{"id":283425,"date":"2026-01-23T14:41:37","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T13:41:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jdigital.es\/news\/illegal-gambling-is-gaining-ground-in-spain-one-in-four-players-accesses-unregulated-operators\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T15:55:51","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T14:55:51","slug":"illegal-gambling-is-gaining-ground-in-spain-one-in-four-players-accesses-unregulated-operators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jdigital.es\/en\/news\/illegal-gambling-is-gaining-ground-in-spain-one-in-four-players-accesses-unregulated-operators\/","title":{"rendered":"Illegal gambling is gaining ground in Spain: one in four players accesses unregulated operators"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>47.5% of those who believe they play only on legal websites have in fact accessed unauthorized domains<\/li>\n<li>In 2024 alone, the estimated volume of unregulated online gambling reached \u20ac231 million, equivalent to 16% of the value of Spain\u2019s regulated market<\/li>\n<li>Economic incentives\u2014especially welcome bonuses and promotions\u2014are the main reason for accessing illegal gambling<\/li>\n<li>Young players aged 18 to 24 are the most exposed to illegal gambling and report the lowest awareness of the existence of unregulated operators<\/li>\n<li>Player acquisition for illegal gambling occurs mainly through social networks such as TikTok or Instagram, online searches, and closed channels like Telegram and WhatsApp<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You can download the \u201c<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jdigital.es\/doc\/202511_report_illegal-online-gambling-in-spain.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Illegal online gambling in Spain<\/a><\/strong>\u201d report <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>47.5% of those who believe they play only on legal websites have in fact accessed unauthorized domains In 2024 alone, the estimated volume of unregulated online gambling reached \u20ac231 million, equivalent to 16% of the value of Spain\u2019s regulated market Economic incentives\u2014especially welcome bonuses and promotions\u2014are the main reason for accessing illegal gambling Young players [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":283418,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-283425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jdigital.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jdigital.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jdigital.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jdigital.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jdigital.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=283425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jdigital.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283425\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jdigital.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/283418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jdigital.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jdigital.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jdigital.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}