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FC Barcelona Inks Global Partnership Agreement with FBS

Spanish football giant FC Barcelona has signed a new global partnership with FBS, a brokership company specializing in online trading. According to the four-year partnership, FBS will be the club’s Official Trading Partner till 30 June 2024.
The agreement was signed at an event held at the Camp Nou stadium attended by Mr. Josep Pont, Board of Directors Member responsible for Commercial Area, and Mr. Juliano Belletti, former player and Barça ambassador, in representation of FC Barcelona, and by CMO Mr. Ali Heder, on behalf of FBS. At the event, FBS representative was presented with the new FC Barcelona 19/20 home shirt.
Josep Pont, Board of Directors member responsible for the Commercial Area of FC Barcelona, said:
“We are pleased to announce this new partnership with FBS, a leading brand in its sector. It is an agreement that will help us to continue growing and advancing with such a unique project as FC Barcelona and to consolidate our expansion strategy on a global level, to continue setting standards not only for our style of play, which is so recognised around the world, but also in the fields of partnerships and sports marketing.”
Ali Heder, Chief Marketing Officer of FBS said:
“Partnership with FC Barcelona is an exciting new chapter in FBS history. Our mutual goals meet at the point of ambition: just as Barcelona strives for being the #1 name in football, FBS aims to win the global leadership and become synonymous with success in online investing.
We reckon this partnership will help both sides to push the limits even further and get in the spotlight at the new playgrounds. For the time being, FBS is cooking up some great promo ideas and social responsibility projects – as experts in investing, we know that meaningful deeds implemented with passion and supported by strong allies pay the best interest.”
As a result of this agreement, FC Barcelona and FBS plan to undertake different joint programs to offer unique online and offline experiences to their followers around the world. These include the creation of branded content to take both parties closer to their audiences and to generate greater engagement with Barça fans, as well as the presence of the FBS name on the LED at the Camp Nou stadium on game days, among other assets.
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The 8th AskGamblers Awards Officially Enters the Voting Stage

AskGamblers has announced that the final voting stage of the 8th annual AskGamblers Awards has started.
The voting phase kicked off on 28 April, and will last until the award ceremony scheduled for 12 June.
As in previous editions of the Awards, players can cast their votes for one of the top 10 finalists in the following categories: Best Casino, Best New Casino, Best Sportsbook, Best New Slot and Best Software Provider.
The Best Crypto Casino, Best Partner and Best Manager categories will traditionally be chosen by the AskGamblers team. This year’s edition introduces a new category, the Superstar Award, a crown achievement handed out to one operator that best represents the values of brands, whose laureate will also be chosen solely by AskGamblers.
Another novelty in this year’s Awards cycle is the Forum vote: the votes from the members of AskGamblers Forum will be counted towards the final tally of votes as a separate voting tier.
Commenting on the launch of the 8th AskGamblers Awards voting stage, Dijana Radunović, General Manager at AskGamblers, said: “Now that we have the finalists, we are entering the final stages of preparation for our biggest night of the year. To say that we are excited about the 8th edition of the AskGamblers Award would be an understatement.”
“As everybody in the team is working tirelessly to make the gala ceremony a night to remember, we invite our players to do their bidding: to give a vote to their favourite contestants and help us choose the rightful winners in the five categories that are open to public vote,” Radunović added.
Before the award ceremony on 12 June, AskGamblers will host the traditional Charity Night on 11 June, where the partners will bid for positions on the website, with the money raised allocated to a humanitarian cause.
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Flexion Reports Revenue Increase of 9% for 2024

Flexion, the games marketing company, has announced that its revenue grew 9% to year-end December 2024. The growth is attributed to the Company’s success in the alternative app store market.
Since its IPO in 2018, the company has built a well-positioned games marketing business around the alternative stores and grown annual revenue 50-fold to almost US$100 million. Its game portfolio represents several billion US$ in gaming IP for alternative market partners like Samsung, Amazon, Huawei, OneStore and Xiaomi.
“With the Digital Markets Act (DMA) coming into force in Europe and recent legal actions in the US, mobile game developers have felt a new-found freedom to explore their market options. We’ve already moved beyond the era when Google and Apple controlled everything. Developers are looking for alternatives that offer better margins, and additional audiences and revenue. Partnering with Flexion opens up a range of market channels with very little up-front investment,” said Jens Lauritzson, CEO of Flexion.
Flexion currently distributes more than 30 high-profile titles on the alternative stores. Top-tier games in the Flexion portfolio make on average US$ 10 million a year based on Q4 2024 run rate. That’s income in addition to their Google and Apple revenue with a business model that adds little to their costs.
In Q4 2024, Flexion-serviced games were, on average, generating 9.3% through the alternative stores of the revenue they made on Google Play. This is a significant boost for Flexion’s partners without major costs or effort.
“If you scale for the size of the stores, the alternatives massively out-performed Google in Q4 for our games. This is exciting both for Flexion’s business and for the future of the games industry as a whole. We’re seeing the beginning of a sea change in games marketing,” Jens said.
“We’re seeing just the beginnings of a major shift in how top-tier developers address their markets. Using Flexion to access alternative stores is an easy first step into the post- Google and Apple world. Many developers are already looking at their options beyond that and Flexion will be right there with them providing the technology and expertise they need to maximise the potential of their games,” Jens added.
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Players Reclaim Close to $7M Through AskGamblers Complaint Service in 2024

The latest AskGamblers Complaint Service report for 2024 has officially been released. The comprehensive report highlights the most important accomplishments and records of the AskGamblers Complaint Service team for the previous year.
In 2024, The AGCS team (formerly known as AGCCS) managed to return $6,890,547.11 to players. Over 7259 players turn to AskGamblers, submitting complaints against 1114 casino brands. Out of all the accepted and processed complaints, the team had a 68% resolution success rate. One of the notable milestones that reached was returning a total of $70 million to the members.
Dijana Radunović, General Manager at AskGamblers, said: “It’s amazing to see the trust players put in us year after year, and we’re able to repay them by helping them recover their funds from operators or solve other related issues. We’ve had another successful year, with a few records broken and amazing milestones achieved and we can’t wait to see what lies in store in the years ahead.”
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