Canada
Light & Wonder Chooses Optimove as Key CRM Marketing Solution for its Operator Portfolio

Optimove, the leading CRM Marketing platform announced a partnership with Light & Wonder, the global leader in cross-platform games and entertainment. The partnership demonstrates Light & Wonder’s strategic investment in providing suitable tools to its operators to enhance marketing opportunities by executing sophisticated CRM Marketing campaigns.
Light & Wonder delivers a leading portfolio of iconic games and franchises across online and mobile in real money, free-to-play social gaming markets, and land-based casinos. The biggest operators in the market use Light & Wonder’s solutions, and its systems make it easy for those operators to create personalized player experiences. The partnership with Optimove will enhance operators’ ability to react to individual players’ actions in realtime by tailoring messages and offers across multiple channels.
Light & Wonder’s portfolio of operators will gain several additional vital capabilities from this tool:
- Enriched customer profiles: Unifying all historical, predictive, and realtime player data from sources such as CRM, service clouds, and data warehouses within Optimove’s Customer Data Platform (CDP) 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 email, mobile, web, and additional channels.
- A continuous optimization loop: Leveraging Optimove’s productized experimentation tools, to measure the incremental uplift of each campaign, journey, and strategy to continuously optimize CRM Marketing performance.
“We always aim to provide our customers with the best tools to do the job,” said Toby Partridge, Director of Player accounts at Light & Wonder. “Strengthening our strategic partnership with Optimove is a perfect example of our commitment to making targeted value-enhancing collaborations designed to advance our operators’ multichannel marketing capabilities. Optimove offers a proven best-in-class CRM Marketing solution, and our operators can now easily harness that technology to focus on long-term retention by ensuring each player gets maximum value from every interaction, thus improving Customer Lifetime Value and the overall bottom line.”
“We’re excited to contract with Light & Wonder as the CRM Marketing solution for their operator portfolio,” said Dan de Souza, Director of Partnerships at Optimove. “To create a competitive edge in today’s market, operators must adopt a player-centric approach that can only be achieved with AI-led CRM Journeys. The road to that goal runs through orchestrating hyper-personalized communications with hundreds of segments, improving retention rates, Customer Lifetime Value, and the overall bottom line. We are excited at the opportunity to help Light & Wonder and its world-leading operator portfolio achieve those goals.”
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INCENTIVE GAMES SIGNS EXCLUSIVE DISTRIBUTION DEAL FOR NORTH AMERICA, EUROPE, SOUTH AFRICA AND UK WITH LIGHT & WONDER

Leading B2B games provider, Incentive Games, today announced its new agreement with premium gaming company and content provider Light & Wonder, Inc.
Through this agreement, Incentive Games will distribute its premium pay-to-play games – including new arcade-style titles – to key global regulated markets including the USA, Canada, South Africa, UK, and within Europe via Light & Wonder’s extensive operator network. Additionally, Incentive Games’ popular free-to-play content will be made available to a wider audience through Light & Wonder’s content marketplace.
The agreement brings together two industry leaders in iGaming and the strengths of both companies to deliver exceptional player experiences and elevate customer engagement.
Ahmed Baker, Chief Commercial Officer at Incentive Games said, “This agreement is a landmark moment in our company’s history. Previously, we’ve worked directly with major operators such as bet365, FanDuel, and Sky Bet. Now, we can distribute our games via Light & Wonder, an exceptional aggregator that we trust will handle our games with care.”
Steve Mayes, Senior Director of Partners at Light & Wonder, said: “We are excited to work with Incentive Games, a leader in gamification solutions. We look forward to leveraging their innovative platform and bringing their customisable crash and fast game content to all major regulated markets.”
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Canada
Soft2Bet’s ToonieBet Partners with the Ottawa Senators as Official Online Casino Partner

With the Ottawa Senators securing a playoff spot in the NHL, ToonieBet will be there every step of the way, engaging fans with exclusive giveaways, premium entertainment, and a casino experience that mirrors the team’s energy and excitement.
The Ottawa Senators and Tooniebet, an online casino for players across Ontario, announced a partnership that will make Tooniebet the NHL team’s Official Online Casino Partner.
Tooniebet, which launched in 2024 is part of Soft2Bet – one of the world’s fastest growing iGaming turnkey solutions providers with iGaming brands around the world with a portfolio of 19 global licenses, including Ontario.
Additional highlights of the Ottawa Senators and TonnieBet partnership will include:
- In-Arena & Broadcast Branding: Digitally enhanced dashboards for home and away games
- In-rink board signage for home games
- Virtual slot signage for various games
- Digital inventory throughout the Ottawa Senators site on NHL.com
- Direct Fan Engagement: Social contests and promotions hosted on Senators’ digital platforms
- Television Broadcast Branding: Digitally enhanced rink boards for home and away games
- In-arena rink board signage for home games
Martin Ballard, VP Corporate Partnerships, Ottawa Senators stated: “We are thrilled to welcome ToonieBet as an official partner of the Ottawa Senators. Cooperating with a brand that shares our commitment to providing fans with an exceptional and trusted experience is incredibly exciting. Together, we look forward to delivering memorable moments and engaging our passionate fanbase in new and innovative ways.”
Oksana Tsyhankova, Chief Marketing Officer at Soft2Bet, commented: “Partnering Soft2Bet’s ToonieBet brand with the Ottawa Senators is a significant milestone that reinforces our strong brand presence in Ontario. In a short period, we have achieved impressive performance and retention results, with a primary focus on localised, engaging experiences for Canadian players, which makes ToonieBet truly set itself apart.”
By tapping into the Senators’ digital platforms and in-arena presence, ToonieBet will stay close to the action and connect with fans in real, engaging ways while continuing to offer a top-quality online casino experience.
ToonieBet offers a fast, localised online casino experience for players in Ottawa and across Ontario. Through this partnership, fans will have the chance to win Senators merchandise and tickets while ToonieBet grows its presence in a competitive Ontario market. With in-arena branding, regional broadcast coverage, and digital promotions, ToonieBet will be highly visible to the team’s loyal supporters.
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Aaron LaBerge
PENN Entertainment Launches Stand-alone iCasino App, theScore Casino, in Ontario

PENN Entertainment announced that it has launched theScore Casino, a new stand-alone iCasino app in Ontario. The dedicated online casino experience leverages the popular theScore brand, which has been a mainstay in the Ontario market for decades. Now available on Android, iOS, and desktop, customers can login using their existing theScore Bet credentials, allowing for a seamless experience across online gaming platforms.
theScore Casino operates on the same cutting-edge proprietary technology platform as PENN’s online Hollywood Casino, which launched as a standalone product in the US in December. The product was recently ranked by Eilers & Krejcik as the #2 overall iCasino product in the US.
theScore Casino, also available within theScore Bet app, offers a variety of online slots, table games, and live dealer content, including original titles from PENN Game Studios, the company’s in-house game development studio. theScore Casino also includes bespoke live dealer tables and exclusive games such as Blue Jays Blackjack, an original title leveraging theScore Bet’s partnership with the Toronto Blue Jays.
“We’re excited to introduce our dedicated iCasino product in Ontario under the well-known and trusted theScore brand. We’ve built a strong online gaming foothold in the Ontario market and are primed to deliver an even better casino experience with our proven stand-alone app. Our customer-friendly platform features more than 1200 games, dozens of original titles and intuitive game play that distinguishes our product and positions us for even greater success,” said Aaron LaBerge, Chief Technology Officer and Head of Interactive at PENN Entertainment.
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