Report showcases changed make-up of Dutch gambling; revenue up 85% in 2022

Sunday, October 22, 2023 1:06 PM
  • Ted Menmuir, SBC News

Kansspelautoriteit (KSA) the Gambling Authority of the Netherlands has published its ‘2022 Market Scan’ tracking the performance and regulated activities of the Dutch gambling market.

The report highlights KSA’s primary observation that the “opening of the online gambling market has had an impact on the land-based market, evident from current trends and data presented by the Gambling Market Scan of 2022”.

The regulator underlined that the 2022 scan offers the first opportunity for Dutch authorities to interpret a set of full-year results accounting for the KPIs of the KOA online gambling marketplace, which officially launched in 1 October 2021.

Applying gross gaming results of BSR, deposit minus prizes paid out – KSA detailed that in 2022 the Netherlands’ licensed gaming market recorded a GGR of €3.4bn, reflecting an 85% increase on the €2bn GGR achieved in 2021.