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Physical gambling in the Netherlands is tightly regulated by the Gambling Authority. To combat illegal gambling, the Authority has granted the monopoly for casinos to Holland Casino, and the monopoly for lotteries to Dutch Lottery (formerly State Lottery). Both companies are partially owned by the government.
The situation in the online gaming market is quite different. The offering of online gambling facilities is officially prohibited in the Netherlands. However, enforcing this prohibition in practice is challenging as Dutch citizens can easily gamble on foreign gambling sites via the internet. And these sites are plentiful these days. The online gambling market has grown rapidly in recent years. Globally, over 60 billion euros are being turned over yearly by online gambling websites.
Through the Remote Gambling Act, the Dutch market for online gambling is being opened up. This will undoubtedly have significant implications for the gambling landscape in the Netherlands as a whole, and specifically for the position of Dutch Lottery. However, the current situation in the Netherlands remains unclear. Therefore, Dutch Lottery has engaged criminological research agency Beke to map out the nature and scale of online gambling in the Netherlands. As a subcontractor, Dialogic is responsible for the part of the research based on internet statistics. We have identified the largest foreign providers of online gambling services in the Netherlands by analysing internet traffic and expenditures on online advertisements.
Interested in learning more about the internet-based aspect of the research? Feel free to contact Robbin te Velde.
