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  • Blog
  • 8th Aug 2024

What counts as fair and open in gambling? We’ll need to ask the public to find out

When we ask people who gamble, we hear many different ideas of fairness depending on the context. Some describe certain practices as unfair: confusing terms and conditions, adverts that pressure and overwhelm and ‘trap’ people into gambling or spending more than they want to, and the practice of gambling companies suspending…
  • Working paper
  • 6th Aug 2024

Working Paper No. 006: Understanding gambling spending in Great Britain using payment card data

Historically the gambling market in Britain has been dominated by cash. However, in more recent times debit card payments have become the predominant form of payment in Britain, including in the gambling market.
  • Report
  • 26th Jul 2024

What do people think are the chances of winning money from a wagering requirement? Supplementary results to the main report

In this report, BIT’s Gambling Policy and Research Unit presents additional evidence wagering requirements (WR)—common restrictions on gambling offers stipulating how many times a player must stake their received bonus funds before they can withdraw anything as their own money—are poorly understood by consumers.
  • Blog
  • 15th Jul 2024

What are the chances? Insights on gambling advertising from an accidental experiment

Adding odds information in an easy-to-understand format (“lose £7 for every £100 bet on average”) to slot game adverts slightly increased demand and trust in a recent online experiment. An increase in demand is surprising, but might be explained by people’s aversion to ambiguity or limited understanding of odds information.
  • Blog
  • 29th May 2024

Gen Z teens are taking far fewer risks

We look at how teenagers in Great Britain today are taking fewer drugs, gambling less, and having fewer pregnancies than previous generations.
  • Report
  • 23rd May 2024

Gambling support via financial services firms explore phase

In this report, BIT’s Gambling Policy & Research Unit presents its work, which explored how financial services firms can help to provide support to their customers who gamble. 
  • Report
  • 11th Apr 2024

Should wagering requirements on gambling bonus offers be capped?

Wagering requirements have significant consequences on how much consumers spend on gambling, and when they can withdraw bonus funds.  However, in our earlier experiment testing the impact of slot game advert features, we found that despite their prevalence and consequences, wagering requirements are often hidden in footnotes of advertisements and…
  • Report
  • 9th Apr 2024

Improving the user journey to reduce dropout from residential gambling services

BIT’s Gambling Policy & Research Unit partnered with Gordon Moody to help address the issue of high dropout rates during the application process. 
  • Report
  • 27th Mar 2024

Behavioural Audit of Gambling Management Tools

In this report, BIT’s Gambling Policy and Research Unit presents findings from a behavioural audit of the user journey and design of gambling management tools.
  • Report
  • 16th Feb 2024

Gambling management tool survey results

In this report, BIT’s Gambling Policy & Research Unit presents findings from a survey looking at individuals’ who gamble opinions towards gambling management tools (deposit limits, reality checks, self exclusion etc).