SectorWire
SearchGet the daily briefing
Menu

KSA launches gambling-awareness and self-exclusion campaigns in the Netherlands

Regulation

The Netherlands’ KSA will launch two campaigns in early November, the regulator said, to encourage discussion of gambling-related harm and raise awareness of Gokstop, its self-exclusion service. OpenOverGokken targets parents of young people aged 16 to 25, while the Gokstop campaign encourages young adults facing gambling problems or at risk of harm to self-exclude.

The campaigns direct parents and young adults to prevention messaging and the Gokstop self-exclusion service.

Request a correction

Keep reading

Regulation

ASA upholds complaint over betting affiliate ad shown after self-exclusion search

The UK Advertising Standards Authority upheld a complaint against Optival Ltd, which operates bestbookiesandbettingsites.co.uk, after a betting advertisement appeared in response to a search for self-exclusion information. Optival said it had not intentionally targeted those searches and that automated matching may have triggered the ad; it said it would expand its negative keyword safeguards.

Continue reading