Australia’s ACMA concluded that an SBS advert shown during 2025 Tour de France coverage promoted gambling in a prohibited time slot, according to the report. The regulator’s investigation found that the public broadcaster breached the advertising code.
The finding puts broadcasters and gambling advertisers on notice about restrictions on when gambling adverts may appear.
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Illegal online casinos used Facebook and Instagram ads to reach Dutch gamblers who had already taken steps to stop gambling, citing a BNR investigation. BNR found hundreds of advertisements on the platforms in late 2025 and the first half of 2026 promoting illegal gambling sites.
iGamingToday reported that Estonia’s TTJA reviewed 230 gambling advertisements. The authority found 104 did not meet existing advertising requirements.
Reportedly, Illegal gambling adverts on Meta reached 38 million Dutch users. The study examined the platform’s advertising archive for March 2026.
A University of Cambridge study carried out with Munster Technological University found that gambling adverts on social media reached young men more than twice as often as women, even when campaigns targeted wider audiences. Researchers analysed more than 400 adverts and reported that people aged 25 to 34 accounted for around a third of impressions; the article links the findings to Ireland’s new regulatory system under the 2024 Gambling Regulation Act.
ASIC chair Sarah Court said the regulator remains unconvinced that retail customers should trade prediction-market contracts in Australia. ASIC said the contracts can resemble bets with all-or-nothing outcomes and warned that Australian financial services licensees remain responsible for their legal obligations when facilitating access to offshore platforms.
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has again criticised prediction markets and says it is still not persuaded that retail customers ought to trade them. The newest remarks came from Sarah Court, who chairs ASIC, and follow by only months a warning to Australians about offshore prediction platforms.