Spillemyndigheden has once again declared a year-over-year decrease in Denmark’s monthly gross gaming revenue across betting, gaming machines and land-based casinos.
Although overall GGR declined, online and land-based casinos improved, but betting and gaming machine figures fell in comparison to the same month the previous year.
Posting figures for May 2024, the Danish gambling authority reported a GGR of DKK 571m (approximately €76.6m), down 3.4 per cent when compared to May 2023’s DKK 591m.
May’s figure was also a decline in comparison to the DKK 595m reported by the market the previous month.
By game sector, Spillemyndigheden stated that online casino generated 48.69 per cent of the total GGR during the month, followed by betting with 28.82 per cent, gaming machines with 16.85 per cent and land-based casinos with 5.64 per cent.
Online casino GGR rose by 10.35 per cent YoY to DKK 278m (2023: DKK 252m) with gaming machines leading the way with 76.76 per cent of the total GGR for the vertical during the month.
Elsewhere in the vertical, the authority said that blackjack produced a 6.88 per cent share of the vertical’s total GGR, followed by roulette at 6.19 per cent, commission at 3.87 per cent, other at 3.43 per cent and bingo at 2.86 per cent.
Meanwhile, betting GGR in May fell by 21.5 per cent in comparison to the same period the previous year to DKK 164m (2023: DKK 209m). Mobile had the biggest share of the total GGR with 67.41 per cent, followed by computer at 16.5 per cent and land-based at 16.09 per cent.
Spillemyndigheden noted gaming machines GGR in May dropped by 2.14 per cent YoY to DKK 96m (2023: DKK 98m) with an average daily GGR of DKK 3.21m.
By location, gaming arcades had a 79.62 per cent share of the vertical’s total GGR for the month, while restaurants had a 20.38 per cent share.
Land-based casinos GGR improved by 3.03 per cent when compared to the same period the previous year to DKK 32m (2023: DKK 31m) with an average daily GGR of DKK 1.07m.
As of May 30, 2024, Spillemyndigheden noted that the ROFUS self-exclusion service had 50,700 registered persons, with 33,173 permanently registered and 17,527 temporarily registered.
StopSpillet, the authority gambling helpline, had 51 conversations related to StopSpillet during May, as well as 160 conversations related to other information. Of the StopSpillet-related conversations, 54.9 per cent were with a player, 39.2 per cent were with a relative and 5.9 per cent were with a consultant.
