Australian gaming giant Tabcorp announced a commitment to ending primetime gambling advertising during Sydney’s gambling law and regulation conference Regulating the Game. Leaders and specialist practitioners in areas such as financial crime and safer gambling came together for a series of presentations and panel discussions to examine the issues facing the industry, including that of excessive advertising.
Adam Rytenskild, CEO and Managing Director of Tabcorp, delivered the second keynote talk of the conference declaring there was a line in the sand moment for gambling advertising in Australia, and that the community “won’t tolerate the direction wagering advertising was going in.”
“We believe there is too much gambling advertising, and that people should be able to watch live sport without being inundated by gambling advertising,” he said, and went on to call for these sorts of ads to be stopped on free-to-air television between 6.30 am and 8:30 pm as a sensible measure to reduce the impact of gambling harm.
Tabcorp will voluntarily stop advertising during this time frame even if it is not recommended by the Federal Government’s Inquiry into online gambling and its impacts on those experiencing gambling harm.
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