Directorate General for the Regulation of Gambling

Summary 4nd quarter 2021

The GGR for the quarter was € 175.86 million, which implies a decrease of -4.13% quarter over quarter and -23.96% year over year.

egarding the rest of the main figures, deposits and withdrawals of the players, their variation rates rise in relation to the previous quarter, 12.45% and 21.72% respectively. Marketing expenditure increases 4.87% quarter over quarter and new accounts experiences a growth with respect to the previous quarter, 23.30%. Details are shown in Table 1.

In the analysis of the GGR by game segments, it is observed that:

The € 175.86 million of GGR are distributed among € 43.71 million in Betting (24.85%); € 4.09 million in Bingo (2.33%); € 107.45 million in Casino (61.11%); € 0.05 million in Contests (0.03%) and € 20.54 million in Poker (11.68%).

The betting segment has a decreasing rate of -25.05% quarter over quarter and -57.79% year over year. There is a fall with respect to the previous quarter; pre-match, -26.72%; in-played sportsbook, -31.74%. The rest of betting has decreased as well this quarter.

Bingo has experienced a rise of 16.45% quarter over quarter and 5.06% year over year.

In the casino segment, there has been a rise of 7.13% quarter over quarter and an annual variation rate of 9.85%. Slots is the game with the highest increasing rate, 24.24% and live roulette has decreased -3.57% year over year. Their variation rates were 5.77% and 11.72% quarter over quarter, respectively. On the other hand, conventional roulette has increased 5.80% quarter over quarter and has decreased -12.46% year over year.

Contests experienced a fall of -55.04% quarter over quarter and -95.65% year over year. This segment continues an irregular behaviour with annual variation rates in the fourth quarter of -89.43% in 2018; -16.25% in 2019; -7.01% in 2020.

Poker presents a slight rise of 4.91% quarter over quarter and a decrease of -17.64% year over year. Poker cash has increased 7.54% compared to the previous quarter and 12.63% compared to the same quarter of the previous year. Poker tournament had a variation rate of 3.46% quarter over quarter and -28.60% year over year.

As a summary, the percentage distribution of the GGR for the different segments in this quarter of the period from 2018 to 2021 is shown in Table 2.

Marketing spenditure has been € 93.69 million in the last quarter. It may be broken down into € 10.03 million affiliation expenses; € 1.26 million sponsorship; promotions € 46.83; and advertising € 35.56 million. Compared to the previous quarter, marketing expenditure increased by 4.87% and decreased by -37.96% in annual variation. Advertising spending experienced a decline of -1.68% quarter over quarter and -51.32 year over year.

Sponsorship has decreased -21.07 quarter over quarter and -86.59% year over year. Affiliates and promotions expending have increased quarter over quarter 15.85% and 9.15%. All marketing variation rates were negative year over year. Promotions are broken down into cost of bonus included in prizes, € 19.71 million and cost of bonus not included in prizes, € 27.12 million.

The monthly average of active game accounts is 964,873; which implies an increase of 5.42% quarter over quarter and a decrease of -8.21% year over year. The monthly average of the new game accounts is 213,587; with a growth of 23.30% quarter over quarter and a decline of -45.45% year over year.

For this quarter, there are 78 licensed operators and the number of active operators by segment is:

• Betting: 45
• Bingo: 3
• Casino: 55
• Contests: 2
• Poker: 9