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Re: Premier league bans gambling sponsors

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Post by BobAliceInATree »

arpinum wrote: post #52
raffa667 wrote: post #15

Same happened in Italy, so all betting sites turned into "news" site so you would have teams being spored by "betting_company_name news". Useless. There's a proposal to be back to previous type of sponsorship.

Same with the drinks companies, they switched to explicitly advertising their zero alcohol beers.

Norway banned alcohol advertisements in 1975. Companies similarly tried to get around by advertising by using water bottles, or merchandise, so they the law was amended in 1997 to ban those, which seems to have been successful.

Re: Premier league bans gambling sponsors

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Post by malnourish »

Avshalom wrote: post #105
dfxm12 wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It varies, but in any case, I doubt it's cheap relative to much: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_football_sponsorship

About half of those kit numbers are less per year than a single 30 second ad during the superbowl.

That's a little dishonest. The prices are in Pounds, and there a significant high outliers.

Superbowl ads currently average around $8m USD (£5.93m).

Re: Premier league bans gambling sponsors

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Post by FireBeyond »

dofm wrote: post #83
rorylawless wrote: post #73

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Before leaving Britain, I lived in an area that had a ~50% poverty rate. The number of betting shops, small and large brands, just on the local high street alone was ridiculous. It reduced somewhat as gambling has moved online, however there is clearly still money to be made in bricks and mortar gambling.

New Labour did that with gambling deregulation. Betting shops have begun to disappear not just because of moving online, but because regulations have finally limited the pernicious power of the fixed-odds betting terminal (FOBT). They were so disgustingly, vampirically profitable they were reason alone to open betting shops in small premises; two members of staff and four FOBTs and any small shop rakes it in. Now the…

> Which should tell you a thing or two about the uncomfortable overlap between small-scale commercial landlords and councillors.

Hah, like in my town, where they are so in bed with each other their families and kids go on vacation together.

And then they approve waterfront developments on the side of hills that failed ecological testing and failed traffic assessments (in this case that the local roads could not support the traffic load -and- because of the topology there was no room to increase traffic capacity and the closest you'd be able to do would be eminent-domain'ing ~200 homes to widen a road out to an arterial, for the benefit of the 450 new units. I'd better not give them ideas...)

And the local newspaper is so in bed with both that when this approval was announced, the article in the paper mentioned all the opponents by name, got a tepid comment from the town, but couldn't bring themselves once to name the developer (You can find out who it is of course, but the newspaper won't help you, even while publishing their artists renderings).

And

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Post by terribleperson »

bragr wrote: post #55
arpinum wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Same with the drinks companies, they switched to explicitly advertising their zero alcohol beers.

It just now clicked with me why they are doing that. I've been wondering why they are pushing them so hard. Barely anyone seems to buy NA beer.

I don't go to a lot of parties, but at the parties I do go to I'm starting to see non-alcoholic beers become a regular thing. From none, to one variety, to two...

Seeing NA beers at a party that also has an open bar is neat.

Re: Premier league bans gambling sponsors

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Post by KellyCriterion »

xinayder wrote: post #8
nly wrote: post #6

Unfortunately this means crypto will just take over completely.

Crypto is less worse than gambling and sports bets.

...and prices are not that high currently, also transaction volume on most exchanges is by far near a peak...

Re: Premier league bans gambling sponsors

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Post by Avshalom »

malnourish wrote: post #122
Avshalom wrote: post #105

Earlier quoted context omitted.

About half of those kit numbers are less per year than a single 30 second ad during the superbowl.

That's a little dishonest. The prices are in Pounds, and there a significant high outliers. Superbowl ads currently average around $8m USD (£5.93m).

You're right, only about half of them are less than £5.93m with one of them being almost the same.

Re: Premier league bans gambling sponsors

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Post by tomjen3 »

bragr wrote: post #55
arpinum wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Same with the drinks companies, they switched to explicitly advertising their zero alcohol beers.

It just now clicked with me why they are doing that. I've been wondering why they are pushing them so hard. Barely anyone seems to buy NA beer.

Do grocery stores sell them? If so, people buy them.

Do they add more choices over time? If so, they sell well.

Re: Premier league bans gambling sponsors

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Post by evandijk70 »

bragr wrote: post #55
arpinum wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Same with the drinks companies, they switched to explicitly advertising their zero alcohol beers.

It just now clicked with me why they are doing that. I've been wondering why they are pushing them so hard. Barely anyone seems to buy NA beer.

I notice a big shift in my social circles the last few years. Non alcholic beer has gained a lot of popularity. I was advised by my doctor not to drink more than one beer a week due to an health issue O was having, and I was a little worried about the social implications, especially in places where I did not want to talk about my health. Hardly anyone noticed or cared that I went for non alcoholic beers for a year.

Re: Premier league bans gambling sponsors

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Post by Ferret7446 »

bragr wrote: post #55
arpinum wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Same with the drinks companies, they switched to explicitly advertising their zero alcohol beers.

It just now clicked with me why they are doing that. I've been wondering why they are pushing them so hard. Barely anyone seems to buy NA beer.

Which is a bit of a shame, given the terrible health effects of alcohol.
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