In the second half of 2025, Greece emerged as Europe’s fastest-growing iGaming market. While several major jurisdictions slowed or declined, Greek market demand rose by more than 50% between June and December, standing out as one of the year’s clearest growth stories.

According to data from Blask, the surge was not the result of a single tournament or seasonal spike. Instead, it reflected a structural shift driven by a combination of sports momentum, regulatory reform and casino market dynamics — factors that can now be traced in detail through Blask’s newly released Market Explanation feature.

Continuous sports momentum without demand gaps

Greece’s growth was underpinned by a tightly stacked sports calendar that sustained engagement across multiple months. EuroBasket 2025 in late August, the kickoff of the Stoiximan Super League, UEFA Champions League matchdays under the new league-phase format, and the EuroLeague season featuring Greek clubs created a continuous rhythm of high-interest betting cycles throughout autumn.

Rather than short-lived peaks followed by sharp declines, demand remained elevated well beyond individual events. This is a pattern clearly visible on the Blask Index trend line.

Casino reform reshaped demand behavior

One of the most significant contributors came from the casino segment. Greece’s decision to raise RNG stake limits from €2 to €20 altered the mechanics of the market, allowing online casinos to absorb demand during sports off-peak periods.

As sports-led acquisition increasingly converted into casino play, operators reported double-digit iGaming growth. Market Explanation analysis shows that this effect persisted over time, confirming the shift as structural rather than seasonal.

Enforcement redirected demand to licensed operators

Regulatory action further reinforced the upward trend. In December, Greek authorities blocked approximately 11,000 illegal gambling domains. Instead of suppressing demand, the move redirected player interest toward licensed platforms, strengthening regulated market performance.

The impact was amplified by the adoption of IRIS instant payments, which reduced deposit friction and improved conversion from interest to activity.

From tracking trends to understanding causes

To surface these drivers, Blask has introduced Market Explanation — an AI-powered layer within the Blask Index that allows users to click on any country’s trend line and instantly see a sourced breakdown of the forces behind the movement. Sports calendars, regulatory changes, casino dynamics and macro factors are analyzed together, turning raw demand signals into actionable market context.

Greece’s 2025 performance illustrates how this approach changes market analysis. Rather than simply observing that demand is rising, operators, suppliers and investors can now see why it is happening — and which levers are shaping the trajectory of a market in real time.

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Blask, the market intelligence ecosystem for iGaming, has crossed the 100-country threshold with the addition of new Asian, Africa and European markets to its platform.

Blask now provides AI-driven, real-time analytics on more than half of the world’s nations, with an in-depth overview of the operator landscape provided in 107 countries, and game analytics in 17.

The latest markets added include Turkey, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Ukraine, Qatar, Kuwait, Moldova, Tunisia, Zimbabwe, Jordan, Madagascar, Chad, Somalia, Niger, South Sudan and Mauritania.

Max Tesla, CEO and co-founder of Blask, said: “When we launched Blask last year, we made a commitment to bring in-depth, real-time iGaming market intelligence to the whole world. We’re now more than half-way towards completing this mission. Every new market we add brings more clarity to an industry that has operated in the dark for far too long.”

Blask shines a light on the performance of brands and entire markets where data-led intelligence has previously been lacking.

This latest update shows that as the United Arab Emirates prepares to roll out a new regulatory framework for online gaming, more than 155 brands are already active in the country. The Blask Index, a measure of engagement and interest across all brands in the UAE, is up 36.14% year-on-year.

Meanwhile, the once thriving  Ukraine iGaming market has seen a 49.11% YoY decline, with just 86 now active.

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Blask, the AI-driven market intelligence ecosystem, has launched Global Games, a real-time dashboard that ranks more than 26,000 online casino games by brand coverage and country reach.

Debuting at the top of the charts is Pragmatic Play blockbuster Gates of Olympus 1000, which features across a remarkable 606 operator brands. Gate of Olympus Super Scatter and Aviator complete the top three, with Pragmatic Play holding seven of the top 10 positions.

Max Tesla, CEO of Blask, said: “Our industry has been operating in the dark for too long. With Global Games, we’re shining a light on which titles are succeeding in a real-time, global context. It is just the latest step in Blask’s mission to build the first truly comprehensive, data-driven picture of iGaming worldwide, with plenty more to come.”

The Global Games dashboard covers 17 countries where Blask Games Analytics is live, with more markets and metrics to be added soon.

For game providers, distributors and operators, understanding where a title is surfaced has become a competitive edge. Until now, assembling that picture meant manual checks or partial reports, but Global Games has consolidated every market signal in one place, cutting time‑to‑insight from hours to seconds.

This includes a global list view, which ranks titles by brand and country coverage; a per-game global page, which break down brands, lobbies and average lobby visibility; and a selection of power tools so users can search games by name and filter by provider or genre.

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