Spain: Directorate General for the Regulation of Gambling released its 1Q report

Regarding the rest of the main figures, deposits and withdrawals of the players, their variation rates rise in relation to the previous year, 15.85% and 13.90% respectively. With regard to previous quarter, deposits grow 5.61% and withdrawals 0.72%. Marketing expenditure decreases -1.0% quarter over quarter and new accounts experiences a growth with respect to the previous quarter, 15.21%. Details are shown in Table 1.

In the analysis of the GGR by game segments, it is observed that:

The € 350.69 million of GGR are distributed among € 150.28 million in Betting (42.85%); € 4.19 million in Bingo (1.19%); € 167.76 million in Casino (47.84%); € 0.002 million in Contests (0.00%) and € 28.45 million in Poker (8.11%).

The betting segment has a positive variation rate of 30.99% quarter over quarter and 15.37% year over year. There is an increase with respect to the previous quarter in pre-match, 588.84% and a decrease of in-played sportsbook, -31.69%. Other bettings increases 1.57% this quarter, and horse betting  decreases -28.36%.

Bingo has experienced a growth of 9.18% quarter over quarter and 24.93% year over year.

In the casino segment, there has been a decline of -2.05% quarter over quarter and an annual variation rate of 17.02%. Slots has increased 14.98% and life roulette 22.19% year over year. Quarter over quarter, BlackJack, conventional and life roulette have growth 7.32%, 9.69% and 6.37%, respectively. On the other hand, slots fall -7.51%.

Contests experienced a fall of -96.79% quarter over quarter and -99.38% year over year. This segment continues an irregular behaviour with annual variation rates in the first quarter of -7.59% in 2021; -85.15% in 2022; -4.89% in 2023.

Poker presents a growth of 11.98% quarter over quarter and 3.99% year over year. Poker tournament had a positive variation rate of 11.19% quarter over quarter and 2.04% year over year. Poker cash increases 13.91% compared to the previous quarter and 8.91% compared to the same quarter of the previous year.

As a summary, the percentage distribution of the GGR for the different segments in this quarter of the period from 2021 to 2024 is shown in Table 2.

Marketing expenses has been € 112.79 million in the last quarter. It may be broken down into € 14.27 million affiliation expenses; € 1.07 million sponsorship; promotions € 55.67; and advertising € 41.78 million. Compared to the previous quarter, marketing expenses declines -1.00% and increases 14.86% in annual variation. Quarter over quarter, Sponsorship decreases -12.55%; Affiliates -0.87%; Advertising -7.68% and Promotions increases, 4.93%. Year over year, Sponsorship decreases -27.23%; Affiliates increases 14.82%; Advertising increases 22.49% and Promotions, 10.92%. Promotions are broken down into cost of bonus included in  prizes, € 22.23 million and cost of bonus not included in prizes, € 33.44 million. 

The monthly average of active game accounts is 1,327,575; which implies an increase of 4.57% quarter over quarter and an increase of 14.58% year over year. The monthly average of the new game accounts is 148,862; with a growth of 15.21% quarter over quarter and 33.64% year over year.

For this quarter, there are 78 licensed operators and the number of active operators by segment is:

• Betting: 41
• Bingo: 4
• Casino: 50
• Contests: 2
• Poker: 9