games increased across both timescales, with 31% and 2% yearly respectively.
The two lowest segments were bingo with €3.6m and contests sitting at €50,000. Bingo increased 3% from the last quarter but was down 1% on Q3 2022, while contests fell 68% quarterly and rose 57% year-on-year.
However, the DJON noted that contests seem to fluctuate wildly year by year, with +58% in 2020, -91% in 2021 and -72% in 2022.
Deposits in the country were down 1% to €921.8m, although this was an improvement of 12% year-on-year.
On the other hand, withdrawals were down 3% to €615.9m, a figure up 8% yearly.
Marketing costs saw a similar trend, with the €93.3m total representing a decrease of 5% on last quarter but an increase of 12% on Q3 2022.
The number of new accounts was the only vertical in this section to report positives across both timescales, with 322,709 new sign-ups – a 5% increase quarterly and a 4% rise year-on-year.
The average number of active game accounts each month was 1.1 million and average monthly sign-ups was 107,570.
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