Online casino searches at "all time high" during lockdown

[avikz]

Search interest in online casinos has hit an all-time high in the UK since lockdown began, data show.

Google Trends shows gambling has moved online amid the closure of physical gambling venues and cancellation of sports events.

Ref: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-52633355

Well it wasn't unprecedented. Regular gamblers had to find a way to play while offline casinos are barred worldwide. Even though the overall volume has dropped, the interest about online gambling is on the ride.

I am just wondering if crypto casinos are benefiting from this! It's a great chance for crypto casinos to fetch a new customer base as well as cryptos should see new adoption. Could be a win-win situation for us!

[mu_enrico]

Yea, but they will likely get search results of mainstream casinos, and not the provably fair one. Then they will get raped with "centralized" high HE games.
Perhaps at the moment, casino operators should boost the campaign about provably fair to the mainstream people.

[Maus0728]

Absolutely! People stays at home and they are more likely going to find some ways in order to kill time.

Perhaps at the moment, casino operators should boost the campaign about provably fair to the mainstream people.

Agree to this! Do you guys think that having an advertising campaign specifically here in bitcointalk can really boost the exposure of these newly created gambling site or casino? Just curious though 

[Slow death]

I am just wondering if crypto casinos are benefiting from this! It's a great chance for crypto casinos to fetch a new customer base as well as cryptos should see new adoption. Could be a win-win situation for us!

I also wonder how people will buy bitcoin in this situation? imagine that an X person is very fond of offline casinos and I decided to use online casinos that support bitcoin. So that person searches for places to buy bitcoin and comes across KYC. how will that person do KYC with this lockdown? this Is another problem that people have when they want to buy bitcoin and another problem is related to fees, when someone wants to buy bitcoin they have to pay very high fees, will it encourage people to look for bitcoin-related online casinos or these people will you prefer online casinos that accept paying with debit cards even if they are bitcoin related casinos? I think people will prefer online casinos that accept debit cards and that means that even if people use bitcoin-related online casinos they will be paying by debit card

Do you guys think that having an advertising campaign specifically here in bitcointalk can really boost the exposure of these newly created gambling site or casino? Just curious though 

Most of the new signature campaigns related to casinos do not last more than 1 month, if even for more than 2 weeks it is difficult to imagine staying more than 1 month? I don't know what is really going on if maybe the market is saturated or if there are few people using new casinos and for that reason the new casinos find a lot of difficulties, but the thing seems to be very serious to the point of most of the new signature campaigns related with casinos not staying more than 1 month... this is a subject that has to be discussed a lot until solutions are found

[spike420211]

I am sure all types of online activities feel very good during a pandemic, and crypto casinos are no exception.
The whole world went online, the casino has always had a lot of its regular visitors prone to gambling addiction and bringing the largest percentage of profits.
Obviously, they can’t live without a casino, especially because of the isolation itself, people go crazy, which means that online gambling will be an excellent way for them to escape from problems.

[plvbob0070]

That's what most likely gamblers do if they are already bored, they will find alternative ways to gamble since they can't go to a casino. Probably there are gamblers who are not used to online gambling but end up looking for one because they really want to gamble. I hope those gamblers can find a trusted casino site because if online casinos are being popular these days, scammers will use the opportunity to deceive other people.

Obviously, crypto casinos can benefit from it, and if they want to get attention, they should promote their sites. They can also use this opportunity now that people are looking for online casinos to promote their casinos so people can actually learn about crypto casinos.

[KrisAlex18]

As of this current situation, the best thing to do is to stay at home, we are all prohibited to go outside to prevent the past spreading of the virus. Most of the time we feel so tired or bored at home because we cannot do anything to kill our time. Most of the gamblers do online gambling because that is what they want, to avoid the eagerness of playing casino gambling they tend to play online gambling. As of this day, most of the physic gambling are temporally closed by the authorities to avoid the risk of spreading the virus, to satisfy the desire of gambling you may do online gambling, you are still gambling at least you are safe at your home.

I am sure all types of online activities feel very good during a pandemic, and crypto casinos are no exception.

Well said, that is what happens while we still have this pandemic virus in our country. There are some online activities that we commonly do as of this ecq, this will prevent as to do it on the real-life, which is really good to prevent the virus from spreading.

[Jawhead999]

Last month when I use google trends it's shows so many people search about "online casino", but I'm never expected if during this pandemic it will reach new ATH . This is very good condition for many developer who want to create a new online casino platform, also for the adoption!

Do you guys think that having an advertising campaign specifically here in bitcointalk can really boost the exposure of these newly created gambling site or casino? Just curious though 

I think probably, also it's depends about the games, algorithm (suited "provably fair"), interface, and terms. Even the casino is having a good promotion and advertising in this forum, but the casino is bad. Many people will only visit the casino and don't want try to play it.

[LogitechMouse]

With what is happening right now in the world, this is somewhat expected already for me.

I know that gamblers can't wait for the lockdown to end then they will go back again. They are searching for alternative ways to gamble in the midst of the lockdown that is why they are searching online casinos in google making the "ONLINE CASINO" searches spike. Some doesn't have jobs right now but still there are some who have some spare cash right now and they will use it for gambling instead of buying essentials. Can't blame them if that is what they want to do with their money.

Online casino owners are the ones who will benefit the most with this .

[Ucy]

I am sure all types of online activities feel very good during a pandemic, and crypto casinos are no exception.
The whole world went online, the casino has always had a lot of its regular visitors prone to gambling addiction and bringing the largest percentage of profits.
Obviously, they can’t live without a casino, especially because of the isolation itself, people go crazy, which means that online gambling will be an excellent way for them to escape from problems.

Problem is that you don't escape problems by gambling or taking big  risk... You're simply creating more chances for problems by gambling.  You escape problems by doing mostly things that are productive and beneficial to you in that particular situation.
Rather than gamble, people should bet responsibly with little amount or what they can afford to lose, especially on games that are, good, safe,

I am sure all types of online activities feel very good during a pandemic, and crypto casinos are no exception.
The whole world went online, the casino has always had a lot of its regular visitors prone to gambling addiction and bringing the largest percentage of profits.
Obviously, they can’t live without a casino, especially because of the isolation itself, people go crazy, which means that online gambling will be an excellent way for them to escape from problems.

Problem is that you don't escape problems by gambling or taking big  risk... You're simply creating more chances for problems by gambling.  You escape problems by doing mostly things that are productive and beneficial to you in that particular situation.
Rather than gamble, people should bet responsibly with little amount or what they can afford to lose, especially on games that are ,  good/safe & beneficial.

[ralle14]

I am just wondering if crypto casinos are benefiting from this! It's a great chance for crypto casinos to fetch a new customer base as well as cryptos should see new adoption. Could be a win-win situation for us!

I think there are a few that gained a bit, I remember one small dice site had a boost during these times while the stats on the popular ones remain the same.

Agree to this! Do you guys think that having an advertising campaign specifically here in bitcointalk can really boost the exposure of these newly created gambling site or casino? Just curious though  

Definitely, as long as the advertisement duration is long enough it'll eventually cause some curiousity from hundreds of forum users until they have to check their site. At the same time the reputation of the site starts to grow so others won't have doubts to try it out. Also slowdeath mentioned most of the campaigns rarely last that long and because of the limited time they might not be getting the results they expect.

[batang_bitcoin]

I am just wondering if crypto casinos are benefiting from this! It's a great chance for crypto casinos to fetch a new customer base as well as cryptos should see new adoption. Could be a win-win situation for us!

They probably do. If some gamblers can't find the suitable fiat casino for them then they probably landed to a crypto casino which is one of the results of their search online. Gamblers will look for a way to continue the hobby and for others might be their way of living.  It's certainly a win-win for us and to every online crypto casino that we know.

Do you guys think that having an advertising campaign specifically here in bitcointalk can really boost the exposure of these newly created gambling site or casino? Just curious though  

Yes. No casino will continue to advertise if it's not effective. This forum is a great niche for them to get crypto gamblers.

[Latviand]

Last month when I use google trends it's shows so many people search about "online casino", but I'm never expected if during this pandemic it will reach new ATH . This is very good condition for many developer who want to create a new online casino platform, also for the adoption!

Do you guys think that having an advertising campaign specifically here in bitcointalk can really boost the exposure of these newly created gambling site or casino? Just curious though 

I think probably, also it's depends about the games, algorithm (suited "provably fair"), interface, and terms. Even the casino is having a good promotion and advertising in this forum, but the casino is bad. Many people will only visit the casino and don't want try to play it.

Online casinos are really effective and a guaranteed business during times like this because people are just staying inside their house and there are things that they want to inside their house just like gambling. Businesses like this online gambling will surely grow as volume of people who wants to gamble are really increasing from time to time.

It just need proper and wider advertisement so that people who are gamblers but aren't knowledgeable about online gambling will have an idea about it.

Most especially if an online gambling platform is composed of many different kind of games that the customer will surely like and satisfy their urge in gambling. Sometimes a good gambling platform should depend on other people's reviews about their platform.

A transparent platform will result to a more customer because you are hearing their feedback and the things that you want to improve to become a better online casino during this lockdown.

[Barnabe]

I also saw some statistics saying that overall some countries population were saving money at a rate never seen before (since they cannot spend it by shopping or going to restaurants, etc ...).
So this decrease in expenses might be a reason why gambling is on the rise.

[imstillthebest]

I also saw some statistics saying that overall some countries population were saving money at a rate never seen before (since they cannot spend it by shopping or going to restaurants, etc ...).
So this decrease in expenses might be a reason why gambling is on the rise.

they cant spend money on those  establishments that you mention but this does not mean that they will spend the money on gambling because not all people likes to risk thier money on it and also pyhisical gambling are close too   .

 many people also dont know how online gambling works or let say they know it but still they cant cash in thier funds because like i said earlier many establishments are still closed due to the quarantine/lockdown

[serjent05]

I also wonder how people will buy bitcoin in this situation? imagine that an X person is very fond of offline casinos and I decided to use online casinos that support bitcoin. So that person searches for places to buy bitcoin and comes across KYC. how will that person do KYC with this lockdown? this Is another problem that people have when they want to buy bitcoin and another problem is related to fees, when someone wants to buy bitcoin they have to pay very high fees, will it encourage people to look for bitcoin-related online casinos or these people will you prefer online casinos that accept paying with debit cards even if they are bitcoin related casinos? I think people will prefer online casinos that accept debit cards and that means that even if people use bitcoin-related online casinos they will be paying by debit card

It is quite easy to buy Bitcoin online.  And the KYC stuff thing is process by the company itself.  We just need the needed documents for that. 

Anyone who is interested gambling in online cryptocurrency casinos and yet don't have any cryptocurrency, there are lots of third party company such as exchanges like Binance, Bittrex, etc.  that accepts transfers from cards and trade with cryptocurrency.  So it won't be a problem at all.

Do you guys think that having an advertising campaign specifically here in bitcointalk can really boost the exposure of these newly created gambling site or casino? Just curious though 

Indeed it will boost the exposure of newly created cryptocurrency gambling sites or casinos.  Just, for example, Wolf. bet, one of the reasons why their player is growing is because of the signature campaign being conducted here in Bitcointalk.org.  They paused and come back to advertise their casino again.  If their campaign does not produce any good result then maybe after 1 try, they won't open their campaign again.

[peter0425]

Search interest in online casinos has hit an all-time high in the UK since lockdown began, data show.

Google Trends shows gambling has moved online amid the closure of physical gambling venues and cancellation of sports events.

Ref: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-52633355

Well it wasn't unprecedented. Regular gamblers had to find a way to play while offline casinos are barred worldwide. Even though the overall volume has dropped, the interest about online gambling is on the ride.

I am just wondering if crypto casinos are benefiting from this! It's a great chance for crypto casinos to fetch a new customer base as well as cryptos should see new adoption. Could be a win-win situation for us!

Just like what happen in Bitcoin searches since this Covid19 effect?

i have crossed a thread that tackles about the 100% increase of Bitcoin searches over google this past months .

And now here we are,Gambling makes its own way to growth in people looking for something to enjoy and spend their days?

[Ridwan Fauzi]

At least this sentence can be made an excuse for some gambler who lives in the UK out there can use bitcoin as a way to gamble.

How is the industry regulated?
Using credit cards and e-wallets like PayPal, Skrill, and Neteller for gambling was banned in Great Britain from 14 April

It will help them to gamble for sure, especially during this time where many people didn't do anything they will be tempted easily if they see some advertising related to gambling.

[swogerino]

I think crypto casinos may have seen a rise in number of players during the pandemic but the problem is I think that this number has been relatively small compared to all the surge in researching for online casinos.Many Fiat casinos have seen such surge but because of crypto casino needs people to know a bit about cryptocurrencies I think this has been a limiting factor for crypto casinos.

[Renampun]

I'm not surprised by this news...
offline gamblers who always gamble in traditional casinos and maybe unemployed during this corona period are bored at home, they are looking for alternative activities to fill their boring time and then they think of trying online gambling.