Straight to the Point Podcast

"Responsible gaming is a positive. And that's where you want to encourage people, incentivize people, make it a good thing. There's always going to be stigma around addiction. But just like we celebrate someone who takes the keys from their friend to prevent them from driving home drunk… I want someone in my family or friend group to celebrate that I set a limit. We're not there

"Retail sports betting is not a successful business… 97.2 percent of the total sports betting market is online. To get people motivated to get off their butts… You have to create an entertainment center. And entertainment centers really involve a number of demand generators." ~ Alyse CohenSPONSOR’S MESSAGE: Vixio, a leading RegTech provider for gambling compliance, has releas

"It’s really hard for somebody at this point to say with a straight face, ‘iGaming doesn’t affect land-based casinos at all.’ I don’t think that’s honest, really." ~ Brian WymanSPONSOR’S MESSAGE: Calling all iGaming founders—limited availability remaining!Step into the world of iGaming with an engaging lineup of industry experts. Daniel Burns and Karolina Pelc will

"Prohibition is not the answer. Legalizing it, taxing it, protecting the consumer is for me always the better path." ~ David BriggsSPONSOR’S MESSAGE: Are you navigating the complex US iGaming market as an iGaming operator founder? Learn from our community of industry-leading founders, investors, and entrepreneurs at the Challenger Series—for free! Gain insights on M&A, PR strat

“You've got a lot of guys doing top-of-funnels: branded TV, national reach, above-the-line type stuff. And then the affiliate, the term affiliate in this space, has been sort of relegated to that bottom of the funnel, high intense search-driven traffic. If you look outside this vertical, you see this shift of dollars from that sort of bottom-of-funnel low-end tech… you're seein

“You need to have a legislative champion in each state. It's one thing if somebody representing a company comes to the state and talks to lawmakers. That's great. But you need to have a lawmaker actively on the ground saying, “I want this done, and here's why,” and making the arguments on your behalf. You have to have that. And if you don't have that legislative champion, it

Penn was interesting to me because of the digital-physical piece, the omnichannel piece. Having worked at Disney forever and the cruise ships, every project I've worked on has been a combination of digital and physical products to make the experience.~ Rich Criado ~SPONSOR’S MESSAGE: Are you navigating the complex US iGaming market as an iGaming operator founder? Learn from our c

“Like it or not, consumer behavior is changing, and that was accelerated via the pandemic. More opportunities and entertainment opportunities through digital channels are changing the way people behave. Our children are never going to do things that we did in person.”~ John Pappas ~Why hire Steve Ruddock? Over the years, Steve has advised startups, national gambling companies,

“When we glorify the five major players in the space and make it seem as if they're the only ones that really matter, we tend to follow what those companies are doing… They're so big and have so much money that they're able to do all of these things. But... That can't be replicated at the middle of the market, the long tail of the market.”~ Chris Shreeve ~SPONSOR’S MESSAGE

Today's (returning) guest is Kim Lund, the Founder of Aftermath Games, who stops by to talk about real innovation in gambling entertainment products, like Sweepstakes. “Sweepstakes offer nothing in terms of end-user experience innovation. There is nothing new to it. You can win money playing the same games that already exist in the real money sphere.” ~ Kim Lund ~ Get full acce