Opportunity knocks...Ólafur Andri Ragnarsson, co-founder & Chief Software Architect Betware
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Internetdisruption
Internet betting is 14 years old
The web is only 21 years old
Opportunities for Innovation
There is a fundamental shift taking place
If Skype were a telecommunications carrier, it would be the largest carrier in the world, with 521 million registered users
On average users spend 55 minutes on Facebook every day, choosing from some 500,000 applications
By the end of 2009, Twitter was responsible for broadcasting over 27.3 million tweets per day
Even the more business orientated LinkedIn boats over 50 million international members
Every minute, 24 hours of content is uploaded to YouTube
TV is going onlineHulu streamed 1 billion videos in December 2009Source: Economist, Beyond the Box
Copyright © 2010, Ólafur Andri RagnarssonOld media is going online
Copyright © 2010, Ólafur Andri RagnarssonBooks are getting digital and going on-line
The on-line world is part of growing up
Digital natives are gamenatives
The Net Gen wants entertainment and play in their work, education and social life
The Net Gen has need for speed – not just in video games
On-line digital world is also changing older generations
Market response: Convergence
HeadlinesZynga To Buy Social Gaming Developer Serious Business Harrah’s Looks to Online Poker to Recover from SlumpVirtue Fusion gives Playtech its bingo wingsNewspaper gambles on online gamblingDragonfish Partners With Prime Gaming for Online Bingo
Technology changes everything
Broadband AccessSource: OECD http://www.oecd.org/sti/ict/broadband.
      Social Games
players compete withother playersIntegrate social featuresUse the social graph
80+ million monthly active users
Games are bigger than any other app category — both for the social web and for mobile devices
Mobile is in a renaissance period
The iPhone EffectThe average iPhone user only spends 45% of his on-device time making voice calls
The Mobile Phone Market
Super Smart Phones4 billion connections5% are smart phones
400M daily circulations of all newspapers800M registered cars900M total cable/satellite TV subscribers1.1B of all types of computers (PC, netbooks...)1.2B total landline phones1.5B total TV sets1.7B total unique holders of credit cards2.1B total unique holders of bank accounts3.9B total FM radios in use4+ billion connections
The iPhone EffectThe “mobile web” is just the web – there is only one web. It’s just displayed in multiple of screen sizesSource: The Next Big Thing: Mobile, http://www.olafurandri.com/?p=408
Source: Morgan Stanley
By 2015 there will be more mobile devices on the Internet than computers
Sports betting is social – ultimate cross selling
Social Sports BettingBetting togetherCompetingSharing(async)
The Indirect Push StrategyInstead of sending message to customers directly, let them do itBragging is built into sports-betting puntershttp://www.olafurandri.com/?p=395
A new type of Retailer
Social Sports Betting is an opportunityMobile is an opportunity
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