Last Friday the third annual eGaming Awards were held at the Natural History Museum in London where Betfair came away with the operator of the year award. Betfair now has over 1,000,000 customers with over 400,000 active gamblers. Last year at this time Betfair had about 170,000 active customers.
Award winners are listed below.
- Operator of the Year: Betfair
- Innovation of the year: Sky Bet
- Online marketing campaign of the Year: Gala Coral
- Offline marketing campaign of the Year: Unibet
- Affiliate Programme of the Year: Chipleader
- New channels and Mobile Operator of the Year: Sporting Index
- Bingo Operator of the Year: JackpotJoy
- Start-up Operator of the Year: Racingworld Technology
- Socially Responsible Operator of the Year: Svenska Spel
- Green Operator of the Year: Sky Bet
- Hotshot Operator of the Year: Everest Poker
- Land-links Partnership of the Year: 888
- European Sportsbook of the Year: Sportingbet
- Casino Operator of the Year: 888
- Poker Operator of the Year: Everest Poker
- Outstanding Contribution to online gaming: Mark Blandford