KSA: Dutch market “stable” with channelisation up to 85%

The Netherlands Gambling Authority (KSA) has revealed the regulated Dutch market is “stable” almost one year after its launch.

Having gone live on 1 October 2021 with an initial 10 licence holders, the Dutch market now has 22 licensees, including Entain and Kindred.

The KSA revealed monthly gross gaming revenue (GGR) in the market stands at approximately €80m.

Since regulation, January 2022 returned the highest GGR for the market with €90m.

The KSA also noted incremental quarterly growth in GGR since regulation with Q4 2021 returning €186m in GGR followed by €239m in Q1 2022.

Q2 2022 amounted to €245m in GGR and July 2022 returned €86m, the largest return since the January 2022 record.

Online casino is comfortably the largest vertical in the Netherlands, having most recently amounted to €65m in GGR for July 2022. Sports betting returned €17m.

Elsewhere, the KSA could not confirm the exact number of Dutch players using the regulated market due to customers having accounts with multiple operators.

However, the regulator did note that in July, there were 563,000 active accounts, with average monthly loss per player account amounting to €153.

The KSA also revealed that channelisation in the market was now sitting at 85%, above its target of 80% within three years of the market’s launch set ahead of its regulation.

In terms of self-exclusion, more than 23,000 people have registered with the Cruks system.

The registration means players cannot gamble online with licensed operators for at least six months.

Earlier this month, the Cruks system suffered from a technical glitch resulting in players not being able to register themselves as self-excluded. The glitch which was the second such issue since market launch, has since been resolved.