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Industry Sectors

Sector groupings exist so that entries are compared against work of a similar kind. A venue business and a payments vendor answer to very different constraints, and judging them in one pool tells a reader almost nothing. These groupings are the ones most commonly used when a slate is organised by trade area rather than by division.

Entries in this branch (6)

• Land-based venues

  Physical gaming floors and the hospitality operations attached to them, where footfall, floor layout and staffing shape most of the evidence.

• Online operators

  Businesses running licensed play over the web or through applications, typically assessed on account handling and product range.

• Platform and content suppliers

  Studios and platform vendors supplying titles, engines and integration layers to operators rather than to players.

• Payments and compliance services

  Vendors handling transaction routing, identity verification and regulatory reporting on an operator's behalf.

• Affiliates and trade media

  Publishers, comparison services and trade press working alongside the sector rather than inside it.

• Esports and skill formats

  Competitive formats whose overlap with the wider gaming trade has grown enough to warrant separate grouping.