No drop in Remote Gambling Figures despite credit crunch

Figures released by the UK Gambling Commission and ICM, show that there has been no change year on year in the number of people carrying out remote gambling.

Remote gambling is classified as betting via a computer, mobile phone or via an interactive TV service, and of a survey of 8,0000 adults, 8.8% of people had participated in remote gambling in the past month.

This figure remained the same as figures for 2007, which was higher than the figure reported for 2006 (7.2%).

Those participating in remote gambling are more likely to be male than female, and are most likely to be aged between 18 and 44, which may explain why age verification is required to be carried out so robustly in the remote gambling sector.

Remote gambling via a computer is unsurprisingly the most popular media for betting, accounting for 6.9% of the 8.8% figure. Gambling via a mobile phone accounted for 2.3% of the media share, beating interactive TV, which was the least popular method at 2%.

The full research can be obtained here.