To understand the impact of Covid-19 to the online gaming industry, Markethink decided to share a snapshot of the insights, trends and benchmarks during the pandemic. 

Below you can see the gamer’s behaviour over time comparing the markets of online sports and online casino with data taken across more than 400 brands from all over the world.

Highlights:

• With almost 2 months since the outbreak in Europe, the first week of May is now live on Corona Pulse
• Virtual Sport: the original spike in number of players seems to consistently stay at about double the number when compared to pre-COVID-19 period
• Online poker activity shows stability, similarly, with an +80% increase

Looking at the timechart below, we can see a significant increase of online casino players VS online sports players comparing current data to data from the first week of February 2020