Online gambling company Bwin.party has agreed a three-year digital sponsorship deal with Italian champions Juventus, its fourth partnership with a top European team. Italian media reports suggested bwin.party had also acquired the naming rights to the club’s ground, Juventus Stadium, but there was no confirmation of this. Bwin.party will become a central part of Juve’s promotional activities, as well as being integrated into its various digital and social platforms. Italy is embroiled in a tide of match-fixing allegations but Juve’s link-up with Bwin.party was welcomed by both parties. “Working with the greatest names in football is all part of our…

From iGaming Business Online gaming company bwin.party is to become the official online gaming and betting partner of Italian Serie A football club Juventus, as part of a new three-year strategic partnership between the two parties. The deal, which will run from the 2013/14 season until 2015/16, will give bwin an enhanced presence in Italy, Europe’s third largest real-money gaming market. bwin.party will become a central part of the club’s promotional activities, as well as being integrated into its various digital and social platforms. The company will also work with Juventus on the development of on and offline co-branding activities…

From iGaming Business – Geolocation solutions innovator GeoComply Limited has signed a deal that will see it support giant online gaming operator bwin.party digital entertainment across desktop and mobile devices in the United States. Last year saw GeoComply open an office in Nevada and subsequently awarded with a Class III license by the Nevada Gaming Control Board. GeoComply stated that bwin.party selected its innovations due to their ‘ability to deliver on the high standards of compliance required by regulators in the United States’. “We are thrilled to have won this tender and to now be working with bwin.party in such…

From iGaming Business Online gaming provider bwin.party digital entertainment has announced that it is in the ‘final stages’ of agreeing a long-term deal to serve as the official digital partner of Spanish football club Real Madrid. The new agreement will follow the conclusion of bwin.party’s existing six-year shirt sponsorship arrangement with the record 32-time domestic champions, which is due to end this weekend. “Our decision not to renew the shirt sponsorship brings to an end one chapter in our relationship with Real Madrid, which has delivered six highly successful years of brand promotion for bwin on the shirts of one…

From iGaming Business Online gaming provider bwin.party digital entertainment has released an interim management statement regarding its financial performance over the three months to the end of March showing that the firm experienced a 17 percent year-on-year drop in total revenues to €180.2 million ($231.8 million). Gibraltar-based bwin.party stated that the fall in first-quarter revenues was due to ‘the introduction of a five percent turnover tax on sportsbetting in Germany’ along with a ‘significant reduction in acquisition marketing in several dotcom countries’ and ‘lower than expected’ poker and casino player activity ‘following the dotcom migration’. The operator declared that ‘clean’…