When you summarize it, it all goes down to the "easy access" of the gambling sites in the world.
Cell phones/smart phones - If there is no application available for the gambling site, you can always use the browser of phone instead, if it won't work in mobile view then, you can use other browsers that have the feature of "desktop view". It's actually easy nowadays to create a solution for small problems like this.
Desktop/Laptops - According to ACS (American Community Survey) 89 percent of household today have a desktop or a laptop in their place. Internet connection is not a problem anymore because they are offering cheap prices for 10-25 mbps speed. Gambling sites doesn't need a super speed internet just to access it, most of them are text-based websites so loading a page won't be that long.
The internet has made outreach to people and typically, everyone can now do many things virtually without living their comfort zone and this has effected more people into gambling, there are some people through out their lifetime that has not visited a casino or any gambling house but through the internet, it has been easier from their door step, the internent also has a way of putting peer pressure among people by influencing others, some people gamble because they see their friends post about their winning and this is possible only through the help of the internet.
Marketing - We can now see celebrities endorsing the gambling sites. Even our heroes in the sport can now be paid to put the name of the gambling site in their shirts or jerseys or if they want more money, they can use their tongue and say the name of the site. Sponsorship. Every time we watch a sports event, any sport, you name it, we see their names being flashed on the screen.
According to the articles shared, sports betting will have the highest market gain in the next few years.
What do you think?
I saw a warning post about Premier League trying to limit the way clubs advertise and accept sponsorship deal from gambling sites and they will limit how people are expose to this, I think if more people continue to gamble, the government and the FIFA will be concern about it, I hope regulation don't screw the revenues they generate with all these limitations, it is possible sport betting to be the highest market gain but I fear what the regulations will do about it later due to level of addiction.