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It seems the regulator is aware and concern with the increasing number of new gamblers, especially young people who engage in the gambling industry. That will not yet include kids who are trying to access gambling games using their gadgets. As Advertising Standards Authority (ASA), the UK’s independent advertising regulator, will host a webinar for the gambling industry on Tuesday, 28 September.

Source: https://www.gamblinginsider.com/news/13274/asa-to-host-gambling-advertising-webinar

That webinar will discuss gambling advertising, including scheduling and financial claims, hoping to control the gambling ads that can make children, young persons, or other vulnerable persons want to play gambling.

Maybe there will be a change in schedule for the gambling operators to show their ads in the media so those people will not watch too often and do not make them curious about gambling.

I tend to agree with the regulator in protecting those people because it is easy to make people try something that makes them curious and let them stay for a long time.

So what is your opinion about this? If that webinar is not followed up, I am not sure if that discussion will work and will have a new rule to control the gambling ads.

As a person with younger siblings under the age of 18, I am deeply concerned by the  humongous number of  online and offline sports gambling ads they are exposed to daily. Their inexperience needs to be protected not exploited and I am super glad that this webinar is holding. One of the items in the forth coming webinar that I am most interested in is the discussion on "guidance for the protection of children". Hopefully, after the webinar, we'd see these rules actually enacted and offenders punished.

The webinar is certainly good and correct.  But legislators and deputies should already actively participate in this issue, and appropriate laws should be passed prohibiting intrusive advertising of gambling at a time when children and adolescents can see it.  And accordingly in such places.  These constant reminders of easy profit from the game have an extremely negative impact on the young psyche of the child.

If the regulator followed up on that webinar, we might see a change from the casino. They can reschedule their ads for midnight or the hours that kids already sleep. Maybe the casino will reduce the number of people who will come to their place and reduce their income, but they should understand because kids and other young people can be victims of gambling.

They are making this seminar with good intentions, and I believe that they really don't want gambling to plague the minds of the younger generation as they will be the ones who will handle the country's future. Perhaps they also got this strategy or idea from Spain, though they don't want to end up banning gambling ads in its entirety as the industry constitutes a huge part of their revenues in taxes.

Hopefully this is indeed an effective way of preventing gambling addiction on the younger generation. By keeping them off of gambling ads and materials, they wouldn't think of doing it in the first place. How will they strategize to do it, I don't know.

This is their job actually and its finally after so many years, they are implementing a strict rules about advertisement especially when its about gambling since many young people are really exposed into gambling advertisements. After banning the sports advertisement now they are regulating the advertisement not just in sports, the intentions for this is really  good, hopefully they can implement it properly so they can help many people.

Why not, if the seminar will educate gambling operators on how to display their banners/advertisements on social media or other sites.

The question is, how can these entities (ASA) monitor gambling operators' publicized advertisements to ensure that they are abiding by the rules? How will they restrict gambling operators if they are not following? Because it seems that this is just an attempt to educate and not to enforce strict policies with corresponding lawsuit or anything..similar..

Indeed. This is a good angle to think about actually, and that is why I also think that legislators or whoever part of the legal committees responsible for the supervision of gambling operations should join the seminar and maybe leave some insightful words on gambling advertising that can be really impactful to all audiences.

Protect children by educating them in how risks work in gambling and various scenarios; we used to operate circus sideshows with  that kind of game because risk is that normal really even my maths lessons were taught that way.   I dont agree with the increasingly common take that denial of choice is superior to raising awareness in people as to risk vs rewards in an honest way.   I hope they find a balance because they need the tax revenue if nothing else and if people choose to take part in an activity as part of their leisure and the money is spare its perfectly normal activity.
  I understand this is for businesses to operate within the guidelines and thats fair enough also, so long as we dont go down the dead end of censorship of games as a solution.

What they are trying to discuss in this webinar is indeed quite good, this is a form of their concern for the young generation in England. In addition, the webinar is very focused on discussing how ad display policies are adjusted at certain hours. So that way they don't have to ban gambling advertisements completely, because from these ads are quite a large tax revenue, they don't just think about tax revenues, and are selfish about their impact. Other countries can also refer to doing the same activity, and pay more attention to how ads don't appear anywhere. But income is also not hampered.

I think this is a good idea that will limit the rate at which innocent people that know nothing about gambling become curious to play when they don't have good idea about what they are doing. This is one of the best way to control gambling and limit children and adolescents from becoming addictive to gambling which might be too early for them due to there age.

Perfect idea rescheduling gambling ads timing mostly when the kids are in school will help reduce the curiosity of the young minds and will also keep them from gambling until they are matured enough to engage in gambling activities. 28th is a perfect date for the webnar but I guess the time would be during school hours so kids will be engaged by their academic works

With this activity, they may even get some insights from their audience itself.
And hear what they have to say. Because sometimes, regulators overlook some little details to watch out for.
This will also give them good communication with involved citizens and create open communication on both sides.
This should also not be one-time activity but should be continuous to let everyone know about the progress of the things they want to implement after this.

That's not a big deal to me. Even lots of regulations will be passed, gambling is gambling and lots of people there will be exposed to it, be it a new player, young ages or any. Even how they re-organized those ads, young age will still meet gambling in their life.

The good side is, at least they are doing something though. The UK is one of the countries with the highest gambling industry in the world. It's hard to maintain that status while minimizing the bad effects of gambling.

Just want to point this;

"The regulator last year launched a public consultation on proposals to introduce new strengthened guidance to better protect those under the age of 18 - as well as vulnerable people - from potential gambling-advertising related harms. "

Do they really think that there's a solution for "gambling-advertising related harms" issue? People, at any age, have a different mindset. What's the difference between gambling ads to other sin tax advertisements such as cigarettes, liquors, etc.?

For me, just continue educating people there about the risk of gambling. They can even put it as part of a curriculum in schools. If they are really concern about the young age involves in gambling, then be strict at KYC to the point that operators will call those users who are submitting documents on their platform for verification.

Seriously, the best protection for young kids against gambling (or any other bad stuff really) is to educate them about it. Let's not avoid it, shall we? It's just an empty effort to actually do something. Limiting the scope of gambling advertisements and whatnot is definitely an option, but it's not really the best solution. Heck, it's like a band-aid solution at this point imo. Plus, the current younger age is pretty much more open now compared to then, it has been much easier for them to actually learn and know about a lot of stuff, and gambling is one of them.

This kind of restrictions will leave a much deeper curiosity to young ones to try it by themselves because of strict prohibitions. I mean if the strict prohibition did not work for many years maybe its a time to do the reverse psychology instead. So better to educate the kids about the pros and cons of gambling and the probable addiction that they may get whenever they get themselves off-guarded whenever they tried to gamble on their own. Gambling introduction to the kids today was much more easy than compare to the past years with the use of internet.

They should balance everything, protecting the youth and minimizing the harm caused by online gambling companies, and at the same time making sure that gambling companies only targeted those who are into gambling but they should focus more on educating people about gambling that it should be treated as a means to entertain and not to put your saving and invest by betting on those dice rolls and cards.

I tend to agree with this. If they can balance everything, the number of addicted people or young people will not increase. At the same time, the gambling companies can still grow by getting for the other adult people who can have responsibilities to their action in gambling. The gambling companies themselves need to explain to people that playing gambling needs to have control and should not treat as a way to make money. But the important thing that the government needs to do is always educate people and warn them that gambling is a knife with two sides that can harm them if they do not have control.

There should be some corrections, the gambling industries especially those fiat gambling industries do not consider under 18s, they are making use of the channels under 18s are exposed to daily to advertise gambling, this would have increased gambling among children because gambling is easy to play but require experience to win.

I am thinking the government do not want to be hash is the reason for the webinar, it is a good idea the government will be able to make some issue solved without being hash on gambling companies. It is on the 28th of September, just few days away.

I don't know if they have done a survey or a study on when and where new gamblers learn how to gamble, advertising is just one, there's a possibility that they've been invited by friends or they are gambling in offline casinos and they want to experience playing online through online gambling, but let's see it's time that they have a webinar to address the many issues on online gambling, it's two days to go let's see what they will come out on this webinar.

At least, with the webinar, they should know how to give protection to children and others and what rules need to be fixed so gambling will not be for children or young people. The regulators need to join in that webinars and discuss how gambling providers should create ads that will not make young people curious about playing gambling without responsibility. The worst thing that they can get is becoming addicted to gambling. But whatever that they will discuss, hopefully, that can solve the problem that they faced.

Unfortunately this webinar does not exist in our country, they never discuss advertising advertising in gambling. Many of the children or rather those under the age of 20 can still watch gambling advertisements. Either the government doesn't know about it or they really don't care about its impact on future generations.

We can't blame the government for that. The first place of awareness should come to the family. Gambling advertisements can't be controlled unless the government bans the whole thing which is impossible in those gambling-friendly countries.

For those under age 20, there might be curious about gambling but I trust most of them will not become early addicted gamblers as at that age, there are lots of activities they will encounter like playing video games, arcades, PC games, doing some trendy activities and many more.

Getting rid of it completely isnt something that cant really be attained or resolved directly because even if they would prohibit it out or make out some bans but doesnt mean that interest and curiosit would really stop there specially on the youth where their minds do really always love to explore and since we are on digital age then its not surprising about more exposure.

Its really good to look at on whats their intent which is to ease gambling addiction on youngster but i dont see for it to be a 100% solution but at least they are really making some step.

Exactly. I can't help but emphasize that the first step in actually educating those at a younger age about the problems of gambling is their parents themselves. Though tbh, I'd reckon there's still the blame that the government should receive, especially since they really aren't putting enough emphasis on what families should actually do in case of gambling addiction tendencies. As for those who are alone though and are already on their way to becoming an addict, now those are the ones that require help, the ones that should be under those webinar type of things.

I always support initiatives to lessen the impacts of gambling to the people, especially to the younger generations. Gambling is a predator. It sure is fun, but it is also damaging. So as much as possible, government and independent agencies should cooperate with each other to make sure gambling stays moderate among players.

The mechanics of gambling ads should be carefully studied so that they would only reach their intended audience. They cannot be show anywhere and anytime.

I can't say how the ideas discussed in this webinar are going to be applied for real, but after reading the small article posted by OP I can say their intention is good. In this case, regulators just want to make sure gambling operators don't deceive the audience, induce them to financial, social, emotional losses or take advantage of the inexperience of the public (especially the young ones) through ads.
In my opinion it won't be an issue for most gambling platforms I see around, because they always promote responsible gambling habits on their advertisements, telling gamblers to not spend money they can't afford to lose. Virtual casinos also allow their users to auto-block their accounts if they wish stop playing and offer emotional support services if an addicted person is spotted by the platform. Regulators can't say anything bad about it.

A fact, the problem is sometimes parents are too busy in there respective job which leave them no choice to have a lousy parenting to there child. I'm a product of this kind of family setup and I admit that I was exposed on gambling activities at young age. I just went out of gambling addiction after I decided to pursue my career to have a better future after seeing my relatives life after losing big time on gambling. By that time I promised myself to graduate on college and get a nice job.

This kind of gambling problem can't be control if the children itself don't see the point on why they should avoid gambling.

They should do it annually and the organizers should update the condition and situation of the gambling industry and the harm it can do to the innocent, like children, it should not all be about making money but educating people on how to gamble responsibly, cutting their losses and protecting the children from unwanted ads, it's a good step gambling has been looked up as bad by many people.

i guess they will conduct a follow up operation if the previous operation is not effective but even if they wont ,
atleast they have done the first step and that is to possibly control people to get involved in gambling because worst things could happen if they dont know how to control thier selves .


yes this happened already .
 i read a thread here that some gambling ads are now being telecastlate at night than the usual daytime schedule . this can be effective for younger people

It's a webinar, it means it's online so I think that you can probably join in that webinar since there's no borders on Internet. Regarding gambling advertisement, I think it's the responsibility of the parents to protect their child from being exposed to gambling, what you're basically saying is that we need to be dependent to the government everytime.

The thing is, will it be attended by all gambling operators or after this will it reach the mass media on how mitigation should improved? I think they should reconsider that approach and I think this is a good initiative by ASA since we know how huge ads especially on social media and how huge it can reach its audiences.

Hosting a webinar on gambling advertising seems like one of the best ways to reduce gambling problems in children and adults like addiction to gambling. If they hold a AMA at the end that feedback might be a way to introduce a useful feedback which only improves the webinar. A lot of gambling sites do not really care about stuff like that though, I feel. As long as they are within regulation space, any profit is good profit.

It's not a means to stop advertising gambling but for the ads to target the right people, it's very interesting how they are going to do that, they have no way of knowing who's going to see their ads the visitors can lie of his age and there are some ads that can get away, everything is just a link or keywords away, education should start at home, the parents have a huge responsibility to their children followed by the government.

Actually I really do appreciate the initiative of the ASA organization to host a gambling advertising webinar because through this webinar a gambling operators and the concern organization could come up with a much more effective action on how to improve the gambling advertising without leaving those kids or vulnerable underage gambler to get to know more about gambling. I don't think that the gambling advertisements will be stop but instead it is going to be aired or to be advertises in other time or proper airing time where the child of the the concern people that shouldn't be in the gambling industry couldn't get any curiousity.

Unfortunately regulators are like whales - big behemoths that take ages to change course and find it hard to adapt to new environments. Gambling operators are more like sharks, they can change direction at a moments notice and are ruthless with their targets. A seminar just sounds like the very early stages where they are trying to gather feedback or offer "guidance" to companies that are using these methods. However an effective regulator needs to take control and lay down the law as they've let this area drag on for far too long. This could have been identified as a problem 5 years ago and yet they are still messing about trying to find a fix.

Yes, I know that but the thing is with target audience is will be objective (we can say that) but what if that target audience only open once a gambling ad or if by chance it was only a mistake in the first place, does that mean they'll be targeted? It will be worth noted or if by chance there could be some kind of summary on how the webinar was conducted and some key points that has been discussed.

It's a good and helpful initiative because what we need for the youth is the awareness for them to avoid or get rid of gambling addiction. Since we're on the pandemic situation, webinars would  be a big help to enlighten everyone about the risks of too much gambling. I hope that more organizations would have the initiative to do things like this.

From their site - https://www.asa.org.uk/event/virtual-advice-am-gambling-advertising.html, those who attended should now have more clarity in terms of overseeing or creating gambling ads. And hopefully, they will be more responsible in terms of creating gambling ads and for those monitoring it, they know what to look out for. It means, no deception of viewers or exaggerating amount of winnings, which some people are really tempted about.

Just want to say that this webinar was intended for the below participants -
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The awareness will start at home since how could young people avoid gambling if he's environment is engage with and even his family are doing this, but this is still a good initiative done by them since it can really increase the awareness and can help other people to get enlightenment about what will be the scenario they can expect on gambling. And what are those thing need to consider to avoid getting wreck or became addict to those games offered by a casino.

Casinos has to follow the regulation if anything is getting implemented for the purpose of saving the society but don't expect them to take the complete responsibility for everything and by the way they too have rules which allows only people from certain age and above can use their service but only the people are abusing it and getting affected in long term.

Awareness isn't enough, as an adult member of our society, we also need to be vigilant and at the same time responsible for what our kid does so that they won't be exposed to gambling in the first place, no matter how many organizations preach about this kind of thing if it's all talk and no walk, we won't see any difference.

Any movement or effort that addresses the problem on addiction on gambling, especially that if focuses on the youth, is well appreciated and taken. Anything that provides forum that increases awareness is definitely beneficial in the long-run. It goes to show that there are people who cater for people who are suffering from this type of addiction. That is why, anything that increases awareness is beneficial to the problem of gambling.

I do hope that despite its avenue, people would attend it and not take it for granted.

It is a very interesting seminar, there is currently a worldwide issue about Gambling advertising, they want to restrict it and even ban it, the case of India, the bill for the prohibition of Casinos and Games of Chance that is well advanced.

Source: https://www.gamblinginsider.com/news/13274/asa-to-host-gambling-advertising-webinar (https://www.gamblinginsider.com/news/13274/asa-to-host-gambling-advertising-webinar)

Everything that is to raise awareness about casino advertising and sports betting, in the world you cannot go against advances, advertising will always exist and more if behind this there is a great business model.

I know that this webinar is a great initiative. But still controlling the attitude of the individual in order to be able to control to avoid gambling is very difficult. This is based on the privacy of each other's interests. Except the webinar doesn't just talk but at the end of the season doesn't make an offer that young people don't like. I hope this webinar is successful in accordance with the organizers' goals and can have an impact in a positive direction.

This is the right way to go about this, Spain banned gambling ads while UK wants to reduce the impact they can have by talking with the operators and probably introducing some common sense rules to combat this, the gambling industry is huge in the UK so to try to forbid ads or something like that is simply unfeasible so this is the most likely reason for the difference in the approaches of both governments, but even yet I hope a compromise can be reached in which the gambling operators can still advertise themselves but they do so in a responsible manner.

That's the purpose, to make those gamblers realized and understand the post-effect of doing gambling.

The success of that purpose is not only thru that webinar but on how gamblers will help themselves to reach the status of being a responsible gambler. It's totally not wrong to do gambling and taking it as a habit as long as a person knows their boundary and limits.

In other words, a responsible one. It will take time for a person to be like that in gambling but at least, it will happen soon.

This sort of response from regulators is completely expected.

I wouldn't be surprised if they do something like completely shut down affiliate marketing when it comes to gambling altogether.

Which is fair enough, I think that there are certain merits to putting out a blanket ban like this. Hopefully there aren't too many knee-jerk reactions though.

Based from what I read about this webinar, this is actually focused on entities who produced and monitor gambling advertisements.
So this activity is to showcase on how to keep track of these gambling ads and if they are producing the right ads.
With this initiative, we expect that these producers or those who monitor know exactly what to look out for and flag down ads which violate their protocols.
It may help in the gambler's perspective because sometimes ads are overemphasizing too-good-to-be-true winnings.

But at least they do make out some actions which is in related on this matter but somehow speaking of getting rid of it would really be impossible because due to accessibility and internet connection then its impossible

to completely stop or wont able to engage from it and speaking with young kids or people who arent still mature would really be exposed on this one.Its still a good initiative kind of act though
even though majority of people doesnt really mind off or wont really care at all because they do know that it wont really make any changes.

For young people good gambling addiction leads them to destruction obstacles to growth this will make them aware of gambling but to recover from gambling addiction or problem gambling you find yourself surrounded by people to whom you are responsible, avoiding tempting environments and websites. It will be possible to control everything quickly through this organization.

I believe this webinar are for creators or producers of the gambling ads. So it is like things to watch out for or things to abide while creating gambling ads. This is maybe to avoid deception from public. Because usually, we can see ads that are misleading like overwhelming winnings or of that sort, which is very rare to happen in real life.

Hopefully, young people addicted to gambling can solve the problem and get full support from the organization that gives help to addicted people to gambling. But it is hard to admit the addiction to gambling, especially for people who do not have anyone besides them.

That webinar can help limit the ads of gambling in media and with awareness from the gambling operators, the regulator program to reduce the number of gamblers can happen. But that needs awareness too from the gamblers that they have a problem in gambling so both sides can work together to solve the problem.

Having an organization that supports the solution to a gambling addiction problem is a big help to those who are currently diagnosis themselves as gambling addict. Though committing to a gambling addiction is a self choice but treating this kind of problem needs some support for a gambler to overcome the addiction. It's amazing to know that there's this kind of organization wanted to properly regulate gambling adds and trying to limit or eliminate engagement of young people to this kind of activities.

I see it differently, I understand that there are things and behaviors that need a blanket ban, for example there are drugs that are so addictive that a single usage is more than enough to make someone an addicted person, so in such cases a blanket ban regarding its production, distribution and marketing makes sense, but gambling is not like that, which means that while people do get addicted to it such a blanket ban is completely over the top and unnecessary.

With many parties support, that event can give many addicted gamblers a second chance to live normally like other people. Those addicted gamblers need to be push and give awareness that every person deserves to get that chance and get help from other people. Together, they can solve the addiction problem and those people who are addicted can solve their problem and hopefully, when they come back home, they are reborn as new people with a new mind that they can help other people who have the same problem like them.

How did the webinar go? Has anyone here have joined the webinar to participate? I'm a bit curious what they've talked about because I don't believe in awareness campaigns like this one since it's not effective as those organizers think they be.

I think those guidelines are relevant and gambling operators should follow them if they don't want to be seen as unethical, irresponsible and greedy. If operators keep a responsible behavior then there will be no need for a new legal framework.