Interviews
Betting That Works: DATA.BET’s Performance-First Approach to Sports Expansion
We sat down with Otto Bonning, Head of Sales at DATA.BET, to understand the vision behind their expansion from esports dominance into sports, and what this evolution means for operators worldwide.
Why did DATA.BET choose to expand from esports into traditional sports?
Otto: It’s a natural evolution for us. Over the past three years, we’ve built exceptional performance in esports for our clients, and now we’re ready to bring this expertise to the broader market. We have around 150 trading professionals, time-tested models, and proven capabilities – it only makes sense to expand our product offering. This isn’t just an add-on, it’s the next revolution in DATA.BET’s history.
What market gaps led you to develop a unified solution for these betting verticals?
Otto: The market lacks robust sportsbook solutions. Most operators face a choice: either sign up for a complete platform that includes everything from casino to payments, or piece together multiple providers. We identified a massive opportunity for our high-quality, plug-and-play solution that works seamlessly whether you’re a betting operator or a platform provider.
To meet this market demand and ease the integration journey, the DATA.BET team developed a Single Page Application (SPA or iFrame). Its key strengths lie in its flexibility, deep customization options – both visually and technically – and seamless integration.
For casino operators, it’s a simple solution to add quality betting without creating additional pain. It is as simple as adding a new game provider and can be completed in under a month. For betting operators and platform providers, it’s not only an addition of high-quality traditional sports, but also premium esports coverage that will help them earn more. This is a convenient option because they can connect our Odds Feed via API, or our SPA (iFrame) to their platform.
We’re offering a high-quality, personalized solution that really works for both operators and platforms. The achievements that made us a top esports provider – performance, reliability, and ease of integration – now apply to our complete sportsbook offering.
How does DATA.BET differ from competitors when handling both esports and traditional sports?
Otto: Three key differentiators set us apart. First, our technical foundation is built by developers who excel at creating technically complex solutions that are actually easy to integrate and scale for clients. No headaches, just steady performance day after day.
Second, we don’t just provide odds – we create them. Our in-house trading team combined with our data scientists and sophisticated algorithms, delivers consistent, high-performance margins across all sports. We work with official data sources, and our models are continuously tested and improved. This ensures we provide the best coefficients and quality feed.
Third, our betting product suite is comprehensive. Just like with esports, we’re bringing Bet Builder, Widgets, Video Streaming, and full functionality to sports and virtual. It’s not about having separate systems – it’s one unified, high-performance solution powered by our technical expertise, official data, and data science capabilities.
What problems do clients typically face before switching to DATA.BET?
Otto: Integration nightmares are, unfortunately, common in our industry. What we wanted to do was make one product and make it exceptionally high-quality from a technical standpoint, so that integration becomes seamless.
If you’re a casino operator, you can be up and running within 10 days. For B2B integrations, we’ve seen major platforms go live in just five weeks.
Our partnership with NuBet is a great example – they chose us for our broad market coverage, fast and seamless user experience, and a strong feature set, including Bet Builder, Video Streaming, and detailed in-game Widgets. The integration was smooth and collaborative, with both teams working hands-on. As NuBet noted, feature delivery has been rapid, feedback is valued, and issues are resolved promptly, without being left hanging.
The key to success is our integration team – they work around the clock and take an extremely bespoke approach to each client. When our partners are ambitious to go live quickly, we make it happen. The speed ultimately depends on the their readiness, but we remove all the traditional technical barriers from our side.
How do you adapt your solutions for different markets, particularly emerging regions like LatAm?
Otto: Regional differences are significant, from sports preferences to regulatory requirements. Take Brazil, for example. It’s heavily football-focused, which is why we’re enhancing our football content and securing official data rights for major leagues, including the Brazilian Série A and other Latin American competitions.
But here’s what’s interesting: esports ranks among the top three most popular betting categories in Brazil. Since we know how to do esports, combining that with top-tier football coverage creates a perfect solution for the LatAm market. We’re not just translating our product – we’re building it specifically for these markets.
What’s your approach for operators using separate providers for esports and sports?
Otto: We focus on demonstrating superior performance in specific areas. While we respect operators’ existing relationships with other providers, we can showcase our strengths in particular sports and esports disciplines. We’re exceptional at basketball and table tennis, for instance. Our models in these areas consistently outperform the competitors’.
The key is showing operators that consolidating with DATA.BET simplifies their operations and improves its margins and player experience. We work within the frameworks of our partnerships while finding ways to add value that others can’t match.
What’s particularly valuable is feedback from clients who initially were signed for esports, then also expanded to sports, and saw better performance than they had with their previous supplier.
What betting trends are you most excited about, and how is DATA.BET preparing?
Otto: The continued growth of live betting is transforming our industry. Players demand more engaging, responsive experiences – everything needs to happen in real-time. This is where our esports heritage gives us an advantage. Esports taught us that speed, accuracy, and synchronization are non-negotiable.
We’re building products where odds and game statistics visualization are timely matched. There’s no tolerance for a broken streaming feed with 30-second delays while odds update faster – that ruins the betting experience. Our unified approach ensures everything works together seamlessly. Widgets, Video Streaming capabilities, extensive markets – all synchronized and working as one cohesive system.
What’s the core message you want operators to understand about DATA.BET?
Otto: Simple: Betting that works. Stress-free, hassle-free, high-performance.
We deliver a fully functional, customizable sportsbook solution that adapts to your needs. Want to launch a new brand? Easy. Expanding to new markets? We have templates ready. Need to change your entire look and feel? It’s just a few clicks.
Our promise is steady performance, day after day, with all the tools you need to succeed. In an industry full of complexity, we’re the solution that works.
DATA.BET continues to expand its presence globally, with particular focus on emerging markets in Europe and Latin America. Their unified sportsbook solution represents a significant evolution from their esports roots, bringing the same performance-driven approach to traditional sports betting.
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As legacy sportsbooks struggle with ‘search and click’ fatigue, Josh Swerdlow, Founder and CEO of ChatBet, says the next industry titan will win by owning the conversational intent layer where billions of users already live.
Why is the current sportsbook UX struggling to keep up with modern tech?
It comes down to legacy debt. Current sportsbook apps are just digital spreadsheets – grids from the 1990s that have been optimised for desktop and not mobile-first intuition. With the majority of sportsbooks, users are forced through deep menus and endless scrolling, creating a “hurdle race” for every transaction. This leads to cognitive overload – while hardcore bettors might tolerate the clutter, casual punters encounter analysis paralysis and this usually leads to betslip abandonment. As user behaviour shifts from “search and click” to “intent and fulfilment”, and against a backdrop of spiraling acquisition costs and high levels of churn, this is really putting the squeeze on operator profitability and ultimately long-term sustainability.
What do you mean when you say we are moving from “search and click” to “intent and fulfilment” and what does this mean for online sportsbooks?
In a “search and click” world, the user does the heavy lifting – navigating deep menus and grids just to find a single market. “Intent and fulfillment” flips that script. It’s the shift from a user searching for a bet to simply commanding it. If a consumer can book a five-star hotel in Rome by sending a single text, they naturally expect to back their favorite team with the same level of ease. For the operator, this means the sportsbook evolves into a high-powered back-end utility – the engine – while the messaging interface becomes the front-of-mind “steering wheel”. By moving away from the friction of standalone apps and capturing intent directly within WhatsApp or Telegram, operators stop being a destination the user has to find and start being a conversation the user is already having.
How does conversational betting actually chance user behaviour and crush the conversion funnel?
Traditional betting can take between 10 to 12 steps and up to 60 seconds – a solution like ChatBet reduces that to a single text or voice note and ten seconds or less. It also shifts the player from architect to director – instead of manually building complex parlays by scrolling through 50+ toggles, the user simply asks the AI to “Build a safe 3-leg parlay for the United game” and then confirms the wager. The result? Data from a ChatBet pilot shows an 82% drop in time-to-bet and a 28% increase in conversion rates.
From an operator’s perspective, is this a rip and replace of the current technology or is it much easier to implement than that?
Conversational betting solutions such as ChatBet are an orchestration layer, not a replacement. Our solution literally plugs into existing APIs. This also helps from a regulatory and compliance perspective, with core functions such as KYC, wallet management and responsible gambling triggers remaining securely within the operator’s existing stack. This allows for overnight modernisation – operators can update their UX for the “TikTok generation” without the multi-year cost of rebuilding their entire core tech.
Why is intent data now considered the ultimate competitive moat?
It’s about context over clicks. Traditional trackers show where the user clicked but conversational data reveals exactly what they want in their own words. Then there’s the network effect – every interaction trains the AI on local slang, fan sentiment and individual patterns and preferences. This provides operators with an insurmountable defence. A competitor can copy your odds, but they cannot easily clone a refined, high-context relationship with millions of users.
Why is this a billion-dollar venture-scale opportunity right now?
Viral distribution. Conversation betting piggybacks on billions of WhatsApp and Telegram users to allow operators to solve the skyrocketing customer acquisition cost crisis they face. There’s also the retention advantage, with messaging-native users showing a 35% higher day-30 retention rate because the interface is “always on”. What’s more, chat-based betting allows for “nudge” technology and lower-friction, smaller-stake engagement, which aligns with 2026 global regulatory shifts toward safer play.
Predictions markets are throwing the sports betting industry into chaos. How does conversational betting help traditional operators get in on the action?
Prediction markets are exploding because they tap into the “stock market of everything” but for traditional operators, these markets are often too complex to display in a standard grid and too intimidating for the average punter to navigate. Conversational betting bridges this gap by acting as a natural language translator for complex binary contracts. Instead of forcing a user to decipher order books or probability curves, a chat interface allows them to simply trade on their opinions, like the weather or political shifts, as easily as sending a text. Because chat has “unlimited shelf space”, operators can offer an infinite array of niche markets without clogging their app’s UI. Ultimately, it turns prediction markets from a niche financial product into a social, real-time experience, capturing “hot takes” in WhatsApp or Telegram and instantly converting them into priced, compliant transactions.
If this shift is as inevitable as you say, what is the one thing legacy operators need to do right now to avoid becoming the ‘Blockbuster’ of the betting industry?
They need to stop thinking about their “app” and start thinking about their “API”. The battle for the customer has moved off the home screen and into the chat thread. Right now, the opportunity is to be the first mover in the conversational space – to own the “intent layer” before it becomes the industry standard. The winners of 2026 won’t be the ones with the loudest marketing, but the ones who make placing a bet as easy as telling a friend who you think will win.
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Backed by Grupo Silvio Santos, founded by Silvio Santos, the company aims to position itself as a platform that goes beyond traditional betting.
In an interview during BiS SiGMA South America, Fernando Justos Fischer, CEO of TQJ, detailed the company’s strategic pillars, the sector’s challenges and its long-term vision for the Brazilian market.
According to Fischer, the current moment is one of consolidation in the regulated market.
The expectation is that the sector will move toward more mature discussions, focusing on compliance, sustainability and user protection.
In this context, the event is seen as a strategic space for alignment between operators, regulators and partners, driving more structured growth.
TQJ’s strategy is based on three main pillars: strengthening brand and distribution by leveraging the group’s assets; a data-driven operation focused on efficient acquisition and sustainable retention; and responsible gaming as a core principle of the business.
All of this, according to the executive, is supported by technology and intelligence applied to the user experience.
The backing of Grupo Silvio Santos is highlighted as a key competitive advantage.
For Fischer, the combination of credibility, scale and expertise in entertainment allows TQJ to position itself as an accessible, trustworthy brand with a strong connection to the Brazilian audience.
The goal is to lead the market in trust and responsibility.
In a highly competitive environment, the company is focusing on integrating proprietary distribution, gamified experiences and the intensive use of data and artificial intelligence for personalization.
Fischer notes that competitive advantage will increasingly lie in retention, supported by advanced CRM, engagement mechanics and solid responsible gaming practices.
During the event, this positioning was also demonstrated in practice.
Bet do Milhão came to life in a live game show format, directly connecting entertainment and betting. The activation generated engagement and reinforced the company’s value proposition.
Among the main challenges in the Brazilian market, Fischer highlights the need to build a sustainable environment amid intense competition, as well as the importance of educating consumers and combating illegal operators.
He states that operators with discipline, governance and a long-term vision will have a competitive advantage.
In terms of responsible gaming, TQJ already implements tools such as deposit limits, self-exclusion, behavioral monitoring and active communication with users.
The company adopts a preventive and continuous approach that goes beyond regulatory compliance.
This monitoring is carried out through real-time behavioral analysis, enabling the identification of risk patterns and allowing for fast and precise interventions.
Fischer emphasizes that the company aims to go beyond regulatory requirements, viewing responsible gaming as both a competitive differentiator and an institutional commitment.
Artificial intelligence plays a central role in the operation. In marketing, it is used for campaign optimization, prediction and content generation.
In product, it supports the continuous evolution of the user experience. In security, it strengthens analysis and protection systems.
Additionally, AI enables deeper integration between entertainment and betting, creating more interactive and personalized experiences.
Features such as real-time personalization and gamified mechanics are already part of the company’s roadmap.
Even so, Fischer stresses that there is a clear limit when it comes to personalization: user protection. All strategies must operate within responsible parameters, without encouraging risky behavior.
In summary, the CEO defines TQJ’s role in this new phase of the market as a platform capable of connecting entertainment and betting in Brazil with responsibility, technology and trust.
The post TQJ bets on entertainment and responsible gaming in Brazil’s regulated market appeared first on Americas iGaming & Sports Betting News.
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Entretenimiento, datos y responsabilidad: la estrategia de TQJ para el mercado regulado en Brasil
Todos Querem Jogar (TQJ) entra en la nueva fase del mercado regulado brasileño apostando por la integración entre entretenimiento, tecnología y juego responsable.
Con el respaldo del Grupo Silvio Santos, fundado por Silvio Santos, la compañía busca posicionarse como una plataforma que va más allá del betting tradicional.
En entrevista durante el BiS SiGMA South America, Fernando Justos Fischer, CEO de TQJ, detalló los pilares estratégicos de la operación, los desafíos del sector y la visión de largo plazo para el mercado brasileño.
Según Fischer, el momento actual es de consolidación del mercado regulado. La expectativa es que el sector avance hacia discusiones más maduras, con foco en compliance, sostenibilidad y protección al usuario.
En este contexto, el evento se consolida como un espacio estratégico para el alineamiento entre operadores, reguladores y socios, impulsando un crecimiento más estructurado.
La estrategia de TQJ se basa en tres pilares principales: el fortalecimiento de marca y distribución, aprovechando los activos del grupo; una operación orientada a datos, con foco en adquisición eficiente y retención sostenible; y el juego responsable como principio central del negocio.
Todo esto, según el ejecutivo, está apoyado por tecnología e inteligencia aplicada a la experiencia del usuario.
El respaldo del Grupo Silvio Santos es señalado como un diferencial competitivo relevante.
Para Fischer, la combinación de credibilidad, escala y experiencia en entretenimiento permite posicionar a TQJ como una marca accesible, confiable y con fuerte conexión con el público brasileño. El objetivo es liderar el mercado en confianza y responsabilidad.
En un entorno altamente competitivo, la empresa apuesta por la integración entre distribución propia, experiencias gamificadas y el uso intensivo de datos e inteligencia artificial para la personalización.
Fischer destaca que la ventaja competitiva estará cada vez más en la retención, apoyada por CRM avanzado, mecánicas de engagement y prácticas sólidas de juego responsable.
Durante el evento, este posicionamiento también se tradujo en la práctica.
La Bet do Milhão cobró vida en formato de game show en vivo, conectando entretenimiento y betting de manera directa.
La activación generó engagement y reforzó la propuesta de valor de la compañía.
Entre los principales desafíos del mercado brasileño, Fischer destaca la construcción de un entorno sostenible en medio de una alta competencia, así como la necesidad de educar al consumidor y combatir a los operadores ilegales.
Afirma que los operadores con disciplina, gobernanza y visión de largo plazo tendrán una ventaja competitiva.
En el ámbito del juego responsable, TQJ ya implementa herramientas como límites de depósito, autoexclusión, monitoreo del comportamiento y comunicación activa con los usuarios.
La compañía adopta un enfoque preventivo y continuo que va más allá del cumplimiento regulatorio.
Este monitoreo se realiza mediante análisis comportamental en tiempo real, lo que permite identificar patrones de riesgo y realizar intervenciones rápidas y precisas.
Fischer subraya que la empresa busca ir más allá de las exigencias regulatorias, considerando el juego responsable como un diferencial competitivo y un compromiso institucional.
La inteligencia artificial desempeña un papel central en la operación. En marketing, se utiliza para optimización de campañas, predicción y generación de contenido.
En producto, contribuye a la evolución de la experiencia del usuario. En seguridad, fortalece los sistemas de análisis y protección.
Además, la IA permite profundizar la integración entre entretenimiento y betting, creando experiencias más interactivas y personalizadas.
Funcionalidades como la personalización en tiempo real y las mecánicas gamificadas forman parte del roadmap de la empresa.
Aun así, Fischer enfatiza que existe un límite claro en la personalización, la protección del usuario. Toda estrategia debe operar dentro de parámetros responsables, sin incentivar comportamientos de riesgo.
En síntesis, el CEO define el papel de TQJ en esta nueva fase del mercado como el de una plataforma capaz de conectar entretenimiento y apuestas en Brasil con responsabilidad, tecnología y confianza.
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