Casino City's iGaming Pocket Directory - 2017 Edition

50 Sponsored by Casino City’s iGaming Pocket Directory Mobile GAMING MOBILE GAMING INDUSTRY OVERVIEW Internet users all over the world are spending more and more time attached to their mobile devices. Case in point: Statista predicts that the total amount of time per day Americans spend on mobile, non-voice content will grow from 88 minutes in 2012 to an estimated 203 minutes in 2018. Online casino and sportsbook operators are standing up and taking notice. On the global level, the mobile gaming industry generated $24.4 billion of revenue in 2014, with $17 billion of it attributed to smartphone gaming and the remaining $7.4 billion to tablet gaming, according to Statista. The total figure is expected to grow to more than $44.2 billion by 2018. For most online gaming operators, wagering on mobile devices represents a significant portion of their revenue. As a generation of players who grew up using mobile devices comes of age, that number is only going to increase. Take the U.K., for example. The U.K. Gambling Commission reports that between April 2015 and March 2016, remote gaming made up 33% of the country’s country’s overall market, with a total Gross Gambling Yield of £4.5. Within the remote sector, casino games generated the highest turnover and £2.6 billion in GGY, predominantly