Topic: Have you seen gambling advertisements on TV? Opinion. (Read 1644 times)

I personally never witnessed any advertisement that promotes gambling on TV, maybe because gambling in my country and according to the religion is forbidden and considered as a bad habit that God punishes for, so the television wouldn't promote such thing and won't diffuse it on their screen because it will certainly be banned.

It may be for the better because television targets the totality of the population from the youngest to the eldest, males and females. Kids might fall into some of those advertisements and might be easily influenced which is not good, even if you are a gambler you wouldn't want your kids to be interested in gambling because we all know that gambling is a bad habit if not being used wisely and taken logically.

But even if TV prevents such advertisements, we are now in a world ruled by the Internet everyone has access to, that is why parents should always supervise their kids' online activities.

Just like cigarette companies that will advertise their products just to get customers and still issue a warning to their prospective customers that smokers are liable to die young, same applies to the gambling industry. This people know how addictive gambling can be and that is why they must always warn their customers before hand by leaving a  note for them to gamble responsibly or avoid gambling if they are under-aged.

I have never seen gambling being advertised on TV before, only casinos and other betting platforms promote their brands on TV but on strict regulations. Ofcourse, such promotions usually end with disclaimers which is supposed to restrain a responsible gambler from doing certain things. But most gamblers would rather ignore these warnings and take the risks. Afterall, the more risk you take,  the more chances you have to earn big. But this saying doesn't always end well for most gamblers.

Usually, we do not see these online gambling site ads that are listed and discussed on bitcointalk. Sometimes i get to see the gambling or betting ads for some local site or application being used in the country. For example, these days while watching IPL in Star Sports, we may come across Dream 11, which is a sort of gambling app. At the end of the ad that is aired on the tv, they also give a disclaimer that it is a risky market so invest at your own risk.

I think this is just a formality to put this disclaimer at the end, otherwise, they would want everyone to join those gambling apps. For sure, they are giving a lot of money to the national and sports TV channels and they would like the ROI so more and more people join their program and they won't care if the majority of them lose the money, do they 

Considering that children are very curious, they will always ask about every thing, casinos usually attract attention, it is normal to have colors and many things that are impressive to them, if it attracts the attention of adults, then the attention of children is a fact that it does. If you take it with good eyes, this is a way of being able to educate them little by little so that it is a better way for them to know the varieties of things that exist, or casino advertising is passable, the dangerous thing is that they see lewd things and publish them in very sexist advertisements, that is just dangerous, because they are subliminal messages, sometimes the TV channels do not comply much with children's schedules.

TV now cares about its audience and ratings, anyway they are going to look for a way to make money from advertising, including casinos, cigarettes, and alcohol.

What you need to do in that situation is let them be exposed to that kind of advertisement on TV. For sure, your kid won't be asking questions right away after watching those ads. Maybe after several times, your kid will be curious what that is, and as a parent, you should be answering them and educating them about gambling. Tell them the good and bad effects of gambling, but to be sure, since they still don't have the judgment, implement more frequently the bad result of gambling, so over time, when the kid grows up and he can already decide what is good for himself and still chooses to gamble, then it is fine since you became a good parent and tell them the pros and cons of gambling.

Yes, I have seen different gambling on TV and sometimes it’s even pop out in my phone as an ad even when I am playing just a normal game so I’m gambling companies still come on the game and put in the advert. Yes after seeing this on TV sometimes the children we ask, how about this the only thing is to tell the truth this is gambling you are not allowed to do this you keep them an advice. The truth is gambling, but you have to add a very big lie to it. The children is not allowed, which is true and if any children should disobey and gambling such like any everything ever can happen to the kids even when it’s not true, just have to like to scare them away.

Thats why gambling business or venture is never been a cheap one whether you are building a physical casino or an online one on which when it comes to advertisement or simply talking about exposure then this is something that really that usually or standard thing on any business and gambling is never been an exemption. You would really be needing to spend tons of money when it comes to exposure. It might be looking so simple but we do
know that the money involved or need for such exposure is never been cheap. This is why its not shocking that there could be potentially be having those gambling ads that show up on the TV. This is why as a parent then you should really be that responsible on trying out to guide or avoid your children to be able to see such thing.

I do agree on some points above that parenting is never been simple on trying out to avoid your kids on watching these ads because these things cant really be only seen on TV
but also in the net as well on which we cant really be able to monitor our children 24/7 on which they are really that prone into such exposure. This is why
proper guidance and make those realizations would be the key.

I disagree, advertising is probably the highest expense casinos incur, however they cannot afford to not advertise because if they do not and their competitors do then they will soon find themselves out of business, however if a ban is put in place by the government instead, this will put all casinos on equal ground and allow them to not spend that much promoting themselves, which ironically it could boost their profits in a very significant way.

There is huge competition between casinos in my country so their use every opportunity to market their platform. They sponsor different TV programs during which their advertisements are shown regularly. So it Has become a normal thing to see ads in TV shows across different TV stations.

The cost of TV ads is the least problem for casinos because they are big and can afford to run their advertisement in any media in the globe. Advertisement is part of their marketing that they budget for in theur financial plannings.  

With having the current technology on what we do have today on which when it comes to accesibility or on how fast information could really be passed on then TV are somewhat already that gradually going into that irrelevant side. Why? We do have mobile phone nowadays and as long you do have the internet connection then you are really that connect to online world on which it wont really be shocking nor surprising that they would really be making themselves getting aware with those potential ads and other things that they could be able to see online.

This is why as a parent it is really that a huge challenge on trying out to scope up on everything on what your children is doing. This is why it would really be always best that
you should really be telling them about the cons and negative effects when dealing up with gambling. Its normal that there would be ads on TV
on which we know that exposure and ads is really just that normal or typical on business to have.

It is true that TV ads will give them a wider coverage, but at the same time the costs of TV ads are very high and this can have a substantial effect on the finances of a company, take a look at what happened with tobacco, during the 80’s there was a strong campaign to ban ads all over the world, and while tobacco companies thought this will be the end of them, in fact their revenue increased as now they did not had to spend a fortune on those ads, so it is possible such a ban could be a silver lining instead.

On the contrary I think TV advertisement is the biggest for gambling companies. TV has wider converage and easier to access. Most gambling companies would like to throw up their adverts on the screen, some adverts just go pass the screen while program is on while some pay for full time for their adverts to be showcased from time to time, daily or weekly.

So if a gambling company is ban from running adverts on TV then it is a big disadvantage from my observation

Advertising on TV might be banned but we know that the internet now become more advanced so kids can watch it for free from their social media page. They will see it many times every day without control unless we use some adjustment to their smartphone or we gives understanding to them that playing gambling can gives a negative effect to their life. But yes, people enjoy watching the matches and not about betting so they wants to search an entertainment rather than to place a bet. And nowadays, the casino tends to use the internet to promote their business whereas they can get unlimited potential target from all countries. It's a responsibility for every people to be able to respond to what happened and will not take a wrong way.

Yeah I believe so small children most likely didn't care in fact I saw bunch of kids wearing fake jerseys full of ads like stake.com or other gambling but they didn't understand or even care with that.

Maybe they ask to their parent but if their parent are smart they know what the answer hence if the kids have phones and trying to open maybe the Internet Service Provider gonna stop it because here in my country all gambling related is blocked by the government.

Secondly, they cannot signup because of gambling site regulation

In social media, you will only see gambling related content if you search or follow one of them since you will be automatically target by social media AI due to your interest for such content. I believe there’s a settings to avoid getting any post related to gambling once you turn it off.

Also the topic is all about gambling ads on TV and not social media. TV is different since you can’t control the ads for your children sake since it’s already predetermined for the day based on schedule. But this kind of ads usually available on sports games which is very easy to spot if you are a parents.

aside from the fact that gambling advertisement might be banned for certain countries across the world its also probably due to the fact that advertising on TV will not give the gambling sites themselves targeted audience.
I think TV are mostly just some people try to enjoy shows not betting, quite opposite if we are talking sports, its quite effective thats why in football matches the gambling ads are everywhere because its targeted audiences I think because surely in every match some people want to gamble.

In many parts of the world, the advertisement of gambling on TV and other platforms are banned, including the place where I live.
But the gambling sites and business bypass the restriction through indirect advertising. There are ads that promote products or services that are nearly identical to the name of the gambling site that's being promoted. Everyone including the authorities knows it's not the advertising of that specific thing but of the popular gambling site with similar name but they can not do anything as they are not breaking any law. The advertised sites do contain the direct link to the gambling sites if anyone unsuspectingly visits it creating a landing page of sorts. Another form of advertising visible are direct sponsorship of teams and players. They can't blur the jerseys of moving players.

Gambling ads is a usual case in my country. it is all over the internet or social media like Facebook, WhatsApp and also some few mobile app on mobile devices always show ads in almost all the app on mobile phone. There for  it is important to note that there is a chance that your kids might watch it.

Children are very sensitive to understanding quickly, they will be so quickly to Understand more about what they have seen. But as a parent it is your duties or obligation to educate the children of some things they need to know, even when you know they don't know that much. But believing that in the future they will know more better.

In fact, this happened more than 15 years ago when the internet could only be accessed in certain places such as urban areas and in rural areas the internet was still not easily accessible, most people would use TV as source of news information most favourable.
But in the past 15 years until now technology has developed very quickly and the distribution of internet networks can be accessed anywhere and there are many various sophisticated tools that can be purchased at relatively cheap prices, making everyone switch from TV to the various technologies that currently exist.
PC and cellphones are part of technology that is truly widespread and almost everyone can have them from children to the elderly, this is convenience that keeps up with the times.
By using PC or cellphone, each user can search and find various important information and many trusted news sources even offer subscriptions.
It just that in relation to gambling I have never seen any gambling advertisements on TV, besides, if there were, perhaps this could only be done in countries where gambling is legal.
But this can have bad impact because many children who watch TV broadcasts can see gambling advertisements and indirectly introduce children to gambling more quickly.

Currently, everything has become easier with various gambling companies marketing the names of their sites or casinos online in collaboration with streamers.
There are also those who have special broadcasts and only really contain short videos marketing gambling sites and distributing them on social media such as Twitter, Facebook and YouTube.
After all, everyone will get their own profits, gambling sites advertise and get more customers and those who own social media will get some tax money or payment for the advertising they do.

The world today is totally uncontrollable because the internet and the TV makes it so easy for children to access these things online and moreover advertising of betting or gambling sites are done on a more wider scale now and even the internet like social media are filled with these kinds of advert too but if the parents of a child keeps a close eye on the child then I think it's avoided and moreover there is always parental guidance rating on some specific TV shows and even the cartoon themselves.