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The KSA launched a campaign encouraging early conversations about gambling harm among people aged 16 to 25. The accompanying report says the campaign followed two KSA reports that found people aged 18 to 23 held around 22% of legal gambling accounts.
The campaign came a week after the KSA's annual report.
The finding was that people aged 18-23 made up around 22% of legal gambling accounts.
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The Kansspelautoriteit (KSA) reported that online gambling generated €1.2bn in gross gaming revenue in the Netherlands in 2025, down 21% year on year. The supplied report says the regulator’s figures showed the decline; it gives no further details on the causes or market breakdown.
The Netherlands’ Kansspelautoriteit (KSA) reported that regulated gambling gross gaming revenue fell to €4.1 billion in 2025, from €4.5 billion in 2024, adjusted for inflation. Online GGR declined 21% to €1.20 billion, including a 30.2% fall in online betting and an 18.2% drop in online casino revenue; the KSA cited player-protection rules, higher tax and comparison with the 2024 football European Championship as contributing factors.
Regulated gambling gross gaming revenue in the Netherlands fell to €4.1bn in 2025 from €4.5bn in 2024, adjusted for inflation, according to the annual report published by regulator Kansspelautoriteit (KSA). The KSA published the figures together with monitoring data for the first half of 2026.
A serious PHP vulnerability that led several Dutch organisations to take websites offline did not cause confirmed outages at legal online gambling providers, CasinoNieuws.nl reported after checking 30 licensed sites. The Kansspelautoriteit took its own sites offline as a precaution and said registration in the Cruks self-exclusion register was not possible while DigiD was down. Oranje Palace said it does not use PHP, Unibet reported no problems, and Nederlandse Loterij took the TOTO Winkel site offline temporarily.
A serious vulnerability in the PHP programming language, which led several Dutch organisations to take websites offline as a precaution, had not caused confirmed outages at legal online gambling providers as of 21 October. The outlet said it checked the websites of 30 licensed online gambling providers and that all were reachable at the time of writing, and that logging in at all legal gambling sites worked without problems. CasinoNieuws.nl said it examined public technical characteristics of the gambling sites but could not establish which providers use the affected PHP software.
The Nationale ombudsman has declared a complaint by CasinoZorgplicht.nl against the Kansspelautoriteit unfounded. The ombudsman confirmed the KSA was entitled to leave the complaint about Unibet's former Trannel operations untreated, though it did not follow the regulator's reasoning. The complaint concerned the sale of Trannel and the handling of data of about 1.5 million Dutch players.
The Nationale ombudsman has declared a complaint by CasinoZorgplicht.nl against the Kansspelautoriteit (KSA) unfounded, according to a letter from ombudsman Reinier van Zutphen dated 19 October 2026. The ombudsman confirmed that the KSA was entitled not to consider the complaint, although it did not follow the regulator's reasoning. The complaint concerned the sale of Trannel International and the handling of data of about 1.5 million Dutch players.
Dutch regulator KSA is seeking agreements with major technology platforms to curb illegal gambling advertising on social media and is prepared to consider legal action if talks fall short, according to remarks by chair Michel Groothuizen. He cited hundreds of thousands of illegal gambling ads, some aimed at self-excluded players or minors.
The Dutch gambling authority KSA is seeking agreements with major technology platforms to counter the spread of illegal gambling advertising on social media, and says it is prepared to consider legal action if talks do not produce sufficient results. The position was set out in a contribution published on the KSA website by its chair, Michel Groothuizen, and.