Directorate General for the Regulation of Gambling (DGOJ) has released financial figures for Spain’s online gambling market for the second quarter of 2024.
In total, gross gaming revenue (GGR) reached €346.3m ($386.5m) during the period, representing an increase of 10.79% year-on-year.
Looking at the individual segments, betting, bingo and casino saw growth, while poker saw a decline and contests registered no activity during Q2.
Casino held the largest share of the GGR with 49.57%, with betting not far behind at 42%. This left poker with 7.38% and bingo with 1.04% of the market.
For the actual figures, betting went up 9.13% from the same period last year to €145.48m, while casino rose 14.57% to €171.69m and bingo was 1.87% higher than Q2 2023 at €3.61m. The poker segment decreased by a marginal 0.76% to €25.56m.
Total turnover was valued at €8.26bn during the quarter, an increase of 7.76% compared to the same period last year, with casino representing the bulk of this at €4.99bn, though it was the betting segment which saw the largest growth at 10.73%, being valued at €2.55bn.
Looking at game accounts and the number of gamblers monthly average, this continued to grow. Active accounts were up 23.65% to 1,401,634, active gamblers up 22.11% to 942,805 and new accounts up 46.57% to 150,677. Though when it came to new gamblers this figure was down 5.15% to 47,826.
Recently, the Swedish Gaming Authority, Spelinspektionen, also released financial figures for the second quarter of 2024, showing overall growth in the gambling market in Sweden.
