(Jamma) – Inspired Gaming Group (Inspired), the leading supplier of SBG Video Lottery and Virtual Sports, today announces that it has been short-listed for ‘software supplier of the year’ at the EGR Italy Awards 2014.
EGR Italy Awards 2014 brings together Italy’s leading online operators and service providers, to celebrate excellence achieved across the industry over the past 12 months. Inspired is the only Virtual Sports provider to be short-listed.
Inspired is the leading supplier worldwide of Virtual Sports for lottery and sports betting across 40,000 venues and over 200 websites in 35 countries. From a standing start, Inspired’s software has supported the development of a €1billion p.a. market in Italy in just one year. It has signed Virtual Sports deals with all of the major Italian operators and websites, including SNAI, Lottomatica, Sisal, Eurobet, Cogetech, Intralot, Gamenet, Microgame, Sommettendo.it, and Betflag. Its Virtual Sports are now available to Italian players in over 7,000 betting venues and on all of the main websites.
Inspired Virtuals generate incremental revenue for operators due to the ability for operators to control schedules and margins, and to broadcast multiple channels of high-frequency virtual sports content. Eight premium quality sports are now available from Inspired, with more launching soon.
Steve Rogers, SVP for Virtual Sports and Mobile at Inspired Gaming Group, comments: “Inspired currently supplies circa. 92% of the land-based and online Virtual Sports market in Italy. Our success is due the fact that we are providing incremental revenue for the Italian marketplace in a structured, compliant way. We are also the only provider that supplies Virtual Sports for mobile, which is a huge area of growth for Italian operators.”
The winners of the EGR Italy Awards 2014 will be announced on Tuesday 14 October at the Rome Cavalieri.