Topic: Spain bans betting adds - no celebrities, no sport sponsorship, no daytime adds - page 9. (Read 1111 times)

The excuse used by the minister of consumer affairs to pass the new rule can be only considered legit if they make another decree declaring their citizens mentally incapable, as only mentally incapable people wouldn't have critical thinking to distinguish what they should do and not do by themselves, consequently acting accordingly to what a celebrity tell them to do or practing an activity just because a soccer player displays it on his uniform.

In a modern civilized society proud of its advancements in social and economical sectors such decrees don't make sense. Why do authorities keep underestimating the capacity of their citizens managing their own lives smartly and efficiently without external interferences?

And that's nothing new. And tbh, if the choices were to be between educating people about gambling and banning, I'd 9/10 go for banning. Why? It's less hassle, less problems, less resources used, unlike educating people, that's going to take a lot of time just with the number of people you have to actually educate. That's in the case of making sure that they actually learn, if it was haphazard process like posting posters, ads, etc, about anti-gambling or the effects of gambling, less resources yes, but less effective as well.

The government is taxing these teams and companies why they want to get them in trouble getting marketed, instead, they should educate people to become responsible bettors instead of trying to kill an industry, but even if they are going to do this, these companies will find a way to market, like strengthen their affiliate marketing giving players higher percentage of referral earnings.

You know that government do make out decisions even turns out to be dumb and no sense but still it would be the one to be followed in the end of the day or simply theres no much thing they can do but to deal with it
and of us people who do give out some commentaries in regards to the situation then this decision would really be negative to those clubs.
It is indeed harsh and they should be at least considerate knowing that we are on a hard situation specially on this pandemic times.

Did they also ban credit cards and other forms of financial borrowing that includes much risk.   They didnt ban betting, they tried to apply censorship on adults as a positive when it does make something appear as forbidden and out of reach and possibly even more attractive.     Its far better if they just emphasize the negatives to whatever activity they are trying to underline as negative, maybe the average win rate should be listed in advert for balance; this idea is far more likely to succeed in reducing gambling.

Even now majority of the clubs are finding it hard to sustain especially after the pandemic and the only sector where money is flowing constantly during these last two years is the gambling industry where new users are searching for new platforms to spend their free time and now the government wants to restrict those advertisement revenue is harsh for these clubs.

If their main reason why they have to do this is to lessen the exposure of gambling that kids seen on a sports while watching then it's helpful but I'm sure there's a huge changes going to happen and I don't know where this is going. But I have faith in them if this is really their plans.

Besides, gambling can be seen somewhere where most people often stay rather than in a Coliseum. So let's just hope this new changes will adapt quickly to whatsoever their motives. Although, gamblers are addicted to it already maybe this is also their target to avoid most people from spending money and losses too much.

Like to point out this one:

"It claims that athletes' status as role models had led to an increase in gambling among young people aged 18 to 25, rising from 29 per cent to 40 per cent in the last four years. The amount of money spent by young people in Spain on gambling, meanwhile, had risen by 13 per cent annually."

I don't see the negative effect of it but 18-25 years is already an adult stage. They already know what they are doing and matured enough to be responsible for gambling. If that's only the reason why such a ban was implemented, I don't see it can change the gambling status in that country. They should just be alarmed if stats are telling them that these people do have an irresponsible act in gambling.

And besides, the government, in general, are getting advantages too in the sports industry there. There are other ways to work on a plan of solving "serious health and social risks" and they should brainstorm about it.

Yeah exactly.

I'm not sure what the Spanish government is doing. Are they trying to deliberately get rid of the whole sports sector which is so lucrative?

From a taxation perspective they should just leave the industry as is and let it generate them a fat amount of taxes. Banning logos on jerseys is probably the worst way to go about banning gambling advertising anyway so not sure what they want out of this.

I will say it is within the law to regulate gambling activities because, if it is left unchecked, it can cause massive underage gambling and we all know the impact of gambling addiction on kids.

I guess the gambling platforms within that region will sort for alternative ways to make publicity for the sites.

If the Spanish government thinks that this way they will reduce the level of gambling addiction in society, they are deeply mistaken. After this law comes into force, the betting companies will be forced to redirect the funds that were previously intended for sponsorship deals with sports clubs, for example to advertising on the Internet, where it will also find its audience. But athletes and sports clubs will really suffer serious losses. And this is very bad.

This is not a good approach though, I think educating people especially minors is more important than banning this kind of advertisement that could help the gambling industry grow, if they grow, the government will be able to take more taxes from them, so it could help their economy. It seems like they really emphasize under the new rules that gambling has a bad effect to people, and that they don't want to make them grow as an industry.

You are right, pray for all the difficulties facing the crisis after the pandemic, everyone has the right to visit the casino even as entertainment. There is no need to make it a rule limiting gamblers who have been used to it for a long time. Just use age restriction rules only. The impact will be felt immediately, because even the budget income from the casino will not be noticed at this time.
Moreover, advertising is the daily way of casinos to explore that the casino has various offers. Luckily, social media is not the target of such a policy.

Other advertising methods may be chosen by the casino. That won't stop the casino from paying more than double in return. If Spain continues to insist on banning all types of advertising, even to the point of banning casinos looking for newcomers, then on what basis does it end up with all the elements that are usually the easiest to find advertising sector. Maybe they run to influencers using delivery, without needing to use attributes.

Stopping the advert wouldn't still stop the citizens from knowing about gambling companies. There are diverse  means of advertisements at the moment. I'm sure developers who gamble as well or who own gambling companies would bring out alternative. For me restricting betting ads wouldn't stop betting ads from circulating what the government has succeeded in doing is to make la-liga develop a hidden alternative

Seems regulations on gambling are getting more strict and strict. This isn't a bad idea at all because sportsbooks shouldn't be promoted by certain teams or players. This, at some point, may leave association for some people that the team or the player are cooperated with the casino, etc. Another idea behind these regulations can be that celebrity sportsmen like Ronaldo, Messi and others have huge influence no people and the government wants to lessen the number of addicted gamblers and the number of gamblers in overall. (Remember how one rejection of Coke's bottle from Christiano Ronaldo affected the company).

Ohh heck! That's a big blow to the teams as well as to the gambling houses! I can see gambling houses are sponsoring many A listed clubs and also maintaining their visibility through the boards around the field. So they have definitely gambled big money on the popularity of football in Europe. This new law will discourage them from pouring in millions of euros into football clubs. I hope that no other europer countries would come up with such negative laws! Such kind of legal provisions are bad for gambling business!

You can't stop gamblers from continuing their activity where a big number of gamblers have already took this as their profession. Yeah its true that no parents wants to introduce their children with gambling platforms and specially when its advertisements showing on football matches or in favourite player's jersey then its difficult to keep them away. Gambling platforms prefer to sponsor football clubs due to peoples attraction about any specific club or player. This is why recent days we are seeing competition between multiple betting platforms and their sponsor agents to complete partnership with football clubs.

Sponsoring football clubs and using betting platforms logo on players Jersey is the most effective promotional option for platform owners. Actually in one side its giving a large amount of audience and on the other side platform users do not hesitate to play with big amount when a platform is the sole sponsor of a popular football club. Even betting platform can easily put some terms on their sponsorship deal by which they can easily use clubs players for their OVC, TVC or Static promotional posts in social media. Spanish government have already taken their decision about betting adds and betting platforms will have to follow that but they will definitely find multiple potential options for their business. When anyone see betting platforms logo on players jersey i can say that viewers start to connect relationship between sports and betting but that not should be. Betting and sports is completely different from each other but if both blends together through advertising activity then definitely more or less people will start to lose their interest on sport and transparency.

Maybe others have different opinion but I think sports and associate organisation should keep little distance from anything where there is possibility of losing reputation. Yeah obviously sponsor money is a big thing for every club but it doesn't mean that football clubs will not get sponsors from other fields.  

Maybe it could be the right choice to reduce the young gamblers there who still can't control themselves well, every prohibition and permit of course has its own reasons. But I believe the ban will not have a bad impact on the gambling business itself, because we know gambling is prohibited or not people will still gamble in their own way. So in this case it is about the team concerned because with the lack of sponsors, then of course it will have an impact on revenue which may be stagnant.

Since the surge of the number of gamblers from to before they allowed gambling bring negative impact to their people they will need to atleast lessen the adds to avoid some audience or target audience that are not allowed yet to do gambling yet keeps on doing it despite of rules. They will not totally bans it but they will put more restrictions as they already see now the effect of gambling in the people in Spain.