Canada
Strive Gaming partners with Optimove as a leading realtime CRM Marketing Solution for its Operator Portfolio

The leading US and Canadian focused iGaming platform will enable Optimove to empower its operators to scale realtime personalized CRM Marketing and execute sophisticated marketing campaigns
Strive Gaming, the first player platform business designed for modern, multi-state requirements of operators in North America, announced today a new partnership with Optimove, the leading CRM Marketing platform. The Partnership demonstrates Strive Gaming’s strategic investment in empowering its operator portfolio to execute sophisticated realtime CRM Marketing campaigns and provide each of their customers with the best experience possible.Strive Gaming, founded by experienced US executives previously at Kambi was built using the latest scalable technology designed purposefully for the burgeoning US and Canadian Sports and Casino market. The platform has put in place a myriad of capabilities to enhance its operators’ ability to communicate with their customers, adhere to state-by-state regulations, and offer a unique gaming experience across all channels and integrated products. The integration with Optimove will enhance the platform’s operators’ ability to react to individual players’ actions in real time by tailoring messages and offers across multiple channels.
Beyond the realtime marketing benefits of this integration, operators using the Strive Gaming platform will also gain several additional key capabilities via Optimove:
· Enriched customer profiles: Unifying all historical, predictive, and realtime customer data from sources such as CRM, the Strive platform, service clouds, and data warehouses via Optimove to create a comprehensive single customer view.
· Multichannel personalization and orchestration: Orchestrating hundreds of campaigns seamlessly by leveraging Optimove’s AI-mapped CRM Journeys to deliver customer communications across any channel.
· A continuous optimization loop: Leverage Optimove’s productized experimentation tools, to measure the incremental uplift of each campaign, journey, and strategy to continuously optimize CRM Marketing performance.
“We’re delighted to partner up with Optimove to enhance our operators’ realtime marketing capabilities,” said Max Meltzer, CEO of Strive Gaming. “We believe in Platform First, where customers smartly choose their platform first, embedding across multiple verticals the best possible content and tools in order to maximize customer acquisition and long-term retention. In Optimove, we found a similar mindset that we loved: a focus on delivery of highly personalized customer marketing messages to individual customers, at the moment of greatest relevance. Optimove’s realtime capabilities, coupled with our own realtime capabilities such as the Infinity Rules Engine, will allow our operators to fuel continuous growth by ensuring each player gets maximum value from every interaction, thus improving Customer Lifetime Value and the overall bottom line.”
“We’re excited to get the nod from Strive Gaming as the CRM Marketing solution of choice for their operator portfolio,” said Erik Holt, VP of Partnership Development at Optimove. “In a highly competitive market such as iGaming, a customer-centric approach powered by AI-led CRM Journeys creates a competitive edge for operators. It is the only way to orchestrate hyper-personalized communications with hundreds of segments, thereby improving retention rates, Customer Lifetime Value, and the overall bottom line. We are confident that Optimove’s vast capabilities will play a major part in Strive Gaming’s rapid growth in the burgeoning US market.”
Optimove will be showcasing its CRM Marketing Platform during ICE London, April 12-14 booth N5-210.
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absolutebet Secures AGCO Registration as an Internet Gaming Operator in Ontario

Internet Gaming Operator by the Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario (AGCO).
This significant milestone authorizes absolutebet to offer regulated iGaming services in Ontario’s legal market under the oversight of AGCO and iGaming Ontario (iGO).
The registration marks a key step in absolutebet’s mission to bring a trusted, responsible, and innovative online casino experience to Ontario players. absolutebet is committed to operating with integrity and transparency, meeting all provincial standards for player protection, responsible gambling, anti-money laundering, and game integrity.
“Securing AGCO registration is more than a milestone—it’s the start of absolutebet’s journey in one of the most exciting regulated markets in the world,” said Chen Truman, Founder of absolutebet. “We are building a brand that will grow with the Ontario community and set the stage for future expansion.”
On the regulatory milestone, Krisztina Kalla, Legal & Regulatory Compliance Advisor of absolutebet, commented: “I’m incredibly proud to see all the hard work behind this license pay off. Securing AGCO registration has taken months of preparation and close collaboration with regulators and partners. I am very happy to see the result of that work, and even more excited as we move into the launch phase and open up the absolutebet community to Ontario players in a fun and responsible way.”
Ontario is recognized as one of the most competitive and fast-growing regulated iGaming markets in North America. With AGCO registration secured, absolutebet will move forward with the final stages of its iGO onboarding process in preparation for launch.
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Alex Malchenko Head of Sales at Evoplay
Evoplay strengthens Ontario presence in partnership with Caesars Entertainment

Evoplay, the award-winning game development studio, has partnered with Caesars Entertainment to expand its footprint in the Canadian market, following its initial entry earlier this year. The partnership integrates 20 of the studio’s top-performing titles onto Caesars Palace Online Casino, Horseshoe Online Casino and Caesars Sportsbook & Casino in Ontario, including fan-favourites such as Hot Triple Sevens, Triple Chili, and The Greatest Catch Bonus Buy.
Having announced its official entrance into Ontario in March, the collaboration with Caesars marks a significant step in Evoplay’s local strategy. Further standout releases, such as Inner Fire Bonus Buy and Hot Volcano, also launched as part of the initial package, with additional player favourites, including Fruit Nova and Ice Mania.
The collaboration underlines Evoplay’s commitment to working with leading operators to deliver high-quality content tailored to regional audiences.
Alex Malchenko, Head of Sales at Evoplay, said: “Launching with Caesars in Ontario marks a key milestone in our North American strategy.
“It reflects both the strength of our portfolio and our commitment to providing innovative, high-performing content to operators of the highest caliber.”
Ricardo Cornejo Rivas, Vice President of Online Gaming at Caesars Digital, said: “Evoplay brings a fresh and dynamic approach to online gaming, which we’re excited to offer to our players in Ontario. This portfolio of standout titles adds to our growing content library and furthering our ongoing goal of delivering top-tier entertainment experiences to our players.”
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Canada
iGaming Ontario Appoints Joseph Hillier as its New President and CEO

The iGaming Ontario Board of Directors has announced Joseph Hillier as the organization’s new President and Chief Executive Officer, effective September 8, 2025. Joseph’s depth in the Ontario igaming market combined with successful public and private sector careers make him the ideal President and CEO at this critical point in iGaming Ontario’s growth.
Joseph was most recently Chief Strategy Officer and Corporate Secretary at the Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario (AGCO), where he delivered significant strategic and regulatory initiatives across the province’s alcohol, cannabis, gaming, and horse racing sectors. Prior to the AGCO, he served as Chief of Staff to Ontario Attorney General Hon. Doug Downey and led the development, launch and implementation of Canada’s first private sector-driven igaming market and the creation of iGaming Ontario. Joseph also spent more than a decade working in the financial and legal services sectors.
The Board expressed its sincere thanks to David Smith for serving as Interim President and Chief Executive Officer since Martha Otton’s retirement.
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