Licence holder warned by KSA for misleading advertising

The Dutch Gaming Authority (KSA) has addressed a KOA licence holder for promoting misleading online sports betting advertising

The Dutch people Gaming Authority (KSA) has addressed a KOA licence bearer for promoting misleading online sports betting advertising.

The KOA represents the Remote Gambling Act that came into effect on 1 Apr 2021 as an update to the Gaming Act of 1964.

The KOA licence bearer was addressed because it had placed odds on a sports news site.

By clicking on the odds banner, the user was unknowingly redirected to the play situation of the licence holder.

This typewrite of advertising is prohibited and, according to the Gambling Act, publicizing can buoy not live misleading.

When an manipulator promotes an online spunky of chance, it must follow very crystallise that the streamer is inward fact an advert and it must present from whom the publicizing originates. Additionally, other entropy obligations must also live met.

The regulating applies when advertising is made via a tertiary party or a partner, such as inwards this case, a website with sports news.

The KSA has informed the licence holder near the misleading nature of its publicizing and that the selective information obligations regarding advertising had not been met.

The regulator has additionally ordered the licence holder to either set or transfer the banners; within a day and a half and the operator acted accordingly.

Legal online gaming inward the Dutch people market place has been theme to a "messy start" since its launch, as discussed past analyst Willem caravan Oort in the to the highest degree recent military issue of Gambling Insider magazine.